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Photograph of Prince Osborne House
Photograph by John Phelan, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Osborne, Prince, 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

“The Prince Osborne House is a historic First Period house in Danvers, Massachusetts. It is a wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof and clapboard siding.”

Wikipedia article Prince Osborne House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

one of 350 National Register listings in Essex County · listed in 1990 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Essex 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. 273 Maple St., Danvers, 01923
  • When was it listed? 1990-03-09
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. First Period Buildings of Eastern Massachusetts TR
  • Township. Danvers town
  • National Register reference number. 90000203 - 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

190,092 words

The chapter on Danvers Town in South Danvers Wizard Newspaper, 1865, published 1865 names Danvers. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Whereas, works are now being commenced ; by the Salem and Danvers Aqueduct Company that will, if allowed to be completed, divert ; from the inhabitants of this town a supply of water that was the origin, and is now one of the principal supports of our moet important i and flourishing manufactures, i

Passage source: South Danvers Wizard Newspaper, 1865, published 1865.

Reeolved, That a committee of five persons j be appointed, with full power* to take such j measures as they shall consider expedient to ; prevent the further diversion of water from the . sources of Tapley's Brook ; and also to do all i in their power to protect the inhabitants of the j town from the encroachments of all parties in their attempts to benefit the Salem and Dan¬ vers Aqueduct Company at the expense of, and to the detriment of the business of South Danvers.

Passage source: South Danvers Wizard Newspaper, 1865, published 1865.

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 Danvers Town - 190,092 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

103 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Osborne, Prince, House between 2003 and 2020, burning about 318 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony24
Debris and open burning21
Smoking19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Fireworks4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBEVERLY
4 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlBEVERLY
27 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
17 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlPEABODY

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 7,653 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 7,653 specimens collected within 10 miles of Osborne, Prince, House between 1800 and 1975: 2,824 Animalia, 2,782 Plantae, 1,140 Fungi, 375 Unrecorded, 369 Chromista, 116 Bacteria, 47 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A B. Proper, A H HIGGINSON, A. A. Eaton 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
A photograph of the species Rhodocollybia prolixa, not of this specimenRhodocollybia prolixa var. distorta (Fr.) Antonín, Halling & Noordel.1800R. B. MackintoshPeabody
Erysiphaceae1803A. B. Seymour
A photograph of the species Brasenia schreberi, not of this specimenBrasenia schreberi J.F.Gmel.1821not recordedPleasant Pond, Wenham, Mass.
A photograph of the species Diphyscium foliosum, not of this specimenDiphyscium foliosum (Hedw.) D.Mohr1822ALCOTT
A photograph of the species Arcyria oerstedii, not of this specimenArcyria oerstedii Rostaf., 18751826F. A. Gilbert
A photograph of the species Glyceria obtusa, not of this specimenGlyceria obtusa (Muhl.) Trin.1838W Oakes
A photograph of the species Lecanora tartarea, not of this specimenLecanora tartarea (L.) Ach.1839E. TuckermanManchester
A photograph of the species Ochrolechia yasudae, not of this specimenOchrolechia yasudae Vainio1839Tuckerman, E.[USA] Manchester, Massachusetts.
A photograph of the species Euphorbia polygonifolia, not of this specimenEuphorbia polygonifolia L.1840Wolle, J.Ipswich
A photograph of the species Iva frutescens, not of this specimenIva frutescens L.1840Oakesad Ipswich
A photograph of the species Potentilla anserina, not of this specimenPotentilla anserina L.1840Wolle, J.Ipswich
A photograph of the species Sisymbrium officinale, not of this specimenSisymbrium officinale (L.) Scop.1840OakesIpswich

All 7,653 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Osborne, Prince, House: 4 past producers, 4 plants, 2 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Thorium. 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
(Facility) Travers Labs Refinery--Beverly, Ma.Mercury, Silver, Gold, REEPlant
Hale Engineering Co--Danvers, Ma.TungstenPlant
Thiokol Ventron Div--Danvers, Ma.ThoriumPlant
Camillieri Corp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Donald Innis IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Thiokol Ventron Div--Beverly, Ma.ZirconiumPlant
Ventron Corp--Beverly, Ma.ZirconiumPast Producer
Danvers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Essex Bituminous Concrete ProductsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Peabody QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms near this property

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Danvers, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1993 and 2018: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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
January 2018FloodDanvers$5,000At 348 AM EST, amateur radio operator reported a flooded basement on Liberty Street in Danvers.
January 2014LightningDanvers$4,000An isolated lightning strike caused minor damage to the roof of a house on Lakeview Avenue.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindDanvers$1,000Four inch diameter branches were downed onto Commonwealth and Harvard Avenues.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindDanvers-Several trees down on North Street.
August 1994Thunderstorm WindDanvers-Seventy-five to 100 trees were reported blown down and 50 to 60 telephone poles were knocked down, per local police.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindDanvers-Numerous trees were downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindDanvers-no account filed
August 2001HailDanvers-no account filed
July 2000HailDanvers-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Essex 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

2,322 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 - 2,322 words, 17 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 90000203, 17 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
Putnam, James, Jr., House0.3 miles1990
Putnam, Gen. Israel, House0.9 miles1976
Fowler, Rea Putnam, House1.0 miles1990
Peabody Institute1.1 miles1997
High Street Cemetery1.2 miles2003
White--Preston House1.8 miles1990

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 90000203 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Essex CountyAll 350 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.