Mary Van Duzer-Sayer House

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 Mary Van Duzer-Sayer House is the main residence of a 154-acre (62 ha) former farm on Taylor Road near the hamlet of Mountainville in the Town of Cornwall, New York, United States. It is a stone Federal style house built in 1832.”
Wikipedia article Mary Van Duzer-Sayer House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Van Duzer--Sayer, Mary, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Taylor Rd., Cornwall, 12553
When was it listed? March 1996
Category. building
Also known as. Cornwall MPS
Town. Cornwall town
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 96000155 - 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 Mary Van Duzer-Sayer House, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering Mary Van Duzer-Sayer House, surveyed 1902

Fires near this property

464 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 464 fires within 5 miles of Mary Van Duzer-Sayer House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 690 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 50 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	290
Arson/incendiarism	50
Debris and open burning	24
Natural	24
Recreation and ceremony	23
Smoking	20
Fireworks	14
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
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
7 September 2018	Debris and open burning	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

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Mary Van Duzer-Sayer House: 6 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. 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
High Mills Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
High Mills Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Highland Mills Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
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

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 middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, 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
Wilford Wood House	0.7 miles	1998
Elias Hand House	0.7 miles	1998
Mountainville Grange Hall	0.8 miles	1996
Samuel Brooks House	1.2 miles	1996
Walter Hand House	1.2 miles	1996
Kellogg, The, House	1.5 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000155 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.