Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1976. 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 Elijah Burt House is a historic house at 201 Chestnut Street in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts. Built sometime between 1720 and 1740, it is believed to be the oldest surviving building in the town, and a station on the Underground Railroad.”
Wikipedia article Elijah Burt House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 123 National Register listings in Hampden County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.76000240- 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
242 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 242 fires within 5 miles of Burt, Elijah, House between
2002 and 2020, burning about 213 acres in total. 22 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
118
Equipment and vehicle use
54
Natural
22
Recreation and ceremony
17
Smoking
17
Debris and open burning
11
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
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 1,152 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Burt, Elijah, House between 1845 and
1974: 546 Animalia, 295 Fungi, 285 Plantae, 18 Chromista, 8 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. E. Kirk, A. M. & D. P. Rogers 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.
Chicopee River, at Chicopee, Hampden County, Massachusetts; Locality according to historical catalogue: 'Chicopa River, Massachusetts'/erroneous, is Chicopee River, at Chicopee, Massachusetts (according to MCZ online fish catalogue).
Agawam River, at Agawam, Hampden County, Massachusetts; Locality according to historical inventory: 'Agawan River'/is Agawam River, at Agawam, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (according to MCZ online fish database).
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
16 workings within 5 miles of Burt, Elijah, House: 8 producers, 8 past producers.
8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Flagstone, Brick Clay, Clay. 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
East Longmeadow, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail.
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.
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
2,216 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 Elijah Burt House, considered to be the oldest structure in East Longmeadow, is located on Chestnut Street about one mile from the town center. The house stands on 2.3 acres of land and contrasts sharply with its twentieth century neighbors on the street. The two-story clapboard structure has a ridge roof with a central chimney serving four fireplaces. Iypical of the period, the house faces south, utilizing the sun's posi- tion year-round. The facade is five bays wide and windows have twelve-over-twelve lights. The second-story windows are placed close under the eaves and those on the first story (and second story on the side elevations) are topped with pediments. The central entrance is flanked by pilasters on which rest an entablature and pediment.
The paneled door has three bull's-eye lights. The partial cellar in the house has a dirt floor and walls of fieldstone set with lime mortar. In the southwest portion of the cellar the fieldstone walls have been faced with bricks set in lime mortar. The house appears to have been of the three-room plan, with two "halls" on either side of the central chimney and a kitzhen to the rear. Today the wall between the east hall and kitchen has been removed and the installation of a number of modern conven- iences has somewhat altered the interior. In the nineteenth century the original ell of the house was moved to the nearby cor- ner of Chestnut and Prospect Streets. The present rear ell was built sometime before 1900.
The roof rafters in this ell section are unmilled logs in their original con- dition as are the floor joists. The Elijah Burt House has undergone several changes, the most major of which was a Victorianization which occurred in the late nineteenth century.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76000240, 12 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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