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Photograph of Naples Memorial Town Hall
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Naples Memorial Town Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Naples Memorial Town Hall is a historic town hall located at Naples in Ontario County, New York. It was built in 1870-72 and is a lavish and imposing, two story rectangular brick building in the Italianate style.”

Wikipedia article Naples Memorial Town Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Ontario 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

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. N. Main St., NE corner of jct. of N. Main and Monier Sts., Naples, 14512
  • When was it listed? May 1996
  • Category. building
  • Town. Naples town
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • Architect. Andrew Jackson Warner
  • National Register reference number. 96000482 - 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.

Fires near this property

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Naples Memorial Town Hall between 1992 and 2017, burning about 220 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning18
Smoking6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 September 2017Smoking2.5 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
10 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
11 August 2001Smoking1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
10 August 1997Smoking1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
6 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 July 1993Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
12 July 2001Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
11 June 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Ontario County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Naples Memorial Town Hall: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Monier Estate No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Wilcox PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ontario County

Storms near this property

24 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Naples, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 3 flood, 2 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2004Flash FloodNaples$6,000,000no account filed
May 2014FloodNaples$150,000no account filed
May 2000Flash FloodNaples$75,000no account filed
January 1999Heavy SnowNaples$75,000no account filed
August 2005LightningNaples$50,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindNaples$25,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindNaples$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines at the intersection of Routes 21 and 245.
June 2015Flash FloodNaples$15,000no account filed
July 2014Thunderstorm WindNaples$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
September 2010FloodNaples$10,000no account filed
January 2008Thunderstorm WindNaples$10,000no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindNaples$10,000no account filed
May 2004Flash FloodNaples$10,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindNaples$10,000no account filed
April 2023Thunderstorm WindNaples$2,000Trees and wires were downed on Eelpot Road between Maxfield Road and Route 21.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindNaples$2,000Trees and wires were downed.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindNaples$1,500Tree downed on wires on State Route 21 near Bristol Spring Road.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindNaples$500Tree downed.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindNaples$500A tree was downed.
August 2024Flash FloodNaples-Route 245 closed in Naples with high water flowing over roadway.
August 2021Heavy RainNaples-Storm total rainfall that was reported during the entirety of the passage of the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred.
August 2021Heavy RainNaples-Storm total rainfall that was reported during the entirety of the passage of the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred.
October 2021FloodNaples-Flooding was reported on Route 245.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindNaples-Trees were reported down.

Every storm recorded in Ontario County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Central Naples Historic Districtunder 500 feet2024
Morgan Hook and Ladder Company0.2 miles1995
Naples South Main Street Historic District0.4 miles2022
Naples Viniculture Historic District0.5 miles2022
Fairview Cemetery0.6 miles2023
Ephraim Cleveland House0.7 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96000482 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ontario CountyAll 78 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.