Nomination for Hale, Edward Everett, House

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Form 10-300 (July 1969) PHOU17012 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM STATE: Massachusetts COUNTY: Suffolk FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) NAME C OMMON: Edward Everett Hale House AND/ OR HISTORIC: MAY DATE 8 1973 N468 200 LOCATION 9th Congressional District STREET AND NUMBER: 12 Morley Street CITY OR TOWN: (Roxbury) Boston STATE Massachusetts 3. CLASSIFICATION CATEGORY (Check One) District - Building Site Structure X Object Public Private Both CODE COUNTY: 025 Suffolk CODE 025 OWNERSHIP STATUS Public Acquisition: In Process Being Considered Occupied Unoccupied X] Preservation work in progress L ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC Yes: X Restricted Unrestricted No 5.

PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Agricultural Government Commercial Industrial LX Educational Military Entertainment Museum Park Private Residence Religious Scientific Transportation - Other (Specify) - Comments OWNER OF PROPERTY OWNER'S NAME: STREET AND NUMBER: Mr. Bryon Rushing hapolea.

ones Kendere 12 Morley Street CITY OR TOWN: STATE: (Roxbury) Boston Massachusetts CODE 025 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: Norfolk County Court at Dedham and Registry of Deeds, Suffolk County STREET AND NUMBER: Pemberton Square CITY OR TOWN: STATE Boston Massachusetts 2|13) Massachusetts STATE: CITY OR TOWN: Washington STATE: CODE Suffolk 025/ APR CENER 1973 NATONAL CODE COUNTY: REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: Historic American Buildings Survey (1 Photo) DATE OF SURVEY: 1950 x Federal - State DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: O Couniyay Division of, Prints and Photographs, Library of Congress STREET AND NUMBER: GENTEY NUMBER FOR NPS USE ONLY 20540 D. C.

DATE 2n19 E327580 DESCRIPTION (Check One) Excellent CONDITION Good Fair X Deteriorated Ruins - Unexposed (Check One) (Check One) X Altered - Unaltered X Moved - Original Site DE&CRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE The Edward Everett Hale House is a large two-story structure with a gable roof set side to street. Five bays wide by four bays deep, the house is dominated by a three-bay wide portico. The roofline is broken by pairs of lateral chimneys, a pair of double-sashed, pedimented dormers that flank the portico, and was crowned by a cupola. The giant tetra- style Ionic portico is missing the rightmost fluted column and part of the leftmost Ionic capital. The entablature of the portico's low trian- gular pediment continues around all elevations having a complete return which forms an imitative pediment on the gable ends.

Pairs of wide pilasters frame the facade's end window bays, and flat trabeated members border the elongated ground floor windows. The inner windows are defined by eared corner mouldings. Only the pair of ground floor windows to the right of the central entrance retain their original 6/9 pane sashes, since the left pair have been reduced and the bottom filled in. The upper story 6/6 pane sashes set close to the cornice appear intact. \The dignified entrance illustrates more typical Greek Revival elements: a broad eared corner moulding surrounds the large paned tran- som and side lights. The door is not original. One originally reached the entry laterally from the portico's side. Now two modern stairways at the left and the center lead up to the porche. The walls of the facade are flush-boarded, and the walls of the other elevations are covered in clapboarding.

The center door in the south elevation is flanked by side lights, topped by a wide rectangular transom, and crowned with a cornice. The wide center hall extends through the house from front to rear and divides the four rooms on the first floor into pairs. To the left of the hall, are the living room in frönt and the dining room behind. the right of the hall is the study in front, a lateral stair hall with the staircase in the center, and in the rear corner, the kitchen. he walls 'are plastered and the floors are of wide boards. The three principal rooms have their original marble mantels,. The second floor has four bedrooms and a bath and three of the four marble mantels are still in place. The third floor contains five more chambers and a bath.

3L14, 15 RECEIVED APR 5 1973 NATIONAL REGISTER SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian | 16th Century 18th Century 15th Century 17th Century XI 19th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (It Applicable and Known) 1841; Hale Home, 1869-1909 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 Political Religion/Phif losophy Science Sculpture APp Social/Human- itarian Theater NATIONAL REGISTEK Transportation - 20th Century Urban Planning Other/(Specify) STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

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The Edward Everett Hale House is an outstanding example of a large frame Greek Revival residence. It was built during a period which witnessed large-scale development of a rural neighborhood into a dense suburb representing all phases of Victorian architectural styles. The most notable owner of this house was Edward Everett Hale, (1822-1909), Unitarian clergyman, humanitarian reformer, and author of the short story, "The Man Without a Country", (1863), who lived in the house from 1869 to 1909.V The Hale House was probably built in 1841 by a carpenter named Benjamin Kent and was originally located at 39 Highland Street, around the corner from its present location on Morley Street. Highland Street in order to create a pleasant residential community and to preserve the fort.

unly scattered bullaing occurred on Highland Street until the mid- 1830's when purchasers of large lots began to build handsome residences in the current fashionable architectural styles'. Soon the pattern of deve lopment during the mid-19th century consisted of a gradual selling. off of individual lots on which detached single or double houses were built, either by the original developer, by a speculative builder, or by a new owner for his own use. By the end of the century, the "pleasant residential community" envisioned by its formulators had become a densely built up suburb with a full cross section of suburban architec- ture and building types. According to early deeds, Benjamin Kent in 1841 purchased a large lot between Highland Street and Centre Street "with a mansion thereon". Only a year later, he sold the parcel "with the mansions there on" for nearly twice the original cost.

