Nomination for Leonard, Capt. Charles, House

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Form No. 10-300 (Rev.

10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE IN NATIONAL PARK SERVICE H008852 DAIA Srictl FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM RECEIVED FEB 1 S 1975 DATE ENTERED MAR 1 0 ST5 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS NAME HISTORIC (Captain Charles Leonard House AND/OR COMMON same LOCATION STREET & NUMBER 663 Main Street CITY, TOWN Agawam STATE Massachusetts CLASSIFICATION - VICINITY OF CODE 025 NOT FOR PUBLICATION CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Ist CONTY Hampden CODE 013 CATEGORY _DISTRICT X BUILDING(S) _STRUCTURE _SITE _OBJECT OWNERSHIP _PUBLIC X PRIVATE _BOTH PUBLIC ACQUISITION _IN PROCESS -BEING CONSIDERED STATUS AOCCUPIED -UNOCCUPIED _WORK IN PROGRESS ACCESSIBLE LYES: RESTRICTEL -YES: UNRESTRICTED _NO PRESENT USE _AGRICULTURE AMUSEUM -COMMERCIAL -PARK X.EDUCATIONAL _PRIVATE RESIDENCE _ENTERTAINMENT -RELIGIOUS _GOVERNMENT _SCIENTIFIC _INDUSTRIAL -TRANSPORTATION MILITARY.

OTHER Centnity 4 OWNER OF PROPERTY NAME Captain Charles Leonard House Board of Trustees STREET & NUMBER CITY.TOWN 663 Main Street Agawam - VICINITY OF 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE. REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC. Hampden County Registry of Deeds STREET & NUMBER 55 Elm Street STATE Massachusetts : 01030 CITY. TOWN STATE Springfield 6 REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS Massachusetts TITLE Inventory of Historic Assets of the Commonwealth DATE 1967 DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS Massachusetts Historical Commission CITY.TOWN Boston _FEDERAL XSTATE _COUNTY LOCAL STATE Massachusetts 7 DESCRIPTION CONDITION Cornico LEBONCÉt X EXCELLENT _GOOD -FAIR _DETERIORATED _RUINS _UNEXPOSED CHECK ONE -UNALTERED X ALTERED CHECK ONE XORIGINAL SITE _MOVED DATE DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

The Captain Charles Leonard House, built in 1805, faces west on Main Street in a residential area of Agawam. It is a hip roofed clapboard structure, two rooms wide and two deep, with a central hall. The cornice is lined with a moulding resembling acanthus leaves, below which is a plain frieze. The facade center, the focal point of the building, is elaborately treated. A deep roof pediment with returns, which contains a fan window, projects from the facade plane and is supported by Tuscan columns. The door surround fits between the columns and is also elaborately treated. The door with fanlight is flanked on each side by a Doric pilaster, twelve-pane side light, and another Doric pilaster. An octagonal medallion is situated above each side light. The pilasters support a wide frieze with tryglyph moulding and a lintel with mutules.

the door surround and lights the second floor stair landing. The pilaster, oum ant uagtea the t i A tall and elegant Palladian window is centered atop frieze, and lintel treatment are identical in type to that of the door surround below. The facade corners are highlighted with Doric cornerboards 7 having a simple comb-like frieze. A two-story ridge roof ell, raised from one story in 1938, projects east from the rear of the main house and has two porches. A long one story hip roof ell, c..1960, with a north-south axis, is attached to this ell and has an off-center door on its east side. The most notable room in the house is the tap room which runs the width on eore partoae sian an the bodtiore an neanl a i on The walls are vertical kitchen side." 8

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SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD _PREHISTORIC _1400-1499 -1500-1599 -1600-1699 _1700-1799 X1800-1899 -1900- ARCHEOLUGY-PREHISTORIC ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC AGRICULTURE XARCHITECTURE ART _COMMERCE _COMMUNICATIONS AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW _COMMUNITY PLANNING _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE _CONSERVATION _LAW -ECONOMICS - LITERATURE EDUCATION -MILITARY ENGINEERING _MUSIC LEXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _PHILOSOPHY _INDUSTRY _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT LINVENTION _RELIGION _SCIENCE SCULPTURE _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _THEATER _TRANSPORTATION _OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES BUILDER

