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NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) OMB No. 1024-0018 RECEIVED 2280 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service 611 JUL 0 2 2009 National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NAT. REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in How to-Gomplete the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form (National Register Bulletin 16A). Complete each item by marking "X" in the appropriate box or by entering the information requested. If any item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions.

Place additional entries and narrative items on continuation sheets (NPS Form 10-900a). Use a typewriter, word processor, or computer, to complete all items. 1. Name of Property historic name. Samuel Brown School other names/site number. 2. Location street & number. 200 Lynn Street _ not for publication city or town. Peabody - vicinity state_ Massachusetts code_MA county Essex _ code_009 _ zip code 01960 3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1986, as amended, I hereby certify that this Ønomination - request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property Y meets - does not meet the National Reaister Criteria.

I recommend that this property be considered sianificant - nationally - statewide M/Tocally. (O See continuation sheet for additional comments.) Brona Sumon Signature of certifying official/Title Massachusetts Historical Commission Brona Simon, SHPO, Executive Director 6/25/09 Date State or Federal agency and bureau In my opinion, the property [ meets - does not meet the National Register criteria. (- See continuation sheet for additional Comments.) Signature of certifying official/Title Date State or Federal agency and bureau 4. National Park Service Certification 1, hereby certify that this property is entered in the National Register - See continuation sheet. - determined eligible for the National Register - See continuation sheet.

- determined not eligible for the National Register D removed from the National Register - other (explain): tbon s Ball 8.12.09 Samuel Brown School Name of Property 5. Classification Ownership of Property (Check as many boxes as apply) x private -public-local - public-State - public-Federal Essex, MA County and State (Check only one box) x building(s) - district - site _ structure - object Number of Resources within Property (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) Contributing Noncontributing 1 1 building _ sites _ structures objects Total Name of related multiple property listing (Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing.) N/A 1 1 2 Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register 6.

Function or Use Historic Functions (Enter categories from instructions) EDUCATION/school Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions) DOMESTIC/multiple dwelling Z. Description Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions) Classical Revival Materials (Enter categories from instructions) foundation granite/concrete walls brick/stone/concrete roof other asphalt copper Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 7 Page1 OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 Samuel Brown School Peabody (Essex), MA DESCRIPTION Summary The Samuel Brown School in Peabody, Essex County, MA, is composed of an original 1911 central section and an adjoining wing on each side dating from 1930 and 1952 (Photograph 1). The Classical Revival building was originally designed by Edward Earp and Son, while both side additions were designed by John M. Gray. All three sections are two stories with a raised basement, and all are of load-bearing brick construction. The original section has a tall hip roof, currently covered with asphalt shingles (which were originally slate), while the two flanking additions have flat roofs, covered with tar and gravel (Photograph 2). Wide copper gutters are located on the front (west) and rear (east) elevations of the original building. A narrow brick chimney in the center of the hip roof was added around 1952.

The building rests on granite and concrete foundations. A recent rehabilitation for its conversion to active senior housing, completed in 2008, has retained the major character-defining features of this building. The school is located on an approximately one-acre lot with a 150-foot setback from Lynn Street, a busy two-lane road that serves as the major north-south thoroughfare in the southern section of Peabody. The front yard is grass-covered, with a small number of recently planted deciduous and evergreen trees; a small paved parking area is adjacent to the front entrances of the 1911 and 1930 sections. A small sign with a wood plaque supported by brick piers, centrally located near the street, contains the name "BROWN SCHOOL RESIDENCES" (Photograph 1).

The former rear yard, a blacktopped playground, now contains a new, unconnected, four-story apartment building that is part of the recent Brown School Residences development. The building was constructed in 2008. The primary entrance of the new hip-roofed building is located at the west end closest to the original school building. The building features wide eaves, two-story projecting bays with banks of three grouped windows, and paired windows in the rest of the building. A surface parking lot is located behind (and north) of the new building. Low-scale plantings and shrubs surround the school on the north, east, and west sides. The original rectangular section in the center is oriented with its long axis parallel to Lynn Street. This section has a central entrance on the front (west) and rear (east) elevations within a small brick pavilion.

The pavilion features a wide, round-arched opening that is framed by a smooth stone lintel, with keystone and rectangular stone panels in the corner piers (Photograph 4). A decorated stone panel above the round-arched opening on the front elevation contains the name of the school. A copper cornice with dentils and elongated brackets crowns the pavilion. The entrances contain new metal-frame doors infilled with a grid of multiple panes (Photographs, 3, 4). Fenestration on the original section is composed of sets of four windows on the first and second stories. Brick mullions separate the windows on both stories. The first-story windows feature radiating brick arches with stone keystones and elongated triangles, while the second- (continued) NPS Form 10-900 (Rev.

10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 7 Page 2 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Samuel Brown School Peabody (Essex), MA story windows are joined at the top by a single long lintel. The basement windows are smaller, but retain the same spacing pattern. Fenestration on the building is mainly composed of banks of windows and asset of three narrow round-arched windows with a single connecting stone lugsill and stone lintels located above the entrance pavilions. Before the additions were constructed, the exposed side elevations had contained a series of windows with projecting bays at the end of the central corridor.

A 1951 drawing of the south addition shows its window sash was 12/12, and that the round-arched window openings had sash with a radiating pattern at the top, similar to a Palladian window. The same sash configuration was also seen in plans from 1930 for the original addition to the 1911 building. The new dark green aluminum window sash replicates the 12/12 pane configuration. Brick piers accent the corners and center area of the original section on both the front and rear. The piers are ornamented at the top with raised-stone geometric patterns typical of the Craftsman style. A stone stringcourse is located between the raised basement and first-story level on both the front an rear. On the rear elevation next to the brick entrance pavilion, a later brick chimney rises from the furnace room in the basement to a few feet above the roof eave.

