Nomination for Symphony and Horticultural Halls

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DAIA SHEET Form No. 10-300 (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY MAY 2 1 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM RECEIVED DATE ENTERED MAY 3 0 BIC SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS NAME HISTORIC Symphony and Horticultural Halls AND/OR COMMON 2 LOCATION STREET & NUMBER Massachusetts and Huntington Avenues CITY.

TOWN Boston STATE Massachusetts - VICINITY OF CODE 025 CLASSIFICATION _NOT FOR PUBLICATION CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 4th and 9th COUNTY Suffolk CODE 025 CATEGORY DISTRICT X.BUILDING(S) STRUCTURE LSITE _OBJECT OWNERSHIP _PUBLIC XPRIVATE _BOTH PUBLIC ACQUISITION IN PROCESS _BEING CONSIDERED2 STATUS X OCCUPIED _UNOCCUPIED -WORK IN PROGRESS ACCESSIBLE X-YES: RESTRICTED _YES: UNRESTRICTED _NO PRESENT USE AGRICULTURE MUSEUM COMMERCIAL PARK XEDUCATIONAL _PRIVATE RESIDENCE XENTERTAINMENT RELIGIOUS GOVERNMENT SCIENTIFIC LINDUSTRIAL.[ -TRANSPORTATION _MILITARY(C _OTHER: 4 OWNER OF PROPERTY NAME #1) Boston Symphony Orchestra; #2) Massachusetts Horticultural Society STREET & NUMBER Massachusetts: Avenue CITY. TOWN Boston STATE Massachusetts 5 VICINITY OF LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE. REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC.

Registry of Deeds STREET & NUMBER Suffolk County Courthouse, Pemberton Square ITYTOWN Boston STATE Massachusetts REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE Inventory of the Historic Assets of the Commonwealth DATE 1974 -FEDERAL XSTATE COUNTYLOCAL DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS Massachusetts Historical Commission (617) 727-8470 46'Beacon Street Boston Massachusetts 7 DESCRIPTION CONDITION -EXCELLENT XGOOD FAIR -DETERIORATED -RUINS _UNEXPOSED CHECK ONE XUNALTERED ALTERED CHECK ONE X ORIGINAL SITE _MOVED DATE. DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

The Symphony and Horticultural Halls are contained within a small oblong shaped area in Boston's Fenway which incorporates two buildings that date from 1889 to 1901. These structures reflect an era in which Boston's cultural and religious institutions were extending from the recently filled Back Bay towards Huntington Avenue along the more recently improved Fenway. Symphony Hall (#1), occupies the corner block between St. Stephen Street and Hunting- ton Avenue on the West side of Massachusetts Avenue. It was built in 1900 and designed by McKim, Mead, and White. The massive, sober, red-brick Renaissance Revival structure is free standing with a basilican plan. It is 9 bays wide on Huntington Avenue and 11 bays long on the Massachusetts Avenue side. The structure is two stories high with the central 5 bay portion rising to a 4th story along the longitudinal axis.

The flanking side aisles have flat roofs, while the main hall has a pitched roof. The major architectural entrance is on Huntington Avenue. Here, a short flight of steps leads to a limestone entrance portico of columns with Ionic capitals that sup- port a grand entablature. The portico emphasizes the width of the main hall, whose two upper stories on this gable end have no fenestration but do have decorative - rectilinear stone and marble panels beneath a triangular pediment. At the opposite gable end, along St. Stephen's Street, the same horizontal decorative elements are present, but the fenes- tration is restrained, and no entrances exist. Along the Massachusetts Avenue side, which serves as the common entrance to Symphony Hall, are sevenround-headed wall arches containing lunettes above paired oblong windows.

The central archway is trimmed elaborately with limestone, whereas the flanking arches are brick; the central arch originally served as the side entrance, but additional entrances have been made in those archways on the St. Stephen's Street side. A flat metal marquee has been suspended to protect Symphony-goers. This arcaded pattern is repeated in the upper stories of the central hall's longitudinal wall. Statues, inscriptions and other decorativ elements were planned but never completed. The interior space clearly follows the exterior shape. The concert hall proper occupies the dominant central portion; the lobbies, lounges, and offices occupy the side wings. For acoustical reasons, the rectangular auditorium is encased on all sides in two layers of construction to exclude traffic noises.

