Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2006. 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 Pratt Historic Building is a historic building at 106 South Main Street in Cohasset, Massachusetts, United States. It was built in 1903 with private donations as the Paul Pratt Memorial Library, to house the town's 7,500-volume collection.”
Wikipedia article Pratt Historic Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 249 National Register listings in Norfolk County · listed in 2006 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Norfolk County.
National Register reference number.06000816- 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.
Measuring also by the standard of money contributed, the religious efforts of the town were much increased ; for while the salary of the old parish was not diminished but rather increased, that of the new one upon the plain soon grew to be six hundred dollars a year in addition. This, moreover, leaves out of the count the financial sup- port of the Methodist Church at Jerusalem which came partly from Cohasset. The population and wealth of the town was not increasing half as rapidly as its religious efforts during the twenty-five years following the divorce.
Rev. Hugh P. Smith,* of Roxbury, who then had the oversight of these Roman Catholic newcomers in Weymouth, Hingham, Cohasset, and Scituate, soon saw the necessity of a building for public worship, and with characteristic energy he set about it. From the time of its completion in 1876, St. Anthony's Church has called an increasing number of worshipers, until now there are as high as five hundred at some services. During the summer months especially, when the visitors from city homes bring more than a hundred domestic servants to our town,
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Pratt Historic Building 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
66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
15
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 2,843 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Pratt Historic Building between 1836 and
1975: 1,890 Plantae, 349 Chromista, 285 Animalia, 243 Fungi, 57 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 Pratt Historic Building: 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.
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
24,375 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.) X A 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. - 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.
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) EDUCATION ARCHITECTURE ART Period of Significance 1902-1956 Significant Dates 1902 library constructed 1946 Reddie murals unveiled Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) Cultural Affiliation Architect/Builder Nichols, Edward Reddie, Maclvor (mural artist) (see continuation sheet) 2.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 06000816, 55 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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