Nomination for Cabot, Capt. John, House

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Form No. 10-300 (Rev. 10-74) PIt 0058033 DATA SHEET UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM RECEIVEDgPR 07 1975 DATE ENTERED APR 1A1ZE SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS 1 NAME HISTORIC Captain John Cabot/ House AND/OR COMMON Cabot House 2 LOCATION STREET & NUMBER 117 Cabot Street CITY.

TOWN Beverly STATE Massachusetts 3 CLASSIFICATION - VICINITY OF COBE -NOT FOR PUBLICATION CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 6th EsseCOUNTY CROE Oug CATEGORY DISTRICT -BUILDINGIS _STRUCTURE SITE _OBJECT OWNERSHIP *PUBLIC -PRIVATE _BOTH PUBLIC ACQUISITION _IN PROCESS _BEING CONSIDERED STATUS XOCCUPIED _UNOCCUPIED _WORK IN PROGRESS ACCESSIBLE A YES: RESTRICTED -YES: UNRESTRICTED _NO PRESENT USE AGRICULTURE XMUSEUM _COMMERCIAL -PARK X EDUCATIONAL _PRIVATE RESIDENCE _ENTERTAINMENT -RELIGIOUS _GOVERNMENT SCETIFIC _INDUSTRIAL -TRANSPORTATION MILITARY _OTHER: HOWNER OF PROPERTY NAME Beverly Historical Society STREET & NUMBER 117 Cabot Street CITY. TOWN STATE Massachusetts Beverly -VICINITY OF 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION GISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC Essex South Registry of Deeds STREET & NUMBER 01915 Federal Street CITY.

TOWN Salem 6 REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE STATE Massachusetts Inventory of the Historic Assets of the Commonwealth DATE 1974 _FEDERAL STATE _COUNTY _LOCAL DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS Massachusetts Historical Commission CITYTOWN Boston STATE Massachusetts 7 DESCRIPTION CONDITION EXCELLENT _GOOD -FAIR -DETERIORATED _RUINS _UNEXPOSED CHECK ONE XUNALTERED -ALTERED CHECK ONE ZORIGINAL SITE -MOVED DATE. DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

The Cabot House, c, 1781, is located on the edge of Beverly's uptown business district facing the main road, Cabot Street, and is bounded by Central Street and Franklin Place. The fenced and landscaped backyard blends with other period homes in the area. This elegant Federal mansion, five bays wide, is built of brick which was made a few blocks away. It has a hip roof with interior chimneys. The house foundation and entrance steps are granite. The main frame of the house is made of hand hewn 13" x 15" pegged oak members; the 4" x 6" studding is tenoned into the main frame at 12" inter- vals, and the bracing is morticed and tenoned into the major uprights. There is also a solid brick wall running through the middle of the cellar parallel with the front of the building. The building is essentially unaltered on the exterior.

In 1802, the present two story wooden ell was added to the back of the building. The ell has a gabled roof and is two bays deep, three bays wide. The elegant roof entablature consists of Greek fretwork topped by large dentils. The front entrance portico is supported by two Ionic columns and has Greek fretwork and dentils running along the porch cornice. The eight-panelled door is flanked by fluted pilasters and topped by a transom and has full-length sidelights which illuminate the classic hall and stairway of the main entrance. "All of the facade windows and the windows of the other elevations are topped by skewback brick lintels. The interior, which has remained intact, has a conventional floor plan consisting of a central hall with double staircase and four rooms per floor.

The interior orna- mentation is of the "old English Battangley style with heavy, wide, thick archi- traves, with windows and door heads, solid wainscotting with a heavy base and impost bozdst atvery slaborafe masets vittoom fdreane21hasboee and retdeednteschimey place, Cornice mouldings and chair-rails throughout the house are Chinese influ- enced, combining scroll, cross, fluted and dentil carving. The stairways are box- panelled and the hall panelling is museum quality. 1. Beverly Citizen, August 3, 1886.