Statement of significance

/ARCHITECT 1805 Asher Benjamin STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Believed to have been designed by Asher Benjamin, the Captain Charles Leonard House is significant as the most elaborate pre-1850 architectural work in Agawam, a rural and unpretentious town in southwestern Massachusetts. The house sits on a wide thoroughfare lined with trees on either side. Main Street, like Agawam entire, has a mixture of unelaborate community and residential properties, predominantly from the Colonial, Greek Revival, and present periods. The house was built for Captain Charles Leonard, who was known as "the farmer who went to Harvard." A member of the local militia and a leading citizen, Captain Leonard operated the house as an inn until his death in He and his wife are buried in a nearby cemetery.

1814 LEBOVICH 2-15 The house is presently the town's community house and museum house, the location of many civic functions and a source of local pride and concern. I9

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES 1. Agawam Bicentennial Committee, Over the Span of a Century, 1855-1955, Agawam, 1955. 2. Registry of Deeds, Book 802,p.374, Hampden County Registry of Deeds, Springfield.

10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY_less than 1 acre UTM REFERENCES A[29l 169.73-59 14,616,012,4,01 EASTING cLy NORTHING LiliLu VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION ok Co *ZÓNE NORTHING NORTHING eLULuLILLul 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 Mindy Arbo, N.R.Editor ORGANIZATION _Massachusetts Historical Commission STREET & NUMBER 40 Beacon Street BOsTO R TOW Boston DATE 1/24/75 TELEPHONE 617-727-8470 STATE 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), T hereby nominatethis 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 TITLE Elijabeet R. Amadon Mass.State Historic Preservation Officer DATE 2/11/75 FOR NPS USE ONLY 1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY-IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER ARincateres DATE BIRECTOR.OFFICE OF ARCHEOLQGY AND HISTORIC PRESERVAGION DATE KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 5/10/76 3/5/25 Property Lemerd, Ceptan Charles, Heuse statemassachusett Working Number 2,19.15.272 TECHNICAL Photos 3 Maps 75000273 Hampder CONTROL pl 2.2175 HISTORIAN Bortkeiaa guiea nodocumen tatter peo Ae ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN r Atsher attribation- arthiil feck s cace back !"Richard sen Heuter, boetion- 2-24-75 THIS HOUSE STANDS ON ITS OWN MERITS, REGARDLESS OF ATTRIBUTION ARCHEOLOGIST TO ASHER BENJAMIN WHO WAS LISTEO IN 1803 BOSTON DIRECTORY. AcCEPT PROBABLY BUILT AS A TAVERN.

LEBOVIL 2-25-75 OTHER HAER Inventory Review REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Accrm Cole 2-25-75 BRANCH CHIEF KEEPER National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry 56-75 Send-back Re-submit Entered United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 0/5/25 MAR 1 0 1975 IN T:2106 -74 CAPTAIN Aarles Leonard house Form No. 10-301a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY RECEIVED FEB 1 9 1975 DATE ENTERED MAR 1 0 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES ENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH 1 NAME HISTORIC 3 4 Captain Charles Leonard House AND/OR COMMON LOCATION CITY. TOWN VICINITY OF Agawam PHOTO REFERENCE PHOTO CREDIT William Keogh NEGATIVE FILED AT same IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET west facade 3 Captain Charles Leonard House 663 Main Street, Agawam, Mass. October 11,1974 Photo by Mr. William Keogh, negative at 102 Doane Ave.,Agawam, West view:front No restrictions known. COUNTY Hampden STATE Massachus DATE OF PHOTO 1974 PHOTO NO. PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REG Form No. 10-301a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY RECEIVED FEB 1 3 1975 DATE ENTERED MAR 1 0 M SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES ENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH 1 NAME HISTORIC Captain Charles Leonard House AND/OR COMMON 2 LOCATION CITY, TOWN VICINITY OF Agawam PHOTO REFERENCE PHOTO CREDIT William Keogh NEGATIVE FILED AT same IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET East rear? #283 Captain Charles Leonard House 663 Main Street, Agawam, Mass. Ocotber 11,1974 Photo by Mr. Willian Keogh, negative at 102 Doane Ave.,Agawam, East view:back No restrictions known. Eastrear COUNTY Hampden STATE Massachu DATE OF PHOTO 1974 PHOTO NO. PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTE Captain Charles Leonard House 663 Main Street, Agawam, Mass. North Parlor facing East Original fireplace, mantel, wood- work and wide floor boards, wains coting. Agawam January Form No. 10-301a (Rev. 10-74) Mr.

