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1 FORM B - BUILDING In Area no. Form no. 11,1ASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Off" 0 tho cs r». oto:>. " cto:>to u""",,,, U"",t"..._-. 1. Town :Harlborou:(r~ Address 115 Union.3treet Name Fairviev; Farm ' Present use Residence /i Present owner Hr. Pau~ F. Shaughnessy 3. Description: 2t Story Center HaLl, Date ~700 Source Pub. Local Histories Style Colonial 4. Map. Draw sketch of building location in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings. Indicate north. Architect None Exterior wall fabric 'i-lood Clapboard Outbuildings (describe) 2 Large Barn~ ~:._ Other features Center Ha~l builtin 1825 but rear ell dates to ~700 Altered Moved Date Date B ol.. One acre or less Over one acre X 5. Lot size: a &3 OD 00 --:::--;~-;:-V_N~I:..-(}...:...N.:... 5 r U I:l n 0 0 Q ~ r-cj-cj--o-o-" S r Q ~ Q r tj~lj c. r 5 T" (ov r) Approximate frontage 250 Feet Approximate distance of building from street 150 Feet 6. Recorded by Ernest Ginnetti Organization Marlborough Historica1 COmmJ.ss~on RE~t:~ JUL MASS. HiST. COM'

2 7. Original owner (if known) 3_o_s_e_'C_,h_H_,_O_Yl_e_2_n_d_, _ Original use_.c'_'::t_" rr._j Subsequent uses (if any) and dates_r_e_s_l_' d_,_e_n_c_e ', _ 8. Themes (check as many as applicable) Aboriginal Agricultural Archi tectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development x X x Conservation Education Exploration/ settlement Industry Military Political X -X- Recreation Religion Science/ invention Social! humanitarian Transportation 9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) ( Fairview is an appropriate name for this house, and. it is still one of the most beautifull properties in Marlborough. It wa s in 1660 wnen Abraham Howe moved to Harlborough from I.-laterto~...m whe re he established the Howe Tavern. He married. Hannah ~-lardand they had eleven children, among whom was Abraham Jr. who with Col. Thomas Howe in l70l~ marched to Lancaster to defend. that town from the Indians, who had previously burned Marlborough along with the first Meeting House, was killed. ~nth Benjamin Hutchins at the time of that engagement, His brother Joseph Howe married Dorathy Martin in 1688, and. became a large landholder in Harlborough and elsewhere. He owned probably the first Grist Mill in Feltonville (Hudson) before 1700, and. his house is also included in this survey located on Bolton Street. Among their children was Joseph 2nd who built Fairview Farm in 1700 (although it was not then known as Fairview Farm), and it was enlarged in 1825 and agalin remodled in A skin parchment deed signed by Great James and John Woomscon, Indian Chiefs, is the only recorded de.ed.of the home place accord.ing to Ella Bigelow in ( r I \ _ 10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, 'early maps, etc.) Historical Reminiscences of Marlborough, Ella Bigelow, History of Marlborough Mass., Charles Hudson, Boston map of Marlborough Silas Holman Surveyor

3 ~~:~Y~~;'~\.:;j~~& ;;'~'*' FO'RM B MASSACHUSETTSHISTORICALCOMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston 2. Photo (3x3 11 or 3x5") Staple to left side of form Photo number 1. Town Marlborougb -.?:.",",'.,<,,:: S"..y.. ~.~,,";':' ~ ~ In Area no.';. Form rio. fa' Address 115 Union Street Name william Howe Homestead Present use Residence Present owner Mr. Paul F. Shaughnessy 3. Description: Central HalL.~~ stories Date 3rd Qtr. 18th Century Source Pub. Local Histories Style Colonial (Late) \ \. 4. Map. Draw sketch of building location in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings. Indicate north. ObODD DO DO Vf\lt<?1V N 8 o L T o N s 1; Architect Exterior wall fabric Wood Clapbosrd Outbuildings (describe) 2 large Ba:rns Other features lt story ell west, 2 chimneys, due to the house width a large example of the central hall type. Altered Moved 5. Lot size: Date Date One acre or less Over one acre X Approximate frontage 200 ft. ----~----- Approximate distance of building from street 100 ft..:~.~.",' NOT WRITEIN THIS SPACE. ~ 6. Recorded by Ernest Ginnetti $GSjQuadrant /, Ivrnzation. Mar1. Hist. C Photo no. RE ~;.~~'}~X';~'~ MAR 1975 (over) MAS~.":';~'-',JlM, Date Feb

4 7. Original owner (if known) Original use Subsequent uses (if any) and dates 8. Themes (check as many as applicable) ~~..~;: -,...'-':;;;-Aboriginal Agricultural ~rchitectural ~The Arts '~:.<,>~Commerce 't~:;:' Communication.:{,,: Community development )-'~:..1. x Conservation Education Explorati 0n/ settlement Industry Military Political Recreation Religion Science/ invention Social! humanitarian Transportation : 9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above),,. " t~"-/. :;'lo ~,Bibliography and/or references tij;t:j, early maps, etc.) (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, ~~~~, Homestead names taken from )Oct map o~ Marlborough by ~,Silas Holman Surveyor. Which includes the town of Hudson., Histories taken from Historical Reminisces of Marlborough by ~:El1a ~igel0l>? 1910.

