Richard H. Mandel House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Mandel House is a historic home located at Bedford Hills, Westchester County, New York. It was designed by architect Edward Durell Stone and built between 1933 and 1935 in the International style.”
Wikipedia article Richard H. Mandel House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester 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. Mandel, Richard H., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 323 Haines Rd., Bedford Hills, 10507
When was it listed? March 1996
Category. building
Town. Bedford town
Architectural style. International Style
National Register reference number. 96000176 - 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

1892 to 1998

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Richard H. Mandel House, surveyed 1998

Topographic sheet covering Richard H. Mandel House, surveyed 1892

Fires near this property

251 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 251 fires within 5 miles of Richard H. Mandel House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 187 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 13 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	123
Natural	37
Smoking	26
Debris and open burning	21
Power generation/transmission/distribution	14
Arson/incendiarism	13
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Recreation and ceremony	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2008	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Richard H. Mandel House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Somers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bedford Hills, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Bedford Hills	$3,000	Tree down, downed wires and road closure on NY 172 both directions between Darlington Road and McLain Street. All lanes blocked.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bedford Hills	$1,500	A tree and wires were reported down at the intersection of Babbit Road and Church Street in Bedford Hills.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bedford Hills	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Westchester County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1892 USGS Stamford quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Stamford quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Stamford quadrangle1:62500 - 13 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Mount Kisco quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1982 USGS Mount Kisco quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
1998 USGS Mount Kisco 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
The Woodpile	1.1 miles	1992
Stepping Stones	1.3 miles	2004
Stonecrest	1.3 miles	2004
St. Luke's Episcopal Church	2.3 miles	2001
Katonah Village Historic District	2.3 miles	1983
St. Mark's Episcopal Church	2.6 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000176 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Westchester County	All 250 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.