Nomination for Fulton-Commercial Streets District

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SNOI1 Z - PH0026719 E 330900 2n/9 N4691800 Form 10-300 (Rev. 6-72) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Massachusetts COUNTY: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Suffolk INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FORNPS USE ONLY 36 (Type.allentries.complete applicable soetidat,15L/0 ENTRY DATE MAR "2 T 1973 NAME COMMON: Fulton-Commercial Streets District RECEVED- AND/ OR HISTORIC: MAR2 NATION373 LOCATION REGISTER STREET AND NUMBER: Fulton street, Commercial street, Mercantifelserdet, Lewis Street, Richmond CITY OR TOWN: CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Boston Eighth STATE CODE COUNTY: CODE Massachusetts 025 Suffolk 025 3.

CLASSIFICATION CATEGORY OWNERSHIP ACCESSIBLE STATUS (Check One) TO THE PUBLIC District Building Public Public Acquisition: Occupied Yes: Site Structure Private / In Process Restricted Unoccupied Object X Both Being Considered Unrestricted Preservation work No in progres? PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Agricultural Government x Commercial Industrial Educational Military Entertainment Museum OWNER OF PROPERTY OWNER'S NAME: multiple ownership STREET AND NUMBER: Park Private Residence Religious Scientific - Transportation Other (Specify) X Comments Some Buildings are vacant, pending urban R0IAEig 99 Mass.

160v02 CITY OR TOWN: STATE: CODE LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: Suffolk County Registzy of Deeds STREET AND NUMBER: Suffolk Pemberton Square CITY OR TOWN: Boston STATE Massachusetts CODE 025 REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: Inventory of Historic Assets of the Commonwealth DATE OF SURVEY: 1972 DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: Massachusetts Historical Commission STREET AND NUMBER: 40 Beacon Street CITY OR TOWN: County -Local MAR 2:1 1973 Boston STATE: Massachusetts CEACODE 025 Street renewal COUNTY: FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER DATE 7.

DESCRIPTION CONDITION (Check One) X Deteriorated Excellent * Good (Check One) - Fair X Altered - Unaltered Moved Ruins - Unexposed (Check One) XOriginal Site The Fulton-Commercial Streets District consists of buildings on both sides of Fulton Street from Cross Street to Lewis Street, on the north side of Commercial Street from Cross Street to Lewis Street, on Iewis Street from North Street to Commercial Street, and the block defined by Mercantile, Richmond, Commercial and Cross Streets. The district is bounded on the north by Boston's North End, a densely settled commercial and residential area, on the west by the Fitzgerald Expressway, and on the south by open land, cleared as part of the urban renewal plan for Boston's waterfront.

This district includes approximately 80 row buildings which create two extremely coherent and relatively unchanged streetscapes of 19th centruy commercial architecture. Because of the controlled development of the district and re- strictions on height and construction material included in property deeds (see historical significance), the row buildings exhibit one basic architectural style. Constructed primarily in the 1830's and 40's, nearly all are brick structures with granite posts and lintels on the ground floor, originally four stories high, three bays wide, with pitched roofs, some with dormers. Alterations in the row buildings have generally been limited to their roof line and height. From the late 1880's onward, numerous elevators were in- - stalled in the district and appurtenant towers, housing the necessary machineryz appear on many buildings.

In some cases the roof was simultaneously raised and flattened, adding another full story or two. Frequently, these added stories were disguised, and the sense of a single cornice line on each street sagul no d, and cha sente o was preserved, through the use of a zinc or tin facade. This embossed metal generally emphasizes the vertical dimension above the pseudo cornice line. A few buildings have been reduced in height from four to three stories. Also located in the district are three major architectural works, the Mercan- tile Wharf Building, the Commercial Block and the McLauthlin Building. The - - Mercantile Wharf Building (1856) is a massive five-story granite warehouse which occupies the entire block surrounded by Mercantile, Richmond, Commercial Z and Cross Streets.

The building originally consisted of sixteen stores, four of which were demolished when the Fitzgerald Expressway was constructed in the 1950's. Architecturally, the warehouse is an adaptation of the Renais- sance revival style for commercial purposes. The building is defined hori- zontally by four stringcourses and vertically by pilaster-like bands of 16/ ashlar granite blocks which run the full five stories and flank each stoge The post and lintel construction of the row buildings is repeated on ground floor of the warehouse between these ashlar bands. Above the couRECENED floor, windows are six over six sash and decrease in height on each succeed- 1973 ing story. The building is capped by a heavy bracketed cornice andmas MAR hip roof.

