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Photograph of Bidwell House Museum
Photograph by Agardner623, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Rev. Adonijah Bidwell House

Built in 1990 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 21 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1888.

From the record

One of 183 National Register listings published here for Berkshire County · listed in 1982 · category: District · built in 1990, Greek Revival architecture.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Bidwell, Rev. Adonijah, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Royal Hemlocks and Art School Rds., Monterey
  • When was it listed? August 1982
  • Category. district
  • When was it built? 1990
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 82004954 - 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.

Then and now

1888 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Rev. Adonijah Bidwell House, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet covering Rev. Adonijah Bidwell House, surveyed 1888

Fires near this property

13 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Rev. Adonijah Bidwell House between 2015 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
13 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 May 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 May 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 April 2019Natural1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
30 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 April 2015Debris and open burning1.5 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rev. Adonijah Bidwell House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Eastern GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Maps showing this location

21 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
Rock Ridge1.5 miles1983
Capt. John Brewer House2.1 miles1984
Tyringham Center School2.6 miles2020
Methodist Episcopal Society of Tyringham2.6 miles2000
Tyringham Shaker Settlement Historic District2.7 miles1987
Tyringham Library2.7 miles2018

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82004954 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Berkshire CountyAll 183 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.