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SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD _PREHISTORIC -1400-1499 - 1500-1599 -1600-1699 -1700-1799 _1800-1899 -1900- ARCHEOLUGY-PREHISTORIC ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC AGRICULTURE -ARCHITECTURE ART _COMMERCE _COMMUNICATIONS AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW _COMMUNITY PLANNING _CONSERVATION -LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE -LAW ECONOMICS -LITERATURE _EDUCATION -MILITARY LENGINEERING _MUSIC EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _PHILOSOPHY INDUSTRY XPOLITICS/GOVERNMENT LINVENTION -RELIGION SCIENCE SCULPTURE -SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN -THEATER -TRANSPORTATION -OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES c 1781 BUILDER

Statement of significance

/ARCHITECT STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE On the east side of Cabot Street, surrounded by houses of the same period, stands the? magnificent home of Captain John Cabot, one of Beverly's most successful merchants. The 1781 house is architecturally significant not only because it is one of the few remaining mansions of this period which has not been greatly altered, but because it was the first brick mansion built in Beverly. All of the elegant exterior wood and brick work have been preserved, and the interior has been cited by numerous architects who have visited it as one which deserves national recognition and protection. Historically, the house is significant because Captain John Cabot and his brothers were involved in state politics.

house pos e1get cann tecaus John represented the town in the General Court in 1792 and in 1796 was nominated as a candidate for representative to Congress but der clined the honor. Captain Cabot started on a commercial career in Salem, in partnership with his father, after he graduated from Harvard College in 1763, His father died four years later and the following year (1768) Captain John, his mother and his siblings moved to Beverly. John Cabot lived in the house in Beverly built by his mother in 1773 (on the corner of Cabot and Central Streets) until her death in 1781, At that time Captain Cabot built the Cabot House, across the street from his mother's house, In 1802 he sold the house he had built, but leased the southern half for seven years. He moved to Boston c.

1809 and died there in 1821, Cabot was a prominent merchant in Beverly and for many years was in partnership with his brother, Andrew Cabot. In addition to large foreign and domestic commercial oper- ations, they, together with their brother George, took out Letters of Marque and en- gaged in privateering on an extensive scale, forming the large importing house of J. & A. Cabot which made Spanish trade its specialty. Captain Cabot was also one of the founders of the First Cotton Manufactory in 1788 which was formed in Beverly. President George Washington visited the mill in 1789 and recorded an account of that visit in his diary. Captain Cabot was also one of a corporation of five to support the building of the bridge between Beverly and Salem in 1789.

With his extraordinary spirit of enterprise and fine business mind, Captain Cabot was a major contributor to the mercantile development of Beverly.

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Briggs, I. Vernon, Cabot History and Geneology 1475-1927 Kilham, Henrietta B-, "Cabot-Lee-Kilham House, Beverly, Mass. and Those who lived in Boverly , a Tial Bon Dap ara spa dodunen 2 it", Old Time New EngLand SPNEA, April 1925, Vo1.XV Number 4 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY Iess than one acre hTM OFCD UTM REFERENCES AL19 B1451620 ZONE EASTING L417218,7,01 NORTHING BLJ ZONE EASTING NORTHING NORTHING -Lu LLILL UL.Li VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION 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 Christine Boulding, Assistant Survey Director and Beverly C.

Carlman ORGANIZATION DATE Massachusetts Historical Commission STREET & NUMBER,O Beacon Street CITY OR TOWN March 1975 TELEPHONE 617-727-8470 STATE Boston Massachusetts 02108 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: NATIONAL - STATE_ LOCAL As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National 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 criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVE SIGNATURE C0i icbuth R. Amodon TITLE Mass.

State Historic Preservation Officer DATEMarch 26,1975 FOR NPS USE ONLY I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER DIRECTOR OFFICE OF A oy Malles IC PRESERVATION KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 4/ke/75~ DATE DATE APR 14 1975 Property Cabat, Capt. John, Wame state Maus. Number 4, 7,75.613 TECHNICAL Photos. Maps Dukes Ref # 15000246 CONTROL pl OK 4.9.25 HISTORIAN HISTORIAN Idoult the unattered" condition of don arclitives LEBOVLO 4-11-75 ARCHEOLOGIST Accept M.Banras OTHER HAER Inventory _ Review - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Accim Cole 4-11.15 BRANCH CHIEF zugo 4.4.>5 KEEPER Wen National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry 6-3-75 Send-back Re-submit Entered APR 1 6 1975 INT:2106-74 United States Department of the Interior - National Park Service WASO No. 7 Form No. 10-301a (Pev.