NATIONAL REGISTER Located diagonally across Commercial Street is the Commercial Block which complements the Mercantile Wharf Building by repeating many of its architectural features on a somewhat smaller scale. This five story ware- house is faced with ashlar, granite blocks and has a one story brick addition above the original roof line. Again, the post and lintel construction of the row buildings appears on the ground floor. This first story is divided into five stores, each three bays wide. The building is defined horizontally by four stringcourses, set abovethe first, second, fourth and fifth floors, C Form 10-300a (July 1969) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM STATE Massachusetts COUNTY Suffolk (Continuation Sheet) FOR NPS USE ONLY MAR 21 1973E DATE (Number all entries) 6.

Representation in Existing Surveys: Boston Landmarks Commission Survey 1970-71 local depository: Boston Landmarks Commission City Hall Boston, Massachusetts 025 41 15 61 RECEIVED 12) MAR 2 1973 7. Description (continued) and vertically by four pilaster-like bands of astilar Wanfte blocks, running from the first stringcourse to the heavy bracketed cornide which daps the ori- rinal section of the warehouse. Above the ground fløor, the windows are tw ver two sash and decrease in height on the succeeding stories By far the most ornate of the buildings in the Fulton-Commercial Streets Dis- trict is the McLauthlin Building (c. 1864), located at 120% Fulton Street. This is a five-story brick structure with a cast iron front, the earliest extant in Boston. Each story of the building is divided into six bays by attenuated pilasters.

The ground floor bays contain doorways and shop win- dows, above which the pilasters support broad arches with keystones. On the second through fifth floors, each bay contains two window units, mounted above inset panels and separated by narrow columns set on high plinths. Though the pilasters and columns are given the same visual weight, the former are,in fact, only facing plates which conceal interior structural members, while the latter are actually bearing members. Each window unit on the second, third and fourth floors is topped by a semi-circular arch, again with keystone, which springs from a pilaster to the adjacent column. On the fifth floor this arch detail is replaced by rectangular window openings.

On all floors, the large areas of windows, separated by the slender iron supports, accentuate the lightness of the structural system and give the facade a quality of extreme thinness. Projecting stringcourses are set above each - story of the building and the facade is capped by a heavy bracketed cornice, above which rises a mansard roof with rectangular dormers. With the exception of the buildings on Lewis Streetand on the north side of Fulton Street from Richmond Street to Iewis Street, the properties in the district have been acquired by the Boston Redevelopment Authority as part of its Downtown-Waterfront Renewal Project and are now vacant, pending combined rehabilitation and redevelopment of the area. These buildings are in deter- iorated condition; some have been damaged by fire but appear to remain structurally sound.

Buildings which remain in private ownership are generally in good condition (some have recently been rehabilitated by their owners) and house offices, apartments and a number of businesses, among them a wholesale meat company, a hardware company and the McLauthlin Elevator Company. GPO 921.724 SHOILOAE S N | SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) Pre-Columbian!

16th Century 15th Century 17th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) 1830's to 1860's AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Abor iginal Education - Prehistoric Engineering Historic Industry Agriculture Invention Architecture Landscape Art Architecture Commerce Literature Communications Military Conservation Music - 18th Century 19th Century - 20th Century Political Religion/Phi- losophy Science Sculpture Social/Human- itarian Theater Transportation Uhbon Planting Other (Specity) ECEIVE MAR 2 1973 NATIONAL REGISTER STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

The Fulton-Commercial Streets District, one of the last remnants of Boston's 19th century waterfront, is a unique environment of commercial architecture of the 1830' to 1860's. The brick row buildings which predominate in the district create streetscapes which are significant both for their extreme coherence and as the historical and physical setting for three major archi- tectural works: The Mercantile Wharf Building, the Commercial Block and the McLauthlin Building. It is these streetscapes, in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, on which the primary value of the district dependsas Development of the Fulton-Commercial Streets District was, in large part, the result of the construction of the Quincy Markets in 1825-26. The imme- diate success of the Markets opened a period of wide speculation in water- front property.

New land was created by means of fill and, in the late 1820's and 1830's, Fulton, Commercial, Iewis, Richmond and Ferry Streets were laid out.J Commercial Street was the waterfront street, from which new wharves were extended into the harbor. Stores and warehouses were con- structed throughout the area to house the businesses necessary to support the activity of the growing port: sailmakers, ships' chandlers, fläg makers, agents for cotton duck and cordage, copper dealers, liverymen and others operated from the buildings in the Fulton-Commercial Streets District. The majority of the buildings in the district, constructed in the 1830's and 40's, exhibit an unusual degree of architectural coherence.//This is explained by the fact that development of the district during this period was controlled largely by three men--Robert G. Shaw, Samuel S.

