FORM A -AREA Assessor's Sheets Massachusetts Historical Commission I 68, 80 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116 --'/~~ f'rlk\ -< 't USGS Quad Area Letter Form Numbers in Area I I AJ 154, 62, 63, 72, 649, 1214-1224 Place (neighborhood or village) Lake Williams Area residential, commercial Construction Dates or Period 18th- to early 20th centuries \ ~t:;,. r;r'3 fajr. -:\:~Major Intrusions and Alterations much visihle uilding alteration; several mid- to late-20th C. ommercia1 bujldings on I akeside, some modern ouses on Winter, Bond, and Lakeside. Acreage ca 40 acres Anne Forbes. consultant Historical Comm. Date (month/day/year) S122/95 Bond Street Lakeside Avenue to 1-495 Lincoln Street: (# 643, 610/612) Winter Avenue Winter Street SEE AITACHED SHEET Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form
AREA FORM ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION [X] see continuation sheet Describe architectural, structural and landscape features and evaluate in terms of other areas within the community. The architecture of the ca. 40-acre area immediately to the east and north of Lake Williams is primarily a mixture of venerable farmhouses of the late-eighteenth- through early nineteenth-centuries, and three clusters of modest late-nineteenth-century wood-frame houses, many of them put up for either rental or resale. Although its waterfront views once made this a prime residential location, today most of the buildings have been extremely altered, and a group of modem commercial buildings, some with large parking lots, occupies much of the property overlooking the shores of the lake. I \ The oldest house here is probably the William Gates House at 77 Lakeside Avenue, one of several twostory "half-houses" that were built in in the eighteenth century. A high-style Federal house, which retains a louvered elliptical fanlight over the entry, was built at 643 Lincoln Street by Capt. William Holyoke in about 1805. 231 Lakeside Avenue, apparently built by carpenter David Brown in 1825-1830, adds to the area its individual character as a "high-shouldered", five-bay late Federal house with a pair of rear chimneys. Near the beginning of the Greek Revival period, probably in about 1837-38, William Holyoke's son, Edward Holyoke, built the large 2 1/2-story gable-end house, (now much altered), at 610 Lincoln St./I09 Lakeside Avenue. (See Forms 62, 63, 72 and 649.) (Cont.) HISTORICAL NARRATIVE [X] see continuation sheet Explain historical development of the area. Discuss how this area relates to the historical development of the community. The major eighteenth-century east-west route through, the "Great Road", later the Boston Post Road, took a sharp turn as it neared the west part of, swinging north from the old Williams Tavern around the town's only sizeable natural lake, Lake Williams. (The section of the road through this area is now Lakeside Avenue, and its lower section has been re-routed closer to the lake shore.) There was fertile farmland on the rising ground of the east and north shores of the lake, as well as scenic views across the water to the hills in the distance. One or two seventeenth-century settlers may have made their homes just north of the lake, but the most significant spurt of development occurred here in the first few decades after the Revolution, when several houses were built by families who remained here for generations afterward. At least five of these homesteads, however, have been demolished, four of them in this century. On the east side of the lake were the residences of members of the prominent Fay and Gates families (the former property belonged previously to Winslow Lewis), and located along the north shore were an older Gates house and the homes of Brighams, Barbers, and Howes. By 1800 Capt. Aaron Brigham was operating a tan yard here, using water from the lake in his operations, and his next-door neighbor, Ephraim Barber, was making clocks and guns in a shop beside his house at 221 Lakeside (demolished--see Form #54). The only section of Lincoln Street then in existence was its westernmost block, and that was only a short lane leading east off the Post Road, to connect with "Ragged Lane", (today's Winter Street), which linked the area with Elm Street to the north. (Cont.) ( \ BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [ ] see continuation sheet Maps, birdseye views, and atlases: 1803, 1835, 1856, 1875, 1889. Sanborn maps from 1912. Bigelow. Historic Reminiscences of. 1910. Hudson. History of the Town of. 1862. directories and tax valuations. Vital Records. The Enterprise. [] Recommended as a National Register District. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.
INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community Property '1assachusetts Historical Commission J Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Area(s) AJ Lake Williams Area Form Nos. 54, 62, 63, 72, 649, 1214-1224 ARCHITECfURAL DESCRIPTION, cont. Winter Street developed gradually over the second half of the nineteenth century with about fifteen modest, wood-frame houses on small lots. Most are small-scale gable-ends on brick foundations, and nearly all are so altered as to have lost what vernacular decoration they may have had. One of the better preserved is #70, which is one of few to retain its wood clapboards, molded, boxed cornice, 2- over-2-sasb windows, and glass-and-panel door. Two of three gable-end houses at the foot of Lakeside Avenue were built by 1889, and the other, #25 Lakeside, the only example here of a gable-end with two-story, turned-posted facade porches, probably appeared shortly afterward. In the early 1880's, as part of the construction of the Water Works in 1883, the rare surviving brick Pumping Station on the north shore of Lake Williams was built. Although somewhat altered by the removal of its coal shed and tall, tapered chimney, and the installation of modern garage doors and the filling in of some windows, it is valuable as a rare surviving building of the type. Since the recent fire that devastated the 1890's Millham Reservoir pump house (see Form #916), this is the only building remaining from 's late-nineteenth-century waterworks development. Bond Street, the last of the major residential developments in the area, was cut through and built up nearly all at once in the 1890's, with two-story gable-end houses on rubble foundations. Nearly all have a one-bay side en, and in front of some of those is a comer porch under a "catslide" continuation of +bemain roof plane. This configuration, as well as the asymmetrical arrangement of the pair of secondary facade windows, is similar enough to many found in the Frye area east of upper Pleasant Street (see Area Form V), to suggest that the same builder might have been involved. Some of these houses retain some vernacular Queen Anne ornamentation, such as the pierced-bracketed door hoods at #s 28, 35, 36, 51, and 61. A few houses representative of some early-twentieth-century building types were also built here. The one in best condition is 25 Bond Street, a long one-story bungalow of ca. 1930 with a clipped-gabled projecting entry bay and 6-over-l-sash windows. A shingled gable-end bungalow is located at 65 Bond Street, and an unusual ca. 1920's American Four-Square, built entirely of concrete block with quoined corners, is located at 62 Winter Street. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cont. Lake Williams was known at the beginning of the eighteenth century as "Howe's Pond", probably after Col. Eleazer How(e), who bought the former Thomas Rice farm near its northwest corner in 1697. Later, for a while in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, it was called "Gates Pond II, after either William Gates of 77 Lakeside and his brother Silas, or their father, Silas, who lived in a former house at the end of Lincoln Street. The water system was established in the early 1880's, with Lake Williams as its main source of supply. The Water Works Pumping Station was built in 1883 on the north side of the lake to distribute the water and pump it up Sligo Hill to the reservoir, and later the standpipe, at the hilltop. (See Form #909.) In the last quarter of the nineteenth century there was considerable nleasure boating on the lake. Sailboat races were held here in the summer, and one or two boathouses ~re built on the east shore. In 1893, however, the city acquired 56 acres of land around the lake to protect the watershed, and boating was prohibited from that time on. (Cont.)
INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Community Area(s) AJ Property Lake Williams Area Form Nos. 54, 62, 63, 72,649, 1214-1224 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cont. Ice cutting, however, was a thriving business in the area until well into the twentieth century. Early ice houses stood on the north shore of the lake. l.w. Brigham and RE. Bond each had one in the 1870's, and for nearly half a century after that, members of the Howe family ran thriving ice businesses here. The largest ice-cutting operations, however, were those of Howe & Connor, who had several ice houses here in the 1880's, and the early-twentieth-century Lake Williams and Peoples' Ice Companies. The Lake Williams Ice Company was founded by Ephraim Howe of Bolton Street, and under his sons Oscar, Irving, and Winslow Howe it had a large complex of ice houses and wagon sheds back from the street on the north side of the pond, with a long conveyor belt that ran down the hill through a culvert under the road and out onto the pond. The company, which in 1897 bought out the Greenwood Cider and Vinegar Co. on Maple Street, (see Area Form T: Chestnut Hill), also dealt in vinegar, cider, wood, and railroad ties, and supplied the ties for the construction of the electric street railway in 1898. It was at the Peoples' Ice Company at the west end of the lake that the locally notorious "ice-house murder" was committed in 1923, when liquor smugglers killed the proprietor. As for other development on the east and north part of the area, by 1856 three buildings had been built on Winter Street, and John Hale had opened his blacksmith shop on lower Lakeside Avenue. By 1875 eight more houses had been built on Winter Street, and a small cluster of barns, sheds, and one or two houses stood on the street's lower section south of Lincoln, (today officially Winter Avenue.) At that time, Winslow Arnold's laundry was operating at the southeast comer of the lake, obviously taking advantage of the ready water supply. By 1889 a few more houses had been constructed on Winter Street, as well as two out of the three at the foot of Lakeside Avenue. The final major development of the area took place in the 1890's, when Bond Street was laid out with small houselots, and built up within a few years with ten of the dozen houses that stand there today. The buildings discussed above and listed on the Area Data Sheet represent some of the most historically or architecturally significant resources in the area. There are several more historic properties located in the area, however. See Area Sketch Map for their locations.
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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community Property Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Area(s) AJ Lake Williams Area Form Nos. 54, 62, 63, 72, 649, 1214-1224 AREA DATA SHEET NOTE: Although the inventory includes the entire area shown on the Area Sketch Map, only resources which are mentioned in text of the Area Form have been given inventory numbers and are listed on the Area Data Sheet. As a rule, these represent the most historically or architecturally significant resources in the area. There are many more historic properties located within the area, however. (See Area Sketch Map for their locations.) Starred properties (*) have individual or small area forms. MHC# Parcel # Street Address Historic Name Date Style/type 1216 80-18 25 Bond Street ca. 1930 Bungalow 1217 80-12 28 Bond Street 1890's Queen Anne vernac.gable-end 1218 68-32 35 Bond Street 1890's Queen Anne vernac. gable-end 1219 80-15 36 Bond Street 1890's Queen Anne vernac. gable-end 1220 68-35 51 Bond Street 1890's Queen Anne vemac. gable-end 1221 68-37 61 Bond Street 1890's Queen Anne vemac. gable-end 1222 68-38 65 Bond Street ca. 1930 Bungalow 1214 80-87 25 Lakeside Avenue 1890's Queen Anne vernac. gable-end *62 80-38 77 Lakeside Avenue William Gates House mid-18th C. Colonial "halfhouse *54 221 Lakeside Ave. Ephraim Barber Hse. (demolished) *649 80-2 231 Lakeside Ave. Brown/Maynard House ca. 1825-30 Federal/Greek Revival 1215 80---- --- Lakeside Avenue Pumping Station, Marl- ca. 1883 Utilitarian brick borough Waterworks *72 80-31 610/612 Lincoln St./ Edward Holyoke House ca. 1835 formerly Greek 109 Lakeside Ave. Revival (cont.)
INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community Property Massachusetts Historical Commission ~OBoylston Street.oston, Massachusetts 02116 Area(s) Al Lake Williams Area Form Nos. 54, 62, 63, 72, 649, 1214-1224 AREA DATA SHEET, cont. MHC# Parcel # Street Address Historic Narne Date Style/type *63 1223 1224 80-21 68-43 68-42 643 Lincoln Street Capt. William Holyoke Hse. 1805 Federal 62 Winter Street 1920's Four-Square 70 Winter Street J. Barnes House ca. 1870's Victorian vernac. gable-end \,.
INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community Property Lake Williams Area Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Area(s) AI Form Nos. 54, 62, 63, 72, 649, 1214-1224 I, - : "l- I \
INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community Property.. 1assachusetts Historical Commission J Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Area(s) AI Lake Williams Area Form Nos. 54, 62, 63, 72, 649, 1214-1224
INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community Property Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Area(s) AJ Lake Williams Area Form Nos. 54, 62, 63, 72, 649, 1214-1224
F.O R M,B';~';;' 'B U I L DIN MASSACHUSETTSmSTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, state House, Boston G In Area no. Form no. 54 I Address 221 Lakeside Avenue Name Lieut. Ephram Barber Homestead 2. Present use Residence Present owner Frederick Beck 3. Descr-Iption: 2j- Story Salt Box Date 1781 Source Pub. Local Histories Style Colonial 4. M'ap. Draw sketch of building location in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings. Indicate north. Architect Exterior wall fabric Clapboard @ 0' RTe. ~O lj LA Ke.. ~ ----- WI'" L IItM 5 a '0 o Moved LINC.O ttl ST Outbuildings (describe) None --------- other features Center chimney, house predates Altered 1781 construction Date Date _ 5. Lot size: One acre or less x Over one acre Approximate frontage 100 Feet Approximate distance of building from street NOT WRITE IN THIS SPACE Us.GSQuadrant \\ -, \- ------\- ",\.,\ (over) 40 Feet 6. Recorded by Ernest Ginnetti aistorical Organization Cornmi s s ion Date 12/29(76 5M-2-75-R061465'~ (20M-2O:;76) ;\ \
_9:~~torical en l\';...-' Fann ;~ ''ttt uses (if any) and dates Residence '-. --:--------------------------.~\., o~k as many as applicable), x x Conservation Education Exploration/ settlement Industry Military Political Recreation Religion Science/ invention Social! humanitarian Transportation significance (includeexplanation of themes checked above),... "IJbJl~'.. \\",Ephraim Barber was born in 1747 t and was a master clock maker, whose 'clocks and workmanship were cherished on both sides of the Atlantic. He "was in the employ of the government for many years as a gunsmith, and carried a rifle of his own manufacture which underscored his reputation 'as a good hunter. During the Revolution he was in the six month ser-,vice from the town of and did not own a horse, considering,.i~'nothing to walk to and from Boston. He married Elizabeth Crosby on Oct. 11, 1781, and represented the town of M~r1borough in the General Court 1810 and 1811, he died Nov. 14, 1817 at the age of 70. 10. Bibliographyand/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records. early maps, etc.) History of M~rlborough M~ss. Charles Hudson, Boston, 1862. Historical Reminiscences of, Ell~ 'Bigelow, 1910. Engineering Dept.
Original use _ Subsequent uses (if any) and dates _ 8. Themes (check as many as applicable) Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development x x x Conservation Education Exploration/ settlement Industry Military political x X.Recreation -'Religion.sctence/' _ :invention s~cial/.humanitarian Transportation 9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) In the bend of the road stands the house of, in olden times of Ephraim Bqrber, the brass clock maker. No better eight day clocks were ever manufactured, and even today they stand ticking allover the country. Only a short time agoxone of f s citizens journeyed abroad, and stepping into an old hostelry of England where much to his surprise and pleasure saw ticking before him an old grandfather clock "Made by Ephram Barber, Marlbor ugh, New England." Ephraim was a gunsmith in the employ of the government for many years~ and a most skilled workman. He was a great hunter, always carrying a rif~e of his O\VU manufacture; also a good pedestrian, making nothing of walking to and from Boston. At one time he was representative to the General Court. Yet he kept no horsel 10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) -Homestead names are taken from the Oc t ; 24, fus03 map of by Silas Holman Surveyor, which also includes the,town of Hudson. :}. ;. Histories are taken. from Historical Reminisces 5,f Marlb.o.rough by Ella, ~~igelow1910...\
FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS mstorical COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston In Area no. Form no. 62 ~~~ \.... l ~ 1. Town Address 77 Lake.side Ave.nue Name Cgpt. i-iilliam Gates Homestead 2. Present use Two Tennament Present owner Hary F. Lemay \ 4. Map. Draw sketch of building location in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings. Indicate north. 3. Description: 2t Story off center chimney Date 1784 Source Pub. Local Histories Style Colonial Architect Exterior wall fabric Clapboard --:.--_D I L «re J.O L/tvC.OLf'./ s r -- WILL IltfV\ S ~ -; ~ j..j o o NOT WRITE IN THIS.SPACE ~. e USGSQuadrant -.. ~ "'--:-.._ 0 HC Photo no. \- o RI Ci- I W A L R o '\.\ (over) \ \ 5M-2-75-R061465; (20M-2;;76) \. 0 0 Outbuildings (describe) None --------- Other features T\-l0 distinct house plans both predate 1784 construction Altered Date Moved 5. Lot size: Date One acre or less X Over one acre 0 -- @ Approximate frontage 150 Feet Approximate distance of building from street 40 Feet 6. Recorded by Ernest Ginnetti M~rlborough H~stor~cal Organization Commission Date 12/29/76
,... "'.. t x e.' 7. Originalowner (ifknown) -------------------~::------- Originalusc---=F'-'a=rm~ _ Subsequentuses (ifany)and dates Residence and Two Tennament 8. Themes (checkas many as applicable) Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development x x Conservation Education Exploration! settlement Industry Military Political 9. Historicalsignificance(includ explanation of themes checked above) Recreation Religion Science! invention Social! humanitarian Transportation r \.' \. william Gates was born April 8, 1762, and married Jerusha Goodnow January 13, 1784. He was a carpenter and joiner by trade, but no evidence suggests he built this house, I believe it was built by his grandfather Simon Gates at the year of his marriage in 1710. William's father Silas, commanded a company of men from, Northborough, and Southborough, which on April 19, 1775 mqrched off to Concord with 180 men. This represented about one seventh of the towns population, being at that time about 1300 people. William Gates was a Captain of Militia and held many important to~vn offices, he died January 12, 1848 at the age of 86. Archetecturally this house is of the same plan and type as the Joseph Morse, and John Weaks homesteads previously covered in this survey, and does not seem likely that it was built as late as 1784. 10. Bibliographyand/or references(suchas localhistories,deeds, assessor'srecords, early maps, etc.) History of Mass. Charles Hudson, Boston, 1862. Historical Remini~cences of, Ella Bigelow, Marl. 1910. Engineering Dept
INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community Property Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Area(s) AJ William Gates House Form No. 62 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cont. The house was subsequently owned by William and Elizabeth's son, William D. Gates (b. 1808). He married Sally Newton in 1842, and may have updated the house somewhat around the time of their marriage. By 1871 the property had been acquired by Mrs. M. Ryan, who owned it for at least 28 years. She was apparently the daughter of William and Ellen (Woods) Colgan, who came to from County Tipperary, Ireland, in the middle of the nineteenth century.
JNVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community Property Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Area(s) AJ William Gates House Form No. 62 Additional information by Anne Forbes, consultant to Historical Commission, 5/19/95: ASSESSOR'S # 80-38 less than one acre PHOTO #95-12: 27 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. An interior inspection of all parts of this house would be necessary to estimate its construction date. A house of this type, the two-story, three-bay "half-house" could have been built as early as 1710, or as late as the Revolutionary period. This one is a three-part building, with two "saltbox" wings--one abutting the north end, and a two-story one attached to the rear southeast corner of the main house. The north wing, which has the appearance of a complete 1 l/2-story house with fourbay facade, could be an earlier building. A large chimney is located behind the ridge of the main house, and a slender one rises from the ridge of the north wing. Most of the windows of all sections are 2-over-2-sash, with molded surrounds. The three small windows in the upper story of the north wing are set high under the eaves, extending into the frieze. A large multi-light "picture window" on the wing's facade was apparently added in this century. Unfortunately, the facade entries of both the main house and north wing have been replaced, but the proportions of the opening of the main entry remain from the paired latenineteenth-century doors that were formerly located there. The architectural trim includes an overhanging, molded and boxed cornice, and narrow comerboards. The house is clapboarded, with a primarily granite foundation. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cont. This house is significant as the home of at least two generations of the Gates family, several of whom established homes in the vicinity of "Williams Pond" (later also called "Gates Pond") in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It was certainly the home of Capt. William Gates (1762-1848). Captain Gates was the son of Silas and Elizabeth Gates, who lived nearby on the site of 643 Lincoln Street, and the brother of Silas Gates, long-time proprietor of the Williams Tavern opposite the foot of Lakeside Avenue. He was a carpenter, and could have either built the house, or enlarged it from an existing one. He married Jerusha Goodnow in 1784, and after her untimely death, (apparently in childbirth), married his neighbor Elizabeth Howe, daughter of Stephen Howe, in 1786. Captain Gates was for many years the leader of the choir of the West Church. (Cont.) BIBLIOGRAPHY, cont. Maps and atlases: 1803, 1830, 1835, 1856-7 1875, 1889. Marlboro vital records. Marlboro directories and tax valuations. Bigelow, James. "Photographs and Descriptions of Some Old Houses in." 1927. [] Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, a completed National Register Criteria Statement form is attached.
FORM B - BUILDING In Area no. Form no. MASSACHUSETTSHISTORICALCOMMISSION Office of the Secretary, state House, Boston -.~'\,.~.,.,<- <, 4'.:" F' ;#' //-. "j' ~'.., Ii.~ I 1. Town ~<atlborou~~h Address Lal.e s i.de Name,.:d.': jel.rd Eo 1yolc.e homes tead Present use l~esid.ence Present owner 3. Description: 2t Story Federal Date Circa 1825 Source Pub. Local Ki.s'cories Style Federal 4. Architect :::d;; mrd. ~lolyoke Exterior wall fabric Uood. Clapboard Outbuildings (describe) i'lone ---------- Other features Gable end. faces stree t OIJ n f?i J.O ~...v LA- f\ J=. 0 l/wc..(jln ~ L \J A K bt unusual fene::;tration, ell to the north e 'l.rlier structure Altered Date Moved Date 5. Lot size: On8 acre or less Over one acre -i r ",,>- WILLIAMS E S ~ -"-'" I /) 0 vv ~ ~ A V E @ t:l (over) Approximate frontage 100 Feet Approximate distance of building from street 50 feet 6. Recorded by Ernest Ginnet_t_i _ Organization 1'larlborough Historical COmmisslon Date 7/8/78 '4-5-77
7. Origi na l owner (if known) Subsequent uses (if any) and dates_j_ ;:_,,_l_c _ 8. Themes (check as many as applicable) Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Com munication Community development Conservation Education Exploration/ settlement Industry Military Political Recreation Religion Science/ invention Social! humanitarian Transportation 9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) Edwar'd Holyoke, Sen., was in Lynn in 1630. His son El.Lz ur' liolyo ke came to 11arlborough before the,.(evolution, and marched wi.t h Capt. Daniel Barnes to Canbridge on the l:.'th of A1iril 1775, and later he enterej regular service, ~lizur also married Sarah Gates, daughter of Silas and. Elizabeth. Gates in t.h at; same ye ar, Their grandson Edwar-d built this house before he married. and liveci here until his death. ;:!:d,varcl s t father's house, Capt. ',fillia.ffi Holyoke lived. next door to the noth east and the homestead. is includ.ed in this survey also. llos t of the houses around Lalce.ri.Ll.Lans ate~. of historic i;n:~,ortal'lce and. t hi.s re;~ion should be Lnc Luo-sd in an llistoric uistric. 10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) Historical Reminiscences of i' la.rlborough, ~11a Bige1oH, Har1., 1910. History of Mass., Cll.ar1es Hudson, Boston, 1862 1835 Map of.