& I 6 Soutl - Feedin UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY RECEIVED FEB 1 9 1975 DATE ENTERED MAR 10 1 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES ENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH 3 NAME HISTORIC Captain Charles Leonard House AND/OR COMMON LOCATION CITY. TOWN Agawam -VICINITY OF PHOTO REFERENCE PHOTO CREDIT William Keogh NEGATIVE FILED AT same IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET north parlor facing #303 east COUNTY Hampden STATE Massachu DATE OF PHOTO 1974 PHOTO NO. PROPERTY OF THE NATIOKIL NEGIS Form No. 10-301 (Rev.

10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONALPARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY RECEIVEDB 1 9 1975 MAR 1 0 975 DATE ENTERED SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES - ENCLOSE WITH MAP 1 2 3 4 NAME HISTORIC Captain Charles Leonard House AND/OR COMMON same LOCATION CITY, TOWN Agawam MAP REFERENCE SOURCE USGS SCALE 1:24,000 REQUIREMENTS TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. PROPERTY BOUNDARIES 2. NORTH ARROW 3. UTM REFERENCES _VICINITY OF DATE COUNTY Hampden STATE Massachusetts 1958 #LACIRAN AKE UIRNTAO Paul Guzzi Secretary of the Commonroralch February 12, 1975 The Commonrealth of Massachusetts Office of the Secretary Massachusetts Histoxical Commission 40 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusells 02108 727-8470 RECEIVED FEB 1 9 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER Mr.

Charles Herrington, Chief Registration National Register of Historic Places U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service 18th and C Streets, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20240 Dear Charles: CERTIFIED MAIL APPORTIONMENT WARRANT NOMINATION Enclosed are four National Register submissions for the following properties: 1. Agawam, Captain Charles Leonard House, Hampden County 2. Meaford, Lawrence Light Guard Armory, Middlesex County 3. Salem, Charter Street Historic District, Essex County These properties have been declared eligible for submission by the Massachusetts Historical Commission ( the State Review Board ), and have been signed by Elizabeth R. Amadon, Massachusetts State Historic Preservation Officer. Please note that the properties covered by these submissions expect to apply for FY 76 funding- If you have any questions or need more information please let us know.

Sincerely, Pat Patricia L. Weslowski Survey Director Massachusetts Historical Commission PLW:CB:nb Encl. ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER STATE Date Entered MASSACUISEITS .1R 1 0 1975 Name Location Charter Street Historic Distriet / seouaão captgtar Chateo, Konse Lewrence light Cunrd Araory Salen Essex County Agawan Eaapden County Medford Niddlesez County Hon: Edward M. Keonedy S0030 Fion. Nicheel J. Harrington Hon. Silvio O. Conce Hon. Torbert 1. Mcbonald Reglonal Director, North Atâantic Region /PR MMott/row 3/12/75 Also Notified State Historie Freservation Oflicer Mrs. Eltzubeth R. Amadon Massachusecco Historical Cosnission 40 Deacon St. Poston, Maseachusetts 02108 NR Data Sheet DATE: Reviewer NR 3/23/77 INITZALS: DRY DOE March 101975 NAMEAS I7 APPEARS IN PROERAL RECISTER: Leonard, Captetn Charles, House OTHER NANES: LOCATION: STREET & NUMBER 663 Main Street CITY.

