Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2010. 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 Fitch-Hoose House is a single-family house at 6 Gulf Road in Dalton, Massachusetts. The wood-frame house was built in 1846, and is a representative of housing of the African American community in Dalton in the 19th century.”
Wikipedia article Fitch-Hoose House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 94 National Register listings in Berkshire County · listed in 2010 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Berkshire County.
National Register reference number.10000390- 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
82 since 2015
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Fitch-Hoose House between
2015 and 2018, burning about 44 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
Debris and open burning
47
Recreation and ceremony
13
Smoking
7
Railroad operations and maintenance
4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Arson/incendiarism
2
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Other causes
1
Fireworks
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 749 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Fitch-Hoose House between 1835 and
1975: 356 Plantae, 197 Animalia, 190 Fungi, 6 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A K Harrison, A. K. Harrison, A. K. Harrison, Florence 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
15 workings within 5 miles of Fitch-Hoose House: 9 past producers, 5 producers, 1 unknown.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Asbestos, Limestone, General, 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
Dalton, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 flood.
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.
During the afternoon of May 20, a cold frontal passage initiated an isolated severe thunderstorm in Berkshire County. The severe thunderstorm produced one inch hail at Dalton.
The National Weather Service in Albany, New York surveyed damage from the October 16, 2021 thunderstorm in and around Dalton, MA. There was sporadic damage in a southwest/northeast oriented path from just southeast of the center of Dalton to around two miles northeast of the center. The damage started at a lumber yard on West Housatonic Street where fiberglass sheathing and other debris was blown onto|the roadway. Nearby, a large tree was downed on a fence near Chamberlain Park. Continuing northeastward, several large trees and limbs were downed on the grounds of Wahconah Country Club. The most concentrated damage occurred along Orchard Road and its intersections with Appletree Lane and Pease Avenue. Several large hardwood and softwood trees were uprooted, and one large spruce tree was snapped, crushing a wooden pool house. Fence panels were blown in at two separate residences on Appletree Lane. There was also minor damage to roofs with some shingles missing at a couple of residences and one chimney damaged. The damage continued at Route 9 and Cleveland Avenue where trees were downed blocking both roads. The end of the visible damage swath occurred at Holiday Brook Farm, where the wind ripped off a couple of panels of aluminum roofing, tore a hole in a plastic greenhouse covering, and knocked over a wooden playset.||The trees were all downed in a south/north or southwest/northeast orientation, suggesting that the damage was due to strong straight-line winds. There was one tree downed onto a house and one onto a car, but no injuries were reported.
Moderate flooding occurred on the East Branch Housatonic River. The Coltsville |river gage located on right bank 250 feet downstream from the Hubbard Avenue Bridge at Coltsville, 1.2 miles upstream from Unkamet Brook, and 2 miles northeast of Pittsfield exceeded its 5 foot flood stage at 9:25 am EST August 28th, its 8 foot moderate flood stage 3:25 pm, crested at 8.20 feet at 4 pm, and fell below flood stage at 2:53 am August 29th.
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
8,473 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. X C 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.) Berkshire, MA County and State Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) Architecture _Community Planning & Development Ethnic Heritage - Black Period of Significance 1846-1960 Significant Dates 1846 (construction of house) 1868 (year Hoose family bought house) Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) Cultural Affiliation N/A Architect/Builder unknown 2.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 10000390, 31 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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