FORM B - BUILDING Assessor's number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street 30ston, Massachusetts 02116 I 80-2 I I I AJ 649 r:::.place (neighborhood or village) ------ I,ake Williams area 231 Lakeside Avenue D. Brown/S.B. Maynard House dwelling Original dwe1jing Date of Construction ca 1825-30 I, - ~Style!Form _," _.t ~ Architect/Builder deeds; maps; visual assessment Federal probably David Brown Exterior Material: 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. Foundation granite Wallffrim synthetic siding Roof asphalt shingle Outbuildings/Secondary Structures _ shed ;<', \?\. 0W~ Major Alterations (with dates) main entty \,A~ replaced, exterior chimney added on east endfair Moved [X] no [ ] yes Date NfA Acreage less than one acre.corded by Anne Forbes Setting Opposite lake WjJJiams at edge of Organization for Marlboro Hist Comm modern commercial/residential area Stone Date 8110195 retaining wall across street front
BUILDING FORM ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION [] see continuation sheet Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. Although this house is not mentioned in the town histories as one of 's historic residences, its form and style indicate that it would have been built during the late Federal period, probably between 1825 and 1830. It is a tall, five- by two-bay, 2 1I2-story bouse, one-room deep, with a pair of rear chimneys. A one-story shed-roofed rear leanto gives the west end a near salt-box profile. Most of the windows are tall 9-over-9-sash, with molded surrounds. The main entry, which is altered by a twentieth-century surround, has a 6-panel door with glass in the top two panels, and full-length, divided sidelights that signal the approach of the Greek Revival period. Other architectural detail includes a molded, boxed cornice, without an overhang at the gable-ends, and a prominent bed molding along the facade. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE [X] 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 house is the only survivor of what was once a line of at least six eighteenth- and early nineteenthcentury houses standing along the north shore of Lake Williams on what had been the "Great Road", later part of the Boston Post Road, and eventually became Lakeside Avenue. Further research will be necessary to verify its history, for which local documentation is somewhat confusing. Deed and map research reveals that at several points in the nineteenth century more than one property along this section of Lakeside Avenue was owned by the same owner, and that the houses here went back and forth between members of the Howe, Brigham, and Holyoke families, especially, probably at times with one holding a mortgage for another. Because of the demolition of at least four buildings on either side of this house, it is also difficult to identify through map evidence. It appears to have been built between the eighteenth-century houses of Eleazer How to the west and Ephraim Barber to the east (both demolished-see Form #54). No house is shown in this position on the map of 1803, but by 1830 a house is shown here, belonging to "D. Brown." This would be David Brown, who by 1832 had sold the house to Samuel B. Maynard. (Carpenter David Brown [b. 1805], with Elbridge Howe, built the old town hall in 1840. If this is that David Brown, it is likely that he constructed this house himself). Although deeds indicate that William F. Holyoke, who lived further east on the street, bought the property by 1840, that transaction may represent a loan or mortgage, as S.B. Maynard is still shown as the owner on the maps of 1856 and 1875. A mortgage was foreclosed on the property at least once just after the Civil War, and deeds from 1867 and 1870 may also represent a mortgage on the property held by Edward Rice, apparently Mr. Maynard's brother-in-law, Edward G. Rice. (See Form #24--139 Northborough Road). (Cont.) BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [] see continuation sheet Maps and atlases: 1853, 1856-57, 1875, 1889, 1900. Bigelow. Directories and Real Estate valuations. Historical Society: House files. [ ] Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked. a completed National Register Criteria Statement form is attached.
INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community Property Brown/Maynard House.1assachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Area(s) AJ Form No. 649 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cont. In 1899, a few years after Samuel Maynard's death, three of his heirs deeded the property to his daughter, Sarah Maynard Jackman. She and her husband, J.V. Jackman, principal of the Bigelow School, lived nearby at 183 Lakeside Avenue. Samuel Maynard's widow, Sarah (Rice), survived him, and probably remained here until her death, along with another daughter, Harriet Maynard. In 1908 the property was sold to Samuel Kinder(s). The Kinder family lived here for many hears; in 1930 the house was still occupied by Mrs. Jeanette Kinder.