10-7+) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (RECEIVED APR 07 1975 DATE ENTERED APR 16 1 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES ENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH NAME HISTORIC Captain John Cabot House AND/OR COMMON Cabot House LOCATION CITY, TOWN Beverly _VICINITY OF PHOTO REFERENCE PHOTO CREDIT Alexis Ushakoff Jr. NEGATIVE FILED AT Cabot House, Beverly Historical Society IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET east facade #|681 COUNTY Essex STATE DATE OF PHOTO 1975 PHOTO NO. PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Form No. 10-301 (Rev.

10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY RECEIVED APR 07 1975 APR 1 6 1975 DATE ENTERED SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- ENCLOSE WITH MAP 1 NAME HISTORIC 3 4 Captain John Cabot House AND/OR COMMON Cabot House LOCATION CITY. TOWN Beverly - VICINITY OF COUNTY Essex MAP REFERENCE SOURCE SCALE 1:24,000 United States Geological Survey, Salem, Mass quadrangle DATE 1970 REQUIREMENTS TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. PROPERTY BOUNDARIES 2. NORTH ARROW 3. UTM REFERENCES STATE MA INT: 2986-75 ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER STATE Date Entered MASSACHUSETTS PR 16 wa Name ( cabot, captain John, House Day, Josiah, House Location Hall, Isaac, House Beverly Essex County West Springfield Hampden County Medford Middlesex County Also Notified Hon. Edward M.

Kannedy Hon. Edward w. Brooke Hon. Michael J. Harrington Hon. Silvio o. Conte Hon. Torbert H. Reyional Director, North Atlantic Region State Historic Preservation Officer Mrs. Elizabeth R. Amadon, Executive Director Massachusetts Historical Commission 40 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02108 MMott/cha 4-21-75 OATA SECTIOM 1I-CERTIFICATION SECTION II!-TEDERAL NGENCY ACTION OM3 Approval No. 29-RO2 s. NUMBER FLDERAL ASCIGTANCE 1. IVFE OF PREAPPLICATION ACTION APFLICATION (Mark ap- OF EITENT (Opt.) propricte 0x) REPCRT OF FEDERAL. ACTION 2. APPLI- CANT'S APPLI- CATION Leave Blark 3. IATE APPLICA- TION b. DATE lear mouth dun IDENTI- 19 77 O]. 07 FIER e. NUMELR 75050496 b. DATE Year mionth dr ASSIGNED 19 75 06_2 4. LEGAL APPLICANT/REC:PIENT a. Applicant Name Massachusetts Historical Commission 5. FEDERAL EMPLOYER IDENTIFICATION NO. 046-002-284 b.

Organization Unit 6. c. Stieet/P.O. Box 294 Washingtn Street PRO. d. City Boston GRAM 8. NUMBER b. TITLE 11|5/-191014 e. County : Suffolk (From f. Staie Massachusetts g. ZIP Codo: 021.08 Federal h. Contact Porson (Natre Elizabeth Reed Amadon, S.H.P.O. Catalog) Historic Preservatior & telepiono No.) (617) 727-8470 7. TITLE AND DESCRIPTION OF APPLICANT'S PROJECT 8. TYPE OF APPLICANT/RECIPIENT Beverly ¡Essex County A--State A-Community Action Pgency B-Interstato I- Higher Educational lastituticn Captain John Cabot House Development Project, CSubstate District - Indian Tribe i-Other (Specifu) D-County "Install a fire alarm system, repair the Gazebo, in- E-City F-School District stall a flagpole,and install carpeting to protect thdi-Snecial Purpose Enter appropriate Ictter |7 floor." Source of non-federal match is the Beverly Historical Society. 10.

