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Photograph of Thomas Chubbuck, Jr. House
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Chubbuck, Thomas, Jr., House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 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

“House is a historic house in Hingham, Massachusetts. Built in 1778, it is the best-preserved three-quarter Cape style house in the town, and is further noted for its long association with locally important Chubbuck and Gardner families.”

Wikipedia article Thomas Chubbuck Jr. House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

one of 93 National Register listings in Plymouth County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Plymouth 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. 1191 Main St., Hingham, 02043
  • When was it listed? 1992-08-07
  • Category. building
  • Township. Hingham town
  • Architectural style. American colonial architecture
  • National Register reference number. 92000954 - 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

354 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 354 fires within 5 miles of Chubbuck, Thomas, Jr., House between 2015 and 2020, burning about 144 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning160
Missing data/not specified/undetermined89
Recreation and ceremony57
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Smoking21
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlABINGTON
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHANOVER
7 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWEYMOUTH
5 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 September 2015Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWEYMOUTH
4 September 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHINGHAM
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlHINGHAM
29 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlWEYMOUTH

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 1,735 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,735 specimens collected within 10 miles of Chubbuck, Thomas, Jr., House between 1836 and 1975: 933 Plantae, 395 Fungi, 337 Animalia, 38 Chromista, 13 Protozoa, 13 Unrecorded, 6 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (MARSDEN, H W), A Loveridge, 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 Carex trisperma, not of this specimenCarex trisperma Dewey1836J. W. Robbins
A photograph of the species Salicornia bigelovii, not of this specimenSalicornia bigelovii Torr.1840Welle, J.Hull
A photograph of the species Salsola kali, not of this specimenSalsola kali L.1840Welle, J.Hull
A photograph of the species Cladonia rangiferina, not of this specimenCladonia rangiferina (L.) Weber1844J. L. RussellHingham
A photograph of the species Lopadium disciforme, not of this specimenLopadium disciforme (Flot.) Kullh.1848J. L. Russell
A photograph of the species Cladonia gracilis, not of this specimenCladonia gracilis (L.) Willd.1849J. L. RussellHingham
A photograph of the species Spyridia filamentosa, not of this specimenSpyridia filamentosa (Wulfen) Harv.1849see Collection Note
A photograph of the species Frullania asagrayana, not of this specimenFrullania asagrayana Mont.1850J. L. Russell
A photograph of the species Hypnum curvifolium, not of this specimenHypnum curvifolium Hedw.1851W. L. RussellHingham
A photograph of the species Cornus rugosa, not of this specimenCornus rugosa Lam.1899Nathaniel T. KidderBlue Hills Reservation, Slide Notch
A photograph of the species Cyperus lupulinus, not of this specimenCyperus lupulinus subsp. macilentus (Fernald) Marcks1899E. F. Williams
Glyceria fluitans (L.) R.Br.1899E. F. Williams

All 1,735 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Chubbuck, Thomas, Jr., House: 10 past producers, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite. 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
Bates Brothers Seam Face Granite CoGranitePast ProducerGranite
Marshfield Sand and GravelGranitePast ProducerGranite
Plymouth QuarriesGranitePast ProducerGranite
Weymouth QuarryGraniteProducer
Bates Brothers Realty Trust QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bristol Pit & Plant LorussoStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ernest Minelli Inc QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hingham PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Margetts QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
F T Read and SonsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Plymouth County

