Nomination for Penniman, Edward, House and Barn

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SNODLNISN * DATA_SHEET - Form 10-306 (Oct. 1972) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR FEDERAL PROPERTIES (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) STATE: Massachusetts COUNTY: Barnstable FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE MAY 2 8 1976 NAME COMMON: Penniman, Edward, House No. 35-77; Barn No.

35-78 (Cape Cod NS) AND/OR HISTORIC: same #AB LOCATION STREET AND NUMBER: Fort Hill and Governor Prence Roads CITY OR TOWN: Eastham CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Iwelth STATE: CODE COUNTY: 25 Massachusetts CLASSIFICA TION CATEGORY (Check One) - District Building -] Site Structure Barnstable CODE 001 OWNERSHIP STATUS Object X Public Private Both Public Acquisition: In Process Being Considered - Occupied [X Unoccupied [ Preservation work in progress ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC Yes: - Restricted - Unrestricted XNo PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Agricultural ] Government XPark Commercial - Industrial Private Residence Educational Military Religious Entertainment Museum 1 Scientific AGENCY National Park Service REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS: (If applicable) North Atlantic Reg Lon CITY OR TOWN: Boston LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: Courthouse, Barnstable, Massachusetts STREET AND NUMBER: - Transportation - Comments Other (Specify) House:Exhibit in place: Exterior viewing only STREET AND NUMBER: 150 Causeway Street STATE: Massachusetts CODE 25 CITY OR TOWN: STATE: CODE Massachusetts Barnstable Barnstable Massachusetts 001 STATE: COUNTY: L6.

REPRESENTATION IN EXISTINO SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: HABS House and Barn, CACO No. 35-77 and No. 35-78, Mass. State (HABS) No. 693 and 699 DATE OF SURVEY:1962 Federal State - County DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: office of Archeology and Historic Preservation STREET AND NUMBER: Interior Building CITY OR TOWN: STATE: Washington, D.C. - Local RECEIVED 1975 APR1 NATIOTPCODE REGISTEI1 MAY ENTEX JungIe DATE FOR NPS USE ONLY DESCRIPTION CONDITION (Check One) - Deteriorated Yarr was wodiber stulevo LEBOVICH 49-75 - Excellent - Good x Fair (Check One) * Altered - Unaltered DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

-Ruins - Unexposed (Check One) -Moved [x] Original Site Located on the south side of Fort Hill road near the intersection of Fort Hill Road and Governor Prence Road, and 1/4 mile east of U.S.Mid-Cape Highway 6, the Captain Edward Penniman House is a two and a half story frame house in the Second Empire French style with a matching barn to the rear. The house is rectangular and faces west, and is surrounded by resi- dential planting. The building is painted yellow with white trim and has a red roof, striped. This was a sumptuous whaling captain's home of 1867, known historically as the "finest house in Eastham." The house has been painted several times, and prior to recent outside restoration, was badly "alligatored." Removal of this old paint revealed colors similar to those used in recent restoration. All dentil work was removed, scraped, repainted and replaced.

Over-all dimensions of the house are 40'-5" on the west and 34'-7" on the south. The foundations are of field stone topped with granite. The walls are of frame construction with clapboards on the exterior. The main front door on the west side has a porch with Corinthian columns, fluted shafts and pressed wood capitals. The rear or east door has a plank stoop. The house has two centralized red brick chimneys. The front door of the house is a heavy wooden door with an arched top and two vertical etched glass panels in the top half. The rear or east door is also heavy, but has a flat top, and one panel of glass. A11 windows on the first floor are the same size and all of the windows on the second floor are the same size with those on the first floor slightly larger. These windows have 2/2 light double hung sash. In the NW bay there are some colored glass panels.

All windows are equipped with ex- terior blinds, but only a few on the ground floor remain. Ti1 Roof is a mansard type. The lower level is covered with wood shingles that at one time were painted in red with brown stripes (restoration has followed this style). The cornice and eaves are heavy and rich in detail. There are dormers for all of the second floor windows--these are rich in details, with pilasters and scrollwork. The cupola is octagonal with arched windows on all sides. 13E200B25 House is set on an artificial terrace on the south side of Fort Hill road. Ornamental wood fence in front (west). There was at one time a high flag pole in yard. A turnstile, not replaced, once existed beneath the whale jaw-bone gateway. The barn, located just southeast of the house, was constructed about 1800.

It has three floors, mansard roof, but omits richly detailed brack- ets and dentil mouldinga at the cornice and quoin blocks at first floor cor ners. Wooden brackets, left over from the house construction, were used at the corner of the wood shed. Section of second floor extends over a slope to the south, forming the first floor cover which housed a carriage and stalls for horse and cow. Significance: 2nd Order Longtitude and Latitude: See Section 10 Acreage: 1. Surrounding new growth woods and fields owned by Fed.Gov. Recommended treatment: Preservation, exterior, which includes painting on a 4 year cycle, all windows and doors kept in repair, and roof kept free from leaks -- $850 annually.