AREA OF PROJECT IMPACT (Namea of cities, countico, 11. ESTIMATED NUM- States, cic.) BER OF PERSONS BENEFITING Commonwealth of Massachusetts 5,689,170 13. PROPOSED FUNDING 14. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS OF: 3. FEDERAL $ 2,500 b. APPLICANT 2,600 .00 .00 .00 a. APPLICANT b. PROJECT 9 6 9. TYPE OF ASSISTANCE A-Basic Grant D-Insurance B-Supplernental Grant E-Other nter arpro C-Loan priuie leiter(6 A 12. TYPE OF APPLICATION A-Hew C-Revision E-Augmentation B-Renowal D-Continuation Enter appropriate letter 15. TYPE CF CHANGE (For 15c or 18e) A-Increasa Dollars F-Other (Specifw): B-Decrease Doilzrs C-Increasa Duration D--Decreasa Durallon E-Canceliation c. STATE 1G. PROJECT START 17. PROJECT DATE Year month day DURATION d. LOCAL 19 see #34 36 Monthe oier deler riat e. OTHER .00 19. BE SUAD POETO Yeir monti dew 19. EXISTING FEDERAL IDENTIFICATION NUMUER BE SUBMITTED f.

TOTAL $ 5,100 .00 FEDERAL AGENCY D 19 77 01 07 25-76-00330-00 20. FEDERAL AGENCY TO RECEIVE REQUEST (Name, City, State, ZIP code) 21. REMARKS ADDED National Park Service, Washington D.C. 20240 Yes El No 22. e. To the besi of my krowledge and bolief, b.I roquired by OMD Circuler this apclination was submitied, pursuant to in- No re- date in this proapplication/application ars structions iheroin, to appropseis clesringiouses and all rosponses aro aitichen: Reaponed attachen THE true and correct, the document hes APPLICANT beer duly suthorizedLy fie govorning body of CERTISIES the applicant and the mpplicant will comply (1) THAT B- with theattached essurances if the essist- Office of State Planning- (2) ance is approved. (3) 23. 8. TYPED NAME AND TITLE CERTIFYING REPRE- Elizabeth Reed Amadon, Exec. SENTATIVE Dir. and S.H.P.O. 24, AGENCY NAME E. SIGNATURE Eleg.

KAmalon Department of Interior 26. ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT 27. ADMINIGI TIE OFFICE c. DATE SIGNED Year month day 1977 01 07 25. APPLICA- Icer month cay TION RECEIVED 137.1 14 28. FEDERAL APPLICATION IDENTIFICATION National Park Service Grants Administration Div. 29. ADDRESS 18th & C Streets NW., Washington, D.C.. 20240 31. ACTION TAKEN 32. FUNDING BS E. AVIARDED 2. FEDERAL 7 2$200 .00 b. REJECTED b. APPLICANT 4,600 .00 - c. , RETURNED FOR c. STATE .CO AMENDMENT d. LOCAL .00 Year month day 33. ACTION D:00 19 77 2 15 35. CONTAC- ADDITIONAL INFORMA- TION telephone number) Stephen D. Newman (202) 523-5472 SO. FEDERAL GRANT IDENTIFICATION 25-76-00330-00 Ycer morth STARTING DATE 1077 2 36. Yccr monlh ENDING DATE 1980 2 37. REMARKS ADDED duy 15 day 14 - d. DEFERRED e. OTHER :00 D] e WITHDRAWN f. YOTSL $5,100 .00 38. In tating above ection, eny commionis received fron clcaringho: siderod.

It arency response is doo under pravisions of Part !, OMB C.r con A-95 FEDCRAL AGENCY il has been or is baing mnade. A-95 ACTION D] Yos MNo b. FEDERAL AGENCY A-95 OFFICIAL (Name and telephone no.) same as 35 3249s 07701 STANDARD FONM 424 PAGE 1 (10-75) NR Data Sheet DATE: 3/18 77 Reviewer INITTALS: geofo LNR DOE April 16, 1975 14-16-75 : NAMEAS IT APPEARS IN FEDERAL REGISTER: Cabot, Captain John, House OTHER NANES: Cabot House, MA (Se LOCATION: STREET & NUMBER 117 Cabot Street 6th CITY.