Iewis and Henry Gardner--and that\restrictions on height and building material were written into the deeds for individual propertieso A number of deeds also included the stipulation that buildings be constructed to resemble those erected by Shaw in 1832 at 102-124 Commercial Street. As a result, nearly all the buildings on Fulton and Commercial Streets are brick row units, originally four stories high, with granite posts and lintels at street level, constituting what is probably the most extensive grouping of this type of shop front now extant. This architectural motif originated in Boston c. 1810 and was a forerunner of the modern commercial shop facade with its large areas of glass framed by narrow vertical bearing members. Technical innovations made possible the mass production of stones for this post and lintel construction about 1830.

The Fulton-Commercial Streets District was among the first areas when such "standard parts" were employed.

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Bryan, John. Boston's Granite Architecture, 1810-1860. Unpublished disser- tation. Boston University, 1972. Giedion, Sigfried. Space, Time and Architecture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962 (4th edition). Hitchcock, Henry Russell. Boston Architecture: 1637-1954. New York: Reinhold, 1954. "The Iron Building--Forerunner of the Skyscraper." Elevator World, March, 1969. Quincy, Josiah. Municipal History of Boston. Boston: Little and Brown, 1852. Suffolk County Registry of Deeds. Boston, Massachusetts. LOXOAN 10.

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY CORNER LATITUDE LONGITUDE Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES Degrees LATITUDE Minutes Seconds LONGITUDE Degrees Minutes Seconds NW NE 42 21 SE afStiNg 43 71 SW APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: C. 9 acres ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE: CODE COUNTY 03 13 5116/ CODE STATE: CODE COUNTY: STATE: CODE COUNTY: 05 RECEIVED MAR 2 1973 CODE CODE STATE: CODE COUNTY: NATIONAL REGISTER CODE 12. FORM PREPARED BY NAME AND TITLE: Polly Ann Matherly, Historian ORGANIZATION Massachusetts Historical Commission STREET AND NUMBER: 40 Beacon Street CITY OR TOWN: Boston STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION 617-727-8470 DATE Feb.

20y-1973 STATE Massachusetts NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION CODE 025 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 Avaluated according to the c-itéria and procedufes set forth by the National Park Service. The recommended level of significance of this nomination is: National State Local X SO TD VIJEIDSR VIMOD I hereby certify that this property is included in the Nationa 1 Register.

Ritester Uthy 1000 Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation 3/31/23 Name Secretary -of the ouorey Commonwea1th, Chairman, Title Massachusetts Historical Commission Date ATTEST: Date February 21, 1973 eactbol 3/20/2 RUCTIONS GP0 931-894 Form 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM (Continuation Sheet) STATE Massachusetts COUNTY Suffolk FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER MAR 2 1 1973 DATE (Number all entries) 8. Significance (continued) Of the three buildings in the district which have individual significance, two are massive granite warehouses. The first, the Mercantile Wharf Building, was constructed in 1856 from designs by Gridley J. F. Bryant.

Though it re- peats the post and lintel motif of the row buildings at street level, the building is essentially an adaptation of the Renaissance revival style for commercial purposes. The Commercial Block, constructed in 1857, repeats on a smaller scale the major design features of the the Mercantile Wharf Building, including the post and lintel motif. Henry Russell Hitchcock has indicated that the Commercial Block was also designed by Bryant; however, on the basis of recent research, the building has also been attributed to Calvert Vaux of New York. Hitchcock has stated that these granite warehouses are "hardly equalled any- where in the world." Sigfried Giedion,in Space, Time and Architecture, sug- gests that these buildings, and the Commercial Block in particular, had a major impact on the style of the commercial buildings designed by Henry Hob- son Richardson.

Richardson was a student at Harvard in the period when the warehouses were constructed. Giedion sees the granite warehouses echoed in the sober impressiveness of the Marshall Field Wholesale Store in Chicago (1885) and believes them to be as important to the development of Richardson's style as any earlier Romanesque influence. The last of the major buildings in the Fulton-Commercial Streets District is the McLauthlin Building, constructed c. 1864 from designs by an unknown archi- tect. Reminiscent of the work of James Bogardus, this is the earliest extant cast iron front in New England and probably the best extant example of this style north of New York City. The building is still occupied by the original owner, the McLauthlin Elevator Company.

Following the decline of Boston's waterfront in the 1890's, the original busi- nesses in the Fulton-Commercial Streets District were gradually replaced by food processors and meat and produce wholesalers and many of the buildings began to deteriorate. The final decline of the district occurred in the 1950's when it was cut off from the rest of the downtown area by the construction of the Fitzgerald Expressway. With the exception of the buildings on Lewis Street and on the north side of Fulton Street from Richmond Street to Lewis Street, property in the district has now been acquired by the Boston Redevelopment Authority as part of its Downtown-Waterfront Renewal Project. mutarty a part oe ia bateo RECEiVED MAR 2 1973 NATIONAC REGIS: GPO 921.724 PROPERT 7ultor-Cermercial Streets DistTATE Mass WORKING NUMBER 3.2.73.2449 TECH REVIEW Photos Maps 5 / Suffolk CONTROL REVIEW Map o.k.

