St. Mary's of the Mountain Church

Built in 1839 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Mary's of the Mountain Church was an historic Roman Catholic church on New York State Route 23A in Hunter, Greene County, New York. The church was completed in 1839 and is a one-story, four by two bay, post and beam frame structure on a modern concrete foundation.”
Wikipedia article St. Mary's of the Mountain Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 101 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 1999 · category: Building · built in 1839, Romanesque Revival architecture.

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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. NY 23A, Hunter, 12442
When was it listed? January 1999
Category. building
Town. Hunter town
When was it built? 1839
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 99000057 - 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

1892 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering St. Mary's of the Mountain Church, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet covering St. Mary's of the Mountain Church, surveyed 1892

Fires near this property

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of St. Mary's of the Mountain Church between 1992 and 2017, burning about 103 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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	21
Debris and open burning	20
Recreation and ceremony	7
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	4
Natural	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	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
4 September 2002	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
21 August 1993	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
12 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
12 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
22 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 July 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this property

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hunter, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hunter	$12,000	no account filed
October 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Hunter	$5,000	no account filed
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hunter	-	Two trees were reported down in the town of Hunter.
October 2017	Heavy Rain	Hunter	-	Social Media reported 7 inches of heavy rainfall.
February 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hunter	-	A tree was blown down in Hunter during a thunderstorm.
July 1995	Hail	Hunter	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene County

Maps showing this location

14 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.

1892 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1893 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1903 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1945 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1946 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1997 USGS Hunter 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
Harry Fischel House	0.9 miles	2000
Hunter Synagogue	0.9 miles	1999
IOOF Hall	1.0 miles	2002
Onteora Park Historic District	2.6 miles	2003
Hunter Mountain Fire Tower	2.9 miles	1997
Church of St. John the Evangelist	3.1 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000057 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greene County	All 101 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.