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FORM B - BUILDING In Area no. Form no.

104MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSIONOffice oi the Secretary, State House, Boston

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Approximate frontage 100'Approximate distance of building from street

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Organization Marlboro Planning Dept.

Date 5/]/79(over)

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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)

AboriginalAgriculturalArchitecturalThe ArtsCommerceCommunicationCommunity development

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ConservationEducationExploration/

settlementIndustryMilitaryPolitical

xRecreationReligionScience/

inventionSocial!

humanitarianTransportation

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9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) }

This red brick building was constructed in April of 192J.Located near Fort Meadow, it was originally known as theCity Home and functioned as a poor house, with facilitiesfor up to fifty people.

After poor houses were eradicated, the building was assigned tothe Department of Recreation/Open Space. Today, it servesas 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

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1. Town l'~arl borOwq;h

Address

Name Joseph Hm'le Homestead

Present use Residence

Mr. or Mrs. CTestPresent owner Drakes Island Haine

3. Description: 2t Story Hood Frame

Date 1688

Source Pub. Local Histories

Style Colonial

Architect None---------------Exterior wall fabric \.Jood Clapboard

Outbuildings (describe)_l_~_o_n_e _

Other features Original house looked

like the Joseph Horse house and

the John \Jeeks house

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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 HistoricalCommission

Date 6 16 78

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8. Themes (checkas many as applicable)Aboriginal Conservation RecreationAgricultural -- Education ReligionArchitectural X Exploration/ -- Science/The Arts -----x- settlement X :inventionCommerce -- Industry ,Social!'Communication Military ,-- humanitarian..Community development -X- Political ,Transportat~on

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The Howe family can be traced. back many years. Probably the firstsettlers in Marlborough were the members of the John Howe family, whocame from Sudbury and. settled. in Marlborough as early as 1657." It now becomes necessary to give notice to the family of AbrahamHowe, no relation to John, but ,vas an early settler of Marlborough,the 'name appearing among the proprietors of the town in 1660. Beprobably C8.L"TIeto 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, hemarried Dorathy Martin in Charlesto~vn December 29, 1687 and thenmoved to Marlborough probably the follo\ving year when he built thishouse. Joseph HO~'1eis also credited. vri.therecting the first Gristmill in Feltonville (Hud.son) before 1700, and. held large tracts ofland in Marlborough, Lancaster and Waterto~ffi. At the time of hisdeath on September 4, 1]00 in his 40th year his real estate was in-ventoried at 1,442 pounds and his wife settled the estate. His des-cendants numerous and participated in every political, military andsocial developments of our city.

The east section of the present building is the oldest, the westsection was add.ed upon the marriage of Thaddeus Howe about 1804.

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.

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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community

Marlborough

Property

Joseph/Thaddeus HoweHomestead

Massachusetts Historical Commission80 Boylston StreetBoston, 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 thoughboth Howe family tradition and Ella Bigelow credit him with building the house at 115 UnionStreet. 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 Marlboroughfor five terms in the 1740's and '50's, and Town Treasurer in 1748 and 1749. His son, ThaddeusHowe (1733-1799) inherited the farm from his father, possibly either building or enlarging thehouse, 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 theRevolutionary soldiers who marched to Cambridge on April 19, 1775 under Capt. Barnes. Afterthe 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 the1978 inventory form, enlarged the house in 1804. It is most likely that the enlargement occurredaround 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 afactual basis, then more expansion may have occurred around the time of the marriage of Jonah'sson, Capt. Thaddeus Howe, to Charlotte Brigham in 1825. According to Bigelow, Thaddeus andhis family lived in part of the house, and owned the farm jointly with his father. The maps of 1830and 1835 show merely that "J. Howe"--very likely Jonah Howe, even though he died shortly beforethe 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. Theowner at that time was Patrick F. Shirr. He and his descendants owned the farm into thetwentieth 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 completedNational Register Criteria Statement form is attached.

INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community Property

Marlborough Joseph/Thaddeus HoweHomestead


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 viewof this house still gives an accurate impression of a typical Colonial/Federal farmhouse. Standingside to the street, it faces south over a curving drive and large, stone-wall-lined lawn, dotted withmature trees. Although part of the building (the 1976 inventory form says the east end) maypredate the rest, its form today is that of a large 2 1I2-story 5-bay, side-gabled house with a pairof chimneys just behind the roof ridge. (The east chimney is much larger than the west, providinga clue to an older date for the east end of the house.) A one-story ell, with a modem door andwindows, abuts the rear northwest comer. The main entry, which could represent an update of the1820's with some later alterations, has a six-panel door with narrow sidelights, and a surround ofpaneled boards topped by a lintel, but no frieze. The windows are new 6-over-9-sash; oldphotographs indicate that they may replace windows of the same configuration. The house isclapboarded, with narrow comerboards and a solid roof cornice with a slight overhang at the gableends.

