Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2011. 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
“(Provide at least one paragraph for each area of significance.) Architecture Stetson Hall is the only Greek Revival municipal building extant in Randolph. The façade, or west elevation, is certainly its most impressive, dominating the streetscape of North Main Street for a distance of nearly one mile.”
Narrative Statement of Significance, National Register nomination for Stetson Hall. Machine-read text.
one of 249 National Register listings in Norfolk County · listed in 2011 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Norfolk County.
National Register reference number.11000883- 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
291 since 2015
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 291 fires within 5 miles of Stetson Hall between
2015 and 2020, burning about 142 acres in total. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony
125
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
63
Debris and open burning
56
Smoking
34
Misuse of fire by a minor
8
Natural
2
Fireworks
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 6,689 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Stetson Hall between 1832 and
1975: 2,900 Plantae, 1,870 Animalia, 1,722 Fungi, 145 Protozoa, 29 Chromista, 19 Unrecorded, 4 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), A W Cheever, A. A. Eaton 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
14 workings within 5 miles of Stetson Hall: 8 past producers, 4 producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Randolph, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 flash flood, 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.
Lightning struck a detached garage on Bonnie Avenue, igniting a fire. There were no vehicles in the garage but there was damage to other household possessions and belongings.
At 11:26 AM EST, heavy rain caused street flooding in Randolph at the intersection of Warren Street and Highland Avenue. Multiple cars were trapped in the flooding. Rainfall of 1.90 inches was reported in nearby Stoughton Massachusetts.
In Randolph, a large limb was down at the intersection of Dorr Street and Vinton Street. |Power lines were down at Dorr and Russ Street. Time approximate based on radar.
In Randolph, Highland Glen Drive at Gloversbrook Road was flooded and impassable. Flooding on Highland Glen Drive extended westward to Birchwood Road and Bittersweet Lane. A car was stuck on Leavitt Brook Road at Highland Glen. Four cars were stranded at Highland Avenue at Warren Street, due to two feet of standing water from torrential rains. Another car was stuck on Plain Street at Howard Street.
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
13,256 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.) A B Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. 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.
(Expires 5/31/2012) Norfolk, Massachusetts County and State Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions.) ARCHITECTURE COMMERCE EDUCATION ENTERTAINMENT/RECREATION POLITICS/GOVERNMENT SOCIAL HISTORY Period of Significance 1842-1961 Criteria Considerations (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) Property is: A Owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. 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 old or achieving significance within the past 50 years.
Significant Dates 1842 (construction of Stetson Hall) 1866 (remodeling) 1928 (remodeling) Significant Person (Complete only if Criterion B is marked above.) N/A Cultural Affiliation N/A Architect/Builder John Edmund Kelley (1928 remodeling) Period of Significance (justification) The period of significance extends from the date of construction to fifty years from the present. Criteria Considerations (explanation, if necessary) N/A 8 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 11000883, 32 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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