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Photograph of Emily Dickinson Museum
Photograph by Daderot, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Emily Dickinson House

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 2003 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. 24 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1885.

From the record

One of 86 National Register listings published here for Hampshire County · listed in 1966 · category: Building · built in 2003, Greek Revival architecture, by William Fenno Pratt · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Listed as. Dickinson, Emily, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 280 Main St., Amherst
  • When was it listed? October 1966
  • Category. building
  • When was it built? 2003
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Federal architecture
  • Architect. William Fenno Pratt
  • National Register reference number. 66000363 - 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

55 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Emily Dickinson House between 2002 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning7
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
29 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
8 July 2004Naturalunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 July 2016Natural5.3 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
14 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 June 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Hampshire County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Emily Dickinson House: 6 producers, 6 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Brick Clay, Clay, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Amherst Plant No. 5Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Leverett Barite ProspectBarium-Barite, Lead, Zinc, CopperOccurrenceReplacement Vein
Pelham QuarryAsbestos, EmeryPast Producer
Clay PitBrick ClayProducerClay
Clay PitBrick ClayProducerClay
Clay PitClayPast Producer
Clay PitClayPast Producer
Blakeslee-Arpaia-Chapman S&G CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
D D Ruxton Co IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Leverett PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hampshire County

Maps showing this location

24 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.

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
Dickinson Historic Districtunder 500 feet1977
Amherst Central Business District (Boundary Increase)0.2 miles2011
Amherst Central Business District0.3 miles1991
Amherst West Cemetery0.3 miles2000
Strong House0.4 miles1984
Prospect-Gaylord Historic District0.4 miles1993

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 66000363 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hampshire CountyAll 86 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.