Besides the outer wall layer, an inner layer has corridors surrounding the rectangular auditorium on three sides on all three balcony levels. The ceiling is designed in the Italian Renaissance manner with coffers of crosses and rectangles. The upper walls are relieved by plain pilasters, forming niches in which - for decorative and acoustical reasons - statues representing figures from Greek and Roman mythology are placed. The latter came from the studio of Pietro Caproni of Boston. The square gilded proscenium arch frames the orchestra plat- form. Horticultural Hall (#2), located between Falmouth Street and Huntington Avenue on the East side of Massachusetts Avenue was built in 1901, one year after Symphony Hall.

The architects, Wheelwright and Haven, designed the building with special reference to the mutual relations between it and its neighbor; in height, scale, style, and material, it harmonizes with Symphony Hall. The Renaissance Revival building, laid in Flemish bond with Bedford limestone trim, is designed in a simple rectangular shape. It is 13 bays long on Massachusetts Avenue by 5 bays wide on the sides. The structure stands two stories high with an attic decora- ted by a carved stone entablature. A balustrade conceals the flat roof. The principle Form No. 10-300a (Rev.

10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY MAY 2 1 1975 RECEIVED DATE ENTERED MAY 3 0 1978 CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 7 PAGE 1 features of the building are the four massive corner piers and the colannade of Giant brick pilasters with Ionic stone capitals supporting the entablature that contains an ornamental frieze, richly decorated with Renaissance motifs of swags of fruit and flow- ers alternating with marble medallions. The brick pilasters are separated by round arched windows framed in limestone on the first story and smaller rectangular, limestone framed windows in the second story. Each second story window is emphasized by a delicate iron balcony supported by a bracketed limestone shelf.

The base course of the building, made from Deer Island granite, is the same height as the entrance openings. Three round windows with wreathed stone frames mark the three stone pedimented classical doorways on the Massachusetts Avenue facade. the style, size and frequency of windows, the lace-like iron balconies lend this Renais- sance structure a Georgian Revival lightness. The first floor of the building contains the large exhibition hall, a smaller exhi- bition hall, and a lecture hall. From Falmouth Street a wide and high doorway gives access on the street level to the floor of the large exhibition hall. This was installed to facilitate the safe and easy handling of large plants in the flower shows.

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SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW PREHISTORIC ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC -COMMUNITY PLANNING X LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE _1400-1499 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC _CONSERVATION _1500-1599 AGRICULTURE ECONOMICS _1600-1699 XARCHITECTURE .EDUCATION _1700-1799 ART _ENGINEERING -1800-1899 _COMMERCE _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT X 1900- _COMMUNICATIONS -INDUSTRY _INVENTION _RELIGION -SCIENCE -LITERATURE _SCULPTURE _MILITARY X MUSIC -SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN -THEATER _PHILOSOPHY _TRANSPORTATION -POLITICS/GOVERNMENT X_OTHER (SPECIFY) Urban Planning SPECIFIC DATES BUILDER

Statement of significance

/ARCHITECT 1900, 1901 McKim, Mead & White; Wheelwright & STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Haven These buildings contain the headquarters of two major Boston institutions built between 1900-1901, each of architectural, social, and cultural importance. Topographi- cally the Symphony and Horticultural Halls are located in the southeast corner of Boston's Back Bay, an area of former tide-lands and mudflats. By 1857, because of unsanitary conditions and odoriferious mud created by the receding tides, the Back Bay was filled, an operation which continued until 1882. The streets, Commonwealth Avenue, Marlborough Beacon, Boylston, and Newbury Streets,andthe alphabetical cross streets from Arlington to Hereford, all came into existence at this time, and by 1882, the whole area was filled although not necessarily built upon.