Storms near this property

42 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hingham, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 24 thunderstorm wind, 6 flood, 4 lightning, 3 heavy rain. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 2010Thunderstorm WindHingham2 hurt, $50,000Numerous trees, limbs, wires, and utility poles were downed across Hingham, including one that hit a person, injuring the person. Also, a tent blowing around hit a person, resulting in minor injury. An amateur radio operator recorded a wind gust of 68 mph on their home weather station near Hingham Harbor.
July 2008LightningHingham1 hurtA woman was injured while turning off the water to an outdoor shower when lightning struck somewhere inside the house and travelled through the plumbing.
May 2006FloodHingham$500,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHingham$50,000Numerous trees and wires throughout the northern part of Hingham were downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindHingham$50,000no account filed
April 2007FloodHingham$25,000Accord Brook rose out of its banks and flooded surrounding areas of Hingham.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindHingham$25,000no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindHingham$25,000no account filed
July 2004LightningHingham$25,000no account filed
June 2012Thunderstorm WindHingham$20,000Four trees were downed on four different streets by thunderstorm winds. One of these trees blocked the street.
June 2010LightningHingham$10,000Lightning struck Stars on Hingham Harbor Restaurant, damaging the restaurants computer system and shattering the windshield of a car and deploying its airbags and damaging its electrical system.
March 2007FloodHingham$10,000Several roads in Plymouth were closed due to flooding, including Taylor Avenue in the Manomet section, Montgomery Drive, and Route 80 at Kristen Road which was covered by 2 to 3 feet of water. Accord Brook in Hingham rose out of its banks and caused minor flooding in nearby areas. In Pembroke, Oldham Street, Antilla Court, and Raymond Avenue were flooded.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindHingham$10,000no account filed
November 2002Storm Surge/TideHingham$10,000no account filed
March 2007FloodHingham$8,000Rainfall totals of 3 to 4 inches caused Accord Brook in Hingham to rise out of its banks and cause minor flooding in nearby areas. In East Bridgewater, the Satucket River came out of its banks between Robins Pond and Washington Street, which resulted in minor flooding.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindWest Hingham$5,000In Hingham, a large tree fell on a house on Sanford Drive. Also, a tree was down on Lincoln Street. Time estimated by radar.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindHingham$5,000Wires on Hersey Street were downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2006FloodHingham$5,000Urban flooding
June 2006Flash FloodHingham$5,000no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindHingham$5,000no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindHingham$5,000no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindHingham$5,000no account filed
May 1996LightningHingham$5,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHingham$3,000Large limbs on Wompatuck Road were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindHingham$1,000no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWest Hingham$300In Hingham, power lines were down on Beal Street.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindHingham$300In Hingham, a large tree branch was down on Rockland Street and Martins Lane.
July 2025Flash FloodHingham-In Hingham, portions of East St (Rt 228) and Hersey St were flooded.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindHingham-In Hingham at 612 PM EDT, an amateur radio operator reported a wind gust to 65 mph.
April 2019FloodWest Hingham-At 7:30 AM EDT in Hingham, significant street flooding was reported on Lincoln Street (Route 3A) at Bulow Road.
June 2017HailHingham-At 5 PM EST, dime size hail fell at Hingham.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindWest Hingham-Tree down on a house on Pioneer Road.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindHingham-Downed trees in Hingham, Duxbury, and Marshfield due to thunderstorm winds. All occurred at approximately the same time.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindHingham-no account filed
April 2000Thunderstorm WindHingham-no account filed
June 2000Heavy RainHingham-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindHingham-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindHingham-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindHingham-no account filed
October 1998Heavy RainHingham-no account filed
August 1997Heavy RainHingham-no account filed
August 1997Funnel CloudHingham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Plymouth 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.

Named in the fire insurance atlases

Sanborn surveyors printed an index of the town's establishments at the front of each atlas. This property is named in one, read straight off the scanned sheet.

From the nomination file

7,508 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

Applicabie National Register Criteria (Mark "* in one or more boxes tor the criteria aualitving the property tor Nationai Register listing.) - A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history - B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. XXC Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. - D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history.

Criteria Considerations (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) Property is: - A owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. - B removed from its original location. - C a birthplace or grave. - D a cemetery. - E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. - F a commemorative property. - G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. Plymouth County, MA County and State Areas of Signiticance (Enter categories trom instructions) ARCHITECTURE Period of Significance 1778-1900 Significant Dates N/A Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) N/A Cultural Affiliation N/A Architect/Builder unknown Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9.

The whole case file for this property - 7,508 words, 27 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 92000954, 27 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
Rockland High School2.6 miles1989
Rockland Memorial Library3.1 miles1989
Phoenix Building3.1 miles1989
Rockland Trust Company3.2 miles1989
Grand Army of the Republic Hall3.8 miles1997
Emerson Shoe Company4.0 miles2018

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92000954 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Plymouth CountyAll 93 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.