Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1885.
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 138 National Register listings published here for Plymouth County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.
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.
The Third Parish, in Hingham, was set off March 25, 1745, and a meeting-house had already been erected in 1742. It comprised the southerly portion of the town. There was much opposition in the town to the setting off of this as a separate parish, and bitter controversouth hingham meeting-house. sies arose in consequence ; but by persistent efforts the inhabitants of the south part of the town at last succeeded in carrying out their wishes.
The principal facts concerning the formation of the Third Church and Parish, and Dr. Shute's ministry, are contained in an excellent memoir prepared by the father of the writer in 1863. It would be an affectation of an ability not possessed by his son to attempt any improvement upon, or addition to his accurate statements relating to the history of affairs in this town, or his estimate of its leading men, and it is a pleasure to be able to give his words as prominent a place as possible in this " History of Hingham." The accomplishment of such a work was his hope, but that hope, though long entertained, he was not destined to see fulfilled.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 354 fires within 5 miles of Thomas Chubbuck 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 burning
160
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
89
Recreation and ceremony
57
Misuse of fire by a minor
21
Smoking
21
Arson/incendiarism
4
Natural
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 1,735 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Thomas Chubbuck 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
18 workings within 5 miles of Thomas Chubbuck 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.
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.
Numerous 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.
A woman was injured while turning off the water to an outdoor shower when lightning struck somewhere inside the house and travelled through the plumbing.
Lightning 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.
Several 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.
Rainfall 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.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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.
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.
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.
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