TOWN STATE vAgawam Massachusetts VICINITY OF - CONGRESSIUNAL DISTRICT 1st COUNTY Hampden code 013. OWNER OF PROPERTY: (Circle) PRIVATESTATE LOCAL GOV'T MUNICIPAL COUNTY OTHER ADMINISTRATOR (underline) FEDERAL (AGENCY NAME) : NPS REGION: (CIRCLE) N.ATLANTIC MID ATLANTIC SOUTHEAST MIDWEST SOUTHWEST ROCKY MOUNTAIN WEST PACIFIC NORTHWEST FEATURES: ANTERIOR -Substantially intact-1 - unknown - 4 - not applicable- CONDITION- =EXCELLENT -GOOD _FAIR EXTERIOR ENVIRONS _Substantially intact-2 . Substantially intact-3 _ unknown.-s - unknown -6 - not applicable - 8 - Not applicable-9 _Interioi, exterior, environs not intact-0 _DETERIORATED _UNALTERED -RUINS LACTERED _UNEXPOSED -Reconstructed LORIGINAL SITE _MOVED _Unknown _Unexcavated _Excavated ADAPTIVE USE: ACCESS - Yes-restricted Yes-urrestricted No access historie distriet? YES WITHIN NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICT?

YES IF YES, NAME: WITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK? IF YES, NAME: YES YES NO Saved ? Unknown NO YES NO FUNCTION (S): (use vocabulary words) then- private kesidence / inns. now-coninuatey house anl museu SIGNIFICANCE: _ARCHEULUGY-PREHISTORIC _ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC AGRIGULTURE LARCHITECTURE -/ LARY LCOMMERCE - 6 _COMMUNICATIONS Claims _CONSERVATION _ECONOMICS _EDUCATION LENGINEERING _EXPLORATION INDUSTRY LINVENTION _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE _RELIGION _LAW/Gov't/politics _SCIENCE LITERATUR MILITARY /Ocal -/8 _SOCIALHUMANITARIA _MUSIC _PHILOSOPHY __POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _TRANSPORTATION _OTHER (SPECIFY) - -entertainment _health -recreation -settlement _socio/cultural _urban & commun planning "first" YES NO "eoldest'? YES NO "'only" YES NO ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Fednal attributed to architect/m.builder: rpukrd archrhck.

Ashez Benjamin landscape/garden designer: interior decorator: engineer: artist/artisan: builder/contractor: ETHNIC GROUP: NAMES: (label role & personal Cupt. Chartss Leonard- resiceut of hse; meataro local militia, prcm. citizen appropriate date) events institutional DATES: DATE OF CONSTRUCTION (Specific date or 1/4 of century) DATES) OE MAVOR" NEZERATZONS: (930 HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT DATE (S) : 1865 SOURCE: (OF NOMINATION) OTHER PRIVATE STATE LOCAL GOV"T FEDERAL AGENCY: ACREAGE" (to nesrert tonen of an soras Lesothau/ MUNICIPAL COUNTY COMMENTS: (include architectural information here) / Frame, claphoarding ; 24 stories, modified h-shape, hipped rool, intericn chimneys, front center entrana say articulated by a-story Tuscan columns; frontispicce entranc with pilasters, fanlight aud sidelights surmounted dy and-story Palladian Window; fanlight.. ti attic pidiment, addition tedual.

coner pilaste teratione to 1960. SIGNIFICANCE:(maximum two sentences) interiohs; rean ett raised stories, 1938; hipped rost tll: added, rateo. Well-Dreserved tederal residence Agaan elaborata pu-1850 architechiral wol stuckure murseum.