Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1975. 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
“Thomas March Woodbridge House is a historic house at 48 Bridge Street in Salem, Massachusetts.”
Wikipedia article Thomas March Woodbridge House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 350 National Register listings in Essex County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Essex County.
National Register reference number.75000304- 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.
Q. what kind of man is Jn° willard : a young man or an old man. A : he is not an old man. he had black hair. Q. what meeting was this meeting : was this that that was near Jngerfals: A: Yes. J think. Q. what did they do then. A. the eat & drank wine: was there a minifter there. A. no : not as J know of : from whence had you your wine : A. from Salem J think was Q.. goodwife Olliver there, yes I knew her.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Woodbridge, Thomas March, House between
2006 and 2020, burning about 175 acres in total. 1 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
18
Smoking
10
Equipment and vehicle use
8
Debris and open burning
6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Fireworks
1
Natural
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Arson/incendiarism
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 9,224 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Woodbridge, Thomas March, House between 1800 and
1975: 3,620 Plantae, 2,732 Animalia, 1,267 Fungi, 934 Chromista, 461 Unrecorded, 148 Bacteria, 62 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A B. Proper, A H HIGGINSON, 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
8 workings within 5 miles of Woodbridge, Thomas March, House: 5 plants, 1 unknown, 1 producer, 1 past producer.
6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zirconium, Thorium, Tungsten. 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
Salem, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flood, 1 flash 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.
Numerous streets were closed due to flooding. In addition, numerous vehicles were reported stuck in water on roads throughout Peabody; occupants had to be rescued and vehicles towed. Parts of Route 128 were impassable due to flooding. The Peabody police station was flooded, damaging training rooms, telephones, three police cruisers, and two motorcycles. Several houses were flooded near the intersection of Washington and Granite Streets. The Lahey Clinic was flooded with 4 to 6 feet of water in the basement and several inches of water in the 1st floor hallways. The fire chief estimated that at least 100 houses and 40 businesses were damaged. In addition, at least 100 basements throughout town were flooded. Flooding was extensive enough that schools were closed.
In Salem, Swampscott Road was closed due to flooding and three cars were stuck in floodwaters on Highland Avenue. Cars were stuck in floodwaters on Stettson Road in Swampscott. In Marblehead, West Shore Drive was impassable and closed from Cornell Road to Lafayette Street. In addition, a building was flooded on Salem Street and a house was flooded on Smith Street.
Two trees down in Salem Willows Park. Numerous dime-size hail stones fell at approximately 1845 EST in West Peabody with one or two stones just under the size of a quarter as measured by the son of a NWS meteorologist. Rainfall in Peabody was 1.68 inches.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
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
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From the nomination file
3,247 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.
Description of the property
The Thomas March Woodbridge House, c. 1809, is a fine five bay Federal house attributed by Fiske Kimball and others to Samuel Mointire. It faces south on approximately 1/6 acre of land on the corner of March and Bridge Streets in what is now a semi-industrial area. Fortunately, the house was preserved for many years by the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. In 1955 it was conveyed by deed to the North Shore Children's Friend Society, now the Children's Friend and Family Service Society of the North Shore, Inc., and has been maintained by a sub-committee of the Society known as the Preservers of Woodbridge House. It is a symmetrical three story mansion with a one story kitchen-ell to the rear.
It is built of brick laid in Flemish bond and is topped by a hip roof with four chimneys and a brick modillion cornice. The windows have stone lintels throughout with those on the first two floors -having keystones, and 6/6 sash. The center window on the second floor of the south side has been elongated. In the 1960's the original and main four-columned Doric entrance porch was removed. It was surmounted by a wooden modillion cornice and balustrade. The balusters have been preserved and are stored in the cellar. With the exception of this porch, the brick modillion cornice and the elongated window, (all on the south side,) the exterior of the house is thought to have been altered very little.
The south doorway has an Adamesque efiptical fanlight and the sidelights, extending to the dado, have alternating arcs and ovals forming the tracery for the pattern of leading. The six panel door is a replacement, but is a reproduction of the original and in the proper style.
/ARCHITECT attributed to Samuel McIntire The Woodbridge House, 1809, is significant as an extremely well preserved Federal mansion attributed to Samuel McIntire, Salem's most famous architect. Hamilton Hall and the Pierce Nichols House are two great examples of his work in Salem. Most of the exterior remains unaltered and the maginficent interior woodwork is substantially intact (as discussed extensively in Section 7). The land on which the house stands was inherited by Thomas March Woodbridge from his father, Dudley, who died in 1799. From tax records, the house appears to have been built on the property in 1809. Thomas Woodbridge (1765-1841) owned a tannery in Salem and was elected a member of the Salem School Committee in 1810.
After Woodbridge's death, the house passed through many hands including the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. It is now maintained by the Custodians of Woodbridge House under the auspices of the Children's Friend and Family Service Society of the North Shore, Inc.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 75000304, 19 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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