FORM B - BUILDING

Massachusetts Historical Commission 220 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, Massachusetts 02125

Assessor's number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number

T h e B a r n Door

Recorded by Deirdre Brotherson

Organization Kingston Historical Commission

Date (month/year) May 1998

255

Town Kingston

Place (neighborhood or village)

Address 4fi Si immer Street

Historic Name Conk-Drew House

Uses: Present commercial

Original residential

Date of Construction 0.1800

Source maps, local history

Style/Form Federal style

Architect/Builder Eli Cook

Exterior Material:

Foundation granite

Wall/Trim hrick and wood claphoard

Roof aspahlt shingles

Outbuildings/Secondary Structures

Major Alterations (with dates)

Condition good

Moved _ no • yes

Acreage 1 acre

Date

Setting urban village near RR tracks

RECEIVED AUG 2 5 1998

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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community Property Address J / ^ K | / 2 ^ T Kingston 46 Summer Street

Massachusetts Historical Commission 220 Morrissey Blvd. Area(s) FormNo. Boston, Massachusetts 02125 255

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: The residence at 46 Summer Street was built c.1800 in the Federal style. This 5x2 bay, masonry and wood framed, 2 story building sits on a granite foundation. The building has brick ends with the facade and rear elevation are clad with wood clapboards. The hip roof is covered with asphalt shingles. Two brick chimneys are located at opposite ends. The center entrance contains a 6-panel wood door flanked by pilasters and full entablature. An elliptical fan light is directly above the door. The windows are symmetrical and contain 6/6 wood sash with flat surrounds with a molded drip cap. The cornerboards are thin and flat. The cornice is boxed. A 2x4 bay, 2 story ell is perpendicular to the rear of the building. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE: This building was built by Eli Cook, a stone and brick mason. Cook, an upstanding citizen, Benjamin Delano and Ellis Bradford were appointed in 1814 to draft local citizens for services needed when there was a cry by opponents against fighting the War of 1812. The opposing forces wanted to secede from the Union because of their distaste for the war. Again it was Cook, town treasurer since 1828, who, with another committee, petitioned those at a meeting of the First parish in 1841 to build a Town House on the Training Green. That House was built and enlarged 30 years later. Eli Cook Drew, nephew of Eli Cook's wife, Hannah Drew, inherited the house in 1861 from his aunt. In 1917, Lester Burton Drew, station master at the Kingston Depot, inherited the property from his parents, Eli Cook Drew and Helen K. Drew. Lester, better known as Burt Drew, left his property to his wife, Addie L. Sprague Drew. When Addie Drew's estate was settled in 1949, one of her four sons, George B. Drew of Plymouth, purchased the house. His daughter, Eleanor Drew Mani, inherited the house in the 1970's. She kept an antique shop here for several years finally selling the house to her cousin John Burton Drew. Drew is the son of John E. Drew, the youngest son of Lester Burton Drew.

This is one of only a few brick ended federal style houses in Kingston. It has changed use from a residence to commercial property but retains architectural integrity and a fine example of Federal architecture. The Federal style was the dominant style in the United States from about 1780 to 1820. The Federal style was a development and refinement of the preceding Georgian style. The style drew on English buildings, especially those designed by the Adams brothers. Robert Adams had traveled to Italy and the Mediterranean to study the original classical buildings. Robert Adams and others like him returned to England with sketch books full of detailed drawings of the Greek and Roman monuments. Adam then popularized a number of the classical design elements such as pediments, columns, and symmetrical spatial planning which became some of the hallmarks of this style. The exteriors of Federal houses have few elaborations other than the fanlight and accentuated front door. Among the elaborations that sometime occur are roof-line balustrades, Palladian-style windows. The goal was to create a light and delicate design in contract to the heaviness of Georgian architecture.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Melville, Doris Johnson. Major Bradford's Town: A History of Kingston: 1726-1976. Kingston, MA., 1976. [KPL] MAPS: 1726 Kingston. John Gray [MHC] 1795 A Plan of the Town of Kingston. John Gray. [MHC] 1820-30 Five School Districts [KPL] 1876 Town of Kingston. Boyden (w/directory). [KPL] 1876 Town of Kingston, Enlargement of Village. Boyden. [KPL] 1879 Atlas of Plymouth County. George E. Walker. [MHC] 1896 Bird's Eye View of Kingston [KPL & MSL] 1903 Atlas of Plymouth County. George E. Walker. [KPL] Sanborn Insurance Company Maps: Plymouth: 1896 June 1901 April (1896,1901,1906 include Kingston Village 1906 Feb. and Factories in Kingston)

Kingston: 1912 (6 sheets) 1925 (7 sheets) 1943 (7 sheets) 1954 (8 sheets)

Massachusetts Historical Commission 220 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, Massachusetts 02125

Community

Kingston

Property Address

46 Summer Street

Area(s) FormNo. D I255

National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form

Check ail that apply:

• Individually eligible • Eligible only in a historic district M Contributing to a potential historic district • Potential historic district

Criteria: • B QC • D

Criteria Considerations: • A • B CC • D • E • F r j G

Statement of Significance by Deirdre Brotherson The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here.

This property is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing building to a Historic District (Area D). This district is eligible under Criterion A for the association with the development of the Old Colony Railroad and associated commercial ventures. This property is also eligible under Criterion C for its architecture which help illustrates the evolution of this district.