3-16- 13 ahisteathes wiee be snding nace platographo- 3 2- Acceptstul ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Wow! ACCEPT 3/12/13 ARCHEOLOGIST REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Beautfulphots accut 3-12-23 BRANCH CHIEF KEEPER 3p4p National Register write-up Federal Register entry Note photos! 5-/-73 Send-back Re-submit Entered MAR 2 1 1973 NPSNumber Title: LOc. 3/21/73 FultoN - commisrcial Sta DIst. Suffalls, mass. StecEtssapE - FultoN StREst PRORITY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER NS Number 3/21/73 Title:Fulton-Compercial Loc. SUFFOllE, MASS NoRth FACADE Boston, Massachusetts 71-117 Commercial Street 33-81 Mercantile Street Mercantile Building Boston Redevelopment Authority John H.Catlin May 1, 1972 John H. Catlin North Facade PROPERTY OF THE NATIONA JOHN CATLIN PHOTOGRAPHER /49-12 NPS Number 3/21/73 Title: FultoN-commercial Sts. Dist.. Loc. Suffoll, MASS.

combercial StRiet, noRthwest SIDE PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Form 10-301 (July 1968) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with map) 1. NAME COMMON AND/OR HISTORIC Fulton-Commercial Streets District 2. LOCATION STATE NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) MAR 2 1 1973 Massachusetts STREET AND NUMBER COUNTY Suffolk TOWNi Boston Fulton Street, Commercial Street, Mercantile Street, Iewis Street, Richmond Street 3. MAP REFERENCE SOURCE DATE U.S.G.S.

Boston South 1956 Quadrangle REQUIREMENTS: PROPERTY BOUNDARIES, WHERE REQUIRED, AND NORTH ARROW- 3IN SCALE 1:24,000 15/ 12) MAR RECEIVED 2 TTA NATIONAL 1973 REGISTER 0I1161118 GPO 932.010 Ferry Strect BricK Alley Cross Street Chair Alley Mercantile Street Open Space Fultor Place Richmond Street Fulton Street 2 Commerciat Street Open Space BIL6I RECENED MAR 2 1973 NATIONAL REGISTER OTI Place Fulton-Commercial Streets District 1. Mercantile Wharf Building 2. Commercial Block 3. Mclauthlin Building District Boundary North Street Lewis Stree Fleet Street N Approximate scale: 1" to 100* Form 10-301 (July 1968) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with map) AND/OR HISTORIC 1. NAME COMMON Fulton-Commercial Streets District NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) AR 2 1 1973 2.

LOCATION STATE Massachusetts STREET AND NUMBER COUNTY Suffolk TOWN Boston Fulton Street, Commercial Street, Mercantile Street, Lewis Street, Richmond Street 3. MAP REFERENCE SOURCE DATE prepared by staff: February, 1973 Mass. Historical Commission REQUIREMENTS: PROPERTY BOUNDARIES, WHERE REQUIRED, AND NORTH ARROW: ISCALE 1" = 100' (approximate) At / RECEIVED MAR 2 1973 NATIONAL REGISTER ETI GPO 932.010 GE BTt CRAGT John F. X. Davoren Secretary of the Commonwealth The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Ofice of the Secretary Massachusetts Historical Commission XXXX*XxxxXTwxXX Boston, Mass. 02108 40 Beacon Street February 22, 1973 National Register of Historic Places Department of the Interior National Park Service 18th and C Streets, N.w. Washington, D.C. 20240 MAR 2 1973 Attention: Mr.

Jerry Rogers CERTIFIED Dear Jerry: Enclosed is a National Register submission for: Suffolk County, Boston, Fulton-Commercial Streets District This has been declared eligible for submission by the Massachusetts Historical Commission, the State Review Board, and has been signed by Secretary of the Commonwealth John F. X. Davoren, Chairman of the Massachusetts Historical Commission and designated the State Liaison Officer. We ask your cooperation in processing this nomination as quickly as possible. For the past several months, the Fulton-Commercial Streets District has been the subject of litigation; we have delayed submission of it to the Register on that account. The case has now been settled by an agreement between the parties involved, which calls for a re-study of the urban renewal plans for the area.