5 ,Ii,.,., :: ~~,.: h ve. t'---' " '" '~~Homestead names taken from )Oct map of Marlborough by S:l:tasHolman SurveYor. Which includes the town of Hudson. Histories taken from Historical Reminisces of Marlborough by Ella ~igelo~ \ \

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7 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community Property Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts Marlborough Area(s) y Joseph Howe II/William and William L. Howe House Form No. 18 Additional information by Anne Forbes, consultant to Marlborough Historical Commission, 7/8/95: ASSESSOR'S # acres PHOTO #95-19: 4 ARCIDTECfURAL DESCRIPTION. Along with its neighbor at 19 Ash Street, this house is one of Marlborough's best examples of the large, twin-chimney "double-pile" house-type. According to family records, it was originally built in about 1733 as a story-and-a-half saltbox, and attained its double-pile form a century later, in the mid-1830's. At least part of a two-story, L-plan rear wing dates to about The main house is a 2 1/2-story five-bay structure. It is sheathed in wood clapboards, and stands on a granite block foundation. Most of the windows are 8-over-12-sash in projecting, molded enframements that are somewhat more characteristic of the earlier Federal period than the 1830's. A pair of 6-over-9's under each end gable are an even earlier window form. (This could indicate that the enlargement of the house took place earlier than believed, or that the 6/9's, at least, were relocated during the renovations.) Other visible exterior detail is also in the Federal style, including the molded, boxed cornice with large bed molding and returns. A large polygonal bay window on the east gable end would probably have been added in the second half of the nineteenth century. The main entry is covered by a wide, pedimented Colonial Revival hood on Tuscan columns, which was recently enclosed into a vestibule The hood apparently post-dates 1910, as photos of about that time show the house with the large wraparound porch which was added in HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cont. Map evidence shows that several descendants of Joseph and Dorothy Howe, who had a large farm south of Fort Meadow at the beginning of the eighteenth century, established their own homesteads on parts of Joseph's large land holdings between Bolton and Mechanic Streets. According to Howe family records, Joseph acquired much, if not all, of that property by buying out the other heirs of his father-in-law, Thomas Martin. One of the proprietors of the Ockoocangansett (Indian) Plantation, Thomas Martin, who died in 1701, appears to have taken part in both the legally-sanctioned and quasi-legal acquisitions of the Indian lands during the 1680's, and owned much of the area between Bolton and today's upper Mechanic Streets, and possibly more north of Fort Meadow and east of Bolton Street. The Howe family records indicate that his house stood somewhere on this property, probably about 200 feet north of the present building. Although Joseph and Dorothy's house may be incorporated in the building at 370 Bolton Street (see Form 73), the homes of several of their descendants are gone, including the farmhouse of two later Josephs on the site of today's 184 Mechanic Street. This one remains, however, as one of the better-preserved of Marlborough's early farmhouses. According to both Ella Bigelow and family records, the first section of it was built by Joseph and Dorothy's son Joseph Howe II ( ). He could not, of course, have built it in 1700, however, as Ella Bigelow claims. A more likely estimate is the family account of his building a story-and-a-half saltbox in about (cont.)

8 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community Property Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts Marlborough Area(s) y Joseph Howe II/William and William L. Howe House Form No. 18 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cont. It is not known for certain which member of the next generation might have owned this property. Joseph Howe II left his homestead to his wife Ruth and son Joseph Howe III, but the latter may have built his own house by the time of his father's death. The map of 1803 shows that by then the owner of this house was William Howe ( ), the son of Joseph II's second SOD, Thaddeus, who had inherited the east part of Joseph I's farm, and lived at 370 Bolton Street. Ella Bigelow says that the house was updated and possibly enlarged in the mid-1820's, but family history shows that a four-room, two-story section was added to the front of the old house in Although architectural evidence is more consistent with the mid-1820's, either date would correspond to the period of ownership by William and Elizabeth's son William Loring Howe (b. 1797) who by then had both come into his inheritance, and married Persis Sawyer (in 1822). He was apparently called Loring Howe; hence the "L. Howe" shown as owner on the maps of 1830 and Those maps also clearly show the pound that was located between this house and Hudson Street. It probably served as a holding pen for several of the farms in the vicinity--the town histories mention sizeable herds of cattle at both 370 Bolton and the later Joseph Howe farm that stood at 184 Mechanic Street, and this farm undoubtedly had cattle at that time, as well. The next owner of the property was apparently William Loring's son, William Nelson Howe. He married Abbie Witt in 1850 (and later Elizabeth Wilkins), and ran a large dairy farm here until the end of the nineteenth century. William No's son, Elmer D. Howe, who handled the distribution of milk for his father, succeeded to the farm, and it was probably he who was responsible for the 1895 updating of the house, and for calling the property Fairview Farm. ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. Maps and atlases: 1803, 1830, 1835, 1853, 1856/57, 1875, 1889, Marlboro vital records. Marlboro directories and tax valuations. Marlboro Historical Society: House files. Bigelow, James. "Photographs and Descriptions of Some Old Houses in Marlborough." [X] Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, a completed National Register Criteria Statement form is attached.