On the north side, a 1930 L-shaped addition is oriented with its long side perpendicular to the long axis of the original building. A cast stone-framed entrance with a single door, which served as the general public's entrance to the school auditorium, is located in the recess between this addition and the original section on the front elevation. A single large round-arched window is located above the door (Photograph 7). The addition's north elevation is separated from the backyards of Longview Way homes to the north by a narrow concrete sidewalk bounded by a low chain-link fence. A new board fence separates the front (west) side of the property from Longview Way. Concrete stringcourses are located above the raised basement level and at the top of the second-story level.

The front (west) elevation is further ornamented with a raised brick rectangular border with concrete squares at the corners, framing a concrete panel with a centered swag. The north and east elevations contain both single and sets of three joined windows on the first and second stories. The 1952 addition, designed by the same architect as the 1930 addition, is remarkably similar, although it has a longer rectangular footprint (Photograph 5). Its long axis is also perpendicular to the original section. Blind walls identical in materials and ornamentation to the 1930 section are seen on both the front (west) and rear (east) (Photograph 6). The same fenestration pattern of single, and sets of three, joined windows is seen on the first and second stories of the south elevation.

A central entrance on the south elevation has a simple concrete frame with double steel doors and a large transom above. A single round-arched window is located above the door, similar to the one seen in the recessed entrance of the 1930 addition (Photograph 15). (continued) NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 7 Page 3 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Samuel Brown School Peabody (Essex), MA Throughout the building, few changes were made in the original plan as a result of the recent rehabilitation. The interior of the building features a wide central corridor in the original section with two large classrooms on each side of the first and second floors (Photograph 16).

The new apartments are contained within the confines of these original classroom spaces(Photographs 8,11, and 14). The axis of the central corridor extends into both additions, terminating in the southern stairway of the 1952 addition, and originally, the auditorium in the 1930 north addition. A series of wood-paneled doors originally punctuated the corridor; they opened into classrooms, janitor's closets, or small coat closets. The locations of most of these door openings were preserved, but new two-panel, fire-rated doors serve the apartment entries. The stairways in the original section are centrally located in the front and rear. Both of these stairways display varnished wood newel posts with Craftsman detailing and wood balusters, railings, and steps (Photographs 9 and 10).

A set of double wood doors dating to 1930, with multipaned transom and sidelights separates both stairways from the central corridor. These stairway doors were retained in the rehabilitation (Photograph 12). The 1930 addition on the north originally contained an auditorium and a single office on the first floor, accessed by a separate entrance and stairway leading from the front elevation intended for the public. The stairway is metal and wood, with slender simple balusters and newel posts. The auditorium was divided into a single classroom and principal's office after 1952. Two classrooms were located in the second floor of this addition. The 1952 addition on the north added two classrooms and a teachers' restroom on both the first and second floors. The central stairway at the southern end of the central corridor separates the classrooms.

The stairway walls are constructed of beige-yellow glazed block. The stairway has simple metal and wood elements (Photograph 13). The basement level of all three sections has seen the most changes prior to the recent rehabilitation. It is unknown what the original uses of the 1911 original section were, with the exception of the boiler and coal rooms, but the 1930 plans for the addition call for separate boys and girls toilets and playrooms, which required a reconfiguration of existing rooms in the west side of the original section. The 1952 addition added two rooms in the basement, but their original use was not specified. The basement floor plan has been reconfigured for several apartments, a community room, public restrooms, and a management office.

Finishes throughout the building originally included wood-paneled classroom and closet doors, built-in cabinets within the classrooms and on the rear central stairway landing between the first and second floors, and wood coat closets. Some built-in cabinets have been retained: the trophy cabinet in the stairway landing has been retained in place (Photograph 10), and two other cabinets were retained on both the first and second floors. Other wood trim seen throughout e building replicates the original chair rails and door and window casings. Blackboards in the (continued) NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 7 Page 4 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Samuel Brown School Peabody (Essex), MA classrooms have been removed.

Ceilings are approximately fifteen feet high and are covered with drywall. Most of the plaster walls throughout the building were removed during the rehabilitation due to the presence of asbestos. The original floor plan was preserved, however, and new drywall partitions were installed in the place of the original walls. Some single-family houses that appear to date from ca. 1900-1930 are located along nearby Lynn Street. The majority of houses in close proximity to the school building date from the 1940s- 1960s as the area in closest proximity to the school property was not subdivided until the 1940s.Some of the streets in the area contain early 20t*-century residential developments. A 1950 housing development built for returning World War II veterans is located to the east behind the school along Veterans' Memorial drive.

Archaeological Description While no ancient Native American sites are known on the school property, it is possible that sites are present. Five ancient sites are recorded within one mile of Brown School. Two of these sites, 19-ES-484and 19-ES-593, are located onthefirst terracewest of Tapley Brook/Spring Pond. The sites, respectively, are downslope and approximately 250 feet (76 meters) northeast and 425 feet (129 meters) southeast of the school. Site 19-ES-484 was reported in 1982 by Beth Grimes of the Peabody Museum of Salem based on avocational collections in the Museum (Grimes 1982a). William Eldridge originally identified the site in 1934. Nicolas Vaccaro also surface collected the site and that collection too is also in the Peabody Museum.

The Eldridge collection contains "two small-stemmed points, one triangular pt, and a large stemmed point fragment...he also mentions an adze." The other site, 19-ES-593, also was reported by Grimes (1983) and is a spot find collected by Eldridge in 1935. Grimes (1983) described the find as "a felsite small stemmed point..." The other three previously reported sites are between about one-third and one-half mile from the school parcel. These sites include 19-ES-516, 1,925 feet (587 meters) northeast; 19-ES-515, 2,000 feet (610 meters) east; and 19-ES-268, 2,200 feet (670 meters) northwest. Sites 19-ES-515 (the Sousa Site) and 19-ES-516 (the Strongwater Heights Site) lie in close proximity to one another in the uplands east of Tapley Brook and Strongwater Creek.

