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Fuller, Joseph, 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 Joseph Fuller House is a historic late First Period house located in Middleton, Massachusetts.”

Wikipedia article Joseph Fuller 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. 161 Essex St., Middleton, 01949
  • When was it listed? 1990-03-09
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. First Period Buildings of Eastern Massachusetts TR
  • Township. Middleton town
  • Architectural style. American colonial architecture
  • National Register reference number. 90000244 - 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

84 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Fuller, Joseph, House between 2003 and 2020, burning about 245 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning22
Recreation and ceremony21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Smoking14
Equipment and vehicle use4
Fireworks3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
28 September 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
18 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlLYNNFIELD
13 September 2020Smoking1.2 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
12 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlDANVERS

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 3,785 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 3,785 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fuller, Joseph, House between 1800 and 1975: 1,534 Animalia, 1,470 Plantae, 654 Fungi, 46 Unrecorded, 37 Chromista, 37 Bacteria, 7 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Brown, A E Preble, A. B. Seymour 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 Corylus americana WalterCorylus americana Walter1900E. F. Williams
Specimen of Populus grandidentata Michx.Populus grandidentata Michx.1900E. F. Williams
A photograph of the species Rhodocollybia prolixa, not of this specimenRhodocollybia prolixa var. distorta (Fr.) AntonĂ­n, Halling & Noordel.1800R. B. MackintoshPeabody
Erysiphaceae1803A. B. Seymour
A photograph of the species Viola labradorica, not of this specimenViola labradorica Schrank1816not recordedAndover Turnpike, 6 miles from Boston U.S.A.
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 Carex caryophyllea, not of this specimenCarex caryophyllea Latourr.1847C. DeweySalem
A photograph of the species Carex muhlenbergii, not of this specimenCarex muhlenbergii Kunth ex Boott1847F. M. B. Boott
A photograph of the species Ceramium rubrum, not of this specimenCeramium rubrum C.Agardh1848E. Hodges

All 3,785 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Fuller, Joseph, House: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur. 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
Harriman MineSulfurPast Producer
Camillieri Corp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Donald Innis IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
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

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Middleton, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 3 flash flood, 3 hail. 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
June 2005LightningMiddleton$60,000no account filed
September 2018Flash FloodSouth Middleton$5,000At 10:40 AM EST, a garage on Belleview Avenue in Middleton was flooded.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindMiddleton$5,000At 118 PM EST, trees and wires were down on Jenkins Road at the entrance of Camp Evergreen Day Camp in Andover, MA.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindMiddleton$3,500In Middleton, a tree was down on a house on Oak Rd.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindSouth Middleton$2,000In Peabody, there were a tree and wires down on Hamilton Rd and a tree on a vehicle on Lexington Ave.
June 2017FloodSouth Middleton$1,000At 447 PM EST, rain caused twelve inches of water on Boston Street in Middleton.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindMiddleton$800In Middletown a tree and wires were down.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindMiddleton$500In Middleton, a tree was down on Peabody Street at Mill Street.
September 2020FloodMiddleton-In Middleton, the intersection of East Street and Towne Road was flooded and impassable.
November 2018FloodMiddleton-In Middleton, there was significant flooding on a portion of Maple Street.
September 2018Flash FloodSouth Middleton-At 11:03 AM EST, a car was trapped in floodwaters in Lynnfield at the intersection of Main Street and Lowell Street.
June 2017HailMiddleton-At 434 PM EST, nickel size hail was covering the ground and making roads slick in Middleton, MA.
December 2014FloodSouth Middleton-Roosevelt Avenue at Russell Street was closed due to flooding.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindMiddleton-Trees and wires down on Essex Street.
July 2007HailMiddleton-Penny size hail.
July 2004HailMiddleton-no account filed
October 1996Flash FloodSouth Middleton-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

1,295 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 - 1,295 words, 12 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 90000244, 12 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
Flint Public Library1.9 miles2002
Estey Tavern1.9 miles1989
Fuller, Lieut. Thomas, House2.1 miles1990
Putnam, Deacon Edward, Jr., House2.7 miles1990
Jenkins, Benjamin, House3.0 miles1982
Sawyer House3.1 miles1990

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 90000244 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.