Nomination for Suffolk Resolves House

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Z LLI Form 10-300 (Rev. 6-72) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM HJ3 PH0026417 2n9 325770 4277720 ISTATE: Massachusetts COUNTY: Norfolk FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) JUL 2 3 1973 NAME C OMMON: Suffolk Resolves House AND/ OR HISTORIC: Daniel Vose's residence LOCATION STREET AND NUMBER: 1370 Canton Avenue CITY OR TOWN: Milton STATE Massachusetts CLASSIFICATION CATEGORY (Check One) CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: No.

11 CODE 025 COUNTY: Norfolk CODE 021 OWNERSHIP STATUS District Site Building Structure Object Public Private Both Public Acquisition: - In Process Being Considered Occupied Unoccupied - Preservation work in progress ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC Yes: X Restricted Unrestricted No PRESENT USE Agricultural Commercial Educational Entertainment (Check One or More as Appropriate) Government Industrial Military X Museum Park Private Residence Religious Scientific Transportation 91Haomntents LOther (Spociiy RECEIVED OWNER OF PROPERTY -JUL 10 1973 OWNER'S NAME: NATIONAL Milton Historical Society REGISTER STREET AND NUMBER: 1370 Canton Avenue CITY OR TOWN: STATE: Milton Massachusetts CODE 025 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: Norfolk Register of Deeds STREET AND NUMBER: 650 High Street CITY OR TOWN: STATE Dedham Massachusetts CODE 025 REPRESENTATION IN EXIST ING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: 1.

Historic American Buildings Survey (MASS 2-13) 2. Inventory of Historic Assets of the Commonwealth DATE OF SURVEY1. 1965 2. 1967-68 1.X Federal 2.X State County DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 1. Library of Congress 2. Massachusetts Historical Commission STREET AND NUMBER: Local 2 40 Beacon Street CITY OR TOWN: 1. Washington, D. C. 2. Boston STATE: 2. Massachusetts CODE 025 Massachusetts Norfolk JUL 2 3 1973 STATE COUNTY: ENTRY NUMBER DATE FOR NPS USE ONLY DESCRIPTION CONDITION X Excellent Good (Check One) Fair (Check One) Deteriorated Ruins - Unexposed (Check One) X Altered - Unaltered DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

É Moved Original Site residence beside the Neponset River in Milton Village, now stands atop a tree-studded knoll in one of Milton's attractive residential neighborhoods. Open fields and woods flank the property on two sides. Landscape features include 18th century-style flower and vegetable gardens. In order to ensure the preservation of the property, the deed to the Suffolk Resolves House was given to the Milton Historical Society in 1950. However, the Society was unable to finance restoration and the house was threatened with destruc- tion. The Society then deeded the house to Dr. and Mrs. James Ayer and it was moved to their property on Canton Avenue later the same year. At that time the building was repaired and restored. It was later deeded back to the Milton Historical Society, which operates the property as a museum. 0.3 The wooden clapboard building has two stories.

Two large interior chimneys project above the shallow hipped roof. The facade is five bays wide; the northeast elevation is two bays and the southwest elevation, incorporating the addition to the structure, is three. Twelve-over-twelve sash windows, with Doric window cornices, are used throughout. On the northwest front, the center entrance is ornamented with a simple architrave surround and covered by a porch supported by Roman-Doric columns and pilasters. The entablature and pediment contain dentil detail.

A small pane of glass, penetrating the clapboard covering, but not the wall, was placed to the right of the door enabling museum visitors to examine the construction techniques used in joining the two parts of the Suffolk Resolves House: on the left (looking at the facade from Canton Avenue) is the earlier portion, constructed about 1760; to the right is the addition to the structure made by Vose in 1773. To the casual observer there is no obvious juneture between the two sections. g1 10 IIIT, RECÊIVED JUL 1 0 1973 NATIONAL REGISTER TS. EEINS T

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SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) 0 Pre-Columbianl 15th Century 16th Century 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) September 9, AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Aboriginal Education Prehistoric Engineering Historic Industry Agriculture Invention Architecture Landscape Art Architecture Commerce Literature Communications Military Conservation Music 1774 Political Religion/Phi- losophy Science Sculpture Social/Human- itarian Theater Transportation Urban Planning Other (Specify) STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

The Suffolk Resolves House has political significance as a surviving building associated with an historic pre-Revolutionary War event. The Suffolk Resolves was a statement expressing the Massachusetts Bay Colony's dissatisfaction with England's punitive colonial policies; the adoption of the Resolves by the Suffolk County conven- tion in 1774 was one of the first steps taken to organize opposition to these policies prior to the Revolution. The document was among the many local anti-British statements of the time: its distinction comes from its immediate endorsement by the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia. The tax on tea of 1773; closing the port of Boston in 1774; a ban on holding town meetings without consent of the Royal Governor and other repressive acts by the British had made virtual slaves of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the City of Boston.

One form of resistance to this tyranny was the formation of county conven- tions which met throughout Massachusetts to formulate resolutions protesting the indifference and intransigence of King George III and Parliament in the years before the convening of the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia in 1774. Since town meetings were severely restricted, "county conventions" were substituted. They were held, whenever possible, in rural locations to encourage the country people to make common cause with Boston and to remain, in the words of Samuel Adams, as "free from interference" as possible.

By 1774 the political and economic situation had become intolerable, causing prominent Boston-area citizens, including many who were members of their local Committees of Correspondence, to meet with the Suffolk County convention in order to protest the coercive measures in use against Massachusetts. On April 16, 1774, the convention held a preliminary meeting at Doty's Tavern in Stoughton. They reconvened on September 6 at Woodward Tavern, Dedham. Dr. Joseph Warren, who as a major general was later mortally wounded at the Battle of Bunker Hill, was made chairman of a committee directed to frame suitable resolves for presen- tation at another convention on September 9. Daniel Vose, a Milton shopkeeper who afterwards represented the town in the Provincial Congress, offered his house (built c.

