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Photograph of Paul and Madeleine Weidlinger House
Photograph by Judy Moehle, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Weidlinger, Paul and Madeleine

Built in 1953 in the modern architecture. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 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

“The Paul and Madeleine Weidlinger House is a historic house at 54 Valley Road in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. It is one of several surviving houses in Wellfleet that combine elements of Modern architecture with traditional Cape Cod architecture.”

Wikipedia article Paul and Madeleine Weidlinger House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

one of 145 National Register listings in Barnstable County · listed in 2014 · category: Building · built in 1953, modern architecture, by Paul Weidlinger.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 54 Valley Rd., Wellfleet, 02667
  • When was it listed? 2014-01-10
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Mid 20th Century Modern Residential Architecture on Outer Cape Cod MPS
  • Township. Wellfleet town
  • When was it built? 1953
  • Architectural style. modern architecture
  • Architect. Paul Weidlinger
  • National Register reference number. 14000023 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Weidlinger, Paul and Madeleine between 1992 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking5
Fireworks2
Other causes2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCape Cod National SeashoreLONG POND ROAD FIRE
22 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCape Cod National SeashoreGROSS HILL ROAD FIRE
22 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresCape Cod National SeashoreSHAPIRO
18 September 2008Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCape Cod National SeashoreWIRE FIRE
10 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCape Cod National SeashoreWELLWOODS
8 August 2012Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresCape Cod National SeashoreWHITE CREST WILDFIRE

Every fire recorded in Barnstable County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 2,789 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,789 specimens collected within 10 miles of Weidlinger, Paul and Madeleine between 1819 and 1975: 1,913 Animalia, 625 Plantae, 83 Chromista, 64 Unrecorded, 62 Bacteria, 42 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Alan Hodgdon Hodgdon, A. R. Hodgdon, A. R. Hodgdon; G. B. Rossbach 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Laminaria caperata Bachelot de la Pylaie, 18241819Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Pseudopleuronectes americanus, not of this specimenPseudopleuronectes americanus (Walbaum, 1792)1853Atwood, Nathaniel E.Cape Cod, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Ammodytes americanus, not of this specimenAmmodytes americanus DeKay, 18421859Weinland, David FriedrichCape Cod, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Pomatomus saltatrix, not of this specimenPomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus, 1766)1859Ordway, A.Cape Cod, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Stenotomus chrysops, not of this specimenStenotomus chrysops (Linnaeus, 1766)1860William BemisCape Cod Bay, Wellfleet Harbor
A photograph of the species Paralichthys oblongus, not of this specimenParalichthys oblongus (Mitchill, 1815)1862MCZ teamCape Cod, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Carex foenea, not of this specimenCarex foenea Willd.1864W. P. AlcottWellfleet
A photograph of the species Morone americana, not of this specimenMorone americana (Gmelin, 1789)1864MCZ teamCape Cod, rivers, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Scophthalmus aquosus, not of this specimenScophthalmus aquosus (Mitchill, 1815)1864MCZ teamCape Cod, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Peprilus triacanthus, not of this specimenPeprilus triacanthus (Peck, 1804)1871Blake, John HenryCape Cod, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Raja eglanteria, not of this specimenRaja eglanteria Bosc, 18001871MCZ teamCape Cod, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Libinia emarginata, not of this specimenLibinia emarginata Leach, 18151878United States Fish CommissionProvincetown

All 2,789 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this property

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wellfleet, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2018FloodWellfleet$30,000At 7:27 PM EST, the Beachcomber Restaurant in Wellfleet was evacuated due to flooding in the restaurant. At 7:35 PM EST, a car was floating in flood waters at the junction of Hamblin Farm Road and Chequessett Neck Road in Wellfleet. At 7:39 PM EST a car was towed from flood waters on Cove Road. At 8:06 PM EST a basement was flooded on Kendrick Avenue.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindWellfleet$10,000Trees and wires were downed on Chipman's Way.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindWellfleet$5,000Trees were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWellfleet$1,000A large branch on Marconi Station Road was downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2008HailWellfleet$1,000Some vehicle damage occurred with quarter sized hail that fell in Wellfleet.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindWellfleet-In Wellfleet, on Lieutenant Island, an amateur radio operator recorded a wind gust to 65 mph at 1219 PM EST.
August 2008HailWellfleet-no account filed
August 2008HailWellfleet-no account filed
June 2006HailWellfleet-no account filed
July 1997HailWellfleet-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barnstable County

Map coverage status

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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Tisza, Vera and Laszlo, House0.4 miles2014
Rowell House0.4 miles1988
Sirna, Anthony and Allison, Studio0.6 miles2014
Kugel, Peter, House1.2 miles2014
Ahearn House and Summer House2.0 miles1984
Pond Hill School2.9 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 14000023 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Barnstable CountyAll 145 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.
  • 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.