Nomination for O'Shea Building

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Form No. 10-300 REV.

(9/77) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM RECEIVED NOV 05 1979 DATE ENTERED SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES - COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS 1 NAME HISTORIC 2 O'Shea Building AND/OR COMMON Same LOCATION STREET & NUMBER 1-15 Main Street 3 4 CITY, TOWN Peabody -NOT FOR PUBLICATION CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 6th STATE - VICINITY OF CODE 025 COUNTY Essex CODE 009 Massachusetts CLASSIFICATION CATEGORY -DISTRICT X_BUILDING(S) -STRUCTURE _SITE _OBJECT OWNERSHIP -PUBLIC XPRIVATE -BOTH PUBLICACOUISITION - IN PROCESS - BEING CONSIDERED STATUS X _OCCUPIED -UNOCCUPIED -WORK IN PROGRESS ACCESSIBLE XYES: RESTRICTED - YES: UNRESTRICTED _NO PRESENT USE AGRICULTURE _MUSEUM XCOMMERCIAL -PARK _EDUCATIONAL _PRIVATE RESIDENCE -ENTERTAINMENT _RELIGIOUS GOVERNMENT -SCIENTIFIC -INDUSTRIAL -TRANSPORTATION _MILITARY OTHER: OWNER OF PROPERTY NAME Paul J.

Liacos & Katherine Liacos Izzo STREET & NUMBER 11 Main Street CITY, TOWN STATE Massachusetts Peabody VICINITY OF LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC. South Essex Registry of Deeds STREET & NUMBER 32 Federal Street CITY,TOWN STATE Massachusetts Salem REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE Inventory of the Historic Assets of the Commonwealth #60 DATE 1977 DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS CITY, TOWN - FEDERAL XSTATE _COUNTY LOCAL Massachusetts Historical Commission Boston STATE Massachusetts DESCRIPTION CONDITION -EXCELLENT X GOOD FAIR DETERIORATED _RUINS CHECK ONE _UNALTERED XALTERED CHECK ONE X_ ORIGINAL SITE -MOVED DATE. UNEXPOSED DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

The 0'Shea Building at 1-15 Main Street is a two story Renaissance Revival commercial block located in downtown Peabody, close to Peabody Square. It is rectangular in plan with a 160 foot frontage on Main Street (north) and a 60 foot frontage on Nichols Lane (east), a minor side street. These two elevations are faced with rustica- ted limestone at the first story and glazed buff brick with granite and pressed metal trim at the second story. The rear elevation (south) is faced with red brick; the west elevation is a party wall. The Main Street. facade is symmetrically composed about a slightly projecting central pavillion. At the ground floor levelthere is an arched center entry flanked by three store fronts on either side. While these have been altered and obscured by modern signs, they retain their original spacing and dividing piers.

A pressed metal entabulature, bearing the words O'SHEA BUILDING ahove the entrance separates the first and second stories. The second story contains a series of round arched window openings divided into pairs by corinthian pilasters. They all have heavy archivolts with egg and dart moldings, carved keystones, and an ornate shell motif in their transoms. Originally 1/1 double hungsash has been replaced by single panes only in the four eastern bays. The building is crowned by a full corinthian pressed metal entablature. These decorative elements are continued for one bay on the east elevation.

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SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD _PREHISTORIC -1400-1499 -1500-1599 -1600-1699 -1700-1799 -1800-1899 -1900- -ARCHEOLUGY-PREHISTORIC ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC _AGRICULTURE ARCHITECTURE XART _COMMERCE -COMMUNICATIONS AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW _COMMUNITY PLANNING -LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE CONSERVATION _LAW _ECONOMICS -LITERATURE _EDUCATION -MILITARY -ENGINEERING _MUSIC EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT __PHILOSOPHY _INDUSTRY - POLITICS/GOVERNMENT LINVENTION -RELIGION _SCIENCE _SCULPTURE _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _THEATER _TRANSPORTATION _OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES 1903-1904 BUILDER

Statement of significance

/ARCHITECT M. F. Burk STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The 0'Shea Building possess integrity of location,design, materials and workmanship and is one of the finest and ieast altered commerical blocks in Peabody. Constructed by the City's leading entrepreneur to house a variety of retail uses, this block fore- shadowed the development of downtown Peabody as a ma.ior commercial area in the early twentieth century. This growch refiects the industrial boom which Peabody was then experiencing, particularly in the field of leather manufacturing. In 1903, when Main Street was still mainly residential in character, Thomas H. O'Shea purchased a lot of land east of the City Hall (NR) from Dr. G.S. Gordon. Planning to develop the area for commercial use, he had two dwellings and a shop moved and another dwelling and shop demolished. Construction began in 1904.

Burk and Sanborn of Lynn were the architects while the contractors -James C. Linehan, excavating and stonework; Edward H. Potter, masonry; Abraham Lumus; carpentry; Hamblett & Hacks Co., hardware and metalwork; M.E. Lynch, plumbing and heating; were all local. The original tenants were: George S. Curtis, druggist; D. F.Bresnahan, dry goods dealer; George H. Jacobs, clothier; E.E. Gray and Co., grocers; Miss NL.Stockwell, milliner. The second floor housed several fraternal organizations like the Emerald Court, M.C.O.F.; Court George Peabody, Foresters of America; Union Pôst #50.G.A.R; Leo Council, Knights of Columbus; and an attorney, James J. Sheehan. A mixed usage continues today. O'Shea was born in Feabody in 1867. He quickly became established in the dominant leather industry, first in partnership with James F. Ingraham Sr.,manufacturing morocco then with A.P.

