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Photograph of Greenridge-Arthur Williams House
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Greenridge-Arthur Williams House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“Greenridge-Arthur Williams House is a historic mansion located at 875 Bryant Avenue in the Village of Roslyn Harbor, in Nassau County, New York, United States.”

Wikipedia article Greenridge-Arthur Williams House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Greenridge--Arthur Williams House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 875 Bryant Ave., Roslyn Harbor, 11576
  • When was it listed? July 1999
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Roslyn Harbor, New York MPS
  • Town. North Hempstead town
  • National Register reference number. 99000875 - 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

492 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 492 fires within 5 miles of Greenridge-Arthur Williams House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 210 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 30 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/undetermined268
Smoking65
Power generation/transmission/distribution40
Arson/incendiarism30
Natural29
Debris and open burning18
Recreation and ceremony18
Equipment and vehicle use14
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2016Recreation and ceremony1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2002Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution2.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2004Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Nassau 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 Greenridge-Arthur Williams House: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tungsten. 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
L I Tungsten Corp/ Glen Cove, N.Y.TungstenUnknown
Mccormack Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Port Washington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Port Washington Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Port Washington PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

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
Mudge Farmhouse0.4 miles1999
Roslyn Cemetery0.5 miles1991
Toll Gate House0.6 miles1977
Cedarmere-Clayton Estates0.6 miles1986
Stephen and Charles Smith House0.9 miles1999
Springbank0.9 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99000875 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nassau CountyAll 156 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.