Graycliff

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“The Graycliff estate was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1926, and built between 1926 and 1931. It is approximately 17 miles southwest of downtown Buffalo, New York, at 6472 Old Lake Shore Road in the hamlet of Highland-on-the-Lake, with a mailing address of Derby.”
Wikipedia article Graycliff, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 283 National Register listings published here for Erie County · listed in 1998 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. 6472-6482 Lakeshore Rd., Derby, 14047
When was it listed? October 1998
Category. building
Town. Evans town
Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
Architect. Frank Lloyd Wright
National Register reference number. 98001222 - 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

1905 to 1960

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 55 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Graycliff, surveyed 1960

Topographic sheet covering Graycliff, surveyed 1905

Fires near this property

153 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Graycliff between 2000 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 10 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	87
Natural	29
Debris and open burning	13
Arson/incendiarism	10
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Storms near this property

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Derby, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2021: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2014	Flash Flood	Derby	$50,000	no account filed
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	$1,000	Uprooted trees were reported on m-ping.

Every storm recorded in Erie County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1905 USGS Eden quadrangle1:62500
1907 USGS Eden quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1944 USGS Eden quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Eden quadrangle1:24000
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Eden quadrangle1:24000
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

5 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
First Church of Evans Complex	2.9 miles	2006
Pioneer Cemetery	5.1 miles	2012
US Post Office-Angola	5.8 miles	1988
Lustron House Westchester Deluxe Model M02 #01310	6.0 miles	2023
Hamburg Main Street Historic District	7.0 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001222 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Erie County	All 283 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.
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.