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Redman Farm House

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 Redman Farm House is a historic house in Canton, Massachusetts. It is a wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, end chimneys, and clapboard siding.”

Wikipedia article Redman Farm House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

one of 249 National Register listings in Norfolk County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Norfolk County.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Corner of Washington St. and Homans La., Canton, 02021
  • When was it listed? 1980-09-25
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Blue Hills and Neponset River Reservations MRA
  • Township. Canton town
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 80000664 - 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

204 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of Redman Farm House between 2015 and 2020, burning about 99 acres in total. None 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
Recreation and ceremony97
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Smoking47
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
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
7 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBRAINTREE
7 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBRAINTREE
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWESTWOOD
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlDEDHAM
29 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBRAINTREE
28 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBRAINTREE
25 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSTOUGHTON
20 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBRAINTREE

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 9,488 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 9,488 specimens collected within 10 miles of Redman Farm House between 1832 and 1975: 4,212 Plantae, 2,646 Animalia, 2,306 Fungi, 222 Protozoa, 47 Chromista, 34 Unrecorded, 21 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), ?, A C Gibson 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Lysimachia × producta (A.Gray) FernaldLysimachia × producta (A.Gray) Fernald1900A. P. Chute
A photograph of the species Cornus sericea, not of this specimenCornus sericea subsp. sericea1832Nathaniel T. KidderMilton, Brook Road
A photograph of the species Carex echinata, not of this specimenCarex echinata subsp. echinata1834not recorded
A photograph of the species Mentha spicata, not of this specimenMentha spicata L.1834H. GillmanBrookline.
A photograph of the species Silene vulgaris, not of this specimenSilene vulgaris (Moench) Garcke1844not recorded
A photograph of the species Galium verum, not of this specimenGalium verum L.1846Kupell
A photograph of the species Hamamelis virginiana, not of this specimenHamamelis virginiana L.1847Charles F. GirardRoxbury
A photograph of the species Calycanthus L., not of this specimenCalycanthus L.1850not recordedHort. Cantab. [presumably cultivated Hortus Cantabridgiensis, Botanical Garden Harvard University] e Georgia.
Lepidium ruderale L.1850not recorded
A photograph of the species Malvastrum A.Gray, not of this specimenMalvastrum A.Gray1850not recordedHort. Cantab. [=Hortus Cantabridgiensis, Botanical Garden Harvard University].
A photograph of the species Assiminea succinea, not of this specimenAssiminea succinea (L.Pfeiffer, 1840)1852not recordedRoxbury, Boston
A photograph of the species Boerhavia Vaill., not of this specimenBoerhavia Vaill. ex L.1852not recordedHort. Cantab. [Presumably cultivated Hortus Cantabridgiensis, Botanical Garden Harvard University].

All 9,488 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Redman Farm House: 5 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Simeone Stone CorpStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stoughton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
A A Will Materials CordSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Boston Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Canton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Canton Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sharon PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Stoughton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Town of Soughton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Storms near this property

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canton, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2016Thunderstorm WindCanton$5,000Wires in Canton were downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2020FloodCanton$2,000In Canton, a car was stuck in flooding on Boliver St.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindCanton$800In Stoughton, a tree and wires were down on Kenmore Rd.

Every storm recorded in Norfolk County

Map coverage status

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

833 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 reproduced in full on its own page, word for word and 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.

The whole case file for this property - 833 words, 7 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 80000664, 7 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Old Barn1.0 miles1980
Brookwood Farm1.2 miles1980
Refreshment Pavillion1.3 miles1980
Eliot Memorial Bridge1.4 miles1980
Great Blue Hill Observation Tower1.4 miles1980
Blue Hills Headquarters1.9 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80000664 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Norfolk CountyAll 249 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.
  • 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.