Our Commission would like to in- sure that the historical and architectural value of the district is given appropriate consideration in any revision of those plans by listing it on the Register before the re-study begins. Thank you for your assistance. Sincerely, Bob, Robert B. Rettig Executive Director Massachusetts Historical Commission RBR : pm Encls. WASO-9 (Nov. 1966) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON OFFICE FOLLOW-UP SLIP Dato 3-12 I have called Huo ino set swae tnes on this i they Keep on stallin. sat citey mormatim . Polymae important to get it on. I think Huo to putit on the Ne! Now is stalling! I vote been faying well nen a cucch! ! I'me NOT TO BE FILED Signetwra Canal Shull John F. X.

Davoren Pecretary of the Commonwealch The Commonwealth of Massachusetts ffice of the Secretary Massachusetts Historical Commission xXXXxxxxxxXxxxxx Boston, Mass. 02108 40 Beacon Street March 13, 1973 314/15 RECEIVED MAR 2 1973 National Register of Historic Places Department of the Interior National Park Service 18th and C Streets, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20240 Attention: Ms. Carol Shull CERTIFIED MAIL Dear Carol: Enclosed are the additional photographic materials necessary to complete our Register submission for: Suffolk County, Boston, Fulton - Commercial Streets District I am also enclosing a second large-scale map of the district, which we would like to substitute for the map included with our original package of materials.

As I explained in our telephone conversation this morning, the copy you now have was traced from an early work map of the district which is incorrect in two points (see upper left portion of the map). First, it shows Ferry Street as a through Street; as the revised map indicates, this street has been closed to traffic. Second, the district boundaries shown on your copy of the map do not include the row buildings standing northwest of Fulton Street between Ferry Street and Brick Alley. These buildings are part of the submission as approved by our Review Board and are included in the district boundaries on the revised map. My apologies for this last piece of confusion and my thanks for your help in getting this nomination processed so quickly. I will do my best not to hand you any more problem cases for a while.

Best regards, Poce Polly Ahn Matherly Historian Massachusetts Historical Commission : pam Encls. ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER STATE MASSACHUSETTS MAR 2 1 1973 Date Entered Name Fulton-Counercial Streets Distriet Location Boston Suffolk County Also Notified Hon. Edward N. Kennedy Hon. Edvard W. Brooke Hon. John Moakley Director, Northeast Region |PHR State Liaison 0fficer Ron. John 7.X. Davoren Seczetary of the Conmonvealth Cheirnan, Massachusetts His- torical Comnission 40 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02108 NRowland: jcc 3/27/73 IMENT OF United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20240 IN REPLY REFER 10: H34-880 APR 15 1977 Property: McLauthlin Building Address: 120 1/2 Fulton Street Boston, Mass.

The National Park Service has determined chat the property listed above is of historic significance to the following district: Fulton-Commercial Street District If subject to depreciation under section 167 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, this property qualifies as a "certified historic structure" for purposes of the Tax Reform Act of 1976. Obtaining certified historic structure status is the first step in qualifying for tax deductions under section 2124 of the Iax Reform Act. The incentives detailed in subsections 2124(a) and 2124(b) apply only to structures which have either undergone or are about to undergo rehabilitation which the Secretary of the Interior can find certifiable. The Secretary's Standards for Rehabilitation and guidelines for rehabilitating historic buildings are enclosed for your information.

Also enclosed is a draft Application for Certified Rehabilitation (subject to approval by the Office of Management and Budget) which should be completed and mailed to your State Historic Preservation Officer when requesting certification. Instructions for filling out the application are on the form itself. Specific questions concerning documentation required to certify rehabilitation work should be addressed to your State Historic Preservation Officer or to the Chief, Technical Preservation Services Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of. the Interior, Washington, D.C. 20240. Sinderely, yours, Muttagh Keeper of the National Registe: Enclosures NOM. FILE ,EVOLUTIC 176-1918 PART 1 HISTORIC PRESERVATION CERTIFICATION APPLICATION: EVALUATION OF SIGNIFICANCE Pursuant to the Tax Reform Act of 1976 NPS use only 8/22 DRAFT READ INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE COMPLETING.

RETURN COMPLETED FORM -TO APPROPRIATE STATE HISIORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER. 1. Address of property: street_ 120 1/2 Fulton Street city Boston county_ Suffolk state Ma. ziP_ Name of historic district in which property is located:Fulton-Commercial Streets District 2. Description of physical appearance prior to rehabilitation: The McLauthlin Building is a six-story brick structure with a cast iron front, the earliest extant in Boston. Each story of the building is divided into six bays by attenuated pilasters. The ground floor bays contain doorways and shop windows, above which the pilasters support broad arches with keystones. On the upper floors, each bay contains two window units, mounted above inset panels and separated by narrow 3. fiatemenset, sihifhielicths.

