Henry A. and Jennie Belden House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2026. 21 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1888.

From the record

One of 183 National Register listings published here for Berkshire County · listed in 2026 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 180 West Street, Lenox
When was it listed? February 2026
Category. building
National Register reference number. 100012701 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1888 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Henry A. and Jennie Belden House, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet covering Henry A. and Jennie Belden House, surveyed 1888

Fires near this property

51 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Henry A. and Jennie Belden House between 2002 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. 4 started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning	20
Recreation and ceremony	11
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
21 September 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
18 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
1 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
31 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 August 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
4 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 47 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of Henry A. and Jennie Belden House: 26 past producers, 14 producers, 5 occurrences, 1 prospect. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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	Recorded
Cheever Mines	Iron, Manganese	Producer	Goethite, Limonite
Cheever Mines	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer
Cone Limestone Mine	Iron, Magnesite, Zinc	Past Producer	1827
John S Lane and Son Inc	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Lee Marble Inc Qy & Plant	Marble, Dimension	Producer
Lee Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Lee White Marble Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer	Metamorphic
No 6 Quarry & Plnt Lane & Son	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Toby Lime Plant	Limestone, General	Producer
Abby Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Maps showing this location

21 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.

1888 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:62500
1890 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:62500
1897 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1899 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
1943 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Stockbridge quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Stockbridge quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Stockbridge quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Stockbridge quadrangle1:25000 - 3 printings
1975 USGS Stockbridge quadrangle1:25000
1986 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1987 USGS Stockbridge quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1997 USGS Stockbridge quadrangle1:25000

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
Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio	0.3 miles	2016
Lenox High School	0.8 miles	2004
Lenox Library	0.9 miles	1973
Lenox Academy	0.9 miles	1982
Lenox Village Historic District	1.0 miles	2022
Trinity Episcopal Church	1.0 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100012701 in Record Group 79.
Berkshire County	All 183 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.