The particular area encompassing these buildings was a virtual no-man's land in the development of the Back Bay, hemmed in between railroad yards and cut off from Boylston Street by tracks of the Boston and Worcester (later Boston-Albany) Railroad. Growth a- long Huntington Avenue beyond Exeter Street was delayed until 1881 when Mechanics Hall (razed in 1956) was built on the corner of West Newton Street, to become the forerunner of many cultural institutions which were to follow. The First Church of Christ, Scientist located its headquarters and Mother Church in 1894 along Massachusetts and Falmouth Streets. By 1909, the environs of Huntington Avenue contained the Boston Opera House, Harvard Medical School, the Symphony and Horticultural Halls, the Museum of Fine Arts, Simmons College, and Mother Church with its major extension.

The New York firm of Mckim, Mead and White, designers of Symphony Hall (#1), built 1n 1900, were the leading exponents in this country of a style based on classical prece- dents, and later adapted the Italian Renaissance for both residential and public build- ings. Plans for Symphony Hall were ripening during the construction of the Boston Public Library by the same firm. An earlier model of Symphony Hall calling for a Greek theater was exhibited in the Public Library, January 1894. Because of unknown acoustical proper- ties of a hall of that shape, these plans were abandoned. Charles Follen McKim (1847- 1909) while working on several Harvard buildings was approached by Henry Lee Higginson, founder of the Boston Symphony in 1881, to design a new home for the orchestra, because the Old Music Hall was no longer suitable.

At the same time President Eliot of Harvard was urging Wallace Clement Sabine, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philoso- phy at Harvard University, to accept the invitation of Major Higginson to give acoustical advice in the planning of a new Boston Music Hall. This cooperative effort between architect and scientist for the first time produced a music hall with rationally pre- planned acoustics, and which remains a monument to its designers. Sabine is responsible Tor the quantitative solution of reverberation phenomena, which is the basis of the acoustics in Symphony Hall. The Leipzig Gewandhaus served as a model for Boston, and as a result an exceptionally fine auditorium was designed.

Additional acoustical advice was given by Charles Robert Cross, Thayer Professor of Physics at M.I.T., who collaborated with Sabine on some phases of research and at whose instigation the first electrical engineering curriculum in the United States leading to a degree was established at M.I.T.

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES 1. Benson, Albert E. History of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 1929. 2. Cross, Charles Robert and Miller, W.T. "On the Present Condition of Musical Pitch in Boston and Vicinity". AM. Journal of Otology, 1880. (see Centinuation Sheet, Item #8 Page 2) 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY C.

2 acres UTM REFERENCES OLS ALi9 B12,811,810/ 14,61897,1,0 EASTING NORTHING VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LiliLid BL.J ZONE EASTNG NORTHING LileLi 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 by Mary Van Meter, Boston Landmarks Commission ORGANIZATION Massachusetts Historical Commission DATE April, 1975 STREET & NUMBER 40 Beacon Street CITY OR TOWN Boston TELEPHONE (617) 727-8470 STATE Massachusetts 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESER VATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: NATIONAL_ STATE X 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 le ialek R. Amadon TITLEMassachusetts State Historic Preservation Officer DATEMoy 9,1975 FOR NPS USE ONLY I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL Amarlase DOA OEOLEVANOYSTOC PRESERVATION KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER DATE 5/30/15 DATE 5.30.05 Form No. 10-300a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY RECEIVED DATE ENTERED MAY 21 1975 MAY 8 0 1978 CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 8& 9 PAGE 2 8) in 1882. Horticultural Hall (#2), was designed and constructed by Wheelwright and Haven in 1901.

The firm built numerous hospitals, schools, the New England Conservatory of Music Jordan Hall in 1901-3, Opera House, 1908 (demolished), the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Park Street Subway headhouses, and the amusing Lampoon Building in Cambridge, 1909. Edmund M. Wheelwright (1854-1912), a graduate of Harvard and M.I.T., also studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris before working for Peabody and Stearns, and later for McKim, Mead, and White. His partnership with Parkman B. Haven was formed in 1890. The Massachusetts Horticultural Society was chartered in 1829, but its aim and practices go back to colonial times when Gov. Winthrop in Charlestown and Gov. Endi- cott at Salem were extensive growers of fruit trees.