Though the pilasters and columns are given the same "'The last of the major buildings in the Fulton-Commercial Streets District is the McLauthlin Building, constructed c. 1864, from the designs by an unknown architect. Reminiscent of the work of James Bogardus, this is the earliest extant cast iron front in New England and probably the best extant example of this style north of New York City." Date of construction (if known): c.1864 Original siteX Moved 4. Name and mailing address of owner name Nicholas B. Deane street The 120 Fulton Street Redevelopment 1558 Massachusetts Ave. city Cambridge, state_Massachusetts 2ip. 02138 telephone number (during day): area code_ (617)492-7796 Ihereby attest that the information 1 have provided is, to the best of my knowledge, correct, and that I am owner of the property described above.

signature date For office use only The stricture descrihed above Is Included within the boundaries of a "ational Register historlc district and Vcontributes does not contribute to the character of the district. The structure will 11kely will not be does not appear to meet Natlenal Register Criterla for Evaluatlon (36 CFR 60.6) nominated to the lational Register In accord with Natfonal Park Service procedures (36 CFR 60). The structure Is located in a district which __appears does not appear to meet National Register Criterla for Evaluation (36 CFR 60.6), .will 1ikely will not be nominated to the latfonal Register in accord with Natlonal Park Service procedure: (36 CFR 60), and __appears_does not appear to contribute to the char- acter of sald district.

signature dnte State Ilistorlc Preservatlon Officer This property has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service (36 CFR 67) and, if subject to deprecfation under sectlon 167 of the Internal Reveme Code of 1954: is hereby certlfled a historic structure. does not contribute to the character of the historlc district and does not merit certlfication as a historle structure. Reasons given on the attached sheet. IF NEEDED USE THIS SIDE TO COMPLETE ANSWERS TO PART 1 #2 cont'd visual weight, the former are, in fact, only facing plates which conceal interior structural members, while the latter are actually bearing members. Each window unit on the second, third, and fourth floors is topped by a semi-circular keystoned arch from a plilaster to the adjacent column. On the fifth floor this arch detail is replaced by rectangular window openings.

Projecting stringcourses are set above each story supported by simple brackets. The facade is capped by a heavy bracketed cornice, above which rises a mansard roof with rectangular dormers. FAPI 2 HISTORIC PRESERVATION CERTIFICATION APPLICATION: DESCRIPTION OF REHABILITATION Pursuant to the Tax Reform Act of 1976 NPS use only 8/17 READ INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE COMPLETING. RETURN COMPLETED FORM TO APPROPRIATE STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER. 1. Name of property:_ MCLAUTHLIN ELEVATOR BUILDING Address of property: street 120 % FULTON STREET BOSTON state mASS: If located in National Register historic district, Iocal or State designated distríct, sDecifVi FULTON- COMMERCIAL SIREETS DISTRICT 2. Data on existing structure Date of construction C. 1864 Existing f1o0r area see plans sq. feet Original use cemmeRciaL/monufrcture Type of construction: BRICK STRUCIURC WITH CAST IRONFRENT 3.

Data on rehabilitation project Project starting date (est.) JUNE 1972 Project conpletion date (est.)mARCH.1978._ Fscimated cost of relabtltation tor Si, lC peino ed useeops S560 las the property received Federal or State financial assistance? If yoo, specify source:APPUED FOR NPS GRANT FOR FACADE BESICRADON Lcommission Are architectural plans and specifications available for revicn vyes_no Architect's or developer's nare and acdress:MORITZ. BERGMEYER ASSCCIATES, INC phonx # 617-723-7910 -128 FULTON STBEET, BOSTON, MASS 4. Detailed description of rehabilitation/preservation work, including site work, new construction, alterations, etc. Corpletr blecks belor. Architectural featureFVE- STORY IRON FACADE Describe work and impact on existing Original V Added at later date structure: Restore shallou arcade-effect Approx. date of feature c.

1864 Describe existing condition: An the gRourdR We By FEmEN tese shiet- ground floer columNs at stREet lNe, then FAIR CONDITION Replacing it with divided windiw's fRe sidewalk to cerline at ORiginal locatioN SCBAPE, POINT, AND CAULR CAST IRON FACADE REFER TO PAMPHLET AND SKETCH AND Photo no.2,3 . Drawing no. OLITLINE SPECIFICATIONE XPS usc only Drawing no. A-E Architectural feature CAST IRON WINDOWS Originai. V Added at later date New const._ Approx. date of feature 19*hC Describe existing condition: Describe work and impact on existing structuen futere tRe ExIstiNg CustIRON an street fAcade with iNtero WALL- tRAMES, INPS use only REFER Photo no n2, 3 TO OUTLINE SPECIFICATIONS Drawing no. Architectural feature MANSARD ROOF (Gth flOOR Original Aaded at later datev New const. Approx. date of feature late i9th centuRy Describe existing condition: IN pora condition - Evidence.