Site 19-ES-515 was originally identified by an avocational collector, Ken Sousa, and the site information recorded by Grimes (1982b). The Sousa Site is defined on the basis of two artifacts, a small stemmed point and a biface preform. Sousa also found the triangular point that is a spot find 19-ES-516 (Grimes 1982c). The final site, 19-ES-268 (the Dodge Site), is located on a terrace immediately north of Goldthwait Brook. The site is a chipped stone scatter originally identified in 1977 during Phase I survey of the proposed Centennial Industrial Park in Peabody (Luedtke 1977). The site was subsequently subjected to Phase II investigations and recommended not eligible to the NRHP (Randall 1981). (continued) NPS Form 10-900 (Rev.

10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 7 Page 5 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Samuel Brown School Peabody (Essex), MA In all five cases, the sites and spot finds are located on terrace landforms elevated above adjacent creeks, swamps, or wetlands. While sites 19-ES-515 and 19-ES-516 are in the uplands, they occupy the same relative position above the nearest water source, Strongwater Creek. The Brown School parcel is on the second terrace west of Tapley Brook/Spring Pond. In this setting, the likelihood of an ancient Native American occupation may be slightly diminished; however, the school literally lies midpoint between Tapley Brook to the east, and the Browns Pond swamp to the west.

As such, the parcel would have been proximate to both swamp and riverine resources in addition to those of the broad intervening terraces. No historic archaeological sites are reported within one mile of the school site. The original school was erected in 1911 and its students likely were supported by indoor plumbing. This would have reduced the number of extramural features such as privies, wells, or cisterns that might be expected if the parcel were otherwise undeveloped. Land adjacent to the 1911 school building was disturbed by subsequent construction episodes in 1930, 1952, and 2008. The school parcel is now developed, except for the landscaped lawn and entrance path between the school and Lynn Street. Available historic maps of the area now occupied by the school include: D.H. Beers (1872) Atlas of Essex County, Peabody sheet; Geo. H. Walker & Co.

(1884), Atlas of Essex County, Peabody sheet; USGS (1893) Salem 15- minute quadrangle; USGS (1944) Salem 7.5-minute quadrangle; and the 1929 (updated to 1949) Sanborn Map of Peabody, sheet 40. Only the Sanborn map (earlier versions of Sanborn maps did not show this area) and the 1944 USGS show buildings on the school site. The earlier maps illustrate buildings to either side of the school location. On the 1944 USGS, buildings flank the school lot to the north and south, immediately adjacent to Lynn Street (USGS 1944). Longview Way, running east-west immediately north of the school parcel, is shown on the 1944 as lined with houses. If construction had not occurred on the subject parcel, a high to medium potential would exist for locating evidence of ancient Native American sites on the grounds of the Brown School.

However, the parcel has been significantly affected by the construction of the original school building, the new apartment annex on the school's east side, and the parking lots on the west, east, and north sides of the original building and the apartment annex. Given the above information, a low potential exists for the recovery of both ancient Native American and historic resources on the school property. Any ancient sites that might have been present were destroyed by historic land use and no evidence exists that significant historic archaeological resources were (end) Samuel Brown School Name of Property 8. Statement of Significance

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Applicable National Register Criteria (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register listing.) x A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. _B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. x C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. -D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. Criteria Considerations (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) Property is: _A owned by religious institution or used for religious purposes. _ B removed from its original location.

_C a birthplace or grave. _ D a cemetery. _E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. _F a commemorative property. -G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) _Essex, MA_ County and State Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) LARCHITECTURE EDUCATION Period of Significance 1911-1959 Significant Dates 1911- central section constructed 1930 - north wing addition 1952 - south wing addition Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) N/A Cultural Affiliation N/A Architect/Builder Edward Earp and Son, architects (1911) John M. Gray, architect (1930/1952) 2.

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Major Bibliographical References (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Previous documentation on file (NPS): HPCA #15793 Primary location of additional data: - preliminary determination of individual listing (36 x State Historic Preservation Office CFR 67) has been requested - Other State agency - previously listed in the National Register - Federal agency - previously determined eligible by the National - Local government Register - University _ designated a National Historic Landmark -Other _ recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Name of repository: # _ recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page1 OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 Samuel Brown School Peabody (Essex), MA SIGNIFICANCE: The Samuel Brown School in Peabody, MA, is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places under both Criterion A and C. The building, originally constructed in 1911 with additions centuries in Peabody. The Samuel Brown School is also recommended eligible under Criterion C as the best example of relatively unaltered school building construction from the first half of the 20'' century, a period of unequalled growth and change in Peabody. The building's architectural design, seen in features such as wide corridors, built-in storage, a former auditorium for both school and community use, and separate public entrance, represent tenets of progressive educational building design popular in the first half of the 20# century.

The building is also recommended eligible under Criterion C as a noteworthy example of educational architecture by architect John M. Gray of Boston, who unofficially served as Peabody's school district architect in the mid 20" century. Gray designed both the 1930 and 1952 additions to the building, which are remarkably similar to each other, despite their thirty-year age difference. Despite two side additions, the building as a whole is remarkably cohesive due to Gray's respectful skill in blending the new and existing spaces and adapting similar architectural elements to his additions. Gray and his firm also were responsible for the design of several of the city's existing public school buildings, or additions to existing buildings, from the 1950s-1960s. The Samuel Brown School opened on January 1, 1912.

When the district built the Brown School in 1911, its intent was to relieve pressure on the south School, the only elementary school at that time in South Peabody. The town built the South School in 1870, along with three other schools, in response to the state legislature's elimination of the town's old school districts in 1869. Targeted primarily towards larger, more quickly expanding urban centers such as Lowell, the legislation was part of a state-sponsored movement to modernize and standardize schools. The intent was to eventually create a comprehensive system that could accommodate the quickly growing population centers of an increasingly industrialized state.