Phillips, finishing India goat skins, then finally on his own. O'Shea also dealt in real estate and at one time was the City's largest land owner and tax payer. He served as a director of the Warren National Bank in 1906 and as its Vice President from 1911 until his death in 1920. He was also a trustee of the J.B. Thomas Hospital.

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Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES "Peabody Correspondence," Salem Evening News, March 16, 1903. Wells, John. The Peabody Story, Essex Institute, Salem, 1973. pp. 279, 344, 378, 380-81, 384, 408. UIM NOT VERIFIED 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY 18,953 sq. ft. QUADRANGLE NAME Salem UTM REFERENCES A[1,9] [3/4.1171010 ZONE EASTING QUADRANGLE SCALE 1:24000 14,7/0917,0,01 NORTHING BL, ZONE EASTNG NORTHING LuLul AhLu ELLLILN Lilu FLU LLILUULILILIL dULLLWLLILu WU LLLULiLeLid VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION Please refer to the attached assessors map. This property is lot #171 of map #85.

LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE CODE COUNTY CODE STATE CODE COUNTY CODE 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME/ TITLE Candace Jenkins, National Register Coordinator ORGANIZATION Massachusetts Historical Commission STREET & NUMBER 294 Washington Street CITY OR TOWN Boston John Wells, Chrm. Peabody Historical Comm. DATE October 1979 TELEPHONE (617) 727-8470 STATE Massachusetts 2 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: STATE_ LOCAL NATIONAL - As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665). 1 hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service.

STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE/ hVeslowski 10/24/79 TITLExecutive Director, Massachusetts Historical Commission DATE FOR NPS USE ONLY I HEREBY CEAUY RARTHIS PROPENV S CNOD ATHEM JATIONAL REGISTER DATE KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL ATTEST: CHIEF OF RECISTRATI Dly DATE 1-11-80 1/8/80 GPO 921-803 275.50 RALROAD Peabody, Mass. O'Shea Building, 1-15 Main St.

Assessor's Map Map #85, Lot #171 AVENUE 235 15242 -275 STREET 23> 900 292.22 259A 17575 SAW YER 338 2738 239 3405 240 3937 5955 LOWELL 236 257 7560 256 10700 23: 2 4, 25g 2800 3976 PEABODY ASSESSORS % STREET (26s- 2368 3350 BA.SF MAP 85 260 3500 5925 6568 COURT LOTS 84.77e 14:72 269 5000 ** 20 17L ((9,065 sa.F7) SCHOOL FRANALIN 236 25550 2418 3760 244A 3600 241A 126300 243 ,0000 244 3:45 492 252 4925 249 5980 4030 x* 250 13*00 12050 173 87,360 sQ.F7) 208 73,00 209 O'SHEA (MOUT 84.2 ROAD 7435 :241c9 2099 5000 7700 BUILDINES 2094 6350 :207A 4600 1207 5000 207C 5000 2078 3,000 2064: 3000 COOLIDGE 1994 287 <95 10 103226 STREET 246 9050 225 /e 4850 20930 228 13207: 4180 SITY HALL CHURCH 320 57.30MS 2/g 10620 AVE.

218 20300 TNUT CHESTNUT +218 19A 3234 18 23688 33 04C 20 19040 1-9506 32 30 2324 22 5560 23 7300 WALNUT E2 55 6600 55 82 5808 23, 384, 54 53 3256 4347 2010c STREET asoxt 12375 24082 1260? 230 23560 20.18 l8s 4 2-10 PEABOR 185 3680 5 6580 1061 ARE STREET 'e, 13580 189 4237 190 4990 STREET RAILROAD 18, 30000 20F1. 7360 .346-4 % Ta a0- '9, 3320 4453 SUNMER '9g 3,80 21:25 19, 6840 MAINE STRLET 4033 1638 % 1 64 12800 160 FT: 17,12 OSHBEA BLD 55F7 170 4860 *086 ;240+, 5030 4400 las 1:259 12926 N2eZ2o S8+BOD} JAN | 1 1980 RECEIVED NOV 05 1979 NATIONAL' REGISTER To 2119 Property State "Oller Biickig Working Number Asex 11-5-79 2655 TECHNICAL Photos- Maps CONTROL HISTORIAN THE BUILDINK IS DNE DE THE BEST PRESERVEP ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN CONMERCIAL BLOCKS IN PEABODY. IT WAS BUILT BY A PERSON WHO WAS THE CITHE LARGEJT ACLEPT LAND OWNEZ AND TAXPAYER AT TIHT TME.

1/7/80 ARCHEOLOGIST OTHER HAER Inventory - Review REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BRANCH CHIEF KEEPER National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry 2-3-8 Send-back Re-submit Entered United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 JAN | / 1980 INT:2106-74 PLEASI Anho Schoo PLEASTT LWU PIECE PIZZA RESTAU PIECEO PTTI NOV 0 5 1979 Peabody, Mass. O'Shea Building 1-15 Main Street JAN 1 | 1980 Ray Wallman 1978 24 Main Street, Peabody Photo #1 ESSEX COUNtY Main Street facade facing northwest MASS Ossociates IVELY TO MADE ENTRIES IN THE NATICNAL BEGISTER MASSACHUSETTS STATE Date Entered JAN | / 1980 Name Location Quincy Town Hall (O'Shea Bullding Quincy Norfolk County Peabody Essex County Also Notified Honorable Paul Tsongas Honorable Edward M. Kennedy Honorable Brian J. Donnelly Honorable Nicholas Mavroules State Historic Preservation Officer Mrs. Patricia I..

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