of water stEpage and darage Drawing no. A-8 Jescribe wcrk and impact on existin structure: Lut back marsaRd - Roofed sixth flocr from Fulton Street facade line leuchind and lower its maximum treight longer it. The visible. fepuRpose is to make it No Fulton StREEt, thUs REStORINC VISUAL INTEGRITY OF THE STREET FACADE SEE SIGHT- LINES INPS use only Architectural feature_ PENTHOUSE Originai Added at later date_ New const. Approx. date of feature Describe existing condition: Describe work and impact on existing structure: Add A pentheuse of abaut half area of the building, invisible Photo no. #4 Drawing no._LMC-1 PlAcC : UReFER TO "A ReViSeD EARLY PHOTOGRRPHJAPS use only Drawing no. Architectural feature_OPEN ,FACTORY LOFTS Originaly Added at later date New const._ Approx. date of feature Describe existing condition: CONDITION-GOOD Photo no. REFER TO CITLINE SPECIFICATION Drawing no.

Describe work and impact on existing structure: TRESeRUe ExiStiNg post, beaim, and Jurst ronstruction: clear JiNE aNo Repainting ASt-IRON POStS: ReplACN REINFORCINE SOME FAILED WEEDEN GIRDERS ANS JOISTS INPS use only Drawing no. Architectural featureINTERIOR - SPACES + PARTITIONS Describe work and impact on existing Original v added at later catev hew const. structure: ConstRuct New iNteRIoR AS Approx. date of feature 19th C. shewn on lANs and As descrited in Describe existing condition: outline specifications, PROVIDINE FAIR spaces, featuRinc heavy beamatoned spnces CUTLINE Photo no. 5,6_ Drawing no.SPECIFICATION'S WIH BE SyBDIVDER SEE LOBBY. SKETCH Drawing no.G-2,A-y Architectural feature PARKING Original Added at Tater date New const. Approx.

date of feature Describe existing condition: Describe work and impact on existing structure: DEpRess poRtioNs of the preking lot abutting the rear of the building. The Puxposc is to provide Ramo access to a basment garage and to put Noae the ReCiE wArL BELOWU THERKEHT-LINES FROM WINDOW AND STREET. IXPS use only Photo no. _Drawing no. Drawing no. AR, A-B Continuation sheets attached: yes_. nov Vame and mailing address of owner name NICHOLAS B DEANE (THE 120 _FULTON STREET DEVELOPMENT) street 1558 MASS. AUE city CAMBRIDGE state mAss zip 02138 telephone number (during day): 611-492:7796 I hereby apply for certification of rehabilitation work described above for purposes of Section 2124 of the Tax Reform Act of 1976. I hereby attest that the information I have provided is, to the best of my knowledge, correct, and that I am owner of the property described above.

owner's signature date 9th MARGt 1977 TRANF WASO-9 1966) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON OFFICE FOLLOW-UP SLIP Polly matherley called me on this one. Its in NOT TO BE FILED Signature Carae Shuel 3 978 SECTION I-APPLICAMT/RECIPIENT DATA I11FEDERAL AGERCYACTION SECTION II-CERTIFICATION FEDLRAL ASSISTANCE 1. TYPE ACTION - PREAPPLICATION [X APPLICATION (Mark ap- propriats ] NOTIFICATION OF INTENT (Opt.) b0z) REPORT OF FEDERAL ACTICN 2. APPLI- CANT'S APPLI- CATION Leave Blank a. NUMBER 805 3. STATE APPLICA- TION b. DATE 19'48 mgneh j9" IDENTI- FIER OMB Approval No. 29-R0218 8. NUMBLR 77060882 b. DATE ASSIGNED 1079 mo 2 4. LEGAL APPLICANT/RECIPIENT - a. Applicant Name Conmonwealth of Massachusetts 5. FEDERAL EMPLOYER IDENTIFICATION NO. 046-002-284 b. Organization Unit Massachusetts Historical Conmission c. Street/P.O.