While Peabody was not yet a full-fledged city, it had a manufacturing tradition, mostly in leather production, dating to the early 19* century that had grown steadily through the first half of the century, and whose expansion had just recently accelerated due to the increased demand for leather goods during the Civil War. The accompanying development of housing to accommodate the increase in population was confined mostly to the areas north, west, and just south of Peabody Square, all of which were in much closer proximity to the tanneries, currier mills, morocco shops, wool manufacturers, and print works that comprised the expanding manufacturing center. (continued) NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page 2 OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 Samuel Brown School Peabody (Essex), MA Consequently, three of the four schools built in 1870 - the Wallis, Center, and West Schools- were all built in this area. The South School was built two miles south of Peabody Square, literally at the center of the neighborhood known as Needham's Corner, a triangle created by that area's three main roads - Lynn Street, Lynnfield Street, and County Street. This area had been lightly populated as far back as the 1820s and 1830s, and the 1870 South School actually replaced a small two-room schoolhouse known as the Rockville School. The 1872 Beers atlas illustrates the density of development in Needham's Corner, while to the south along Lynn Street there were only a small number of closely spaced houses; additionally, there were no side streets off of Lynn Street at this time.

By 1884, development had slightly increased south of Needham's Corner, but only by the addition of a few homes along Lynn Street, a pattern which had not significantly changed by 1893. In the late 19* century, the people who lived in the area were mainly engaged in farming and the ice cutting industry, the latter based at Browns Pond at the southernmost edge of the town just west of Lynn Street. Manufacturing in Peabody continued to grow during the 1870s and 1880s, the heavy leather industry hiccupping only briefly in 1886 during a Knights of Labor-sponsored strike, in which management prevailed by importing unskilled laborers from French Canada and Maine. This influx was significant only within one sector of Peabody's manufacturing, but foreshadowed the growth Peabody would sustain between 1890 and 1910.

Between 1890 and 1900 the population increased by approximately 12% and 688 homes were built throughout the town. At the turn of the century, tanning manufacturers began consolidating, creating fewer, but larger, entities, and through this expansions created an abnormal demand for unskilled labor. Subsequently, by 1910 the population of Peabody was 15,721 - and increase of 27% in ten years - with 5,347 of those foreign born and comprised of 21 nationalities. It was this accelerated growth that had overwhelmed the South School and that the Brown School was built to accommodate. By the first decade of the 20" century, the 1870 South School was overcrowded to the point that a basement classroom had been set up in the Congregation church just east of the school at the corner of Maple and Brown streets in Needham's Corner.

In 1910, town officials purchased a plot of land just over one acre in size on which to build the school, about 1¼ miles south of County Street in an area still sparsely inhabited. Although there were some developed streets in the vicinity of the school, large parcels of undeveloped land lay around it on the east side of the street. The parcel was purchased for $1,950, while the contract price for the building's construction totaled $29,135.80. The building was named for Captain Samuel Brown III (1836-1862), a Peabody native who died in the Civil War battle at Antietam. After his graduation from Bowdoin College in 1858, Capt. Brown was employed as a schoolteacher in Connecticut and had taken a position in Beverly, MA, just before the war started.

Brown's father, also named Samuel Brown, was a well-known stonecutter who lived in the area on Lynn Street at County Street, a short (continued) NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page 3 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Samuel Brown School Peabody (Essex), MA distance north of the Brown School building. The building served as the elementary school, including a kindergarten, for this section of South Peabody throughout most of the 20" century. The new building, designed by Lynn architects Edwin Earp and Son, featured wide corridors and built-in cabinets and wardrobes in the spacious classrooms, elements typically seen in progressive school building in the early 20* century.

Its central stairwalls, however, did not reflect the more commonly seen practice of locating the stairways at the ends of the building for improved egress and fire safety. Edwin A. Earp, born in 1852 in Pennsylvania, was best known for his 1870s and 1880s factory buildings on Central Avenue in Lynn. But he was also responsible for several commercial building designs in the early 1890s in Lynn's so-called Burned District, which was rebuilt after a devastating fire in 1889. The buildings include the Mower's Block building (1-11 Willow Street, 67-83 Blake Street, MHC #413), which is also individually listed on the National Register. The elder Earp also designed the 1892 Archer Block at 581-593 Washington Street (MHC #422), the 1891 Plumsted Block at 614-624 Washington Street (MHC #424), and the 1890 Frederick W.A. Bergengren Block on Union Street (MHC #418), all in Lynn.

Earp employed the panel brick style, sometimes combined with Romanesque Revival elements, for the majority of his buildings in this period. In the early 20" century, Earp's son, Edwin Jr., joined the firm. The elder Earp had also been named after his father, who was an insurance agent. Together they designed multiple-family dwellings and a hotel in Lynn, in addition to the Samuel Brown School in Peabody. Multiple- family dwellings known to be their work are the 1912 Louis Ashman-Ben Gomberg Apartment House at 127 Washington Street (MHC #549) and the 1912 Maurice Sellers Apartment House at 202 Washington Street (MHC #557), both three-deckers were designed in the Colonial Revival style. The 1909 Classical Revival Oxford House at 187-189 Oxford Street in Lynn (MHC #464) was also designed by the firm.

When the Brown School was first opened, only six classrooms were used as such, while two other rooms served as an assembly hall and office. This arrangement was feasible because the school was only serving 100 students. At the time the school building was erected, the surrounding area was still occupied by families who had settled in the area in the 19" century and continued their work in farming and harvesting and sale of ice from Brown's Pond to the south. Officials were clearly anticipating continued growth, but likely did not expect the need for an addition to this school only 19 years after the building was completed. By the late 1920s, the surrounding area was slowly becoming more developed through the addition of several nearby side streets lined with small houses.

