Moore's Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“Moore's Building is a historic building located in the downtown area of the Hamlet of Oyster Bay and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. First built in 1901, the building gained significance when Theodore Roosevelt had his staff take offices here while he served as U.S.”
Wikipedia article Moore's Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1 E. Main St., Oyster Bay, 11771
When was it listed? September 1996
Category. building
Town. Oyster Bay town
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 96001043 - 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

230 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 230 fires within 5 miles of Moore's Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 115 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 31 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	106
Arson/incendiarism	31
Natural	27
Power generation/transmission/distribution	20
Smoking	17
Debris and open burning	13
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
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
8 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2014	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 September 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Nassau 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 Moore's Building: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten. 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
	L I Tungsten Corp/ Glen Cove, N.Y.	Tungsten	Unknown

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this property

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oyster Bay, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Oyster Bay	$5,000	Trees were reported down throughout town.
September 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Oyster Bay	$1,000	Tree down on Mill River Road with cones put in place around tree.
July 2005	Flash Flood	Oyster Bay	-	Flash flooding of streets.
July 2003	Flash Flood	Oyster Bay	-	The Nassau County Office of Emergency Management reported flooding near Oyster Bay High School.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Oyster Bay	-	Powerful airmass thunderstorms developed during the evening hours. Numerous trees and power lines were downed over Orange County. As the storms moved into northern Nassau County, violent winds downed more trees and power lines. At a festival in Oyster Bay a large tent, with about 70 people inside, was blown over.
December 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Oyster Bay	-	no account filed
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Oyster Bay	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nassau 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.

1897 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500 - 15 printings
1947 USGS Hicksville quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Hicksville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Hicksville quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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
Christ Church	under 500 feet	2018
First Presbyterian Church of Oyster Bay	0.1 miles	1976
Raynham Hall	0.3 miles	1974
US Post Office-Oyster Bay	0.4 miles	1989
Oyster Bay Long Island Rail Road Turntable	0.4 miles	2005
Adam-Derby House	0.5 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001043 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nassau County	All 156 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.