East Main Street-Cherry Street Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.

From the record

One of 686 National Register listings published here for Worcester County · listed in 1996 · category: District.

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

The listing

Listed as. East Main Street--Cherry Street Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 215--270 and 35--73 Main, 2--16 Linden, 3--24 Ash, 26--73 Cherry, 6--19 May, and 8 Park Sts., Spencer
When was it listed? August 1996
Category. district
National Register reference number. 96000826 - 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

88 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of East Main Street-Cherry Street Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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	28
Recreation and ceremony	25
Arson/incendiarism	10
Smoking	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
3 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
3 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
2 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
14 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
1 September 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
1 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
31 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
31 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Every fire recorded in Worcester County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of East Main Street-Cherry Street Historic District: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Highway Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Kittredge Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lyford Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Town of Spencer	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Vandale Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Worcester County

Maps showing this location

19 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.

1889 USGS Webster quadrangle1:62500
1892 USGS Webster quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1908 USGS Quinsigamond quadrangle1:125000 - 3 printings
1921 USGS Webster quadrangle1:62500
1937 USGS Leicester quadrangle1:24000
1941 USGS Leicester quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Quinsigamond quadrangle1:125000
1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Leicester quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Leicester quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS Leicester quadrangle1:24000
1969 USGS Leicester quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1975 USGS Leicester quadrangle1:25000
1983 USGS Worcester South quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Grove Street School	0.3 miles	1996
Spencer Town Center Historic District	0.3 miles	1986
East Main-Cherry Street Historic District (Boundary Increase)	0.3 miles	2003
Pleasant Street School	0.5 miles	1996
Spencer Town Center Historic District (Boundary Increase)	0.5 miles	2003
Barnes-Hill House	1.7 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000826 in Record Group 79.
Worcester County	All 686 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.