The neighborhood's population had also markedly changed, including newly arrived and first generation immigrants from Russia, Turkey, Canada, Greece, and the Irish Free State (renamed Ireland in 1937). People were employed as laborers, sign painters, machinists, and salesmen, among other modest occupations. (continued) NPSForm 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page _ 4 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Samuel Brown School Peabody (Essex), MA The city hired the architect John M. Gray of Boston (1887-1978), whose previous work for the district included a 1920 addition to the 1914 Thomas Carroll School. Gray became the Peabody school district's de facto architect during this time, and served in this role for many decades afterwards.

After graduating from the Carnegie Institute in 1908, MIT in 1910, and studying for a year at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Gray first won acclaim in the Boston area for his 1911 design of the Salem Court House and Police Station (NRMRA). Gray continued to take on large municipal projects, designing for the City of Boston the 1925 East Boston High School (NRIND, 2006), the Thomas Kenney School (1926), and the William Ellery Channing School (1926), among other Boston school buildings. At this time he also branched out into ecclesiastical design that included not only churches, but also schools, rectories, and parish buildings. The firm also designed a number of buildings for the New England Telephone Company.

Gray's treatment of the addition to the earlier Brown School building was respectful and sympathetic, not only to proportion, materials, and details, but also in its layout, which blended the new addition into interior layout and exterior appearance. This addition included a designated auditorium on the first floor with a separate public entrance, as well as administrative space, and two classrooms on the second floor. The separate public entrance near the first-floor auditorium was a common feature in early 20" century school buildings, as it both provided a designated entrance for the community and limited access to other parts of the building in off-school hours. Although not specifically documents, the school building and its auditorium likely provide such community functions as the area's voting place and major public meeting venue.

The surge of immigrants into the town and the student population in the early 20" century had transformed Peabody from a small, largely homogeneous, New England town to an urban manufacturing center, with the town barely able to keep up its social infrastructure. In response to the assumed fear that industrial change and the accompanying city threatened social values, Massachusetts educators emphasized the school as a place to create cohesion amongst an increasingly varied populace. "In a ... search for symbols of unity, the [Massachusetts' school officials] made national holidays and the flag fundamental to the educational process.

In Massachusetts these themes were most strikingly manifested in the development of the public evening schools, auditorium in the schools as a community center movement, and in the teaching of history and civics." The late 1940s and 1950s kicked off another population boom and subsequent surge in school building in which Gray and his firm were prominently involved. In South Peabody, a number of new streets filled with small single family Cape Cod houses were developed by 1945 near the school. After the end of World War II, the town of Peabody purchased a large piece of land approximately a quarter mile behind the Brown School and planned 68 units of veterans' housing (continued) ' Marvin Lazerson, Origins of the Urban School, p. 204. NPS Form 10-900 (Rev.

10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page 5 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Samuel Brown School Peabody (Essex), MA in 34 duplexes to alleviate the immediate postwar housing crunch. The town completed the construction of these units in 1950. The Brown School was now at the center of a greatly expanded South Peabody, and as a facility was again unable to accommodate its students, which no numbered close to 400 By 1949, the school's PTA was agitating for an expansion of the building due to overcrowding again, evidenced by the division of the 1930 auditorium into two classrooms by this time.

In 1950, the state School Building Assistance Commission recommended that the building not be expanded; the commission favored a new location in the neighborhood for a new school building as it deemed the existing structure to be "old and unsuited for an addition." Peabody's new mayor, Leo McGrath, who preferred an addition to the existing building, finally prevailed, and a new addition was erected ca. 1952. In 1951, Gray designed the second, almost identical, addition to the south side of the Brown School that contained four classrooms and an additional stairway. Again, his concern for matching materials and details and expertly joining the new addition to the existing building can be seen. That year he also designed the replacement for the South Memorial School that included fourteen classrooms, a gym, and an auditorium.

In 1952, he designed the replacement for the West School, which was renamed the Kiley Brothers Memorial School. This building is now the Peabody School District's administrative center. Gray's last contribution was the design for a new elementary school in 1961, named the West Memorial School. The Samuel Brown School was the oldest exiting building in the district's system until it was closed in 2004 and replaced by the new Samuel Brown School, just ¼ mile away to the north on Lynn Street. Research indicates that only one 19"*-century public school building, the 1870 Wallis School, and four early 20 century public school buildings still remain in Peabody to represent the city's 19th and early 20" century history of public educational efforts.

The early 20" century school buildings known to still exist are the Keefe School at 210 Washington Street (converted to condominiums in the 1980s); Third Peabody High School (ca. 1903) at 75 Central Street; Farnsworth School, also on Central Street; and the Brown School. The Brown School's contemporary, the 1914 Carroll School, was demolished in 2001 to make way for a new school on its site. The building's rehabilitation, which employed both Massachusetts and Federal historic tax credits, retains one of Peabody's few remaining examples of early 20" century educational efforts. The rehabilitation of the school building for conversion to active senior housing kept (continued) 2 Smoller, S.M. The Peabody School History Project, accessed at http://the- smollers.com/Sudi/PSHP/brwntext.htm NPS Form 10-900 (Rev.

10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number _8 Page 6 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Samuel Brown School Peabody (Essex), MA many of the building's original features, including the staircases with their wood railings and newel posts; some of the built-in cabinets, including the trophy cabinet in the main staircase's second-story landing; and wood doors between the corridors and stairways. Most of the characteristic floor plan, defined by its central corridor with central and side stairways and classrooms on both sides was retained. The classroom spaces, in most cases, serve as individual apartments.

