Nomination for Standish, Alexander, House

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Form No. 10-300 (Rev.

10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE PH0666289 FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM RECEIVED PR S DATE ENTERED 1978 DATA SHEET MIL 12 1978 1 2 4 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS NAME HISTORIC /Alexander Standish House AND/OR COMMON Same LOCATION STREET & NUMBER 341 Standish Street CITY, TOWN STATE Duxbury Massachusetts VICINITY OF _NOT FOR PUBLICATION CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 12th f9AMouth 0923 CLASSIFICATION CATEGORY -DISTRICT XBUILDING(S) STRUCTURE SITE OBJECT OWNERSHIP _PUBLIC X PRIVATE _BOTH PUBLIC ACQUISITION -IN PROCESS -BEING CONSIDERED STATUS XOCCUPIED _UNOCCUPIED _WORK IN PROGRESS ACCESSIBLE _YES: RESTRICTED - YES: UNRESTRICTED ENO PRESENT USE -AGRICULTURE -MUSEUM _COMMERCIAL _PARK _EDUCATIONAL *PRIVATE RESIDENCE ENTERTAINMENT -RELIGIOUS GOVERNMENT -SCIENTIFIC -INDUSTRIAL _TRANSPORTATION -MILITARY OTHER: OWNER OF PROPERTY NAME David Longfellow Patten and Dorothy Kendall Patten STREET & NUMBER 341 Standish Street CITY.

TOWN Duxbury - VICINITY OF LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION STATE Massachusetts 02332 COURTHOUSE REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC. Plymouth County Registry of Deeds STREET & NUMBER Fuller Street CITY. TOWN Plymouth REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS STATE Massachusetts 02360 TITLE Inventory of the Historic Assets of the Commonwealth DATE 1977 _FEDERAL XSTATE _COUNTY _LOCAL DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS Massachusetts Historical Commission CITY, TOWN Boston STATE Massachusetts 02108 DESCRIPTION CONDITION EXCELLENT XGOOD MFAIR DETERIORATED _RUINS _UNEXPOSED CHECK ONE UNALTERED X ALTERED CHECK ONE * ORIGINAL SITE _MOVED DATE. DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

The Alexander Standish House is located at 341 Standish Street in Duxbury. The building is situated on the southern portion of a small peninsula which juts out into Duxbury Bay. The nomination includes 2½ acres of appropriately landscaped property. The two story gambrel roofed house was built in 1666 by Alexander Standish. It sits on a wide field with a view of the bay. The shingled roof has a large center chimney. The 28'x36' building is also sheathed in shingles with plain architraves and corner boards. Fenestration is 12/12. The asymmetrical five bay wide facade faces southwest with a solid entrance door in the western end portion. The south- east and northwest elevations are two bays deep with two windows on each story. The simple interior remains much as it was originally.

The kitchen in the rear of the structure contains a broad fireplace with Dutch oven, crane, and brick hearth typical of its early period. A small staircase rises sharply from the front hall to the two chambers above. Another small enclosed rear staircase leads from the kitchen to the attic. The walls of the parlors on either side of the front stair- case are covered in clamshell plaster. The cellar has fieldstone walls. Some of the beams appear to be older than the original dwelling and are said to have been salvaged from the home of Myles Standish which burned in 1666.

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SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD -PREHISTORIC -_1400-1499 -1500-1599 X1600-1699 -1700-1799 1800-1899 1900- ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC AGRICULTURE ARCHITECTURE ART COMMERCE _COMMUNICATIONS AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE - CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW COMMUNITY PLANNING -LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE _CONSERVATION -LAW ECONOMICS _LITERATURE EDUCATION _MILITARY ENGINEERING _MUSIC X EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT PHILOSOPHY LINDUSTRY -_POLITICS/GOVERNMENT INVENTION -RELIGION -SCIENCE -SCULPTURE SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN -THEATER _TRANSPORTATION -OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES 1666 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE BUILDER

Statement of significance

/ARCHITECT The Alexander Standish House is significant as the original home of Alexander Standish, the eldest son of Myles Standish. The building is a fine, rare example of a 17th century gambrel roofed dwelling. Alexander lived with his father until their home was destroyed by fire in 1666. The older Standish deeded his son the land for a house site. Alexander was married to Sarah Alden, daughter of John and Priscilla Allen, who arrived here with Standish on the Mayflower. Alexander and Sarah had eight. children. The house was occupied by Standishes until 1762. It had two additional owners until 1777 when it was purchased by John Faunce. The Faunce family sold it to Stephen M. Allen in 1870. It is still owned by Allen descendants.

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Chamberlain, Samuel, O1d New England Houses, Hastings House Publishers, New York. Wentworth, Dorothy, Settlement and Growth of Duxbury, Duxbury Rural and Historical Society, 1973. 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY 25 acres UTM REFERENCES AL119| L3/610/91410 ZONE EASTING -CLL VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LA, 6l 5e 1/8 50 NORTHING ZONE LEASTiNG NOATI NORTHING 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 Blaine Mallory and Joseph Orfant, National Register Editor Mrs.

