Built in 1922. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.
From the record
“Wilber School is a historic school building at 75-85 South Main Street in Sharon, Massachusetts. Located on a block facing Sharon Town Hall, the large two story brick Colonial and Classical Revival building was built in 1921-22 and enlarged in 1928-29.”
Wikipedia article Charles R. Wilber School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 342 National Register listings published here for Norfolk County · listed in 2010 · category: Building · built in 1922.
National Register reference number.10000244- 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.
Sharon has an area of about fourteen thousand acres, a little more than one-half of which is under cultivation. In 1880 it contained 1492 inhabitants, and its manufactures at the last State census were: boots and shoes, $93,190; iron and steel goods, $61,700; cotton goods, carriages, boxes, $125,820.
The surface of Sharon is diversified and uneven, and increases in height from the level of the Neponset River, on the northwest, until it reaches, at Sharon east and Beaver Brook on the west side. Lake Massapoag is a beautiful body of water, situated one mile south of the village, and was so named
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Charles R. Wilber School
between 2015 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony
62
Smoking
43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
39
Debris and open burning
9
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Natural
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
Other causes
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 4,955 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Charles R. Wilber School between 1846 and 1975: 2,031 Plantae, 1,408 Fungi, 1,338 Animalia, 132 Protozoa, 22 Chromista, 19 Unrecorded, 5 Bacteria.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by ?, A W Cheever, A. A. Eaton 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
12 workings within 5 miles of Charles R. Wilber School: 7 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, 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
Sharon, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 lightning, 2 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.
In Sharon, significant street flooding was reported on Canton St, Norwood St, Hampton Rd by Oak Hill Dr, and on Dean St at the railroad bridge. A car was stuck in flooding on Commercial St.
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
(Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) _NORFOLK, MA County and State Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) LARCHITECTURE EDUCATION SOCIAL HISTORY Period of Significance 1922-1959 Significant Dates 1922 - construction and opening 1929 - conversion to high school Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) _N/A Cultural Affiliation N/A Architect/Builder Monks & Johnson, Ralph Harrington Doane Edward S. Holland 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 10000244, 42 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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