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Palmer-Lewis Estate

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Palmer-Lewis Estate is a historic estate and national historic district located at Bedford, Westchester County, New York. The district contains 12 contributing buildings, one contributing site, and four contributing structures.”

Wikipedia article Palmer-Lewis Estate, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1998 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Palmer--Lewis Estate - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Black Brook Rd., Bedford, 10576
  • When was it listed? August 1998
  • Category. district
  • Town. Bedford town
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 98001008 - 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

224 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 224 fires within 5 miles of Palmer-Lewis Estate between 2000 and 2020, burning about 134 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 20 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/undetermined104
Natural35
Arson/incendiarism20
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use15
Smoking11
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Palmer-Lewis Estate: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Feldspar, Quartz. 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
Hobby QuarriesFeldspar, QuartzPast Producer
Baylis Rock QuarryStonePast Producer
Baylis Rock QuarryStonePast Producer
Kinkel Gneiss Rock QuarriesStoneProducer
Kinkel Gneiss Rock QuarriesStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bedford, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBedford$15,000Multiple trees and power lines were reported down between Bedford and Pound Ridge, including bringing one large tree into a house on Eastwoods Road in Pound Ridge.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindBedford$7,500Numerous trees were reported down across town.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindBedford$5,000Multiple trees and wires down on Old Post Road.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindBedford$3,000Trees and wires down on Guard Hill Road.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindBedford$3,000Trees and wires down at Greenwich Road and Brett Lane.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindBedford$3,000Trees and wires down at Middle Patent Road and Rustling Lane.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBedford$1,000Downed tree on NY 22 in both directions south of Bedford Road. All lanes are blocked.
July 2010HailBedford-Quarter size hail was reported in Bedford.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindBedford-Power lines down.
August 2003HailBedford-A line of thunderstorms developed and moved east across southeast New York. As it did, a severe thunderstorm developed and produced penny size hail.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBedford-Local police reported that severe thunderstorm winds knocked several trees down.
June 1996Flash FloodBedford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Westchester 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.

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
Caramoor1.6 miles2001
Bedford Village Historic District2.1 miles1973
John Jay Homestead2.5 miles1972
Pound Ridge Historic District2.6 miles1985
Osborn-Bouton-Mead House3.6 miles2004
Katonah Village Historic District3.8 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98001008 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Westchester CountyAll 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.