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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston - 2. Photo (3x3" or 3x5") Staple to left side of form Photo number||05-30 1 4. Map. Draw sketch of building location in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings. Indicate north. 277 - «202. AV. MASSACHUSETTS - 2202 6CPT TECTORI IGLFIELD RINDGE ASSESSOR #198-27 30M-5-77 In Area no. NW CAMB. Form no. NWC IIC16 1. Town _Cambridge Address 2222-24 Massachusetts Avenue Name_ R.H. Farwell House Present use residential Present owner Francis J. & Elsie H. Hanley. 3. Description: Date 1891 Source deed records Style Queen Anne Architect George Durgin - builder Exterior wall fabric_ wood Outbuildings (describe) -- Other features large double house with very widely spaced dormers, Polygonal bays with Bracketed Italianate feature: Altered No Moved No Date -- Date -- 5.
Lot size: One acre or less XX Over one acre Approximate frontage 60 feet Approximate distance of building from street 32 feet 6. Recorded by_Arthur Krim Organizatioambridge Historical Comm. Date 1972 UTM-LEXINGTON 19/324960/4695400 7. Original owner (it known)_ R.H. Farwell Original use residential Subsequent uses (if any) and dates same 8. Themes (check as many as applicable) Aboriginal Conservation Agricultural Education Architectural XX Exploration/ The Arts settlement Commerce Industry Communication Military Community development XX Political Recreation Religion Science/ invention Social/ humanitarian Transportation 9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) The R.H. Farwell house is a large Queen Anne double house with paired entrances flanked by two-story polygonal bays. Ihe bays show Bracketed Itallanate 1niluence.
The gable roof contains a widely-spaced pair of gabled dormers. The set back and size of this residence preserves an image of the prestigious homes which developed along u8, then catied Massachusetts Avenue, then called North Avenue, in the mid to late nineteenth century. The Farwe11 House,and its two nearby neighbors at 2200 and 2210 Massachusetts Avenue are the best surviving group of houses from this period and crucial to identifying this phase of growth in Northwest Cambridge. 10.
Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps,etc.) NOV 1 4 1980 NPS Form 10-900-a (7-81) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form Continuation sheet Item number For NPS use only received date entered Page /5 4- ) Multiple Resource Area Thematie Group Name State Cambridge Multiple Resource Area MA Nomination/Type of Review '141. Taylor Square Firehouse / Keeper Date/Signature Weliam H. Aracham 4.13-82 kaváöw '142. Aborn,. John, House Attest J Keeper WwliamH. Brackom 4.13.82 Attest '143. Hews Pottery Company Carriage House Keeper Reje 4/13185 1 Ifa. Walden Street Cattle Tunnel Sufisemttva Hovto Keeper Attest Attest Detrun 4.13.82 -145. Slowey, Patrick, House Keeper Wielian t Bracham 413.82 Attest *146. Fresh Pond Hotel Aads *'147.
McLéan, Isaac, House J Keeper LeuamH.Brackam 4.13.82 Attest - Keeper Wean H Brachom 4.13.82 Attest 148. Billings, Frederick, House 9 Keeper Attest WucamHBracham 4.13.82 ~149. Farwell, R. H.,House Substentive Heview / Keeper H. Bravkam 4.13.82 Attest 150. TSt. John's Roman Catholie Church Keeper Attest Tuun her Dnyel 6 30.3 2 Substantive NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION / RETURN SHEET Farwell, H. House (Cambridge Property: Multiple Resnúce Arca) State, County: MA- Duddlesex Federal Agency: United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Working No. 11-14-80-2862 Fod. Reg. Date:.
Dato Due: Action: 4-17-82 ACCEPT 4/13/82 resubmission - RETURN- nomination by person or local government - REJECT- owner objection photos/ appeal maps_ Substantive Review: sample - request _ appeal - NR decision Reviower's comments: Locally sigrifriant for architectine - a sare surving campled the tupe a hames brull e 4 mobile midelle class on Mass. Av. in late rath century c. snuee revrewed) - Kest-. suwurng in nmediale area Recom. / Criteria AeDt-C Reviower fotres Anauns Discipline- Nistorian Date - 3/23/82 Eliçire - se0 continuation sheet 413.82 -Nomination returned for: _ technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification rmorship wblic Aoqutaition 4. Owner of Property Matus hecosalble Prasan Ueo 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys has thte property beon determined oligtbte?
- - 7. Description mtien exceitent good foir _ detertoratad .ruins .unexposed ock one unaitered _ altered Chack one - original site - moved date cortbe the procent and ortginal (il known) phiycieai appoarencs summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates boundary selection 8. Significance orte voes of si a and juetlfy bole ef 8ig s fin ene paregres summary paragraph completeness clarity applicable criteria justification of areas checked relating significance to the resource context relationship .of integrity to significance justification of exception other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Aoreage ef nomineted property Guedrangle name UfT Reterences Verbel beundery deecriptien and jetificatien 11. Form Prepared By 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Tiae evaluated significance of thle property within the state is: nationat _Hate seervatien Officer eignetur 13. Other Maps Photographs Other Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to . Signed Date- Phone: 202 272 -3504 Comments for any Item may be continued on an attached sheet 1105-30 NOV 1 4 1980 canbridge MRA, Ma 43 C 2222-24 MassachusettsAve. Far well, R, He, Hease 1105-30 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000275