The structure built then is an elaborate example of the prevailing stylistic idiom, Greek Revival, often borrowed by builders for their suburban residences. When the house came into the possession of the Reverend Edward Everett Hale in 1869, its land was considerably reduced. Hale lived there until his death in 1909. Between 1899 and 1906, the house was moved from its Highland Street frontage around the corner to 12 Morley Street. Edward Everett Hale Edward Everett Hale was born April 3, 1822 in Boston, the fourth of eight children of a prominent Boston family. After graduating from the Boston Latin School at the age of 13, Hale entered Harvard College and graduated second in his class and Phi Beta Kappa in 1839. He taught at

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MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Jean Halloway, Edward Everett Hale, A Biography (Austin, 1956). E. E. Hale, The Works of Edward Everett Hale (10 vols., Boston, 1898-1900). E. E. Hale, Four and Five (Boston, 1891). F. S. Drake, The Town of Roxbury (Boston, 1878). Dumas Malone, Ed., Dictionary of American Biography (New York, 1943). Vol. 8 M. H. Wade, Real Americans (Boston, 1922) Information taken from National Historic Landmark study, researched by Charles W. Snell, Survey Historian, Office of Archeology & Historic Preservation, NPS.

1970 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY -LA TITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES R CORNER LATITUDE LONGITUDE Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds LATITUDE LONGITUDE Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds NW 42 19 : 44.06 71 ° 05-34.24" NE SE' 203p2 00822 APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: less than one acre STETAL STATES AND COUATIR& POR PRORERTIE OERCEM A A NOZIDANEES STATE: APR STATE: CODE COUNTY: PECEIVEN STATE: CODE COUNTY: NATIONAL STATE: CODE COUNTY: REGISTER AIT OII CODE CODE CODE CODE 12.

FORM PREPARED BY AND TITLE: Judich McDonough (BRA) for Elfzabeth Amadon, Survey Director ORGANIZATION ISt Archeology and DATE Massachusetts Historical Commission Service March 1973 STREET AND NUMBER: 40 Beacon Street CITY OR TOWN: STATE Bloston STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION 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 evaluated according to the critéria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. level of significance of this nomination is: ational State Local I hereby certify that this property is included in the Nationa1 Register. Chief, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation Oltestor Mety.

m 190" Date 780730 0r Name Secreta Chairman Title ATTEST: of the Commonwealth Massachusetts Historical Commission Date March 30, 1973 Date Keeper of The National Regi 4 23 m IN RU CTIONS Form 10-300a (Judy 1969) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR -NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM (Continuation Sheet) STATE Massachusetts COUNTY Suffolk FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER MAY 8 DATE (Number all entries) Continued Roxbury Highlands Study 1969 Localx Boston Architectural Center 320 Newbury Street Boston Massachusetts, Code: 025 8. Continued the Boston Latin School for the next two years and also wrote articles for the Boston Daily Advertises which was owned and edited by his father, Nathan Hale. In 1842 he began to preach and in 1846 was ordained minister of the Church of the Unity in Worcester, Massachusetts.

He married Emily Balburn Perkins in 1852 and from 1856 to 1899 served as the minister of Boston's South Congregational Church. Edward Everett Hale's first two short stories were published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1859. What was to be his most famous short story, "The Man Without a Country," was published in the same magazine in December, 1863. This story was originally written in an effort to infuence an impending election in Ohio between a Copperhead and a loyal Unionist. These stories, along with many others, were included in his tirst volume of fiction, If, Yes, and Perhaps (1868). Between 1870 and 18/5 Hale edited a monthly magazine Old and New. He wrote three novels All of his works, fiction or non-fiction, were the result of his intermingling of historical, religious, and humanitarian subjects with his own journalistic style.

Much of his later work was devoted to reminiscent writing and is of interest mainly for its rich local color. Books of this type included: A New England Boyhood (1893, 1900), James Russel1Lowel1 and His Friends (1899), and Memoirs of a Hundred Years (2 vols., 1902). Hale served as the chaplain of the U. S. Senate from 1903 to 1909 and died on June 10, 1909. 13 4 Continued Fudith McDonough - Architectural & Developmental Mate oston Landmarks Commonission Date: March, 19 12) ty Hal!1 rton, Massachusetts RECEVED APp NATIONAL 1973 Code: 02 REGISTER PROPERTY Hale (Edward Everett) STATE asss Hause WORKING NUMBER 4.5.23.22.42 TECH REVIEW Photos / Maps Suffolk 19473 CONTROL REVIEW 4-13- 13 DK HISTORIAN despite beina moved, deteriorated in condition, Accept etl. still/has sign ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN tale is ginte sipfrianh pus uptte Despite move, lovely house, v. significant.

AcepT 4/24/73 ARCHEOLOGIST REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BRANCH CHIEF KEEPER f/26 National Register write-up . Federal Register entry _ 2-3-73 Send-back Re-submit Entered MAY 8 1973 MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON, EDWARD Housi (Facade) NPS Number $/8/73 Title: MAlE, E.E., MousE Loc. Suffalls, mass. fAcADi looking west on morey +T+ALE PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 5/9/73 NRowland :mm ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER STATE Date Entered MASSACHUSETTS MAY 8 1973 Name South Ind District Heamond Castle Gloucester City 1a11 Bsattlo (N111iam) Housa The House of Seven Gables Historío District Hada (Bawasd Ivorott) House Lane (Job) House Location Doston Suffolk County Gloucester Easex County Gloucester Essex County Cambridge Midälerex County salem Issex County (Roxbury) Boston Suffolk County Bedford Midalesex County Also Notified Hon. Edward M. Kennedy Ton. Divard W. Brooke Ion. John Moakley Ion. Michael J.

Harrington Ton. Thomaa P. O'Neill, Jr. Ion. Paul Cronin Director, Northeast Region State Historio Preservation Officor lion. John F. X. Davoren Secretary of the Commonwealth Chalrman, Massachusetts Ilstorical Conmission 40 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02108