Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1988. 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
“Page House, also known later as the Belcher Lodge or the Chicopee Falls Masonic Temple, was a historic house in Chicopee, Massachusetts, United States. Built about 1875, it was a prominent local example of Queen Anne and Stick style architecture, built by one of the community's business leaders of the time.”
Wikipedia article Thomas D. Page House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 123 National Register listings in Hampden County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number.87001782- 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
625 since 2015
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 625 fires within 5 miles of Page, Thomas D., House between
2015 and 2020, burning about 248 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 3 were 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
322
Equipment and vehicle use
180
Debris and open burning
44
Recreation and ceremony
28
Natural
27
Smoking
17
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Arson/incendiarism
3
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 1,766 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Page, Thomas D., House between 1831 and
1975: 701 Animalia, 689 Plantae, 345 Fungi, 16 Chromista, 9 Unrecorded, 5 Protozoa, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Albee, A. B. Seymour, A. E. Kirk 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
31 workings within 5 miles of Page, Thomas D., House: 16 past producers, 13 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 plant.
14 still produce. What was taken out: Brick Clay, Clay, Stone, Dimension, Flagstone. 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
Chicopee, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2008: 11 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 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.
Four golfers were struck by lightning while standing in a shelter at the Wycoff Country Club. All were wearing cleats. Three were seriously injured and the other received minor injury. Two went into cardiac arrest. Three of the injured were recovering at local area hospitals. The lightning apparently struck a nearby tree and then jumped to the shelter.
Severe thunderstorms produced many reports of large hail as they moved east from Berkshire County to Worcester County. One storm, which had produced a tornado in southern Berkshire County moved east and dropped golf ball-size hail in Russell.
Severe thunderstorms produced large hail ranging from dime-size to golf ball-size. Half inch hail was reported to have covered the ground at one location in Hampden County.
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
16,422 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.
Statement of significance
Thomas C. Page House, Chicopee, Massachusetts Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: nationally statewide Xlocally Applicable National Register Criteria Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Architecture Industry Social History JE Period of Significance 1875-1937_ Significant Dates 1909 1925 Cultural Affiliation Significant Person Thomas C. Page Architect/Builder N/A State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. The Thomas C. Page House retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials,workmanship, feeling and association.
The building is historically significant both for its associations with Thomas C. Page, an important industrialist in Chicopee in the late nineteenth century, and for its later associations with the Belcher Lodge of Masons. The structure is also architecturally significant. The Page House is a remarkably intact example of the Queen Anne/Stick Style in a city that has only a handful of Stick Style buildings. Its imposingtower,lavish variety of materials and ornament, and the high quality of 1ts interior finishes make it one of the most, if not the most, outstanding houses of its periodand style in the city. The Thomas C. Page House meets criteria A, and C of the National Register of Historic Places on a local level.
The Page House has a number of significant historical associations which make the building an important reminder of Chicopee's development as a community. The Page House was built in the 1870s for one of Chicopee's leading industrialists, Thomas C. Page. Page played an important role in the devel opment and success of the textile, machine tool, and bicycle industries in Chicopee in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Page was also a charter member of the Belcher Maurice Lodge in Chicopee.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 87001782, 59 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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