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FORM B - BUILDING - MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston - - - - - In Area no. NW CAMB. Form no. NWC IIC2 1. TownCambridge Address_146 Rindge Avenue Name_Kidder-Sargent-McCrehan House Present use residential 2. Photo (3x3" or 3x5") Staple to left side of form Photo number 1110-34A - 4. Map. Draw sketch of building location in relation to nearest cross streets and 1OLLIS 1. RINDGE N WILSON JONNP CAPOCHIAL SCHOOL Present owner Susan A. Hamilton 3. Description: Date c. 1792 Source deed records Style:Federal Architect unknown Exterior wall fabric clapboard Outbuildings (describe) garage Other featuresoriginal condition, angled on lot to face east, double chimney, Federal style second story windows. Altered Yes, shingles Date: 1920s added. One wall restored. Moved No Date == -* 5.
Lot size: One acre or less XX Over one acre Approximate frontage 110 feet Approximate distance of building from street 20 feet 6. Recorded by Arthur Krim Organization Cambridge Historical Comm. Date 1972 UTM-LEXINGTON 19/32458014695380 30M-5-77 ASSEsSOR #195-60 7. Original owner (if known) Nathaniel Kidder Original use_ residential Subsequent uses (if any) and dates same 8. Themes (check as many as applicable) Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development XX XX XX Conservation Education Exploration/ settlement Industry Military Political Recreation Religion Science/( invention Social/ humanitarian Transportation 9.
Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) The Kidder-Sargent-McCrehan house is the finest rural vernacular example of the Federal style in Northwest Cambridge and the only pre- NOV 1 nineteenth century farmhouse that has survived with its original features intact. The curious siting, at an angle to Rindge Avenue, allows the front entrance to face east in the colonial 1980 manner. The house has a typical eighteenth century four-room, center-hall plan, but reveals the Federal style in the small second-story windows, short eaves, and sidelight entry. The Kidder family acquired the property upon which the house sits in 1706 and it remained in the family until 1835 when the land and the present house were sold to Solomon Sargent.
Sargent eventually sold sections of the surrounding farm acreage as building.lots during the 1840s, a time of increasing residential development in the North Cambridge area, and eventually sold the house and its present lot to Jeremiah McCrehan in 1867. The house remained in the McCrehan family until the 1940s. The house is valuable for its well-preserved condition and lts nistorical significance as the only eighteenth century farmhouse to survive on its original site. It was 10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) voted eligible for the National Register in 1977.
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 /6 417 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Cambridge Multiple Resource Area MA Nomination/Type of Review 151. Day, Anna, House Sudeteaiivo toriow / Keeper Attest 152. Kingsley, Chester, House Sole va, lerion V Keeper Attest 153. Watson, Abraham, House Keeper Attest 154. Wyeth Brickyard Superintendent's House Keeper Substantive Keview Attest ^155. Greek Revival Cottage Sasidein V Keeper Attest 156. Vst. James Episcopal Churche - V Keeper Attest "157. Kidder-Sargent-McCrehan House Keeper Attest "158. Henderson Carriage Repository Keeper Attest 159. Soule, Lawrence, House Subetentive Review Keeper Attest 160.
Wyeth-Smith House / Keeper Attest Date/Signature Wjeliam H. Aravnam 4.1382 Wieuam H.Arackam 4.13.82 WiekamHt.Bracham 44382 Welam H. Brackom 4.13.82 Weelam H. Brackam 4.13.82 Dimer fea Drgel 6 80-83 Welam H Aravnam 4.1382 Wilkam H.Brackam 4.13.82 WillianH. Brarham 4.1382 WulamA.loracham4.13.82 TOF ubstantiva RevIew NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION / RETURN SHEET Kidder-SargenT. McCrehan House Property: (CAmbrdge Muctiple Resouree Area) Stato, County: MA. nuddlesex Federal Agency: resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: - sample Reviewer's comments: Race swrrving ekanple Unitud States Department of the Interior National Park Service Working No.11-14-80-2862 Fed. Reg. Date: Date Due:_ Action: 4-11-82 - RETURN - REJECT- photos L maps- -request -appeal NR decision Recom.
/Criteria_C ReviowerBracnam Discipline 4,5.82 Date. - see continuation sheet -Nomination returned for: _ technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification atogory Oumership Public Acquisition 4. Owner of Property Ptatus Accossibie Prosent Use 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys has thie property been determined origible? ros - no 7. Description Conditien _ excellent good deteriorated ruins . unexposed Chock ene unaltered altered Chock one - original site .moved date seribe the prosent and ertginal (I known) physicel appearence summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates boundary selection 8.
Significance arted Aroes ef Significanco Specle dates luatify boke aider/Areb ant ef Stgniticanoo (in eano paregraah summary paragraph completeness clarity applicable criteria justification of areas checked relating significance to the resource context relationship of integrity to significance justification of excepticn other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property _ Quadrangie neme. UMT Rotarances Verbel boundary description and juathication 11. Form Prepared By 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: _ netional -_ state local Aate Mistoric Preeervation Officer aignature date 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 1110-344 NOV 1 4 1980 Cambridee MRA, Ma 0 43C Kidder-Sargent-McGrchm Huse 146 Rindge Ave. 1110 - 34A Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000275