Partial Restoration of House: INST RUCTIONS SEEINSTRUCTIONS SIGNI FICANCI PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) ] Pre-Columbian - 16th Century 15th Century ]17th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) AREAS OF

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SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Aboriginal Education - Prehistoric Engineering Historic Industry Agriculture Invention * Architecture Landscape Art Architecture Commerce Literature Communications Military Li. KOAE Conservation Music ]18th Century X 19th Century - 20th Century Political Religion/Phi- losophy Science Sculpture Social/Human- itarian Theater Transportation Urban Planning [x Other (Specify) Whaling Captain's Home. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

The art of whaling originated on Cape Cod, and the art and business reached its peak in the mid-19th century. Like most whaling captains, Penniman operated out of New Bedford, being in charge of several vessels during his long lifetime. He chose to retire in Eastham, and built this house in 1867. Penniman undertook whaling voyages to both southern and Arctic latitudes, being absent some 4 years at times. Penniman was born in 1831, one of 11 children. He went to sea at eleven. His fourth whaling voyage took place in 1860 in the Minerva. After retirement, Penniman undertook a business venture in Chicago, lost money, and returned to whaling for a time. On one South Atlantic trip, gone 3 years, he came back with 42000 bbls. of oil, one of the largest hauls ever to port at New Bedford.

His wife, Betsey Knowles Penniman, accompanied her husband on some trips--(his wife was born in the house directly across the street from the Penniman House). His seventh and last voyage was 1881-1884 in the Jacob A. Howland, a three year's voyage to the Arctic. Penniman was a typical whaling captain. Records show that he never lost a vessel in his command. He died in 1913, and his son, Eugene, carried on the work for a short time. . The real significance of the house lies in three factors: The unique appearance of the house (plans were said to have been brought back from France by Penniman, personally), the fact that this is the only whaling captain's house in Eastham, and it is the only one inside the Seashore boundaries. -Restoration of the interior will depend on public interest and availability of funds.

Much victorian furniture (some of it from this house) is stored at the Seashore. The interior of the house is very plain with the exception of the captain's den, a red-flocked wallpaper and fancy quilt-trim room which will require much money and time to restore. APR 1973 NATIONAL REGISTER

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MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Historic American Building Survey (HABS) Historic Structures Reports, Architectural and Historical, on file at Cape Cod National Seashore. History of Barnstable County by Deyo 10.

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES CORNER LATITUDE R LONGITUDE LATITUDE LONGITUDE Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds NW 41 49 57' " 58 NE SE zone 19 06 69 SW N-4629-860 E-419-750 APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: 1 LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING S.TATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE: CODE COUNTY: CODE RECEIVED STATE: CODE COUNTY: APR 1 1975 CODE STATE: CODE COUNTY: CODE STATE: CODE COUNTY: NATIONAL REGISTER CODE FORM R NAME AND TITLE: Edison Pike Lohr, Park Historian BUSINESS ADDRESS: Cape Cod National Seashore STREET AND NUMBER: DATE: 7/13/73 PHONE: 349-3785 CITY OR TOWN: South Wellfleet CERTIFICATION OF NOMINA TION STATE CODE 001 Massachusett.s NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION State Liaison Officer recommendation: Yes -No [] None abuk R.

Amadon Stett Liaison Officer Signature In compliance with Executive Order 11593, I hereby nominate this property to the National Register, certify- ing that the State Liaison Officer has been allowed 90 days in which to present the nomination to the State Re- view Board and to evaluate its sigeificance. The recom- National VStat I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register. lepAhr Date $/28/76 ATTEST: Federal Representative Signature O eputy casistant Ussatant icreharhadseingter Keeper of The National Regist Date 528.16 m - GPO 938-449 Form 10-300a (July 1969) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM (Continuation Sheet) STATE COUNTY (Number all entries) FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER MAY 2 81976 DATE Internal, Captain's Den, $15,000.

