Winthrop Shore Dr., Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2004. 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
“Winthrop Shore Drive is a historic parkway in Winthrop, Massachusetts. The mile-long parkway runs through the Winthrop Beach Reservation, and is administered by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR).”
Wikipedia article Winthrop Shore Drive, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 206 National Register listings in Suffolk County · listed in 2004 · category: District · one of 5 National Historic Landmarks in Suffolk County.
Also known as. Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston MPS
Township. Winthrop Town city
National Register reference number.03001469- 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
23 since 2003
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Winthrop Shore Dr., Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston between
2003 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
9
Debris and open burning
7
Smoking
3
Arson/incendiarism
2
Recreation and ceremony
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 14,476 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Winthrop Shore Dr., Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston between 1810 and
1975: 7,233 Plantae, 3,025 Fungi, 2,511 Animalia, 1,243 Chromista, 220 Bacteria, 130 Protozoa, 114 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by ?, A B Seymour, A C Gibson 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
8 workings within 5 miles of Winthrop Shore Dr., Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston: 5 plants, 1 past producer, 1 unknown, 1 producer.
6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Iron, Lead. 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
Winthrop, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 2 flood, 1 heavy rain.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
At 701 AM EST in Winthrop, an apartment basement was flooding on Putnam Street. At 712 AM EST, a car was trapped in flood waters on Crest Avenue. At 720 AM EST a portion of Walden Street and adjacent parking lot were flooded and impassable. At 735 AM EST, Governors Drive was flooded. At 750 AM EST, a basement was flooded on Bank Street. At 820 AM EST, basement flooding was also reported on Veterans Road. An amateur radio operator reported a storm total rainfall of 2.58 inches in Winthrop.
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.
From the nomination file
4,481 words on record
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. xCProperty 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. -B removed from its original location. _ 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.
Suffolk County, Massachusetts County and State Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) Community Planning and Development Conservation Engineering Entertainment/Recreation Landscape Architecture Transportation Period of Significance 1899-1956 Significant Dates 1899: Roadway constructed 1926: DAR monument erected Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) N/A Cultural Affiliation N/A Architect/Builder Charles Eliot, Olmsted Brothers, Civilian Conservation Corps. Narrative Statement of Significance See Section 8 Continuation Sheet 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 03001469, 17 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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