The Society was founded " ----- for the purpose of encouraging and improving the science and practice of horticul- ture, and promoting the amelioration of the various species of trees, fruits, plants, and vegetables, and the introduction of new species and varieties". One of thefound- ingmembers of the Society, General H.A.S. Dearborn, who owned an 80 acre estate in Roxbury and was an avid exhibitor of rare fruits and flowers, was also the instigator of the rural cemetery movement in this country. In cooperation with Dr. Jacob Bigelow, Professor of the Application of Science to the Arts of Life at Harvard College, he became interested in the increasingly embarassing conditions of the burial of the dead. Taking as an example Pere La Chaise cemetery in Paris, they persuaded the Society in lo3l to purcase the Brimmer land in Cambridge called "Sweet Auburn" and turned it into Mt.

Auburn Cemetery. The Society gradually had outgrown its earlier halls, the last one a French Renai- ssance palace (demolished) on Tremont Street near the Old Music Hall, which they sold at a handsome profit and subsequently bought the land on Huntington Avenue across from the new Symphony Hall. The new Horticultural Hall was dedicated on November 9, 1901 with the Chrysanthemum Exhibition. The architects skillfully adapted Renaissance elements to local requirements of materials and scale in order to harmonize with Symphony Hall. Rather than being a competitor for attention with the Temple of Music across the street, this building re- flects a more delicate and light approach featuring horticultural ornament - flowers, plants and fruit - in a happy combination of interior purpose and outward appearance. 9)- 3. Howe, M.A. DeWolfe. The Boston Symphony Orchestra. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1914.

4. Johnson, H.Earle. Symphony Hall, Boston. Little, Brown & Co. 1950. 5. Moore, Charles. The Life and Times of Charles Follen McKim. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1929. 6. Sabine, Wallace Clement. Collected Papers on Acoustics. Dover Publications, 1964. 7. Whitehill, Walter Muir. Boston, A Topographical History, Harvard Univ. Press, 1959. 8. Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Part II, 1901. REFLECTING POOL FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST 243 241 WALL WALL SYMPHONY AND HORTICULTURAL HALLS Massachusetts & Huntinaton Avenues Boston, Massachusetts Scale: 1"=100' UTM References: 19/328180/4689710 1 Symphony Hall Horticultural Hall 2 22,500 MASS. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 300 SYMPHON M.T STATION 1.

34,6ll SYMPHONY HALL 10,271 2640 1590) 23 1984 2632) 21 1670 1619 1622 16/8 1619 1620 1622 T6LZ 1623 1620 17,177 17,139 RECEIVED MAY 2 1 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER ToTTe - moay dymphony Bietint State MassachusettWorking Number3,31. 25.491 TECHNICAL Photos. Maps 2 tak nee segefethet net checkl ithemuse CONTROL 4.1.15 HISTORIAN Stould be 3 separate nominations. ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN CONF. retun mis is nor a district. Hhaull 4/3/75 ONCE THESE STRUCTURES WOULD HAVE ARCHEOLOGIST BEEN PART OF LARGER CULTURAL CONF RETORN DISTRICT. BUT, NOW PROBABZY BETTER REPRESENTED BY THREE NOMINATIONS. LEBOVICH 4-3-15 OTHER HAER As per plone cale to ßetty Amadon Inventory.

Review REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Retoru Cole 4-8-74 BRANCH CHIEF KEEPER National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry Send-back 4,8 15 Re-submit 5,21,75 Entered MAy 3 0 1975 INT: 2106-74 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 NAME OF PROPERTY symphony Distnict STATE +-8-15 The attached National Register Inventory-Nomination form is being returned to your office for clarification of the information indicated below. PLEASE RETURN THIS FORM WHEN THE NOMINATION IS RESUBMITTED. 7 Description: RECEIVED APR 1 4 1975 - MASS. HIST. COMM. 8 Statement of Significance: 9 10 Bibliography: Geographical Data -- Acreage: UTM Reference(s) : Verbal Boundary Description: - 12 Certification: Photographic Coverage: Map Coverage: xother: As pes phonz cael to ßetty Amadon 4-8 we asz rEturnuap this for 3 separatz nommiations rather than a distric nomniation. Thank you.

Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Kate Cole on the National Register staff, telephone _ 523-5483 Thank you for your attention to the above items. Date: 4:9-25 Chief, Branch of Registration IN T:2105-74 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 8 propertk ymphony and Hentiltial Stellr State mass: TECHNICAL Working Number 5. 21. 25.962 Photos- Maps Ind Contred Stat Suffolk CONTROL OK 5.23.75 HISTORIAN Not significant for urban plannine ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN a0 stateg These 2 6ldgs. ave aschifectarallz related; i von Ir see amy problem in nominating them togetfu. Visually the 2 forma distinct comples Explíeet statement dbaulitetuale selateonslup. DCCEPT HWse115/27pr ARCHEOLOGIST ungortenately, eer no explieer statement of urban Accept rlationslup.

Eboreh 5-28-75 OTHER HAER Inventory- Review REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Acczpi ColE 5.29.15 BRANCH CHIEF KEEPER 6 oo muth 5-26.25 Entered MAY 3 0 1975 National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry 7-1-2 Send-back Re-submit INT:2106-74 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 Form N-. 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 MAY 2 1 1975 RECEIVED DATE ENTERED MAY 30 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES ENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH 1 NAME HISTORIC Symphony and Horticultural Halls AND/OR COMMON LOCATION CITY.

TOWN Boston _VICINITY OF COUNTY Suffolk STATE PHOTO REFERENCE PHOTO CREDIT Boston Redevelopment Authority NEGATIVE FILED AT Boston Redevelopment Authority DATE OF PHOTO 1969 IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. IF DISTRICT. GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET PHOTO NO SymphonyHall (#1) view lookingwest towards shorter Huntington Avenue tacade lengthy Massachusetts Avenue, (photo #1) #1o2 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 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 MAY 2 RECEIVED DATE ENTERED SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FO TYPE ALL ENTRIES ENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH 3 NAME HISTORIC Symphony and Horticultural Halls AND/OR COMMON LOCATION CITY.

TOWN Boston -VICINITY OF coUNTY Suffolk PHOTO REFERENCE PHOTO CREDIT Boston Redevelopment Authority DATE OF PHOTO 1969 NEGATIVE FILED ATBoston Redevelopment Authority, Boston MA IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION, ETC. IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET View looking northerly at Horticultural Hall (#2) towards Massachusett entrance facade and Huntington Avenue side facade (photo #2' #205 P 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 MAY 21 1975 RECEIVED DATE ENTERED SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- ENCLOSE WITH MAP MAY 3 0 1975 2 3 4 NAME HISTORIC Symphony and Horticultural Halls AND/OR COMMON LOCATION CITY. TOWN Boston MAP REFERENCE SOURCE U.S.

Geological Survey SCALE 1:24000 REQUIREMENTS TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. PROPERTY BOUNDARIES 2. NORTH ARROW 3. UTM REFERENCES -VICINITY OF DATE 1970 COUNTY Suffolk STATE MA INT: 3464 - 75 QVIETE VA LIRERTATY Paul Guzzi Pecretary of the Commonrvealth 14 May 1975 The Commonrvealth of Massachusetts Office of the Secretary Massachuselts Histonical Commission 40 Beacon Slree Baon Masactias 0151/191 727-8470 RECEIVED MAY 21 1975) NATIONAL REGISTER 1 9 Mr. Charles Harrington,Chief Registration National Register of Historic Places National Park Service US Department of the Interior 18th and C Streets, NW Washington, DC 20240 Dear Charles: CERTIFIED MAIL APPORTI ONMENT WARRANT NOMINATION Enclosed please find three National Register resubmissions for the following properties: 1. Boston, Symphony and Horticultural Halls Worcester, Salisbury Mansion and Salisbury Store 3.

