Humboldt Avenue Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

One of 345 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. 249, 257, 259 Humboldt Ave. and 79-83, 94 Hutchings St., Boston
When was it listed? November 2021
Category. building
National Register reference number. 100007147 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

68 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Humboldt Avenue Historic District between 2003 and 2020, burning about 347 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
Recreation and ceremony	38
Smoking	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
23 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
2 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	BROOKLINE
2 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	QUINCY
11 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	QUINCY
7 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	QUINCY
6 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MILTON
28 August 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	MILTON
28 August 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	WEYMOUTH

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Humboldt Avenue Historic District: 7 plants, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
C. J. Mabardy	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Us Gypsum Co--Boston	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
West Roxbury Crushed Stone Operatio	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Whittemore Prdts Inc--Boston	Perlite	Plant
(Facility) Cambridge Smelter Co	Lead	Plant
General Metals & Smelting--Boston	Lead	Plant
Industrial Serv. Centers--Cambridge	Iron	Plant
Somerville Smelting Co.	Lead	Plant
Us Steel Supply Div--Boston	Iron	Plant
Wheelock-Lovejoy--Cambridge, Ma.	Iron	Plant

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Newspapers printed here

8 papers

8 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Newspaper	Published
The Boston Courant	1890 to 19??
The Boston Advance	1896 to 1907
The New-England Chronicle	1776
The Massachusetts Spy	1770 to 1772
The Massachusetts Spy, Or, Thomas's Boston Journal	1772 to 1775
The Boston Gazette, Or, Country Journal	1755 to 1793
The Liberator	1831 to 1865
The Guardian	1901 to 1960

Maps showing this location

17 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, 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
1944 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:25000
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1956 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1970 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:24000
1970 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:25000
1977 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:25000
1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Boston South quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Homestead Street Apartments Historic District	0.1 miles	2023
William Lloyd Garrison School	0.2 miles	1980
Home for Aged Couples	0.2 miles	2005
Elm Hill Avenue-Georgia Street-Cheney Street Historic District	0.3 miles	2023
Crawford Street Historic District	0.3 miles	2020
Walnut Park Historic District	0.3 miles	2022

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100007147 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Suffolk County	All 345 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.
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.