1760; enlarged 1773) for the third meeting; its location near the junction of the post road from Boston to Plymouth and the road to Taunton (now Canton Avenue) made it convenient for a county convention. Milton was part of Suffolk County until 1793. Seventy representatives from the nineteen towns and districts in the county [continued]

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Ford, Worthington C., ed., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774, Vol. I. Hamilton, Edward P., The Suffolk Resolves House Controversy Reviewed, Milton Historical Society and Massachusetts Historical Society, 1953. Scaife, Lauriston L., Milton and the Suffolk Resolves, Milton Historical Society, 1921. Massachusetts Historical Society, Diary and Biography of John Adams, Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press, 1962, Vol. 2. 10.

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLELOCATING THE PROPERTY CORNER LATITUDE Degrees Minutes Seconds LONGITUDE Degrees Minutes Seconds LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINA TES DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES LATITUDE Minutes LONGITUDE Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds NW NE " Degrees 42 SE 14 71 3.5 SW APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: less than one acre ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIESO STATE: CODE COUNTY - 06 32.5 STATE: CODE COUNTY: STATE: CODE COUNTY: RECEIVED JUL 1 0 1973 NATIONAL REGISTER CODE LCODE CODE STATE: CODE COUNTY: CODE FORM PREPARED BY NAME AND TITLE: Andréa K. Calfee for Elizabeth R.

Amadon, State Survey Director ORGANIZATION DATE Massachusetts Historical Commission STREET AND NUMBER: 40 Beacon Street CITY OR TOWN: STATE Boston Massachusetts June 19, 1973 CODE 025 STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. The recommended level of significance of this nomination is: tional State Local Name T.X. Daure JOHN F.X.

DAVOREN, Secretary of the Commonwealth and Chairman, Massachu- Title setts Historical Commission I hereby certify that this property is included in the Nationa 1 Register Rokertr Utter Director, Office of Archeololy amdflacorte Proarvation Date 7/23/73 ATTEST: Date July 3, 1973 Date Keeper of The National Register 19/73 - GP0 931-894 Form 10-300a (July 1969) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM Milton, Suffolk Resolves HoUsntinuation Sheet) (Number all entries) 8. Significance STATE Massachusetts COUNTY Norfolk. FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER JUL 2 3 1973 DATE attended the September 9 meeting at Daniel Vose's house where they accepted the final draft of Warren's document of grievances against Britain. This document came to be known as the Suffolk Resolves.

Among the nineteen resolutions adopted were those urging the colonists to take action by boycotting trade with Britain and the West Indies, by raising troops of their own, and by preparing for armed resistance to defend against Britishaggression, if necessary. Paul Revere immediately carried the Suffolk Resolves to Philadelphia, arriving September 16, and delivered it to the Massachusetts delegates at the Continental Congress then in session in Carpenters' Hall. The next day, the entire list of nineteen points was ratified and ordered published in the newspapers as an indication of the unanimous approval it received from the Congress, bringing closer the final break with England.

In John Adams' Diary of that date is the following: "This day convinced me that America will support Massachusetts or perish with her!" It was significant to the progress of the First Continental Congress that the first important paper presented to this body, the Suffolk Resolves, was one which met with instant support and unanimity. Two years later the Resolves were incorporated in the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson. Revolutionary War Bicentennial plans for the Town of Milton center around the Suffolk Resolves and the building at which they were adopted. Also, a commemorative edition of the Suffolk Resolves will be published as a part of the town's Bicentennial celebration.

8 191110 EIVED JUL CO 10 NATIONAL 1973 REGISTER ETIZTI GPO 921.724 PROPERTY Suffolk Resolver Honse WORKING NUMBER 7:10.13.3279 TECH REVIEW Photos Maps CONTROL REVIEW Lat scat STATE Mass Norfolk 7-10- 13 they didn't nomuiate it for architecture I'm not sue we should return it for lat if zmurs! 1/03/73 REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BRANCH CHIEF bajoyö . OK KEEPER 711978 National Register write-up Federal Register entry _ 9-4-13 Send-back Re-submit Entered JUL 2 3 1973 MILTON, mASS. 1370 ANTON SUFFOLR RESOLVES HOVSE MILTON HISTORICAL FORM 10-301 A (6/72) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM (Type all entries - attach to or en close with photograph) 1. NAME COMMON AND/OR HISTORIC Suffolk Resolves House 2.

LOCATION STATE Daniel Vose's residence COUNTY Norfolk TOWN Milton Massachusetts STREET AND NUMBER 1370 Canton Avenue 3. PHOTO REFERENCE PHOTO CREDIT Fasch Studio, Milton, Mass. DATE 1973 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. Northeast elevation and northwest facade as seen from Canton Avenue NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) JUL 2 3 1973 NEGATIVE FILED AT Fasch Studio 480 Adams Street, Milton 91 RECEiVED 111/112, JUL 1 0 1973 NATIONAI REGISTE GPO 932-009 ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER STATE MASSACHUSETTS JUL 2 3 1973 Date Entered Name The Hoar Tavern Suffolk Resolves House Location Lincoln vieinity Middlesex County M11con Norfolk County Hon. Edward M. Kennedy Hon. Edward W. Brooke Hon. Robezt 7. Drinan Hon. Janes &, Burke ls. Ann Webster Saith, DOT Director, Northeast Region Also Notified State Hlatorie Preservation 0fficer Hon. John F. %.

Davoren Secretary of the Conmonvealth Chairnan, Massachusette Historical Coumnission 40 Beacon Street Beston, Massschusetts 02108 PHR MMOTT: pc1 7/24/73