Worcester, Salisbury House These properties have been voted eligible for submission by the Massachusetts Historical Commission (the State Review Board) and have been signed by the State Historic Preservation Officer, Elizabeth R. Amadon. Please note that the properties covered by these submissions plan to apply for FY '76 grants-in-aid. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to call us. Sincerely yours, Pat Patricia L. Weslowski Survey Director Massachusetts Historical Commission PLW: jdd Encl. ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER STATE MASSACHUSETIS MAY 3 0 1975 Date Entered Name Symphony snd Hortieulturel Ilells Seltsbury Henston and Selfabury Store Location Boston Suffolic County Worcester Noreeater County Hon. Edwaad M. Kennedy Hos. Edward W. Brooke srd i: Seoosey Al80 koctified Hon. John J. Hoalley Hon. Joseph D.

Barly Regional Director, North-Atlantic Region, PR MMott/bsh 6/3/75 State Historie Preservetion Officer Mes, Elisebeth R. Amadon Icecutive Dieetor Massscimsetts Historical Conmission 40 Beacon Street Boston, Nessechusetta 02108 NOTIFICATION OF GRANT-IN-AID ACTION 1. STATE APPLICATION IDENTIFIER 2. (Keserved for use by Stute central information reception ageneu) 75050496 3. GRANTOR: a. Federal agency Department of the Interior b. Organizational unit National Park Service c. Administering ofice - (1) Name Division of Grants (2) Address - Street or P.O. Box City State 18th and C Streets, NW. Washington D.C. 4. FEDERAL AGENCY GRANT IDENTIFIER: a. Code b. Title Symphony and Horticultural Halls: 25-76-00317-00 Horticultural Hall Development Zip Code 20240 c. Purpose Project work will involve repairs and painting of windows, balcony rails, main hall door and fire doors. 5. GRANTEE: a.

Name Massachusetts Mrs. Elizabeth R. Amadon, Exec. Dir., MA Historical Commission b. Address -Street or P.O. Box City State 294 Washington Street Boston MA Zip Code 02108 6. GRANTEE TYPE (Check only the single most applicable box) o. State b. Inter- stote c. County d. City e. School district L f. Special unit g. Community action h. Sponsored orgonization i. Other L 7. APPLICATION RECEIPT DATE 8. ACTION DATE Year Month Day Year Month 76 04 26 76 5 Day 24 9. EFFECTIVE STARTING DATE Year Month 76 5 Day 24 11. TYPE OF ACTION (Check as many boxes as apply to this action) o. New b. Continuation c. Supplemental d. Chonge in existing grant grant gront grant (identify agency in item 16) (1) Increase in durotion (2) Decrease in duration (3) Cancellation 10. ENDING DATE Year Month 79 5 Day 23 (4) Increase($) (5) Decrease($) 12. AMOUNT OF CONTRIBUTION o.

Federal - (1) basic ;(2) Supplemental $ 4,965 13. CATALOG OF FEDERAL DOMESTIC ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (if none, clarify in item 16) b. Stote $ 4,966* a. Program Number 15.904 c. Local d. Gther b. Supplemental Program Number 14. AUTHORIZATION o. Federal Budget Accounts b. Public Laws [10-58-1040-0-1-405 PL Title Sec. 89 665 c. U.S. Code 16 U.S.C. 470 15. FACILITY LOCATION: (For facility grant actions only) . o. City 300 Massachusetts Ave... Boston PL Title Sec. PL Title Sec. b. County Suffolk CD 9 16.

