Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1885.
From the record
“Bates Ship chandlery built Capt John Wilson House built Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) n/a Cultural Affiliation N/a Architect/Builder David Nicholas (Wilson House)”
Narrative Statement of Significance, National Register nomination for Capt. John Wilson House and Bates Ship Chandlery. Machine-read text.
One of 342 National Register listings published here for Norfolk County · listed in 2002 · category: District.
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Federal architecture
National Register reference number.02001614- 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.
An interesting event in the annals of your parent town was the obtaining of a deed of its territory from the heirs of Chickatabut. living on the banks of the Neponset, ruled over a ereat part of what is now Plymouth and Norfolk Counties. He is supposed to have given permission to the first settlers to make Hingham their home. His sons, Wampatuck, Squmuck, and Ahahden, sion of meadow land was made among the proprieters at Conghasset. Not all of these proprietors, however, were residents of this territory. Hingham settlers here are said, by Rev. Mr. Flint, to have borne the familiar names of Beal, Cushing, James, Lincoln, Tower, and Sutton. joined the families of Bates, Kent, Nichols, Orcutt, Pratt, and Stoddard. The first settlement is reported to have been at Rocky Nook, and on the Jerusalem road. The name of your town is said by some to mean '"'a fishing promontory,' by others to mean "a and either name would apply to Cohasset Narrows, in Sandwich. Mr. Trumbull, the best living authority, Unfortunately, he cannot give the true meaning of the word. It ig enough that Cohasset now means a place where, for two hundred years, upright men have led honorable lives, and where an honest New England town has flourished for a century.
In 1714 Hingham was requested in vain to remit the school and ministerial taxes to this portion of the old town. quest, provided that Cohasset would settle an orthodox minister, and accept this settlement of the matter But the citizens of Cohasset voted that they could not do so cheerfully. In 1717 an act of the General Court was obtained creating a second parish in Hingham; and on July 14, 1718, the act was accepted at a meeting, over which Daniel Lin- The meeting was called for Cohasset, alias Little Hingham.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Capt. John Wilson House and Bates Ship Chandlery
between 2015 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning
67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
16
Misuse of fire by a minor
9
Smoking
5
Recreation and ceremony
5
Natural
3
Arson/incendiarism
2
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 2,822 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Capt. John Wilson House and Bates Ship Chandlery between 1836 and 1975: 1,890 Plantae, 349 Chromista, 262 Animalia, 244 Fungi, 58 Unrecorded, 13 Protozoa, 6 Bacteria.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A Loveridge, A. B. Seymour, A. C. Mathieson 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
1 working within 5 miles of Capt. John Wilson House and Bates Ship Chandlery: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Cohasset, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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.
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.
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Statement of significance
Applicable National Register Criteria (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register listing.) xA Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. _B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. xC Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. -D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history.
Criteria Considerations (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) Property is: _A owned by religious institution or used for religious purposes. XB removed from its original location. (Bates Chandlery) _ C a birthplace or grave. - D a cemetery. -E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. _F a commemorative property. -G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) _Norfolk, MA County and State Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) Architecture _Community Development and Planning Commerce Maritime History Period of Significance Ca. 1754-1957 Significant Dates _Ca.
1754 Bates Ship chandlery built 1810 Capt John Wilson House built Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) n/a Cultural Affiliation N/a Architect/Builder David Nicholas (Wilson House) 2.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 02001614, 60 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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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