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One of 1,353 National Register listings published here for Middlesex County · listed in 2020 · category: Building · built in 1696.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Malden City Infirmary
Built in 1696. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 341 Forest St., Malden, 02148
- When was it listed? 2020-08-28
- Category. building
- City. Malden city
- When was it built? 1696
- National Register reference number. 100005476 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
The ground it stands on
49,084 wordsThe chapter on Malden City in History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1890 names Malden. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Malden Medical Improvement Society. - This society Was instituted in 1888, but it was really an outgrowth of the Holmes Medical Club, which w.os started in the city of Maiden some ten years ago, and included the select phy.sicians of Maiden, Medford, Melrose and Stoneham. This society is conducted on the same plan .as the State Medical Society, meeting monthly, when essays and i)apers are read. There is also a presentation of cases. In the winter of 1889, there was given a course of lectures worthy of note. In this society was born the idea of the Maiden City Hospital ; and when Deacon Converse was asked what he could do to help embody the idea, he responded nobly by giving $10,000 in cash, and several -acres of beautiful land. .John L. Sullivan is the present president of the society ; John B. Mahoney, secretary ; Godfrey Ryder, treasurer.
Passage source: History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1890.
Malden Industrial Aid Society. - This society w:is organized in 1875, the year of the great fire at the R iblier Works. Its object, as stated in the constitution 9 to relieve and prevent destitution, by renderin j; I'rompt, efficient, and judicious aid to the deserving, necessitous poor in our own town ; and to encourage thrift, by endeavoring to cultivate the self-respect and self-reliance of those to whom aid is rendered.
Passage source: History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1890.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Malden City - 49,084 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
124 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Malden City Infirmary between 2015 and 2020, burning about 214 acres in total. None started naturally. 31 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 31 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 26 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 26 |
| Debris and open burning | 17 |
| Smoking | 14 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 3 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 3 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 28 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 25 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | SAUGUS |
| 23 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 23 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 23 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 1,330 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,330 specimens collected within 10 miles of Malden City Infirmary between 1898 and 1975: 501 Animalia, 455 Plantae, 314 Fungi, 25 Protozoa, 17 Bacteria, 10 Chromista, 8 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A B Seymour, A B. Proper 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.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Trientalis borealis Raf. | 1900 | A. P. Chute | |
| Aglaospora profusa (Fr.) De Not. | 1898 | Collector unspecified | ||
 | Bulbostylis capillaris var. crebra Fernald | 1898 | C. H. Knowlton | Boston. |
 | Cantharellus infundibuliformis (Scop.) Fr. | 1898 | not recorded | Melrose. |
 | Cladonia coccifera (L.) Willd. | 1898 | Francis P Daniels | Cambridge |
 | Cladonia rangiferina (L.) Weber | 1898 | Francis P Daniels | Arlington Heights |
 | Cordyceps capitata (Holmsk.) Link | 1898 | Conant, [?] F. | Middlesex Fells |
 | Ctenidium malacodes Mitt. | 1898 | not recorded | |
 | Cucurbitaria elongata (Fr.) Grev. | 1898 | J. G. Hall | |
 | Acer carpinifolium Siebold & Zucc. | 1900 | A. K. Harrison | Harvard Botanic Garden, Cambridge. |
 | Acer palmatum var. dissectum (Thunb.) Miq. | 1900 | A. K. Harrison | Harvard Botanic Garden, Cambridge. |
 | Alnus incana subsp. rugosa (Du Roi) R.T.Clausen | 1900 | J. Murdoch, Jr. | Roxbury |
All 1,330 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Malden City Infirmary: 5 plants, 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Vulcan Smelter--Chelsea, Ma. | Copper, Lead | Plant | ||
| Kay Locke Inc Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Lynn Eastern Smelt & Refin Corp | Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium, Mercury | Plant | ||
| Somerville Smelting Co. | Lead | Plant | ||
| Us Gypsum Co--Boston | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer | ||
| Ferro Ceramic Grinding--Wakefield | Silica | Plant | ||
| Syncor Prdts Co--Malden, Ma. | Silica | Plant | ||
| Malden Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Malden Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Richardson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
6 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Malden, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Malden | $10,000 | In Malden, a tree was down on a car on Clinton Street. In Medford, a tree was down on Cushing Street. Also in Medford, a tree was down on Carberry Street. A tree and wires were down and leaning on a house on Governor's Avenue. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Malden | $500 | In Medford, there was a tree down on the 900 block of Highland Ave. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Malden | $500 | In Malden, a tree was down on Fellsway East. |
| November 2018 | Flood | Malden | - | In Malden, a portion of Highland Avenue was flooded and closed for a time, shortly after midnight. |
| June 2012 | Flood | Malden | - | Pleasant Street was flooded with eight to twelve inches of water. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Malden | - | Trees and power lines down on Newton Street. |
Maps showing this location
17 surveysUnited 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.
- 1893 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
- 1903 USGS Boston quadrangle1:62500 - 13 printings
- 1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
- 1943 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:24000
- 1946 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:31680
- 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
- 1956 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:24000
- 1971 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:25000
- 1977 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:25000
- 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Boston North quadrangle1:25000 - 3 printings
- 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Phineas Upham House | 0.6 miles | 1990 |
 | Charles A. Daniels School | 0.8 miles | 1987 |
 | Marcia Browne Junior High School | 1.0 miles | 2000 |
 | Odd Fellows Building | 1.0 miles | 1988 |
 | Converse Memorial Building | 1.1 miles | 1985 |
 | Larrabee's Brick Block | 1.2 miles | 1984 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005476 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Middlesex County | All 1353 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- 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.