TOWN STATE Beverly Massachusetts CONGRESSIUNAL DISTRICT VICINITY OF COUNTY Essex code 009 OWNER OF PROPERTY: (Circle) PRIVATE STATE LOCAL GOV'T MUNICIPAL COUNTY OTHER ADMINISTRATOR(underline) NPS REGION: (CIRCLE) FEDERAL (AGENCY NAME) : (N.ATLANTIC SOUTHWEST MID ATLANTIC SOUTHEASTMIDWEST ROCKY MOUNTAIN WEST PACIFIC NORTHWEST FEATURES: INTERIOR LSubstantially intact-1 - unknown - 4 - not applicable - 7 CONDITION- _EXCELLENT LGOOO _FAIR EXTERIOR ENVIRONS LSubstantially intact-2 LSubstantially intact-3 _ unknown.-5 - unknown -6 - not applicable - 8 -Not applicable-9 -Interioi, exterior, cnvirons not intact-o _DETERIORATEO -ELUNALTERED RUINS VALTERED _UNEXPOSED -Reconstructed _ORIGINAL SITE _MOVED -Unkncwn _Unexcavated _Excavated ACCESS Yes-restricted Yes-unrestricted historic distriet? YES WITHIN NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICTZ IF YES, NAME: WITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK?

YES IF YES, NAME: No access Unknown YES NO NO ADAPTIVE USE: YES NO Saved? YES /FUNCTION (S): (use vocabulary words) then- pruate Aeridence now- SIGNIFICANCE: ARCHEULUGY-PREHISTORIC ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC AGRICULTUR -CARCHITECTUR _ART 6 -LCOMMERCE -COMMUNICATIONS Claims "first" YES -CONSERVATION -ECONOMICS _EDUCATION _ENGINEERING _EXPLORATION _INDUSTRY _INVENTION -LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE _RELIGION _LAW/Gov't/politics _SCIENCE -LITERATURE -MILITARY _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _MUSIC PHILOSOPHY LPOENESGOVERNMENT -TRANSPORTATION _OTHER (SPECIFY) NO. BRICK MANSIO NOW BEUERLoldest?

YES - -entertainment - health _recreation _settlement _socio/cultural _urban & commun planning "'only" YES NO ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: architect/m.builder: landscape/garden designer: interior decorator: ETHNIC GROUP: NAMES: (1abel role & per sonal appropriate date) events CEORGIAN engineer: artistartisan: builder/contractor: institutional DATES: DAPE OF CONSTRUCTION (Specific date or 1/4 of century): /78/ DATE (S) OF "MAJOR" ALTERATIONS: 1802 HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANI DATE (S) : /79Z SOURCE.

(OF NOMINATION) OTHER PRIVATE STATE LOCAL GOV"T MUNICIPAL COUNTY FEDERAL 'AGENCY: - ACREAGE' (to nearet tenth of an acxe) lers thaw one COMMENTS: (include architectural information here) BRICK, GRANITE FOUNDATION; 3 STORIES, SQNARE WITH PEAR FRAHE'EUI TRUNCATED HHPPED ROOF, INTERIOR SIDE CHIMNEYS, FRONT CENTER RECESSED -PANELED ENTRANCE WITH TRANSOM AMD SIDLIGHTS, GRAIEULATED BY I-STORT DISTHE PROJELTING 1-story IONK PORTICO WITH LEHERED FRIZZZ; SIDEENTRANCE VESTIBULE WITH PANELED DOOR, DIDENGHTE AND DORIE PNASTERE, BRICK BELT COURSES, DENTICULATED CORNKCE REFINED INTRIOR WOODWORK; ZSTORT GABEED ELL ADDED, 18020 SIGNIFICANCE: (maximum two sentences) GLORGIAN. FIRST BRICK HOUSE BUTLT IN BEVERLT; BUUT POR CAPTEZIN DJOHN CABOT, PROMINENT MERCHANT AND FOUNDER OF THE FIRST COWON MaNUFaC- TORT (1788).