Schoonmaker Stone House and Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Schoonmaker Stone House and Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Rochester in Ulster County, New York. The property includes the house, a small shed, privy, and two barns.”
Wikipedia article Schoonmaker Stone House and Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. Samsonville Rd., near jct. of NY 76 and Cherrytown Rd., Rochester, 12446
When was it listed? February 1997
Category. building
Also known as. Rochester MPS
Town. Rochester town
National Register reference number. 97000109 - 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

229 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 229 fires within 5 miles of Schoonmaker Stone House and Farm between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5,335 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 33 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	144
Arson/incendiarism	33
Natural	19
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Recreation and ceremony	7
Debris and open burning	7
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	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
6 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
5 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
4 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
3 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
16 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Schoonmaker Stone House and Farm: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Accord Stone and Lime Company	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Krom Road Gravel Bank	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1903 USGS Slide Mountain quadrangle1:62500
1905 USGS Slide Mountain quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1942 USGS Kerhonkson quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Kerhonkson quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS Kerhonkson quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello 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
Terwilliger-Smith Farm	0.3 miles	2002
Jacob Hoornbeck Stone House	1.0 miles	1997
Congregation Tifereth Yehuda Veyisroel	1.8 miles	2013
J. Dupuy Stone House	1.8 miles	1997
C. K. Schoonmaker Stone House	2.4 miles	1997
Vernooy-Bevier Stone House and Barns	3.3 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000109 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ulster County	All 209 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.