Cromwell Manor

Built in 1820 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Cromwell Manor, also known as the David Cromwell House and Joseph Sutherland House, is located on Angola Road in Cornwall, New York, United States, just south of its intersection with US 9W. It consists of four properties, two of which are of note: the 1820 manor house, built in a Greek Revival style and added onto in 1840 and a 1779 cottage known as The Chimneys, the original home on the site.”
Wikipedia article Cromwell Manor, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1820, Greek Revival architecture.

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

The listing

Address. Angola Rd., approximately .25 mi. S of jct. with US 9W, Cornwall, 12518
When was it listed? June 1996
Category. building
Also known as. Cornwall MPS
Town. Cornwall town
When was it built? 1820
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 96000555 - 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 Cromwell Manor, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering Cromwell Manor, surveyed 1902

Fires near this property

389 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 389 fires within 5 miles of Cromwell Manor between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,226 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 41 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	238
Arson/incendiarism	41
Recreation and ceremony	27
Natural	25
Smoking	17
Debris and open burning	17
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Fireworks	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
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
4 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Cromwell Manor: 10 past producers, 4 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Stone, Clay. 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
Constitution Island Occurrence	Molybdenum	Occurrence
Clay Pit No. Hk-020	Clay	Past Producer	Clay
Clay Pit No. Hk-020	Clay	Past Producer
Granitic Gneiss Rock Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Granitic Gneiss Rock Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Granitic Gneiss Rock Quarry No. Hk-021	Stone	Past Producer	Gneiss, Granite
Granitic Gneiss Rock Quarry No. Hk-026	Stone	Producer	Granite
Tower Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Magnetite
Townsend Canterbury Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Residual

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
Patrick Piggot House	0.3 miles	1998
David Sutherland House	0.5 miles	1996
Cornwall Friends Meeting House	0.7 miles	1988
Daniel Sutherland House	0.7 miles	1996
Vermont Hatch Mansion	0.8 miles	1995
A. J. Clark Store	1.0 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000555 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.