Jean Poindexter Colby, Duxbury Historical Commission ORGANIZATION Massachusetts Historical Commission February 16, 1978 STREET & NUMBER 294 Washington Street ELEPHON 1-727-047 CITY OR TOWN Boston 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), I hereby nominate thisproperty for inclusion in the NationalRegister and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. Deputy tem LWelnusto STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE Acting TITLE Executive Director, Mass.

Historical Commission 3/23/78 DATE FORNPS USE ONLY 1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER luut DIACCT ATTEST: TDEARCHCOLOOY 012 REGISTER ORePRCCGAVATION DATE 6.29-78 GPO 892-453 Propert S tandich, Alepander, House State Mass. Working Number -4.3.28.28/5 TECHNEA Photos Maps Plymouth CONTROL OK 4.4.78 HISTORIAN Accept Franklen 6-1.78 Bue - Should aloobe ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN acrept Nonunated o vernaculas aschitecture . Ararzam 5.15.78 ARCHEOLOGIST OTHER HAER Inventory - Review REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Qecept Lebovil BRANGSZAEE National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry 9.5.28 Send-back Re-submit Entered United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 KEEPER 1/42/8 JUL 12 1978 INT:2106- 74 Plymouth. Courty Alexander Standish House Duxbury, Massachusetts 1977 JUL 12 1978 Mr. Frederic T.

Potter Duxbury Town Offices, Duxbury 02332 Photo #1 an Southwest facade and southeast elevation. APR 3 1978 The al REGISTER ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER STATE MASSACHUSETTS Date Entered JUL 12 1978 Name Standish, Alexander, House Location Duxbury vicinity Plymouth County Also Notified Honorable Edward W. Brooke Honorable Edward M. Kennedy Honorable Gerry B. Studds State Historie Preservation Officer Mrs. Patricia L. Weslowski Executive Director, Massachusetts Hiatorical Conmission 294 Washington Street Boston, Massachusetts 02108 NR Byers/bjr 7/14/78 PH0666289 NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET ONAME as it appears on federal register: 2 OTHER NAMES: 3) date of entry: ) county code: Standish, Alexander, House JUL 12 1978 6 LOCATION street & number 341 Standish St.

city / town vicinity of Duxbury state MA 6NPS REGION: 23 NA OWNER XPRIVATE OSTATE MUNICIPAL COUNTY CMULTIPLE FEDERAL(agency name) EXISTING SURVEYS CHABS -HAER ONHLI (10) FUNDED? -YES ONO (11)CONGRESS.

DISTRICT 12th 12)SOURCE of NOMINATION NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIG BISTRIET STORTE LANOMARK7 )CONDITION Dexcellent Ogood Dfair -deteriorated Oruins Dunexposed Dunexcavated Oaltered Ounaltered Dreconstructed Dexcavated BACCESS -YES-Restricted -YES -Unrestricted - No Access E AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -ARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 -COMMERCE-6 -ARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS-7 -AGRICULTURE-3 - CONSERVATION-8 - ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS-9 - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 CENGINEERING-11 -ENTERTAINMENT-26 -EXPLORATION -12 - HEALTH-27 - INDUSTRY-13 C INVENTION -14 Doriginal site Omoved Ounknown -Unknown -LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - LAW- 16 - LITERATURE - 17 - MILITARY - 18 - MUSIC - 19 PHILOSOPHY -20 17)features: -SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 §ONOT INTACT-O OUNKMOWN-4 EO NOT APPLICABLE -7 ADAPTIVE USE DOYES ONO SAVED?

DYES - POLITICS / GOVT.- 21 DRECREATION -28 - RELIGION-22 CSETTLEMENT-29 - SCIENCE- 23 CURBAN PLANWING-31 C SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 OTHER (SPECIFY) - SOCIAL / CULTURAL- 30 C TRANSPORTATION - 25 county Plymouth BADMINISTRATOR : *STATE -FEDERAL AGREAGE SHPO staftred form? OLOCAL -PRIVATE ORGANIZATION «OSUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-2 2OSUBSTANTIALLY INTACT - 3 9O NOT INTACT-O QONOT INTACT - O WDUNKNOWN-5 5O UNKNOWN-6 SO NOT APPLICABLE-8 EO NOT APPLICABLE - 9 IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?

Dyes Ono 2CLAIMS: explain "first'O "oldest' O 'only' D 3functions WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: CURRENTLY: architectural style(s): datesi of initial construction: major alterations : historic events: ETHNIC GROUP ASSOCIATION architect: master builder: engineer: landscape architect/ garden designer: Minterior decorator: artist: artisan: )builder/contractor: NAMES give role & date PERSONAL: EVENTS: INSTITUTIONAL: -NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP reviewers initials date IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE