MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Adams, Charles Francis.
History of Braintree, Massachusetts, The North Precinct of Brain- tree and the Town of Quincy, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1891 "The Colonel Josiah Quincy Homestead, Wollaston, Quincy, Massachusetts," O1d-Time New England, XXVIII (January, 1938) CoLonel Josiah Quincy Inventory, 1784 (Copy- SPNEA:Permanent File) 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY -75 acres UTM REFERENCES A 19/ 1313,3179,0 ZONE EASTING 1416/8.1/6,810/ NORTHING LILL VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION BL ZONE EASTING DL1 NORTHING Lulu LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE CODE COUNTY CODE STATE CODE COUNTY CODE FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE ORGANIZATION Christine Boulding, Preservation Planner, and Marges Bacon Massachusetts Historical Commission DATE March 1976 STREET & NUMBER 294 Washington Street TELEPHONE 617-727-84700: CITY OR TOWN 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 criterita and procedures st forth by the National Paik Sgric: STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE obiet Rue Amadon TITLE Bxecutive Director, Masachusetto Historical Comnisston DATE 3/30/ 76 FOR NPS USE ONLY 1 HEREBY CERTIFY JAAT THIS PROPE INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER DATE S/28/78 DATE 5-25-26 THENATIONAL REGISTEI GPO 892.453 Form No. 10-300a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM IFOR NPS USE ONLY RECEIVED APR 6 1976 DATE ENTERED MAY 2 8 1976 CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 8 PAGE 2 #8: The Colonel's son, Josiah Quincy Jr., also lived in the house until shortly before his premature death in 1775. In the 1760's and early 1770's Josiah, Jr.
was actively and ardently involved in colonial affairs. Known as "the Patriot," he was an influ- ential pamphleteer who charged public opinion toward the patriot cause. His Harvard education in law, and his deep dedication to justice moved Josiah, Jr. to accept the defense of the British soldiers charged with the Boston Massacre; in parallel contrast, his brother Samuel, a Tory, was prosecutor. inherited the house. Josiah III was a prominent statesman, educator and President of Harvard College for sixteen years. After his death, three of his unmarried daughters olt. a olan tl rapou ore nis de st. Josiah III, son of Josiah, Jr., eventually continued to live in the house, including Eliza Susan Quincy who completed a cele- brated memoir of the family begun by her mother Eliza S. M. Quincy, and compiled an inventory of all house furnishings. The last of these daughters died in 1893.
LPL RECEIVED APR 6 1976 NATIONAL REGISTER lico BROM FIELD STREET Josiah Quincy House Quincy, Massachusetts 1" =100' GOULD STREET BEACH STREET MUIRH EAD COL. JOSIAH QUINCY HousE STREET DAVIS STREET W.ELM STREET STAUNTON STREET WILLOW STREET Property Quincy, Josiah House Norfolk State Massachusetts TECHNICAL Photos Working Number 4.6.76.3029 CONTROL / cant shet OK 4.9.T4 Fetpematio on dhe Gina f in traf- of mose' HISTORIAN than local signgicone, uc /76 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Accept Jebovel 5.24.26 ARCHEOLOGIST OTHER HAER Inventory _ Review REVIEW UNIT CHIEF AcczpT ColE 5.24.76 BRANCH CHIEF National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry 2-6.76 Send-back Re-submit Entered United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No.
7 KEEPER Hunt 5-25-21 MAY 2 81976 IN T:2106 - 74 Josiah Quincy House, Quincy, MA Norfolk Mardges Bacon, 1975 looking northwest at south facade and east elevation photo #1 op/ APR 6 1976 NPS-5/28/76 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER STATE MASSACHUSETTS Date Entered MAY 28 1976 Name Location ) Quiney, Josiah, House Puritan Ilouse Ouincy Norfolk County Gloucester Essex County Also Notified Hon. Edward M. Kennedy Hon. Edward W. Brooke Ton. James A. Burke Hon. Michael J. Harrington Regional Director, North Atlantie Region State Historie Preservation Officer Mrs. Elizabeth R.
Amadon Executive Director Massachusetts Historical Commission 294 Washington Street Boston, Massachusetts 02108 PR MMott/row 6/2/76 INT:2950-75 - NR Data Sheet DATE: Reviewer 5/24/16 INITIALS: WRL NR DOE MAY 2 8 1976 NAME AS IT APPEARS IN FEDERAL REGISTER: Quiney, Josiah, House LOCATION: STREET&NUMBEN 20 Muirhead Street CITY. TOWN Quince VICINITY OF STATE Mass CONGRESSIUNAL DISTRICT OWNER OF PROPERTY: (circle) COUNTY code 021 PRIVATE) Nortoll< STATE LOCAL GOV'T MUNICIPAL COUNTY OTHER FEDERAL (AGENCY NAME) : ADMINISTRATOR(underline) NPS REGION: (CIRCLE) N.ATLANTIC MID ATLANTIC SOUTHEAST MIDWEST SOUTHWEST ROCKY MOUNTAIN WEST PACIFIC NORTHWEST FEATURES: INTERIOR Substantially intact-l - unknown - 4 - not applicable - 7 CONDITION - LEXCELLENT _GOOD .FAIR EXTERIOR ENVIRONS Substantially intact-2 Substantially intact-3 unknown.-5 Z.unknown -6 _.
not applicable - 8 _ Not applicakle-9 -Interioz, exterior, environs not intact-o -DETERIORATED -UNALTERED. _RUINS _ALTERED -UNEXPOSED _Reconstructed - ORIGINAL SITE MOVED _Unkncwn _Unexcavated -Excavated ACCESS - Yes-restricted Yes-unrestricted No access historic district? YES LNO WITHIN NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICT? YES IF YES, NAME: Unknown NO ADAPTIVE USE: WITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK? IF YES, NAME: YES NO YES NO Saved ?
YES NO FUNCTION(S): (use vocabulary words) then- house now- Museum SIGNIFICANCE: -ARCHEULUGY-PREHISTORIC -ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC AGRICULTURE ARCHITECTURE ART -COMMERCE -COMMUNICATIONS Claims -CONSERVATION -ECONOMICS -EDUCATION -.ENGINEERING -EXPLORATION -INDUSTRY -INVENTION _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE _LAW/Gov't/politics _RELIGION -SCIENCE -LITERATURE _MILITARY -SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN - MUSIC - PHILOSOPHY _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT -TRANSPORTATION _OTHER (SPECIFY) -entertainment _health _recreation -settlement -socio/cultural -urban & commun planning "first" YES NO "Coldest?! YES "only" YES ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: ( Georgion elements architet/m builder: Josiak Quincy landscape/garden designer: interior decorator: ETHNIC GROUP: engineer: artist/artisan: builder/contractor: Deacon Edward Pierce NAMES: (label role appropriate date) DATES: personal col. Josian Quincy. events Josiah Quinay 5i Josiah Elizas.
Q uireng institutional Harvard College (Josiah III PRes ) DATE OF CONSTRUCTION (Specific date or 1/4 of century): 1770 DATE (S) OF "MAJOR" ALTERATIONS: HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT DATE (S) : SOURCE. (OF NOMINATION) PRIVATE STATE OTHER FEDERAL 'AGENCY: ACREAGE: (to nearest tenth of an acre) ,75 LOCAL GOV"T MUNICIPAL COUNTY COMMENTS: (include architectural information here) 2%2 story clapboard, rectangular, hipped hosg, 5 bany 4/ light. -2 stangell for sercaits. 13 skeet 1934, 8 phata 1934 HABS SIGNIFICANCE-(maximum two sentences) Andestinguiched de house st succediin generations 5/ the Quina amile Who a tobka import part in the Revokitlio and later social and political events. & NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET is it appear federal -Iriny Tasiah, Houre register: 2OTHER NAMES: entry 25-28-76 county 02/ 6)NPS REGION: om20 muirhead st N.
Atlantic RIVATE OOSTATE EXISTING SURVEVE XHABS CHAER KP city )FUNDED? oWn vincy OMULTIPLE CFEDERAL(agency name ONO (11) CONGRESS.
DISTRICT vicinity of Norfolkc county )ADMINISTRATOR: (12)SOURCE of NOMINATION KSTATE -FEDERAL narel .75 Chnistine Boviding CONDITION Dexcellent O deteriorated Valtered Oruinsi Sgood Ounexposed Ounaltered Ofair Oreconstrueted Ounexcavated -excavated ECESS YES-Restricted -YES - Unrestricted - No Access 1REAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : CENGINEERING -11 -ARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 -COMMERCE-6 -ENTERTAINMENT-26 CARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS-7 -EXPLORATION -12 - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 - HEALTH-27 # ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS-9 - INDUSTRY-13 - ART-5 EDUCATION-10 - INVENTION -14 Xoriginal site Omoved Ounknown 17) features: XSUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 XSUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-2 2OSUBSTANTIALLY INTACT - 3 QONOT INTACT-O 9O NOT INTACT-O WOUNKNOWN-4 OUNKNOWN -5 QAJOT INTACT - O > OUNKNOWN-6 ZO NOT APPLICABLE -7 EO NOT APPLICABLE-8 M- NOT APPLICABLE- 8 - Unknown - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - LAW- 16 - LITERATURE- 17 - MILITARY - 18 - MUSIC - 19 - PHILOSOPHY -20 19 ADAPTIVE USE DYES ANO SAVED?
DYES IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT? Dyes Xno POLITICS / GOVT.- 21 -RECREATION -28 -CLAIMS: explain first'O - RELIGION-22 CSETTLEMENT-29 - SCIENCE- 23 -URBAN PLANNING-31 'oldest' O - SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 -OTHER (SPECIFY) - SOCIAL / CULTURAL- 30 - TRANSPORTATION -25 'only' O functions WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: House. CURRENTLY: Museum architectural style(s): Georgian w/ later Greek Tevival elements D landscape architect / garden designer: a interior decorator: dates of initial construction 770 major alterations: e. 1830, porch added historic events: ETHNIC GROUP ASSOCIATION architeet: artist: master builder: Deacon Edward Pièvee martisan: engineer: buildor/contractor: )NAMES give Jodrati date PERSONAL: Col.
wseatlenQuincy.orig.oconer, weatthy merchant ipatiiot Josiäh Qurney, Jr., EVENTS: inheirted horse, lawyer + patiot bsiah Quincy III, Itatesman + President of Harvard, inhented house INSTITUTIONAL: hupped 3NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP Frame, clapboarding; 2½ stories, modified rectangle, hipped roof with 3-bay monitorpflanked interior chimneys, front center entrance with halfolength sidelights and 1-story pedimented portico, denticulated modillion cornices, rusticated quoins; 2-story ell; 1-story/side uuxk porch with fluted Doric columns added, c. 1830. Georgian with later Greek Revival elements. ,Fine example of NE Georgian design; home of members of the Quincy family, 1770-1893, including Col.
Joseph Quincy, a wealthy merchant and Revolutionary war patriot; bis son Jesiah,Jt., * lawyer shared his patriotism bue defended the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre; and hiß grandson Josiah III, astatesmen and president of Harvard College. eviewers initials_ _dato 6/8/78 IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE SECTION I-APPLICART/RECIPIENT DATA ON TED AGENCY ACTON SECTION I- IFICATION OMB Approval No. 29-R0218 FEDERAL ASSISTANCE 1. TYPE OF PREAPPLICATION ACTION APPLICATION (Mark ap- NOTIFICATION OF INTENT (Opt.) Bosprate REPORT OF FEDERAL ACTION 2. APPLI- CANT'S APPLI- CATION Leave Blank 8. NUMBER 3. APPLICA- TION b. DATE IDENTI- Year month day 19 77 04 FIER 8. NUMBER b. DATE ASSIGNED 76060709 Year month day 1976 07 20 4. LEGAL APPLICANT/RECIPIENT 5. FEDERAL EMPLOYER IDENTIFICATION NO. 046-002-284 8. Applicant Name : Massachusetts Historical Commission b.
Organization Unit c Street/P.O. Box d. City f. State : l. Contact Person (Name 294 Washington Street Boston e. County : Suffolk Massachusetts g. ZIP Code: 02108 Elizabeth Reed Amadon, S.H.P.O. PRO. GRAM (From Federal ~ Catalog) 8. NUMBER b. TITLE |1 /5 |- 9|0/4/ Historic Preservation & telephone No.) 7. TITLE AND DESCRIPTION OF APPLICANT'S PROJECT Norfolk County 8. TYPE OF APPLICANT/RECIPIENT AState Josiah Quincy House Development Project, Quincy H-Community Action Agency B-Interstate I- Higher Educatioral Institution C-Substate J-Indian Tribe "Conserve the physical fabric of the building by Disirict K-Other (Specifv) : D-County reshingling the roof, paint the exterior, and in- E-City F-School District stall ultra-violet light filtering plexiglass over G-Special Purpose District the interior faces of all the windows in the Enter appropriate letter A 9.
TYPE OF ASSISTANCE mu seum rooms." Source of nonfederal match is the A-Basic Grant D-Insurance 8-Supplemental Grant E-Other Society for the Preservation of New EnglaRntiquitiegLoan Enter appro- priate letter(a) 10. AREA OF PROJECT IMPACT (Names of cities, counties, States,etc.) 11. ESTIMATED BER NUM- 12. TYPE OF APPLICATION OF PERSONS A-New C-Revision E-Augmentation BENEFITING B-Renewal D-Continuation Commonwealth of Massachusetts 5,689.170 Enter appropriate letter 13. PROPOSED FUNDING 14. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS OF: 15. TYPE OF CHANGE (For 12c or 19e) 8. FEDERAL $ 5,000 A-Increase Dollars F-Other (Specifu): .co a. APPLICANT b. PROJECT B-Decrease Dóliars B. APPLICANT 5,049 .00 9 11 C-Incresse Duration D-Decreasa Duration e. STATE 16. E-Cancellation PROJECT START 17. PROJECT DATE Year month day 4. LOCAL .00 19 See #34 DUBATION Montha -. OTHER ESTIMATED DATE TO Year month day SUBMITTED f.
TOTAL 10,049.00 FEDERAL AGENCY D 04 26 20. FEDERAL AGENCY TO RECEIVE REQUEST (Name, City, State, ZIP code) National Park Service, Washington D.C. 22. a. To the best of my knowledge and belief, b. lf required by OMB Circular A-95 this applicetion was data in this preapplication/application are structions therein, to appropriate clearinghouses and Enter appro- priate letter(s) 19. EXISTING FEDERAL IDENTIFICATION NUMBER 25-77-01023-00 21. REMARKS ADDED Yes R No No re- sponse Reeponse attached THE APPLICANT suthorized by the governing bedy of CERTIFIES theapplicant and the applicant will comply Office of State Planning THATD with the attached assurances if the assist- anca is approved. (3) 23. 8. TYPEDNAME AND TITLE CERTIFYING Elizabeth Reed Amadon, Exec. REPRE- SENTATIVE Dir. and S.H.P.O. b. SIGNATURE Rus Amadon 24. AGENCY NAME Department of the Interior 26.
ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT National Park Service 27. ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE Grants Administration Div. c DATE SIGNED Year month day 19 77 04 26 25.APPLICA. Year month day TION RECEIVED 1977 5 4 28. FEDERAL APPLICATION IDENTIFICATION 29. ADDRESS 18th & C Streets NW., Washington, D,C, 20240 31. ACTION TAKEN FUNDING 8. AWARDED $ 5,000 b. REJECTED 5,049 e. RETURMED FOR AMENDMENT d. DEFERRED . WITHDRAWN 38. FEDERAL AGENCY A-95 ACTION 424-101 Year month day a. FEDERAL .00 33. ACTION DATE P 19 77 07 08 b. APPLICANT .00 35. CONTACT FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMA- TION (Neme and telephone number) c. STATE .00 d. LOCAL .00 -. OTHER .00 1. TOTAL 10,049 - Yes No 8. In takingabove action, any comments received from sidered. clearinghouses ware con. D. FEDERAL AGENCY A-95 OFFICIAL If arency response is due under provisions of Part 1, OMB Circular A-95, (Name and telephone no.) It has been or is being made.
same as 35 30. FEDERAL GRANT DENTIFICATIO 5-77-01023 -00 34. Year month day STARTING DATE *1977 07 08 36. Year month day ENDING DATE 1980 07 07 37. REMARKS ADDED Stephen Newman (202) 523-5472 -22. MAY STANDARD FORM 424 PAGE 1 (10-75) 9725-77=01022:10Precribed by CSN, Aoderl Managoment Cirowlar 77. Quincy, Josiah, House (Resource Name) Norfolk (County) STATUS: 1. MISSING. 2. REMOVED/ DEMOLISHED 3. NHL X 4. TR_ 5. MRA_ EXPLANATION: 1. Missing Status: Entire Folder ( ); Nomination (); Map(s) ( ); Photos () Available on: Microfiche ( ); Optical Disk () 2. 76000285/97001274 (Reference Number[s]) MA (State) 3 , 31 , 2016 (Date form completed) WACC (Completed by) 6. OVER- _ SIZED 7. NPS - UNDOCUMENTED 8. DOE - 9.
RESTRICTED OWNER OBJECTION (Cause for removal) (NHL Name, if different than NRHP Name) / (Date Removed) 09,25/1997 (Date Designated) (If multi-state/county TR, state/county where filed and location) (TR or MRA Name) (If multi-state/county MRA, state/county where filed and location) 6. 7. (Location of oversize file) (Current source of partial documentation) (Target Date) COMMENTS: (Where found, or source of replacement) (Date Found/Replaced) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE National Register of Historic Places Locator Card WASO 21 JAN.