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One of 86 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Paul Smith's Hotel Cottages
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.
The listing
- Listed as. Smith's, Paul, Hotel Cottages - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. NY 30, Brighton, 12970
- When was it listed? April 1999
- Category. building
- Town. Brighton town
- National Register reference number. 99000501 - 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 1999The ground this property stands on, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
40 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Paul Smith's Hotel Cottages between 1999 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 9.2 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.6 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.6 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 29 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | COOLER POND #2 |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Paul Smith's Hotel Cottages: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Maps showing this location
10 surveysUnited 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 Saint Regis quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
- 1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Saint Regis quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Saint Regis Mtn quadrangle1:25000
- 1979 USGS Saint Regis Mtn. quadrangle1:25000
- 1985 USGS Tupper Lake quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1999 USGS Saint Regis Mtn. quadrangle1:25000
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Brighton Town Hall | 1.3 miles | 2003 |
 | Northbrook Lodge | 1.5 miles | 2014 |
 | Camp Wild Air | 1.9 miles | 1986 |
| St. Regis Presbyterian Church | 2.0 miles | 2020 | |
 | Camp Topridge | 2.4 miles | 1986 |
 | St. Regis Mountain Fire Observation Station | 3.2 miles | 2005 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 99000501 in Record Group 79. |
| Franklin County | All 86 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.