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cont.Recent deed research has shown that this property was apparently part of a 1684 purchase of landby Joseph Howe's father-in-law, cordwainer Thomas Martin, who claimed to have immigrated toAmerica after having been burned out in the Great Fire of London in 1666. As the original deedsays it was bought from Benjamin Bohow of the Wamesit (Praying Indians), it appears to have beenassociated with the sales of land within the Ockoocangansett Plantation made by individual Indiansto colonists without the authorization of the General Court. Partially to stop these sales, theEnglish residents of Marlborough obtained a deed to the entire Indian plantation, even though itwas clear that the General Court would not recognize it as legal. In spite of the transaction'squestionable status, in 1686 the proprietors of Marlborough laid out parcels and divided the Indianplantation 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, theybought five acres of land here from her father, whose house is said to have stood about 200 feetto the north of the present 115 Union Street (see Form 18). Thus the traditional date of ca. 1688for the earliest part of this house may possibly be accurate, or their home may have been locatedin another small building nearby. (Cont.)

INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET


Community Property

Joseph!Ibaddeus HoweHomestead

Marlborough

Area(s) Form No.73

FORM B - BUILDING Assessor's number


I 82-19

Sketch MapDraw a map of the area indicating properties withinit. Number each property for which individualinventory forms have been completed. Label streets,including route numbers, if any. Auacli a separatesheet if space is not sufficient here. Indicate north.

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Recorded by Anne Forbes. consultant

vrganization for Marlboro His! Carom

Date 6/30/94

USGS Quad Areats) Form Number

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

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Exterior Material:

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

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 sheetDescribe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildingswithin the community.

This handsome house, though reduced in size and updated at least once, still displays its GreekRevival origins in the steeply-pitched, overhanging roof with wide frieze, and in the recessed centerentry, where former sidelights have been filled in. It is a 2 lI2-story, three- by two-bay building witha pair of ridge chimneys. The windows are large 2-over-2-sash; (their trim has been covered orremoved.) 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 thesame date as the door.) A second entry at the rear edge of the south gable end has a pedimentedhood, also supported on Tuscan columns. The main roof cornice, now covered with synthetic siding,is molded and boxed.

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This building once had a southwest rear wing with attached carriage house; it was demolishedsometime after 1890.

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HISTORICAL NARRATIVE [] see continuation sheetExplain history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of thebuilding, and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community.

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This house, one of the oldest on lower Bolton Street, is significant as the home of the ministers ofthe First Church (see Form 194) from the mid-1850's until the present time. Its first occupant wasthe Rev. Levi Field, who was ordained in the newly-built church in 1853, and remained as pastoruntil 1859. Through the early part of this century he was followed as Congregational minister, andresident 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 sheetBigelow, Ella. Historical Reminiscences of Marlborough. 1910.Church recordsHudson, 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 completedNational Register Criteria Statement form is attached.


Community Property Address

Marlborough 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 representationof housing for a religious society's minister, an important part of the social development of thecommunity, and Criterion C for its representation of a well defined Greek Revival dwelling withColonial 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 IMarlborough I80 Boylston StreetBoston, Massachusetts 02116

..,ketch MapDraw a map of the area indicating properties withinit. Number each property for which individualinventory forms have been completed. Label streets,including route numbers, if any. Attach a separatesheet if space is not sufficient here. Indicate north.

Recorded by Anne Forbes, consultant

...Irganization for Marlboro Hist Comm

Date 6/30194

I 192

Town Marlborough

ce (neighborhood or village) __ F_a_st _

73 Bolton Street

toric Name Randall/Phelps House

Present Dwelling

Original Dwelling

te of Construction ca 1850

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le/Form Greek Revival

chitect/Builder 11D_k_n_o_w_D _'I

erior Material:

Foundation granite

WaJlffrim

Roof

wood clapboard

aSphalt shingle

Outbuildings/Secondary Structures _

none

Major Alterations (with dates} _

extension on rear--20tb C

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Condition exceIJeDt

Moved [X] no [ ] yes Date N/A

Acreage less than one acre

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 sheetDescribe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildingswithin the community.

The best example of the Greek Revival on lower Bolton Street, #73 is a tall 2 1I2-story, two-baygable-end house with a two-story south side wing. A one-story ell extends to the rear of the mainhouse. Several distinguishing features of the house are quintessentially Greek Revival, such as thepedimented window lintels (both triangular and segmental), the molded, boxed cornice with widefrieze and architrave, and paneled pilasters at both the house comers and the main entry. The doorsthemselves, 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, includingthose in a rectangular bay south of the main door. The bay window and two front porches, whichare supported on slender Tuscan columns, are probably additions of the tum of the century.

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HISTORICAL NARRATIVE [] see continuation sheetExplain history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of thebuilding, and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. .'.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 probablyJJ. Randall, who is shown at about this location in 1853. By 1857 the property belonged toBenjamin 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 AbelHowe, proprietor of the shoe factory between High and Francis Streets. Typical of Spring Hill inthe 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 PeterJ. 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 sheetBigelow, 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 completecNational Register Criteria Statement form is attached.


Community Property Address

Marlborough 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 anunderstanding of the development of this area of Marlborough, and Criterion C as a good exampleof Greek Revival architecture. The property, as part of a district, retains integrity of location,design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association.

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