FORM B - BUILDING In Area no. Form no. MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office oi the Secretary, State House, Boston 104 MarlborQugh 359Bo1ton Street me Ci ty Home Dept. of Recreation/ Open Space City of Marlborough U at au ng tocatton in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings. Indicate north. j-m.ujai?o (J)/t:fTC" 7-)/J~"'~ A te 1922 1 I I Source Public Record I ~le Federal I Hoyt & Bixby Exterior wall fabric br i ck Outbuildings (descrtbej Other features _ o o Altered Mowd 5. Lot size: Date Da~ --------- ------ One acre or less Approximate frontage 100' Over one acre_x_ o Approximate distance of building from street 50' 6. Recorded by W,G ibbon s Organization Marlboro Planning Dept. Date 5/]/79 (over) 37M-7-77
7. Original owner (if known) Original use Gjt of Marlborough City Home ( Poor House Subsequent uses (if any) and dates Dept. of Recreation/Open Space - current 8. Themes (check as many as applicable) Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Com munication Community development x x Conservation Education Exploration/ settlement Industry Military Political x Recreation Religion Science/ invention Social! humanitarian Transportation 9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) } x x This red brick building was constructed in April of 192J. Located near Fort Meadow, it was originally known as the City Home and functioned as a poor house, with facilities for up to fifty people. After poor houses were eradicated, the building was assigned to the Department of Recreation/Open Space. Today, it serves as headquarters for various youth programs. 10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories. deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) Public Records - Marlborough City Hall Interview: Dept. of Recreation and Open Space On site inspection.
FORM B - BUILDING In Area no. Form no. 73 1. Town l'~arl borowq;h Address Name Joseph Hm'le Homestead Present use Residence Mr. or Mrs. CTest Present owner Drakes Island Haine 3. Description: 2t Story Hood Frame Date 1688 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 \.Jood Clapboard Outbuildings (describe)_l_~_o_n_e _ Other features Original house looked 30M-5-77 sr J (3 n L @b tv tl o S 0 0, o Q a 0 ljnja ------~ oon n n N {] t1 n tj,sr o Q I=J I:] '. (over) like the Joseph Horse house and the John \Jeeks house Altered Date ~-------- ------ Moved Date --------- ----- 5. Lot size: One acre or less Over one acre X Approximate frontage 200 Feet Approximate distance of building from street 30 Feet 6. Recorded by Ernes t Ginne tti Organization Marlborough Historical Commission Date 6 16 78,e
7. Originalowner (ilknow~~_j_o_s_e_p~h~h_o_~_te~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_ Originaluse~_2_a_rm_,~_~~ ~_~_~~~~ ~ ",,--_---,_~ ~~_ Subsequentuses (ifany)and dates R_e_s_i_d_,e_n_c--,,-e~~~_~~_~ ~ ~~_ 8. Themes (checkas many as applicable) Aboriginal Conservation Recreation -- Agricultural Education Religion Architectural X Exploration/ -- Science/ The Arts -----x- settlement X :invention :,~'-- Commerce -- Industry,--,Social!' Communication Military.. humanitarian Community development -X- Political,Transportat~on, ' 9. Historicalsignificance(includexplanationofthemes checkedabove), The Howe family can be traced. back many years. Probably the first settlers in Marlborough were the members of the John Howe family, who came from Sudbury and. settled. in Marlborough as early as 1657. " It now becomes necessary to give notice to the family of Abraham Howe, no relation to John, but,vas an early settler of Marlborough, the 'name appearing among the proprietors of the town in 1660. Be probably C8.L"TIe to Marlborough from Roxbury, had. a numerous family" and his descendants have remained. in the to~m ever since. Joseph Howe, son of Abraham was born in watertown in 1661, he married Dorathy Martin in Charlesto~vn December 29, 1687 and then moved to Marlborough probably the follo\ving year when he built this house. Joseph HO~'1eis also credited. vri.therecting the first Grist mill in Feltonville (Hud.son) before 1700, and. held large tracts of land in Marlborough, Lancaster and Waterto~ffi. At the time of his death on September 4, 1]00 in his 40th year his real estate was inventoried at 1,442 pounds and his wife settled the estate. His descendants numerous and participated in every political, military and social developments of our city. The east section of the present building is the oldest, the west section was add.ed upon the marriage of Thaddeus Howe about 1804.,< " \ " f 10. Bibliographyand/orreferences(suchas localhistories,deeds" assessor'srecords, 'earlymaps, etc.) Historical Reminiscences of Marlborough, Ella Bigelow, Marl. 1910. History of Marlborough Mass., Charles Hudson, Boston 1862. 1803 map of Marlborough, Silas Holman Surveyor. ". ~",
INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community Property Marlborough Joseph/Thaddeus Homestead Howe Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Area(s) Form No. 73 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cont. Joseph Howe apparently left this property to his son, Joseph Howe, II (1697-1775), even though both Howe family tradition and Ella Bigelow credit him with building the house at 115 Union Street. Like his father, Joseph Howe II acquired considerable real estate holdings over his lifetime, including a large amount of property in New Marlborough. He was a Selectman in Marlborough for five terms in the 1740's and '50's, and Town Treasurer in 1748 and 1749. His son, Thaddeus Howe (1733-1799) inherited the farm from his father, possibly either building or enlarging the house, and toward the end of his life he may have owned it jointly with his son, Jonah Howe (1762-1834), as they are both listed as payers of real-estate tax in 1798. Thaddeus was one of the Revolutionary soldiers who marched to Cambridge on April 19, 1775 under Capt. Barnes. After the war he served one term as Selectman, in 1787. Since Thaddeus died in 1799, however, he could not have been the owner who, according to the 1978 inventory form, enlarged the house in 1804. It is most likely that the enlargement occurred around the time of one of Jonah's marriages--to Betty Cranston in 1792, or Catherine (Howe) Wheeler in 1806. Alternatively, if the 1820's date mentioned in a 1974 newspaper article has a factual basis, then more expansion may have occurred around the time of the marriage of Jonah's son, Capt. Thaddeus Howe, to Charlotte Brigham in 1825. According to Bigelow, Thaddeus and his family lived in part of the house, and owned the farm jointly with his father. The maps of 1830 and 1835 show merely that "J. Howe"--very likely Jonah Howe, even though he died shortly before the 1835 map was made--was the owner of the property in those years. By 1856 the owner of the farm is shown as "F. Howe." This is probably Jonah's youngest son, Freeman Howe (b. 1809). By 1875 the property had apparently been sold out of the family. The owner at that time was Patrick F. Shirr. He and his descendants owned the farm into the twentieth century. In 1927 the property was owned by Louise P. Freeman. ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. Maps and atlases: 1803, 1830, 1835, 1853, 1856/57, 1875, 1889, 1900. Marlboro vital records. Marlboro directories and tax valuations. Bigelow, James. "Photographs and Descriptions of Some Old Houses in Marlborough." 1927. Middlesex News, 10/13/74. [x] 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 Marlborough Joseph/Thaddeus Howe Homestead Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Area(s) Form No. 73 Additional infonnation by Anne Forbes, consultant to Marlborough Historical Commission, 7/6/95: ASSESSOR'S #43-87 3.3 acres PHOTO #95-19: 1 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. In spite of the loss of its outbuildings and most of its large property over the years, the front view of this house still gives an accurate impression of a typical Colonial/Federal farmhouse. Standing side to the street, it faces south over a curving drive and large, stone-wall-lined lawn, dotted with mature trees. Although part of the building (the 1976 inventory form says the east end) may predate the rest, its form today is that of a large 2 1I2-story 5-bay, side-gabled house with a pair of chimneys just behind the roof ridge. (The east chimney is much larger than the west, providing a clue to an older date for the east end of the house.) A one-story ell, with a modem door and windows, abuts the rear northwest comer. The main entry, which could represent an update of the 1820's with some later alterations, has a six-panel door with narrow sidelights, and a surround of paneled boards topped by a lintel, but no frieze. The windows are new 6-over-9-sash; old photographs indicate that they may replace windows of the same configuration. The house is clapboarded, with narrow comerboards and a solid roof cornice with a slight overhang at the gable ends. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cont. Recent deed research has shown that this property was apparently part of a 1684 purchase of land by Joseph Howe's father-in-law, cordwainer Thomas Martin, who claimed to have immigrated to America after having been burned out in the Great Fire of London in 1666. As the original deed says it was bought from Benjamin Bohow of the Wamesit (Praying Indians), it appears to have been associated with the sales of land within the Ockoocangansett Plantation made by individual Indians to colonists without the authorization of the General Court. Partially to stop these sales, the English residents of Marlborough obtained a deed to the entire Indian plantation, even though it was clear that the General Court would not recognize it as legal. In spite of the transaction's questionable status, in 1686 the proprietors of Marlborough laid out parcels and divided the Indian plantation anyway, and held a lottery to apportion 3D-acre parcels of upland in it to each of them. Further research may reveal that at least some of the land for this farm was part of that division, as well. When Joseph and Dorothy settled in Marlborough after their marriage of 1687 or 1688, they bought five acres of land here from her father, whose house is said to have stood about 200 feet to the north of the present 115 Union Street (see Form 18). Thus the traditional date of ca. 1688 for the earliest part of this house may possibly be accurate, or their home may have been located in another small building nearby. (Cont.)
INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community Property Marlborough Joseph!Ibaddeus Homestead Howe Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Area(s) Form No. 73
FORM B - BUILDING Assessor's number USGS Quad Areats) Form Number Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116 I 82-19 I Marlborough I I 193 Town Ma rlborollgh. lace (neighborhood or village) _ ddress 36 Bolton Street istoric Name Congregational Parsonage ses: Present Dwelling Original Dwelling ate of Construction ca 1855 church records Style/Form Greek RevivaL with Colonial ) Revival updating... Architect/Builder. u.. n.... k... n.. ow.u.&ju'-- _ 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. Auacli a separate sheet if space is not sufficient here. Indicate north. t.:- V) o-(~r-~ o 11 W ~t+1 ~ ld~st (lim~) CItt1l.cIt I/\iV\1 ~f1~ \~I-\" S-r: q I S / [] Foundation granite Wallffrim synthetic sjdj ng Roof asphalt shingle Outb uildings/second ary Structures _ ooe-car garage Major Alterations (with dates), _ SW wing demolisbed--20th C' some trim lost to sidjng; entry updated ca 1900 Condition fajr Moved [X] no [ ] yes Date N....... /A _ Acreage Jess than one acre Recorded by Anne Forbes. consultant vrganization for Marlboro His! Carom Date 6/30/94 Setting Corner of Bolton and Washington, opposite church, Co) Revival School to N Open front hard; stockade fence to S
BUILDING FORM ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION [ ] see continuation sheet Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. This handsome house, though reduced in size and updated at least once, still displays its Greek Revival origins in the steeply-pitched, overhanging roof with wide frieze, and in the recessed center entry, where former sidelights have been filled in. It is a 2 li2-story, three- by two-bay building with a pair of ridge chimneys. The windows are large 2-over-2-sash; (their trim has been covered or removed.) The main entry has a ca. 1900 glass- and horizontal-panel door with a single large light, and is sheltered by a facade-width porch on Tuscan columns with turned balustrade (probably of the same date as the door.) A second entry at the rear edge of the south gable end has a pedimented hood, also supported on Tuscan columns. The main roof cornice, now covered with synthetic siding, is molded and boxed.., j This building once had a southwest rear wing with attached sometime after 1890. carriage house; it was demolished v j 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. 1 j This house, one of the oldest on lower Bolton Street, is significant as the home of the ministers of the First Church (see Form 194) from the mid-1850's until the present time. Its first occupant was the Rev. Levi Field, who was ordained in the newly-built church in 1853, and remained as pastor until 1859. Through the early part of this century he was followed as Congregational minister, and resident of this house, by the Rev.s George N. Anthony (1860-1869), Charles R. Treat (1870-1873), John Willard (1873-1879), S.E. Eastman (1880-1881), Albert F. Newton, (installed 1882,) W.F. Steams, L.B. Goodrich, and A.H. Wheelock. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES l l see continuation sheet Bigelow, Ella. Historical Reminiscences of Marlborough. 1910. Church records Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Marlborough. 1862.. Hurd. History of Middlesex County, Mass. 1890. Maps and Atlases: Walling, 1857, 1871; Beers, 1875; Bailey & Hazen, 1878; Walker, 1889; Sanborns. Marlborough Directories. Warren, Hazel. First Church in Marlborough. 1966. [ X] Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, a completed National Register Criteria Statement form is attached.
Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Community Marlborough Property Address 36 Bolton Street Area(s) Form No(s). I _1_93 _ National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: [ ] Individually eligible [ ] Eligible only in a historic district [x] 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 F_o_rb_e_s_I_S_c_h_u_le_r _ The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. The Congregational Parsonage meets Criterion A of the National Register for its representation of housing for a religious society's minister, an important part of the social development of the community, and Criterion C for its representation of a well defined Greek Revival dwelling with Colonial Revival updating. As part of a district the property retains intergrity of location, design, setting, workmanship, feeling, and association.
FORM B - BUILDING Assessor's number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number Massachusetts Historical Commission I 57 :-216 I I Marlborough I 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Town Marlborough I 192 ce (neighborhood or village) F_a_st _ 73 Bolton Street toric Name Randall/Phelps House Present Original Dwelling Dwelling te of Construction ca 1850 ree Maps; style le/form Greek Revival chitect/builder 11D_k_n_o_w_D _ 'I erior Material:..,ketch 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 WaJlffrim Roof wood clapboard asphalt shingle Outbuildings/Secondary Structures _ none Major Alterations (with dates} _ extension on rear--20tb C <See page 2) Condition exceijedt Moved [X] no [ ] yes Date N/A Acreage less than one acre Recorded by Anne Forbes, consultant...irganization for Marlboro Hist Comm Date 6/30194 Setting East side of Bolton in neigh-- borbood of late-19th- and early-20th-centut)' wood.frame houses Parking area just north
BUILDING FORM ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION [ ] see continuation sheet Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. The best example of the Greek Revival on lower Bolton Street, #73 is a tall 2 1I2-story, two-bay gable-end house with a two-story south side wing. A one-story ell extends to the rear of the main house. Several distinguishing features of the house are quintessentially Greek Revival, such as the pedimented window lintels (both triangular and segmental), the molded, boxed cornice with wide frieze and architrave, and paneled pilasters at both the house comers and the main entry. The doors themselves, a large double-leafed main door and a two-light glass-and-panel door on the side wing, may represent a later-nineteenth-century renovation. The windows are two-over-two-sash, including those in a rectangular bay south of the main door. The bay window and two front porches, which are supported on slender Tuscan columns, are probably additions of the tum of the century. f.i! HISTORICAL NARRATIVE [] see continuation sheet Explain history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. building, and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. Include uses of the Although the origin of this house is somewhat uncertain, its form and style indicate that it is clearly,,' significant as one of the oldest houses in the vicinity. Maps indicate that its first owner was probably JJ. Randall, who is shown at about this location in 1853. By 1857 the property belonged to Benjamin Phelps. Born in 1793, he was the younger brother of Stephen R. Phelps (see Form #138, 65-69 West Main Street.) In 1871 A. Howe is shown as the owner; this is likely to have been Abel Howe, proprietor of the shoe factory between High and Francis Streets. Typical of Spring Hill in the latter part of the nineteenth century, the owner by 1875 was an Irish-American, C.P. Mulligan. Other members of the Mulligan family who lived here between the 1870's and 1890 included Peter J. Mulligan, and Thomas Mulligan, a carpenter..'. By 1897 the house belonged to Thomas Burns, a boot treer in one of the local shoe factories. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [] see continuation sheet Bigelow, Ella. Historical Rerniniscenc-es of Marlborough. 1910. Maps and Atlases: Walling, 1853, 1857, 1871; Beers, 1875; Bailey & Hazen, 1878; Pictorial Marlborough, 1879; Sanboms. Marlborough Directories. [ X] Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, a completec National Register Criteria Statement form is attached.
Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Community Marlborough Property Address 73 Bolton Street Area(s) Form No(s). I 192 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: [] Individually eligible [ ] Eligible only in a historic district [x] 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 F~o~rb_e~s~/_S_c~h~u~le~r The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. _ The Randall/Phelps House meets Criterion A of the National Register for its contribution to an understanding of the development of this area of Marlborough, and Criterion C as a good example of Greek Revival architecture. The property, as part of a district, retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association.