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FORM B -BUILDIN Assessor' number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number

A 3?

Town-Winthrop

Place (neighborhood or village) Cottage Hill

Address 67 Cottage Avenue

Historic Name Warnock-Scates House

Use: Present private, single family residence

Original private residence

Date of Construction C. 1884-1885

Snnr f P Winthrop Maps. Clark's History of Winthrop

Style/Form Stick Style /Queen Anne, T-shaped

undetermined Architect/Builder

Exterior Material

Foundation not visible

Wall clapboards/wood shingles

R o o f intersecting gables

4,o£s*< Outbuildings/Secondary Structures N/A

Major Alterations (with dates) Very intact w/ the ex­ception of a c. earlv 20th c. rubblestone porch railing which adds rather than detracts from the overall rustic appearance of this residence.

Condition good

Moved j j yes j x [ no

Acreage less than one acre

Recorded by Edward W. Gordon

Winthrop CDO+Historic.Comm Organization-

Date(month/day/year) September, 1993

Setting S i t u a t e d on steep north slope of Cottage Hill.

Almost completely occupies lot with narrow front,side and rear yards. Part of Cottage Hill's collection of well crafted and design residences. —

BUILDING F O R M

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION \T\ see continuation sheet

Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.

Architecturally, this is an extrodinary example of a c.mid 1880's summer residence. In terms of design quality craftsman ship, as well as state of preservation, this house is second to none in Winthrop. Even the c. early 20th c. addition of a rubblestone and mortar wall with jagged rock forms along the tops of the porch railings furthers the overall rustic appeal of this clapboard and weathered wood shingle clad house. This house appears as T-shaped in plan on the 1886 Floyd map of Winthrop. Its main facade features an open front porch which wraps around its south west corner. The original.solid and wood shingle clad porch railings were replaced by rubblestone and mortar railings at the front of the house. The square porch posts culminate in curvilinear brackets. Projecting from the center of the main facade's porch is a hood in the form of a pedimented gable which is supported by saw- cut brackets with pendants.Behind this pediment is a large gable with double windows containing typically Queen Anne sash configuration: a large center pane surrounded by small square panes. In general this houses's windows exhibit identical multi pane upper sash treatments over 2 standard size sash. Returning to the main facade's center gablejt should be noted that the a[pex of this gable is set off by horizontal stick work and is filled with scalloped shape shingles. In fact .there is a very strong Stick Style component at work here with verticle and horizontal stick work in evidence on the end wall gables. Situated on either side of the center gable are distinctive, octagonal dormers with pyramidal roof caps.The end wall gables exhibit lunettes with solid and (continued)

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE L J see continuation sheet

Discuss the 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.

During the 1870's, 67 Cottage Avenue's lot was part of the extensive Cottage Hill (or Green Hill as it was then called) real estate holdings of John W. Tewksbury. By 1883,this house's lot was part of a large tract on Cottage Hill owned by William B. Rice.Boston leather goods dealer and developer of Winthrop highlands as well as Cottage Hill. 67 Cottage Ave. was built c.1884-85 . Its first owner was an H.N. Baker who is not listed in 1880's Chelsea / Winthrop Directories .By 1896, Adam Warnock of 1619 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge utilized this house as a summer residence. By 1906,this house's lot was one of 4 contiguous lots owned by Warnock,bordering Crystal Cove, Hillside and Cottage avenues. From c. 1912-20, Hollis B. Scates, variously listed as buyer and clerk lived here.During the 1930's and early 1940's,Wilbur C. Bryant,locomotive engineer for the Boston and Albany Railroad lived here. By 1947,an Alfred R. Wallace (no occupation) is listed at this address.

BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [~~] see continuation sheet

Maps/Atlases-1873, 1886,1896,1906 ,1914 Chelsea / Winthrop Directories-1884,1886,1890,1895/96,1901 and 1906 Winthrop Directories-1911,1913,1916/17.1924 and 1936

Z l Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.

INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET

MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston

Community: V\J xn+^rop? M *

Form No: 3 ?

Property Name: 67 Cottage Avenue

Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below.

Architectural Description continued

raised sunburst detail.The rear wall exhibits a projecting.gable roofed segment with an open porch and horizontal bracing at the gable.Projecting from the north western portion of the rear roof slope is a narrow dormer with"lean-to roof .A narrow chimney frojects from the ridge of the west gable while a second chimney rises from the center of the north roof slope. This house might serve well as the nucleus of a Cottage Hill-Winthrop Head Historic District.