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Brewer, Moses, House, photograph from the federal nomination
Brewer, Moses, House, photograph from the federal nomination

Photographs from the nomination case file, National Park Service records.

Brewer, Moses, House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 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

“" Sudbury furnished one Iiundred and sixty-eight men for tlie war, which was a surplus of eleven over and above all demands. Tiie whole amount of money aj)- propriated and expended by the town on account of tlie war, exclusive of state aid, was seventeen thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars.”

History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts : Containing Carefully Prepared Histories of Every City and Town in the County (1880). Machine-read text.

one of 1100 National Register listings in Middlesex County · listed in 1990 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Middlesex County.

Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · 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. 88 Concord Rd., Sudbury, 01776
  • When was it listed? 1990-03-09
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. First Period Buildings of Eastern Massachusetts TR
  • Township. Sudbury town
  • National Register reference number. 90000184 - 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.

The ground it stands on

18,007 words

The chapter on Sudbury Town in History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts : Containing Carefully Prepared Histories of Every City and Town in the County, published 1880 names Sudbury. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

LL authorities agree that the first settlers of Sudbury were drawn to this locality chiefly by the rich meadow-lands on either side of the river bearing the same name as the town through wliicli it flowed, as also by the abundance of woodland and the strength of the soil when once subdued. Johnson, in his Hidory of Xew England, 16o4, page 141, says: -

Passage source: History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts : Containing Carefully Prepared Histories of Every City and Town in the County, published 1880.

May 13, 1640, the court granted to the town " the addition of a mile in length upon the southeast and southwest sides of this plantation " ; and May 2, 1649, " Sudbury is granted two miles westward, next adjoining to them for their further enlargement."

Passage source: History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts : Containing Carefully Prepared Histories of Every City and Town in the County, published 1880.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Sudbury Town - 18,007 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

104 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Brewer, Moses, House between 1995 and 2020, burning about 142 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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
Debris and open burning46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Arson/incendiarism12
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Fireworks1

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
5 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 September 2018Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
19 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Middlesex County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 1,199 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,199 specimens collected within 10 miles of Brewer, Moses, House between 1898 and 1975: 783 Animalia, 272 Plantae, 137 Fungi, 4 Chromista, 2 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. B. Seymour & M. D. Feigley, A. F. Newton 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 Corvus brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822Corvus brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 18221900not recordedWayland
A photograph of the species Actaea pachypoda, not of this specimenActaea pachypoda Elliott1898Ernest Charles Smith
A photograph of the species Antennaria howellii, not of this specimenAntennaria howellii subsp. canadensis (Greene) R.J.Bayer1898Williams, E.F.
A photograph of the species Antennaria parlinii, not of this specimenAntennaria parlinii subsp. fallax (Greene) R.J.Bayer & Stebbins1898not recorded
A photograph of the species Antennaria plantaginifolia, not of this specimenAntennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Hook.1898not recorded
A photograph of the species Aquilegia canadensis, not of this specimenAquilegia canadensis L.1898M. I. GunnNatick
A photograph of the species Agaricus brunnescens, not of this specimenAgaricus brunnescens Peck1900Morris, G. E.Waltham
A photograph of the species Agonopterix atrodorsella, not of this specimenAgonopterix atrodorsella Clemens, 18631900E. J. SmithSherborn
A photograph of the species Apantesis Walker, not of this specimenApantesis Walker, 18551900E. J. SmithSherborn
A photograph of the species Apatelodes torrefacta, not of this specimenApatelodes torrefacta J.E.Smith, 17971900E. J. SmithSherborn
Araiospora pulchra Thaxt.1900Thaxter, RolandStony Brook, Mass. [Massachusetts]
A photograph of the species Archips cerasivorana, not of this specimenArchips cerasivorana (Fitch, 1856)1900E. J. SmithSherborn

All 1,199 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 Brewer, Moses, House: 8 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Peat. 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
Panlini Loam CoPeatPast ProducerPeat
Arthur Scofield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Framington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
New England Sand & Grv Co. Pit & PlSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pepperell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rich PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Stonebridge PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Town of WaylandSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Middlesex County

Storms near this property

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sudbury, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 lightning, 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
August 2004Thunderstorm WindSudbury$75,000no account filed
August 2008FloodSudbury$40,000In Sudbury, Maynard Road was flooded with two feet of water stranding several cars. Numerous other side roads also were flooded making them impassable. A large number of basements and backyards were flooded with water accumulating up to several feet in the basements. Four feet of water covered Main Street in Hudson, closing the road. In Maynard, numerous basements and backyards were flooded with water accumulating several feet in the basements.
August 2008LightningEast Sudbury$15,000Lightning struck a house on Virginia Road causing a fire.
August 2008LightningEast Sudbury$15,000Lightning struck a house on Northwood Street causing a fire.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindEast Sudbury$10,000A tree was downed on Goodnow Road and another on Plympton Road by thunderstorm winds.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindSudbury$10,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindNorth Sudbury$5,000In Sudbury, a tree was down on wires on Marlborough Road. Also, a tree was down on a house on Fox Run Road.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindSouth Sudbury$1,000In Sudbury, a large pine tree was down on Pheasant Avenue.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindNorth Sudbury$800In Wayland, multiple trees were down on Oxbow Rd.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindSouth Sudbury$200In Sudbury, wires were down on Union Ave.
June 2020HailEast Sudbury-Quarter size hail was reported in Sudbury.
July 1999HailSudbury-no account filed
August 1999HailSudbury-no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindSudbury-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Middlesex 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

1,148 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 - 1,148 words, 11 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 90000184, 11 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
Goodnow Library0.3 miles2002
Old Town Bridge1.8 miles1975
Stone's Bridge2.2 miles2017
Hopestill Bent Tavern2.9 miles1990
Nobscot Union Chapel3.0 miles2023
Noyes--Parris House3.0 miles1990

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 90000184 in Record Group 79.
Middlesex CountyAll 1100 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.