Remainder of House, plastering and paper, $10,000. Total $25,000. Barn needs new floors and other internal repairs. Cost: $4,500. Photograph enclosed. RECEIVED APR:1975> NATIONAL REGISTER VITTST GPO 921-724 1. Aeed Nop sboww ROUTING AND REVIEW SLIP coortinaßk THE ENCLOSED NOMINATIONS ARE ROUTED TO YOU FOR YOUR PROFESSIONAL REVIEW AND COMMENT ON THE COR- RECTNESS AND ADEQUACY OF THE STATEMENTS AND EVALUATIONS CONTAINED THEREIN, SUPPLYING ADDITIONAL OR CORRECTIVE INFORMATION AS APPROPRIATE. REVIEWER WILL SIGN HIS NAME HEREON FOR LATER REFERENCE IF NECESSARY. USE ADDITIONAL SHEET FOR COMMENT IF NEEDED AND ATTACH HERETO. NOMINATED PROPERTY: EDWARD PENNIMAN HOUSE (É BARN) FROM AREA OF: Cape Cod N.S. Lea Cn 12005 .n the berie o Progah + D emcu Patz chpr- le de ete n te reie he prinh n hm tr alteration). PD saneo fackea OMone f CHIEF HISTORIAN: (be Atalemen o segripeamce is NsT a stem one.

Can et be shade! unge? Noesthe t have arditutub segaifèune? 3pc HIEF HISTORICAL ARCHITECT: Thes house is totaly intact a MAR? captain Penneman built it including interior wallpape This house definitely belong 1975 on NR and LCS. Lpc REGISTRAR, LCS someo hemy l faded -PR KEEPER OPHE NATIONAL REGISTER: sendeng-me a C. O. Meek RECOMMENDED FOR THE NATIONAL REGISTER Registrar, LCS ENTERED ON THE LCS MAR 1 2 1975 INT: 4937 - FARZZS NAME OF PROPERTY Pennuzer, ddward, House STATE Maso 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: 8 Statement of Significance: 9 10 Bibliography: Geographical Data -- Acreage: UTM Reference(s): Lenze cant be checked Verbal Boundary Description: 12 Certification: Please fuil ii fitte/a nr Fessinglon has Photographic Coverage: 'Fedesal Repsesesitative so suffteent Map Coverage: Please send a full map We sugst that you Other: Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to on the National Register staff, telephone _ Thank you for your attention to the above items. chalArknng Chief, Branch of Registration Date: 422-7$ INT:2105 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 8 74 Property State Massachusetts TECHNICAY Photos Maps Penniman, Edward, House Working Number Con t 4.1.75.564 be ckakal Hed pl CONTROL OK- 4.4.75 HISTORIAN A magrifieant bouse siteelon ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN hill, with exquisite whale bous gate.

sccept Orclitetirally significant as 2nd Empire House Jborril 49-75 co ARCHEOLOGIST rcept 8 Apr 75 OTHER HAER Inventory - Review REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Cole 4.10-75 BRANCH CHIEF National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry 7-6-76 Send-back Re-submit 4.22.15 5.26.76 Entered United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 422-75 KEEPER - Mihe 520hc MAY 2 8 1976 INT:2106 - 74 Form No.

10-301a (7/72) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with photograph) #35-37 STATE Massachusetts COUNTY Barnstable FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER MAY 281976 DATE NAME cOMMON: Penniman, Edward, House AND/OR HISTORIC: Same LOCA TION StREET AND NUMBER: Fort Hill and Governor Prence Roads CITY OR TOWN: Eastham STATE: Massachusetts PHOTO REFERENCE PHOTO CREDIT: Tom Swan DATE OF PHOTO: 1/73 NEGATIVE FILED AT: Cape Cod NS IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. Front of Building from the West CODE 25 COUNTY: Barnstable CODE 001 RECEIVED 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER -8 19 1 a)/ INT: 154-72 / Form No. 10-301 Rev.

7-72 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) STATE Massachusetts COUNTY Barnstable FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER MAY 281976 DATE - = - NAME COMMON: Penniman, Edward, House No. 35-77 AND/OR HISTORIC: Same LOCATION STREET AND NUM BER: Fort Hill and Governor Prence Roads CITY OR TOWN: Eastham STATE: Massachusetts CODE 25 MAP REFERENCE SOURCE: COUNTY: U.S.G.S., Orleans, Massachusetts, Quadrangle SCALE: 1: 24,000 DATE: 1962 REQUIREMENTS TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference. Barnstable CODE 001 NUED RECE APRT NATIONAL REGISTER INT: 155-72 EPARTMENT INTERIOR IN REPLY REFER TO: H34PC United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON, D.C.

20240 MAY 2 0 1978 Memo randum To: Through: Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Presewvation Federal Representative to the National Register, Department of the Interior From: Federal Representative, National Park Service Subject: Nomination to the National Register of Historic Places Enclosed is the nomination of "Penniman, Edward, House; Barn," from Cape Cod National Seashore, in the North Atlantic Region of the National Park Service, resubmitted for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places, in compliance with Executive Order No. 11593. 5-21 Roe n Iitey Robert M.

