Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.
“The Original Congregational Church of Wrentham is a historic church in Wrentham, Massachusetts. The present church is a Greek Revival structure built in 1834 for a congregation formed in 1692.”
Wikipedia article Original Congregational Church of Wrentham, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 342 National Register listings published here for Norfolk County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service
The chapter on Wrentham Town in History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1884 names Wrentham. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
This was the original grant as appears in the first volume of the records of Massachusetts of that tract of land which includes the present townships of Dedham, Medfield, Wrentham, Needham, Bellingham, a part of Sherborn, a part of Natick, Franklin, Medway (which was attached to Medfield until 1781), |
Passage source: History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1884.
Organization of the Town. - We now leave our Indian cognomen of Wollomonopoag. Hereafter the name given by the General Court is to be our designation. On the 4th day of December, 1673, the committee (for ordering the affairs of the town called Wrentham, near unto Dedham) met and ordered as followeth :
Passage source: History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1884.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Wrentham Town - 36,456 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Original Congregational Church of Wrentham between 2007 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 64 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 55 |
| Smoking | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | FOXBORO |
| 27 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | PLAINVILLE |
| 27 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | PLAINVILLE |
| 26 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | PLAINVILLE |
| 25 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | PLAINVILLE |
| 23 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | PLAINVILLE |
| 22 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 22 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | PLAINVILLE |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,377 specimens collected within 10 miles of Original Congregational Church of Wrentham between 1843 and 1975: 633 Fungi, 346 Plantae, 275 Animalia, 87 Protozoa, 16 Chromista, 15 Unrecorded, 5 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Herz, A. A. Eaton, A. B. Seymour 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Polygala paucifolia Willd. | 1843 | Shore | Woonsocket |
 | Carex swanii (Fernald) Mack. | 1870 | Joseph Blake | Sharon |
 | Chamaecyparis thyoides (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. | 1870 | Joseph Blake | Sharon |
| Chantransia hermannii (Roth) Desvaux | 1870 | F. W. Dewart | ||
 | Trichophorum planifolium (Spreng.) Palla | 1870 | Joseph Blake | Sharon |
 | Hamamelis virginiana L. | 1871 | T. Morong | |
 | Ranunculus trichophyllus Chaix | 1871 | Joseph Blake | Sharon |
 | Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman | 1874 | not recorded | |
 | Nitella tenuissima (Desv.) Kütz. | 1874 | Piper, S. M. | |
| Thelypteris phegopteris (L.) Sloss. | 1874 | not recorded | ||
 | Carex vestita Willd. | 1875 | Collector unspecified | Norfolk. |
 | Carex echinata var. echinata | 1876 | W. P. Rich |
All 1,377 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Original Congregational Church of Wrentham: 16 past producers, 10 producers, 1 unknown. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glines & Rhodes Refin.--Plainville | Gold, PGE, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Masslite Pit | Clay, Stone | Producer | ||
| Plainville | Bloating Material | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Sheldonville Mine | Copper, Silver, Gold | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Bates Bros Quarry | Granite | Producer | ||
| Five Star Mineral and Mining Co | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Sheldonville Mine | Silver, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Simeone Stone Corporation | Granite | Past Producer | Granite | |
| Masslite | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Plainville Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wrentham, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 lightning, 3 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Lightning | Wrentham | 1 hurt, $20,000 | A deli on Shear Street was struck by lightning. The resulting fire gutted the second floor apartment and one firefighter was injured while fighting the fire. |
| July 2006 | Lightning | Wrentham | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Wrentham | $20,000 | The tornado touched down just east of Lake Archer where tree top damage was observed. It then continued into the middle of downtown Wrentham, crossing the town common and uprooting an 80 foot tall maple tree. several trees were uprooted and large limbs were downed in the town cemetery east of the common. The tornado then lifted just east of the cemetery. No injuries were reported and many people interviewed received a Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) on their cell phones when the warning was issued and took shelter. |
| July 1998 | Lightning | Wrentham | $20,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wrentham | $10,000 | Trees and wires on Hancock Streer were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| February 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wrentham | $5,000 | A tree in Wrentham was downed by thunderstorm winds, blocking the road. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wrentham | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Flood | Wrentham | $4,000 | In Wrentham, there was flooding of a finished basement on Martin Lane. |
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wrentham | $500 | In Wrentham, a tree was down on Shears Street. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wrentham | $500 | An eight inch diameter tree limb was downed by thunderstorm winds onto Route 121. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wrentham | - | In Wrentham, a mesonet station gusted to 63 mph. |
| September 2023 | Flood | Wrentham | - | In Wrentham, David Brown Way was closed due to flooding. |
| October 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Wrentham | - | In Wrentham at 601 PM EDT, a mesonet site measured a wind gust to 58 mph. |
| July 2017 | Flood | Wrentham | - | At 1255 PM EST, Thurston Street in Wrentham was closed due to street flooding. At 119 PM EST, one lane of East Street was closed due to street flooding. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Wrentham | - | Quarter size hail fell near the Wrentham Fire Department. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Wrentham | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Heavy Rain | Wrentham | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Wrentham | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wrentham | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Wrentham | - | no account filed |
United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Roebuck Tavern | under 500 feet | 1984 |
 | Plimpton-Winter House | 0.2 miles | 1985 |
 | Wrentham State School | 1.8 miles | 1994 |
 | Pondville Cemetery | 2.2 miles | 2014 |
 | Foxborough State Hospital | 3.6 miles | 1994 |
 | Amos Morse House | 3.8 miles | 1986 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 14000694 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Norfolk County | All 342 listed properties in this county. |
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