Exterior elements that were preserved include the cast stone trim, copper cornices, and brick sheathing; the 1950s doors and 1970s window sash were removed and replaced with new doors and sash that feature multiple panes. (end) NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 9 Page1 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Samuel Brown School Peabody (Essex), MA BIBLIOGRAPHY Bailey, O.H., J.C. Hazen, and C.H. Voyt. Bird's Eye View, Peabody 1877. Accessed at www.historicmapworks.com, 10 March 2009. Beers, D.G. 1872 Atlas of Essex County. Accessed at www.historicmapworks.com, 10 March 2009. Colombo, J. B. Dyer, and K. Rivers. "Samuel Brown School." Peabody School History Project, 1998. Friedberg, Betsy and Brian Pfeiffer.

National Register Nomination for the Central Square HD, Lynn, MA, 10 December 1985. Garman, James C., Paul A. Russo, and Lauren J. Cook. Technical Report Archaeological Site Examination of the Osborn-Read-Paige Pottery at the Ahepa/Penelope 120 Assisted Living Project, Peabody, Massachusetts. Pawtucket, RI: The Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc., 1998. Gray Architects. History of the Firm, http://www.grayarchitects.net. Accessed 7 February 200S. Gray, John M. and J.P. Heffernan, architects. Addition to Samuel Brown School Building for City of Peabody, Mass., 1930. Accessed at the Massachusetts State Archives, 10 March 2009. Grimes, Beth J. MHC Form D Archaeological Survey Prehistoric Archaeological Site 19-ES-484. Unpublished, 1982a. Umpublished, 1926D Archacologial Survey Prehistoric Archacological Site 10-E-S1S. .

MHC Form D Archaeological Survey Prehistoric Archaeological Site 19-ES-516. Unpublished, 1982c. . MHC Form D Archaeological Survey Prehistoric Archaeological Site 19-ES-593. Unpublished, 1983. Lazerson, Marvin. Origins of the Urban School: Public Education in Massachusetts, 1870-1915. Harvard University Press, 1971. Luedtke, Barbara. "Archaeological Investigation for the Centennial Industrial Park, Peabody, Massachusetts, R-77-10." Unpublished, 1977. (continued) NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 9 Page 2 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Samuel Brown School Peabody (Essex), MA Massachusetts Historical Commission - MACRIS Data Base - Maker Index, p. 178. McKernan, Rebecca Hatch.

"Report on Four Revolutionary War Veterans Buried in Old South Burying Ground, Peabody, Massachusetts." Unpublished, 2002. Office of Public Archaeology, Boston University. "Intensive Arachaeological Survey of Eight Proposed Pipelines of Tennessee Gas Pipeline's NOREX Project in Massachusetts Addendum Proposed Realignment of a Portion of Section 11 (Peabody-Danvers) in Peabody, Massachusetts." (FERC Docket #CP87-358-000 and CP87-358-001). Office of Public Archaeology, Boston University, 1990. Pfeiffer, Brian and Candace Jenkins. National Register Nomination for Mower's Block in Lynn, MA. 25 February 1982. Randall, Debra A. "Phase II Archaeological Survey of the Dodge Site, Centennial Industrial Park, Peabody, Massachusetts." Unpublished, 1981. Salem Area City Directories, 1910 (Peabody section). Accessed at www.ancestry.com, 13 March 2009. Salem USGS Quadrangle Maps 1993, 1944, and 1949.

Accessed at http://docs.unh.edu/nhtopos.htm 10 March 2009. Sanborn Map Company (1914, 1945, and 1968), New York. Smoller, S.M. project Director, The Peabody School History Project. Accessed at http://the- smollers.com/Sudi/PSHP/index.htm, various dates. Splaine, Frank, Executive Director, Peabody Housing Authority. Personal communication to Caitlin Bowler, 9 February 2005. United State Census, 1880 and 1930 population schedules for Peabody and Lynn (accessed at ancestry.com) United States Geological Survey, Salem Quadrangle, 1893, 1944, 1949. Walker, George H. Atlas of Essex County, Peabody, 1884, accessed at www.historicmapworks.com, 10 March 2009 (continued) NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 9 Page 3 OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 Samuel Brown School Peabody (Essex), MA Wells, John A. The Peabody Story: Events in Peabody's History, 1626-1972. Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1972. (end) Samuel Brown School Name of Property Essex, MA County, State 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property 1.25 acres UTM References See continuation sheet. (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet) 1.19 339680 4707340 Zone Easting Northing 3. Zone Easting Northing 2. Zone Easting Northing "Zone Easting Northing - See continuation sheet Verbal Boundary Description (Desnibe theb pandais of ce pro ony ay rontiuay sessors Map 120. Please see Continuation Shet 10, pag 2, f fl legal description Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) The school property has historically been composed of this parcel. 11.

Form Prepared By name/title_Rita Walsh, Caitlin Bowler, Jenna Higgins, Carol Weed, VHB Inc. with Betsy Friedberg, NR Director, MHC organization Massachusetts Historical Commission date. June 2009 street & number. 220 Morrissey Boulevard telephone. 617-727-8470 city or town. Boston stateMA _ zip code 02125 Additional Documentation Submit the following items with the completed form: Continuation Sheets A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. A sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. Photographs Representative black and white photographs of the property. Additional items (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) Property Owner (Complete this item at the request of the SHPO or FPO.) name Richard A.

Hayden/Brown School Residences LP street & number 100 Corporate Place, Suite 404 .telephone 978-535-5600 xt 14 city or town _ Peabody _state_MA _zip code. 01960 Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings. Response to this request is required to obtain a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Project (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503. NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 10 Page 1 OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 Samuel Brown School Peabody (Essex), MA VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION The nominated parcel is Parcel 128 on City of Peabody's Assessor's Map 1120. Land in said Peabody, MA, with the buildings thereon bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a concrete bound on the easterly sideline of Lynn Street, said beginning point being the northwesterly corner of the parcel herein described; Thence running S86 degrees - 140 - 39" E by land now or formerly of Joseph H. and Frances C. Kukas, by land now or formerly of Michael J. and Lisa A. O'Connell, by land now or formerly of Celestre M. Trifero and Vasiliki Moutsoulas, by land now or formerly of Kenneth S. Spence, and by land now for formerly of James J. and Lisa M. Morsett three hundred sixty-four and no hundredths (364.00) feet to a point; Thence turning and running S 87 degrees 00'17"E by land now or formerly of Phillip J.