Utley Enclosure NATIONAL REGISTER Reglonal Director, North Atlantie Region 6/2/76 MOTT: 01b PR ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER STATE MASSACHUSETIS Date Entered may 28,1976 Name Locatior Rociport Downtoma Mada Street Diotrict Pennirol, Idward, Louse Fochport Tobea Conuty Lasthan Bernstable County Also Notified Hon. Edward M. Kennedy Eon, Ptrerd W. Brooke Eon, Iichnel J. Harrington Hon. Gerry E. Studds Mx. Douglas Wheeler Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks ME. Robert M. Utley Assistant Director, PaIk Mistoric Preservation State Iliatorie Pracervation Offlcer Nra. EUaabeth R.

Amadon Exnentive Direetor Massachusetts Historical Commission 294 Washington Street Boston, Massachusetts 02108 INT: 2950-75 NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET ONAME as it appears on federal register: 2OTHER NAMES: 3 date of entry: 4 county code: V Penniman, Edward, House and Barn 5-28-76 001 OYoCoF Tas street & number city/ town ricinity of state S of Eastham at Fort Hill and Governor Prence Rds. county 6NPS REGION: Eastham MA Barnstable North Atlantic TOWNER OPRIVATE OSTATE OMUNICIPAL COCOUNTY MULTIPUE FEDERAL(agency name) NPS 8ADMINISTRATOR: 9) EXISTING SURVEYS XHABS CHAER ONHL (10) FUNDED? OYES ONO LCONGRESS. DISTRICT /2th 2)SOURCE of NOMINATION -STATE RTEDERAL if state who prepared form? MATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRIET? VITHIN MATIBMAL HISTORIC LANOMARK1 ACREAGE BUYES.MAM..... BAYES.

DLOCAL -PRIVATE ORGANIZATION 18CONDITION - deteriorated Xaltered Xoriginal site 17) features: &SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 «*SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-2 Dexcellent Oruins Dunaltered Omoved QONOT INTACT-O 9OO NOT INTACT-O 2XSUBSTANTIALLY INTACT -3 -good Dunexposed Dreconstructed Dunknown Xfair ROUNKHOWN-4 QONOT INTACT - O 50 UNKNOWN-6 Ounexcavated Dexcavated 20 NOT APPLICABLE-7 WO NOT APPLICABLE-g ZONOT APPLICABLE - 9 18ACCESS OYES-Restricted DYES - Unrestricted * No Access Unknown 19) ADAPTIVE USE DYES SAVED? DYES IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?

Dyesdeno {I AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -ENGINEERING-11 MANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS / GOVT.- 21 DRECREATION -28 @CLAIMS: explain CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 -COMMERCE-6 -ENTERTAINMENT-26 C LAW - 16 'first'D CRELIGION-22 C SETTLEMENT-29 CARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS - 7 CEXPLORATION -12 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 DURBAN PLANNING-31 'oldest' O -AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 - HEALTH -27 - MILITARY- 18 - SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 D OTHER (SPECIFY) XARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS-9 8S INDUSTRY - 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL- 30 -ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION -14 - PHILOSOPHY -20 - TRANSPORTATION - 25 'only' d HoME OK WiHALING CAPTAIN functions dates of initia constrution/ 1861 IN TOWN.

ETHNIC GROUP ASSOCIATION WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: RESIDENCE major alterations: CURRENTLY: VACANT architectural style(s): RESTORATION-IN-PROBRESS historic events: @architect: master builder: @engineer: SECOND EMPIRE landscape architect / garden designer: ( interior decorator: artist: artisan: -builder/contractor: NAMES give role & date PERSONAL: EDWARD PENNIMAN- WHALINE CAPTAUN OPERATING OUT OF NEW BEDFORD - ORIGINAL ONNER OF HOUSE. EVENTS : INSTITUTIONAL: @NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP FRAME, CLAPBONRDING, FIELDSTONE AND GRANITE FOUNDATION ; l'/2 STORIES PLUS ATTIC, RECTANGU- centsa) LaR, MANSaRD ROOF WITH ELABORATE PEDIMENTED DORMERS AND OCTAGONAL GENTER CUPOLA, INTEROR CHIMNEYS WITH CORBELED CAPS, FRONT CENTER ENTRANCE, # I-STORY BALUSTRADED TETRASTILE PORTICO, I STORY POLYGONAL SIDE BAIS, QUOINS, ELABORATE ENTABLATURE WITH MOOKLION CORNICE; MANSARD BARN OF RRAR.

EXCELLENT UNUSUALET FCLECTE EXAMPLE OF SECOND EMPIRE; BULT FOR CAPTAIN EDWARD PENNIMAN, NEN BEDFORD WHALINE CAPTAIN. reviewers initials geoff _dato9/20/11 IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE