Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2002. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“The Inness-Fitts House and Studio is a historic house at 406 Main Street in Medfield, Massachusetts. Built in 1836, it is a modest transitional Federal-Greek Revival structure.”
Wikipedia article Inness-Fitts House and Studio, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 249 National Register listings in Norfolk County · listed in 2002 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Norfolk County.
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Federal architecture
National Register reference number.02000153- 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.
The colonists were not ignorant of their danger ; and, in the General Court, many acts were passed having reference to the expected conflict. The dwellers in the outlying settlements began to take alarm. Some of those at Mendon, then the only settlement between Medfield and the Indian country, left their homes for places of greater security.
The first actual hostilities commenced at Swanzey, June 24; and several persons were killed. Other towns in Plymouth Colony were attacked during the summer. July 14, four or five persons of those who had remained at Mendon were slain, when the place was abandoned, and the empty houses burned by the enemy. From that time, Medfield was the outermost town.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Inness--Fitts House and Studio/Barn between
2015 and 2020, burning about 31 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was 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
28
Recreation and ceremony
23
Debris and open burning
17
Smoking
13
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Natural
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Equipment and vehicle use
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 9,332 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Inness--Fitts House and Studio/Barn between 1832 and
1975: 4,439 Animalia, 2,530 Plantae, 2,144 Fungi, 146 Protozoa, 37 Chromista, 31 Unrecorded, 5 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. A. Eaton, A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & A. C. Seymour and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
17 workings within 5 miles of Inness--Fitts House and Studio/Barn: 8 past producers, 8 producers, 1 unknown.
8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Stone, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Medfield, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail.
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.
In Medfield, a large tree was down on Lowell Mason Road. A large tree was down on Main Street. A large tree was down on Pound Street. Three large trees were down into the back part of an apartment house on Wilkins Glen Road.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
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.
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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.
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