Archung IIl sixty-one and one hundredth (61.01) feet to a point; Thence turning and running S85 degrees 50'59"E land now or formerly of Shaune M Donohue ten and thirty-three hundredths (10.33) feet to a point; Thence turning and running S06 degrees 47'11" W by land now or formerly of the Peabody Housing Authority one hundred forty-five and twenty-two hundredths (145.22) feet to a point on the northerly sideline of Veteran's Memorial Drive.

Thence turning and running N86 degrees oo'48"W by the northerly side of said Veteran's Memorial Drive four hundred eighteen and thirty-nine hundredths (418.39) to a point, said point being the intersection of the northerly sideline of said Veteran's Memorial Drive and the easterly sideline of Lynn Street; Thence turning and running N00 degrees o2'18"E by the eastern sideline of said Lynn Street one hundred forty-two and eighty-nine hundredths (142.89) feet to the point of beginning. Containing an area of one and fourth hundred six thousandths (1.406) acres, more or less. Being shown on a plan entitled "Plan of Proposed Lease and Easement Areas, The Brown School Residences, Peabody, MA (Essex County)" prepared by Color and Colantonio, Inc., dated to be recorded herewith.

For Grantors title see "Peabody Assessors Map, Map 120, Lot 128." See also Essex South District Registry of Deeds Book 2082. (continued) NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 10 Page 2 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Samuel Brown School Peabody (Essex), MA BOUNDARY JUSTIFICATION The school property has historically been composed of this parcel. NPS Form 10-900 (Rev.

10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 10 Page 3 City of Peabody Property Viewer Peabody GIS 9355 -137B 8470 115-133A 7242 115-136 13300 190 115-133 5857 18000 88 115-135 23265 107 115-134 6036 196 116-018 6039 116-017 6039 115-134A 5072 116-016 6039 120-191 16168 120-128 1.406 420-192 23696 VETS MEMORIAL DRIVE 120-127 -7632 120-129 11688 120000 120-126 12096 199 206 120-130 6775 120-131 6775 .= 116-015 116-014 6015 121-097 120-125 5225 201 201 121-101 120-124 5197 52 Feet 203 210 120-132 6537 OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 116-013 116-012 6070 116-011 6018 LONGVIEW WA T16-024 6000 116-050A 4155 116-025 6000 116-026 6000 June 26, 2008 Peabody (Essex), MA Samuel Brown School 121-096 6000 ROCKDALE PARK 121-102 MAP FOR REFERENCE ONLY NOT A LEGAL DOCUMENT images shown on this map, noris any warranty of accuracy exoressec Aii uses ortnis data sevmao are subiecrto neld verfication. Anv auastions should be directed to the OIT Department et (978) 538-5907 or OIT@peabody-ma.gov (end) NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number photos Page 1 OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 Samuel Brown School Peabody (Essex), MA Photographic Information for the Samuel Brown School National Register Nomination, Peabody, MA All photographs taken by Rita Walsh (May 5, 2008) Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc., Watertown, MA (Note: These photographs were taken with a 6.2 megapixel digital camera at high resolution and printed on HP Premium Plus Photo Paper using HP gray photo pigmented inks per the National Park Service March 2008 Photo Policy Expansion list of Acceptable Ink and Paper Combinations for Digital Images.) Photograph List 1. 2 3. 4 5. 6 7. 8 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Exterior view of west façade and parking area, facing east. Exterior view of west façade, facing southwest. Close-up of new door and north entrance on west façade, facing east. Close-up of new doors at main entrance on the west façade, facing east.

Exterior view of west façade, south elevation, and parking area, facing northeast. Exterior view of south elevation and partial view of east elevation, facing northwest. Exterior view of east elevation, facing southwest. Interior view of living room and hall, unit 1201, first floor, facing east. Interior view of south entrance stairway from first floor landing, facing south. Interior view of center east elevation stairs, showing original cabinets, facing east. Interior view of entrance to center staircase from first floor, facing southwest. Interior view of kitchen, unit 1206, first floor, facing northeast. Interior view of entrance to south stairwell from second floor, facing south. Interior view of living room and bedroom entrance, unit 1305, second floor, facing northeast.

Interior view of Palladian window above north entry on west façade, from second floor landing in staircase, facing west. Interior view of second floor corridor, facing south.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Samuel Brown School NAME : MULTIPLE NAME : STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Essex DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: 7/02/09 7/28/09 DATE OF PENDING LIST: 7/13/09 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 8/15/09 REFERENCE NUMBER: 09000611 REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS:N PERIOD: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: COMMENT WAIVER: N VACCEPT RETURN ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS : _REJECT 9:12.09 DATE Entered in The National Register of Historic Places RECOM./CRITERIA REVIEWER DISCIPLINE TELEPHONE DATE DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, the nomination is no longer under consideration by the NPS.

SAMUEL BROWN SCHOOL PEABODY, ESSEX CoUNTY, MA PHOTOGRAPH #001 RITA WALSH, VHB PHOTO, S/2008 EXTERIOR VIEW, W FACADE, PARKING Ar MA_PEABODY (ESSEXCOUNTY)_ BROWNSCH. 00 SAMUCL BROWN SCHOOL PEADOOY, ESSEX COUNTY, MA PHOTOGRAPH #002 RITA WAL EXTERIOR VIEW, W FACADE, FACING SE MA_ PEABODY (ESSEXCOUNTY)- BROWNSCH. 002 SAMUEL BROWN SCHOOL PCABODT, ESSEX COUNTY, MA PHOTOGRAPH # 003 RITA WALSA, VHB, PAOTO 5/2008 NEW DOOR, W FACADE, N ENTRANCE, F MA_PEABODY (ESSEXCOUNTY)- BROWNSCH.