REMARKS *Massachusetts Horticultural Society Do Not Use This Spac Prepared by Division of Grants 523(139)-5054 STANDARD FORM 2- June 1970 Bureau of tha Budget Circular A-98 240--101 JNR Data Sheet DATE: 3|21 77 Reviewer INTTIALS, geofo: NR DOE_May 30, 1975 -3 NAMEAS IT APPEARS IN FEDERAL REGISTER: Symphony and Horticultural Halls OTHER NANES: LOCATION: STREET & NUMBER Massachusetts and Huntington Aventes CITY.TOWN Boston VICINITY OF STATE Massachusetts CONGRESSIUNAL DISTRICT 4th and 9th COUNTY Suffolk code 025 OWNER OF PROPERTY: (Circle) STATE LOCAL GOV'T MUNICIPAL COUNTY OTHER FEDERAL (AGENCY NAME): ADMINISTRATOR(underiine) NPS REGION: (CIRCLE) N.ATLANTIC MID ATLANTIC SOUTHEAST MIDWEST SOUTHVEST ROCKY MOUNTAIN WEST PACIFIC NORTHWEST FEATURES: INTERIOR Substantially intact-1 - unknown - 4 - not applicable - 7 CONDITION - _EXCELLENT G000 -FAIR EXTERIOR Substantialiy intact-2 LSUUTEONS Substantially intact-3 - unknown.-5 - unknown -6 - not applicable - 8 - Not applicable-9 -Interioz, exterior, envizons not intact-0 _DETERIORATED LUNALTERED _RUINS -ALTERED -UNEXPOSED _Reconstructed EORIGINAL SITE _MOVED _Unkncwn _Unexcavated -Excavated ACCESS - Yes-restricted historic district?

Yes-unrestricted No access Unknown YES WITHIN NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICT? IF YES, NAME: YES NO WITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK? IF YES, NAME: YES ADA PTIVE USE: YES Saved ? YES NO -FUNCTION(S): (use vocabulary words) then- eutertainment, etueational now- SAue SIGNIFICANCE: _ARCHEULUGY-PREHISTORIC _ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC -AGRICULTURE SARCHITECTURE - 4 -ART -COMMERCE __COMMUNICATIONS Claims "first" YES _CONSERVATION _ECONOMICS _EDUCATION LNGINEERING -// _EXPLORATION JNDUSTRY _INVENTION LLAW/Gov't/politics -SCIENCE _LITERATURE LAUSI - 19 LAUSIC _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _PHILOSOPHY _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _TRANSPORTATION __OTHER (SPECIFY) NO "oldest?

YES NO --entertainment _health - recreation -settlement _socio/cultural _urban & commun planning "only" YES NO Neo-Clastical Revival aud 2nd Kenaissana ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Revival architec/m.builder: Uckui, Head 8 Wiite lauditmue: landscape/garden designer: interior decorator: ETHNIC GROUP: NAMES: (label role & personal appropriate date) events institutional (Symphony Mall);. DATES: DATE OF CONSTRUCTIO (specifie date or 1/4 of contury): /900/90/ (Horticultura) DATE (S) OF "MAJOR" ALTERATIONS: HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT DATE (S) : SOURCE: (OF NOMINATION) PRIVATE OTHER FEDERAL AGEN ACREAGE: (to nearest tenth of an acre) STATE LOCAL GOV"T MUNICIPAL COUNTY 2 marbleormanentastecai pLaN, ONMEN1S. (include architectural information here) BRICK 2-=5 StORIES, MAII, TFRONT CEMTER 2-STORY/ TONIC: urtu fazed double-dvors entrances sach untto trausou set..

- 4th-story blind clereodry luneltes, dend, sable-end roundel, corbeled covnice. SIGNIFICANCE:(maximum two sentences) NR Deta Sheet 3-21-72 Continuatión of Comments Horticulteral Hall: Brick, granite and limestone trim; 2 stoue, rectangulan, flat roof with ornale panapet, 3 pedimened entrances, surmnunted by wreaths, ist-stry round-anched windous, small balconies at eata and-strry window, bays anticulakd by 2-strry Ionic pilosters, decoative frieze with festoons and blind panes, quains. Beau Beaur-Arts Classical elements. Excettent complement to Symphney Hall : brick, g linuestnue, manble; 4-strry main hall with 2-stry flanking wings, gakled roaf with pedimunked ends, engaged frunt 2-story Jonuc ennance pornio, ta targe rund-arched windrws, clerestoy lunetes, Benbeled cinish cotAts Inereshing emlunahne af SeRmanesquee Reurual gut Secod Renaissance Revival slements.

Feater suintitically designed audetruim acoushcs .