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One of 686 National Register listings published here for Worcester County · listed in 2022 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Main Street and Murray Avenue Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1885.
The listing
- Address. 718 and 720 Main St., 87 and 91 Murray Ave., Worcester
- When was it listed? December 2022
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 100008421 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
60 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Main Street and Murray Avenue Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 | 20 |
| Smoking | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 3 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 14 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 26 August 2020 | Smoking | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 13 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 21 July 2020 | Smoking | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 5 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 26 June 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
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 Main Street and Murray Avenue Historic District: 8 past producers, 3 producers, 2 plants. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Lead, Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bd Bloomfield Co--Worcester, Ma. | Lead | Plant | ||
| Crucible Spec. Metals--Auburn, Ma. | Iron | Plant | ||
| Shrewsbury Trap Rock | Stone | Producer | ||
| 30 Southwest Cutoff Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Auburn Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Capa Corporation | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| F Ang G Sand and Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| F and G Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Sewall Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Shrewsbury Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Newspapers printed here
11 papers11 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 |
|---|---|
| Worcester Morning Daily Spy | 1888 to 1898 |
| The Worcester Spy | 1898 to 1904 |
| Massachusetts Spy and Worcester Advertiser | 1823 to 1825 |
| The Massachusetts Spy, and Worcester County Advertiser | 1825 to 1831 |
| The Massachusetts Spy | 1831 to 1858 |
| Massachusetts Weekly Spy | 1858 to 1882 |
| The Daily Spy | 1845 to 1850 |
| Worcester Daily Press | 1873 to 1878 |
| Worcester Daily Spy | 1850 to 1888 |
| The Massachusetts Spy | 1821 to 1823 |
| Thomas's Massachusetts Spy, Or, Worcester Gazette | 1811 to 1821 |
Maps showing this location
19 surveysUnited 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.
- 1885 USGS Worcester quadrangle1:62500
- 1886 USGS Worcester quadrangle1:62500
- 1892 USGS Worcester quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
- 1908 USGS Quinsigamond quadrangle1:125000 - 3 printings
- 1934 USGS Worcester quadrangle1:24000
- 1939 USGS Worcester North quadrangle1:31680 - 5 printings
- 1943 USGS Quinsigamond quadrangle1:125000
- 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Worcester North quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
- 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Worcester North quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1974 USGS Worcester North quadrangle1:24000
- 1974 USGS Worcester North quadrangle1:25000
- 1975 USGS Worcester North quadrangle1:25000
- 1983 USGS Worcester North quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Boynton and Windsor | under 500 feet | 1980 |
 | Emmanuel Baptist | under 500 feet | 1980 |
 | I00F Building | under 500 feet | 1980 |
 | Daniel Stevens House | 0.1 miles | 1980 |
| Dale and Ethan Allen Streets Historic District | 0.1 miles | 2019 | |
 | Wellington Street Apartment House District | 0.1 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100008421 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Worcester County | All 686 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.