SAmUeL BROWN SCItOOL PEABODY, ESSEX COUNTY, MA PHOTOGRAPH # 004 RITA WALSA, VHB, PAOTO 5/2008 NEW DOOR, MAIN ENTRANCE, W FACAZ MA_ PENBODY (ESSEXCOUNTY) - BROWNSCH ALOVEMTEASEI TOWN SCHOOL PARTMENTS BEDROOM UNITS LABLE NOWI TS STARTING AT 5.00 A MONTH 1977.0000 E AN APPOINTMENT iducted Daily SAMUEL BROWN SCHOOL PEABODY, ESSEX COUNTY, MA PHOTOGRAPH # 005 RITA WALSH, VHB, PAOTO 5/2008 W FACADE, S ELEVAMON, PARKING MA_ PEABODY (ESSEXCOUNTY)- BROWI SAMUSL BROWN SCHOOL PZABODY, ESSex CoUNTY, MA PHOTOGRAPH #006 RITA WALSH PAOTO, VHB 5/200 EXTERIOR VIEW, S ELEVATION, PARTI E ELEVATON, FACING NW MA_ PEABODY (ESSEXCOUNTY)- BROWN SAMUEL BROWN SCHOOR PEABODY, ESSEX COUNTY, MA PHOTOGAAPH #007 RITA WALSA, VHB, PHOTO 5/2008 EXTERIOR VIEW, E ELEVATON, P MA_PeABODY (ESSEXCOUNTy) - BROwN.

SAMUEL BROWN SCHOOL PEABODY, EsSeX COUNTI, MA PHOTOGRAPH #008 RITA WALSH PHOTO, VHB 5/200 INTERIOR, UNIT 1201, LIVING ROON FACING E MA_ PEABODY (ESSEXCOUNTY)- BROWN SAmUEL BRowN ScHenL PEABODY, ESSEX COUNTT, MA PHOTOGAAPH # 009 RITA WALSA PAtOTO, VHB 5/200 INTERIOR, S ENTRANCE STAIRWAY, MA_ PeABODy (EsseXcouNry) - BRowA SAMUEL BROWN SCHOOL PEABODY, ESSEX COUNTY, MA PHOTOGRAPH # 010 RITA WALSH, VHB, PAORO 5/2 INTERIOR, CENTER E ELEVATON STEPS ORIG. CABINETS, FAGING E MA_PEABODY (ESSEXCOUNTY)- BROWN SAMUEL BROUN SCHUOL PEABODY, ESSCX COUNTI, NA PHOTOGRAPH # OIZOII RITA IALSH PAOTO, VHB 5 /200 INTERIOR, ENTRANCE TO CENTEN STAIRC FACINg SW PEABORY.

MA_PENBODY (ESSEXCOUNTY)- BROWN SAMUCL BROWN SCHOOL PEABODY, ESSCX COUNTI MA PHOTO GRAPH # OR 52008 RITA WALSH PIOTO , VHB INTERIOR, UNIT 1206, KITCHÊN, FACI MA_PEABODY (ESSEXCOUNTY)-BROWNS SAMUEL BROWN SCHOOL PEABODY, ESSEX COUNTY, MA PHOTOGRAPH # 013 RITA WALSH INTERGOR, ENTRANCE TO S STAIRWELL, FACINA S MA. PEABODY (ESSEXCOUNTY) - BROWNSCH SAMUEL BROWN SCHOOL PEABIDY, ESSEX CEUNTY, MA PHOTOGRAPH #014 RITA WALSH INTERIOR, LIVING ROOM, BEDROOM, UN FACING NE MA_ PEABODY (ESSEXCOUNTY)- BROWNS SAMUEL BROWN SCHEOL PEABOOY, ESSEX COUNTY, MA RI Vt PHOTOGRAPH # 015 INTERIOR, PALCADIAN WINDOW, ABUVE N W FACADE, 2ND FL. LANDIN MA_ PEABODY (ESSEXCOUNTY)- BROwNS SAmUEL BROWN SCHODL PZABODY, ESSeX COUNTY, MA PHOTOGRAPH #016 RITA WALSH INTERIOR, 2ND FL.

CORRIDOR, FACING MA_ PEABODY (ESSEXCOUNTY)- BROWNS MHHEA TENE PLACIDAN LSVB LIBERTAY The Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth.. Massachusetts Historical Commission RECEIVED 2280 JUL 0 2 2009 NAT. RECISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE June 29, 2009 Mr. J. Paul Loether, Chief National Register of Historic Places Department of the Interior National Park Service 1201 Eye Street, NW 8* floor Washington, DC 20005 Dear Mr. Loether: Enclosed please find the following nomination form: Samuel Brown School, 200 Lynn Street, Peabody (Essex), MA The nomination has been voted eligible by the State Review Board and has been signed by the State Historic Preservation Officer. The owners of the property were notified of pending State Review Board consideration 30 to 45 days before the meeting and were afforded the opportunity to comment.

Sincerely, Setay tredhey Betsy Friedberg National Register Director Massachusetts Historical Commission Enclosure CC: Richard A. Hayden, Brown School Residences LP William Power, Peabody Historical Commission Michael J. Bonfanti, Chair, Peabody Board of Selectmen Rita Walsh, Jenna Higgins, VHB Chair, Peabody Planning Board 220 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125 (617) 727-8470 - Fax: (617) 727-5128 www.state.ma.us/sec/mhc