Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1980. 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 Swetland-Pease House is a historic house at 191 Pease Road in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts. Probably built about 1793, it is one of a small number of surviving 18th-century houses in the town, and is one of its best-preserved.”
Wikipedia article Swetland-Pease House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 123 National Register listings in Hampden County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.80000505- 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
171 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Swetland-Pease House between
2002 and 2020, burning about 194 acres in total. 18 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
74
Equipment and vehicle use
48
Natural
18
Recreation and ceremony
12
Smoking
10
Debris and open burning
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
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 1,297 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Swetland-Pease House between 1845 and
1974: 498 Animalia, 453 Fungi, 315 Plantae, 18 Chromista, 13 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
14 workings within 5 miles of Swetland-Pease House: 8 past producers, 6 producers.
6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Flagstone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Brick 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
2,082 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 Swetland-Pease House stands on the south side of Pease Road at the base of Spook's Hill in East Longmeadow. The house is located in a rural area, and is immediately surrounded by woods on the east and west and by a field on the south. Extending along the property's street frontage is a Virginia rail fence made of chestnut wood. In its present state, the house consists of a Vernacular/Federalist style main house flanked by two lateral wings which were added in the mid or late nineteenth century. A11 sections of the building are covered with clapborad and enclosed by pitched roofs. Except where noted otherwise, all windows contain 12/12 sash set in moulded surrounds. A11 elevations are asymmetrical. The main house is a two story structure of timber frame construction.
Possessing a rec- tangular floor plan with a central chimney, the house rests on a dry wall foundation of locally quarried red sandstone. The Facade (north elevation) contains an entry slightly west of center, flanked by one window on the west and two windows on the east. The entry is framed by narrow Doric pilasters supporting an entablature. The front door is concealed by a stormdoor made of vertical boards and hung on strap hinges. At the Fasade's second story are four windows, set in vertical alignment with the windows and entry of the first The main house's east and west elevations are largely blocked by the building's wings; however, both ends contain a single 9/6 window centered on the gable.
The rear (south) elevation of the main house contains three unevenly spaced windows at both stories; the second story of this elevation is covered with wooden shingles.
/Architect unknown Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) The Swetland-Pease House retains integrity of location, design, materials, setting and association with the agricultural settlement of East Longmeadow. One of a small number of eighteenth century houses remaining in East Longmeadow, the Swetland-Pease House is an excellent example of Vernacular Federalist architecture. Along with the Elijah Burt House (NR), it 1s the best preserved example of this period in the town. The house retains important elements of its original design in its entry, surround, mouldings, sash and dressed sandstone foundation facings.
An unusual detail is the house's kitchen fire- place which is built of locally quarried red sandstone, a feature which has regional association in the Vernacular building traditon of the state of Connecticut. Currently, the house's site retains much of its original rural setting, being surrounded by fields and woods. The house is believed to have been built by Benjamin Swetland, a farmer, around 1793. In the nineteenth century, the farm passed into the possession of the Pease family with whom it is most closely associated. Members of the Pease family who occupied the property in- clude Mervin Henry Pease (1860-1933), who was born in the house.
Pease, who was a school teacher and farmer, was active in civic affairs, serving as a member of the town's schoo1 committee (1904-1917) and as a town assessor for eleven years. In 1919, the pro- perty, then including a barn, shed and milk-house, was sold out of the Pease family.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 80000505, 9 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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