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Photograph of Purchase-Ferre House
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Purchase-Ferre House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 25 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

One of 174 National Register listings published here for Hampden County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Purchase--Ferre House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 1289 Main St., Agawam
  • When was it listed? November 1990
  • Category. building
  • Architectural style. American colonial architecture
  • National Register reference number. 90001805 - 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

287 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 287 fires within 5 miles of Purchase-Ferre House between 2010 and 2020, burning about 105 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined160
Equipment and vehicle use68
Recreation and ceremony18
Debris and open burning16
Smoking12
Natural10
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 September 2017Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Hampden County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Purchase-Ferre House: 6 past producers, 5 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Brick Clay, Clay. 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
W. New England Smelting Works IncCopperProducer
Clay PitBrick ClayProducerClay
Clay PitBrick ClayProducerClay
Clay PitClayPast Producer
Clay PitClayPast Producer
Chase PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
John PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Johns PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Trap Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Hampden County

Maps showing this location

25 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
Agawam Center Historic District1.2 miles2001
Capt. Charles Leonard House1.4 miles1975
Longmeadow Historic District1.8 miles1982
School Street Barn2.2 miles2012
Longmeadow Street-North Historic District2.2 miles1994
Hampden County Training School3.0 miles2018

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 90001805 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hampden CountyAll 174 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.