Box 294 Washington Street d. City Boston -. County : Suffolk f. State Massachusetts h. Contact Person (Name Patricia L. Westolscd, s971080. (617) 727-8470 6. PRO- GRAM (From Federal Catalog) 8. NUMBER b. TITLE 115904 Historic Preservation 7. TITLE AND DESCRIPTION OF APPLICANT'S PROJECT 8. TYPE OF APPLICANT/RECIPIENT Fulton-Conmercial Streets District: McLauthlin A-State H-Community Action Agency 8-Interstate - Higher Educational Institution Building Development Project, Boston, Suffolk Co. C-Substata J-Indian Tribe The McLauthlin Company Building is a key element in District K-Other(Specifu): D-County E-City the Fulton-Conmercial Streets Historic District in F-School District G-Special Purpose Boston, and forms one of the major facades along District Enter appropriate letter A these streets. The building is one of Boston's earli9.

TYPE OF ASSISTANCE est cast iron industrial buildings and was formerly D-Insurance B-Supplemental Grant E-Other an elevator factory. The project objective is C-Loan Enter appro- priate letter (8) 10. AREA OF PROJECT IMPACT (Names of cities, countics, 11. ESTIMATED NUM. 12. TYPE OF APPLICATION States, etc.) BER OF PERSONS A-New C-Revision E-Augmentation ENEFITIN Commonwealth of Massachusetts .7 millio B-Renewal D-Continuation Enter appropriate letter 13. 8. FEDERAL B. APPLICANT c. STATE d. LOCAL PROPOSED FUNDING 14. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS OF: 15. TYPE OF CHANGE (For 12c or 12e) A-Increase Dollars F-Other (Specifv) : 25,000.00 a. APPLICANT b. PROJECT B-Decrease Dollars 34,415.00 9 9 C-Increase Duration N/A D-Decrease Duration E-Cancellation PROJECT START 17. PROJECT .00 19 / DUGOTION Montha 18. ESTIMATED DATE TO Enter appro- priate letter(e) | 19.

EXISTING FEDERAL IDENTIFICATION NUMBER 59,415.00 FEDERAL AGENCY & 20. FEDERAL AGENCY TO RECEIVE REQUEST (Name, City, State, ZIP code)Washington D.C. 20240 21. REMARKS ADDED Dept, of the Interior, Heritage Conservation & Recreation Service I2 Yes -] No a. To the best of my knowledge and belisf, b. If required by OMB Circular A-95 this acolication was submitted, pursuant to in. No re- data in this prespplication/application 2ie structions therein, to appropriate clearinghousas and sil responses are attached: sponse Response attached THE true and correct, the document has been APPLICANT duly authorized by the governing body of CERTIFIES the applicant and the applicant will comply Office of State Planning THAT - with the attached assurances if the assist- ance is approved. 23. a. TYPED NAME AND TITLE b. SIGNATURE CERTIFYING Patricia L. Weslowski, S.H.P.O.

SENTATIVE and Acting Executive Director Poteure I Weslowske 24. AGENCY NAME Department of the Interior 26. ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT HCRS 27. ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE Grants Adm. Div. c. DATE SIGNED Yearmonth day 19 78 8 31 25. APPLICA- Year month day TION RECEIVED 19 78 9 13 28. FEDERAL APPLICATION IDENTIFICATION 29. ADDRESS Wash., D.C. 20240 31. ACTION TAKEN 8. AWARDED b. REJECTED FUNDING 25,000 34,415 c. RETURNED FOR AMENDMENT 30. FEDERAL GRANT IDENTIFICATION 25-8C54 Year month day 34. Ycar month day 33. ACTION 19 78 STARTING 09 22 DATE 19 78 35. CONTACT FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMA- 36. Year month TION (Name and telephons wumber) ENDING DATE 19 80 37. REMARKS ADDED day 9 d. DEFERRED Stephen D. Newman 202 523-5472 -. WITHDRAWN 38. FEDERAL AGENCY A-95 ACTION 424-101 32. a. FEDERAL 00 b. APPLICANT .CO c. STATE .00 d. LOCAL .00 -.

OTHER .00 TOTAL $ 59 ,415 .00 a.Intaking aboveaction, any comments received from clearinghouseswerecon. b. FEDERAL AGENCY A-95 OFFICIAL sidered. If agency response is due under provisions of Part 1, OMB Circular A-95, (Name and telephone no.) it has been or is baing made. Same as #35 STANDARD FORM 424 PAGE 1 (10-75) Wtiwies coitPrescribed by GSA, Federal Management Circular 74-7 30 SECTION IV-REMARKS (Please reference the proper item number from Sections I, II or III, if applicable) Section 1 - Item 7 preservation and restoration of the cast iron facade. The intended use of the property is as a commercial and residential building. Section 1 - Item 16 The project start date reflects the date that the Massachusetts Historical Commission requested the grantee to prepare plans and specifications for project initiation.

No construction has been or will be undertaken prior to project approval date on grant assisted work. Signature Date. APPROVED an Duett 9/20778 STANDARD . JRM 424 PAGE 2 (10-75)