9 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts Community Marlborough Area(s) y Property Joseph Howe Il/William and William L. Howe House Form No. 18

10 Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts Community Marlborough Area(s) y Property Address 115 Union Street Form No(s). 18 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: [x] Individually eligible [ ] Eligible only in a historic district [ ] Contributing to a potential historic district [] Potential historic district Criteria: [x] A [] B [x] C [] D Criteria Considerations: [] A [] B [] C [] D [] E [] F [] G Statement of Significance by _An_n_e_F_o_rb_e_s The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. _ As one of the best-preserved examples in Marlborough of the through-hall, twin-chimney, "doublepile" house form, which apparently incorporates a former saltbox of ca. 1733, the Joseph II and William Howe House qualifies for the National Register under Criterion C. It also meets Criterion A because of its nearly 200-year association with Joseph Howe II and his descendants-vall of whom were farmers, and for generations maintained what became one of Marlborough's longest-lived dairy farms at this location. The property retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association.

11 Massachusetts Historical Commission I Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts I I Marlborough I y 646 I FORM B - BUILDING Assessor's number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number Town Marlborough Place (neighborhood or village) _ 157 Union Street Present Nurses' Home, Marlborough City Hospital offices Original nurses' quarters Date of Construction 19_2_4 _ Moineau Photo Collection Federal Revival Exterior Material: Taylor & Bigelow' archt s T.P. Hurley: builder Sketch Map Draw a map of the area indicating properties within it. Number each property for which individual inventory forms have been completed. Label streets, including route numbers, if any. Attach a separate sheet if space is not sufficient here. Indicate north. I~L. ~4~ I- -;W-~ l~ ~ 0 O ~-r: U~\ on 0 Q ~~ rj ~ ~ Foundation brick Wallffrim stucco Roof asphalt shingle Outbuildings/Secondary Structures _ (this is a secondary stmctllte on Marlborough hospital property) Major Alterations (with dates) _ Late 20th C' all windows changed to metal; concrete ramp. stair w metal rail on facade Condition good Moved [X] no [ ] yes Date N_/A _ Acreage 19 acres "ecorded by Anne Forbes Organization for Marlboro Hist Comm Date 7/27/95 Setting Faces west over parking lot and landscaped hospital grounds, end to street In modern residential area

12 BUILDING FORM ARCHITECfURAL DESCRIPTION [ ] see continuation sheet Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. For an institutional building, the Nurses' Home of the Marlborough Hospital is remarkable wellpreserved. Except for its replacement windows and the addition of a long ramp and railing, this is essentially the same handsome stucco building that was designed in 1924 by local Marlborough architects Kendal Taylor and John Bigelow. The construction was by the local contracting firm of T.P. Hurley. It is a long three-part, 2-story building with a side-gabled roof. The main center section is five bays wide, with five small gabled dormers on the front roof plane, and parapet endwalls with paired integral chimneys. Flanking the main section is a pair of short, two-bay wings, their facades slightly stepped back from the front wall of the main building. The wings also have parapet ends, but no chimneys. The main entry is a very large 6-panel door (one panel has been replaced by glass). The entry surround consists of a divided transom and 2/3-length sidelights, and an openpedimented hood supported on square columns and pilasters, with a Sh0l1doweled balustrade at the sides. I \ ; HISTORICAL NARRATIVE [ ] see continuation sheet.' Explain history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the ~ building, and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. This building is significant as the only intact remaining section of the early-twentieth-century Marlborough City Hospital. In 1890, a group of seventeen local citizens formed a corporation to found the Marlborough City Hospital. The first board of trustees included Dr. E.G. Hoitt, president, Frank A. Howe, Secretary, and Dr. Hannah E. Bigelow, the main founder and principal financier, as treasurer. The next year they purchased the house at 27 Hildreth Street (see Form #83) for the first hospital building. The hospital opened in 1893, but in August of 1894 it closed for lack of funds. The institution remained closed for over ten years. It reopened in 1904 on a more sound financial footing, and in 1910 the trustees purchased eleven acres of land on Union Street from the Silas Simonds estate as the site for a new modern hospital. The hospital moved to this location in 1912, where it has operated since that time. Although the 1912 hospital building has been replaced by a modern facility, the Nurses' Home, which was added in , remains in essentially original condition. Nurses were first housed here under the hospital's longtime matron, Minnie O. Robbins, R.N., who held the position for 38 years, serving at both the Hildreth and Union Street locations. Miss Robbins retired in 1941 and was succeeded by Dorothea Rice, R.N. until BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [] see continuation sheet Bigelow, Ella. Historical Reminiscences of Marlborough, Mass Centennial '90: Marlborough, the City Marlborough Historical Society files. [] Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, a completed National Register Criteria Statement form is attached.