Samuel Brooks House

Built in 1860 (Stick style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“The Samuel Brooks House is located on Pleasant Hill Road north of the hamlet of Mountainville in the Town of Cornwall, New York, United States. It is a cottage in a mix of Victorian architectural styles, most notably Carpenter Gothic and Stick Style, built around 1860.”
Wikipedia article Samuel Brooks House (Cornwall, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1860, Stick style.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Brooks, Samuel, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Pleasant Hill Rd., Cornwall, 12553
When was it listed? March 1996
Category. building
Also known as. Cornwall MPS
Town. Cornwall town
When was it built? 1860
Architectural style. Stick style, Carpenter Gothic
National Register reference number. 96000148 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1902 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Samuel Brooks House, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering Samuel Brooks House, surveyed 1902

Fires near this property

445 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 445 fires within 5 miles of Samuel Brooks House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 680 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 48 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	273
Arson/incendiarism	48
Natural	28
Recreation and ceremony	25
Debris and open burning	21
Smoking	19
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Fireworks	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	3.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Samuel Brooks House: 6 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Zirconium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bog Meadow Pond Deposit	Zirconium	Occurrence
Forest of Dean Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Magnetite
Tower Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Magnetite
Townsend Canterbury Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Residual
Moodna Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Moodna Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Plum Point Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Plum Point Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Orange County

Maps showing this location

13 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1902 USGS Schunemunk quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1930 USGS Schunemunk quadrangle1:48000
1930 USGS Schunemunk quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1935 USGS Schunemunk quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1947 USGS Cornwall quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Cornwall quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Middletown quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1994 USGS Cornwall-on-Hudson quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Kellogg, The, House	0.3 miles	2001
Isaac Cocks House	0.4 miles	1996
Vermont Hatch Mansion	0.6 miles	1995
Wilford Wood House	0.7 miles	1998
Carvey-Gatfield House	1.0 miles	1996
Walter Hand House	1.1 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000148 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange County	All 187 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.