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Nomination for Sands, Ivory, House

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 909 words across 8 pages, filed in 1982. Reproduced in full, word for word.

Source document Held by the National Archives in Record Group 79 as reference 82001976, where it exists only as a scan with no text layer. The words below were read off that scan by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the typewriter's. Nothing is summarised, corrected or written by this site. See the catalogue record, or return to the property.

The nomination, in full

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

- 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 ||0\-|A - - 9VLLA HAMPSHIRE NORFOLK ASSESSOR 30M-5-77 #86-18 In Area no. C'port 1. Town_ Cambridge Address_145 E1m Street Name Ivory Sands House Present use residential Form no. CPT IIC5 Present owner Dr. Edward Seldin 3. Description: Date 1839 Source deed records StyleLate Federal - Greek Revival influence Architect anonymous Exterior wall fabric brick Outbuildings (describe) none Other features_Angled brick dentil course at cornice; demi-lune window in each gable. Altered No Moved No Date = Date - --- 5. Lot size: One acre or less XX Over one acre Approximate frontage50 feet Approximate distance of building from street 12 feet 6.

Recorded by Robert Rettig Organization Cambridge Historical Comm Date 1969 UTM- BOSTON SOUTH 19/327280/4692800 7. Original owner (if known) Ivory Sands Original use residential Subsequent uses (if any) and dates_ ---- 8. Themes (check as many as applicable) Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development Conservation Education Exploration/ settlement Industry Military Political Recreation Religion Science/ invention Social/ humanitarian Transportation 9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) 086L$ 1ON The house at 145 Elm Street was the fiest of four brick houses built by the Sands family, who operated bricky, ards in Cambridge for over for its association with the early brick ndustry, and architectually as one of the few surviving Federal period brick houses ir Cambridge.

The Sands family was involved in the Cambridge brick industry through the turn of this century. John and Ivory Sands first entered the trade in the 1830s, working at the claybeds on the Miller's River on Cambridge Street. These pits were among the first clay deposits to be commercially worked in Cambridge. The Iyory Sands house is late Federal in form but shows the influence of the approaching Greek Revival in its high-pitched gable roof. The facade has a typical five-bay configuration with a center entrance reflecting the two-room, center hall plan. The window openings have sandstone lintels and sill, 10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) an early use of this decorative material in Cambridge. This brilding is discussed in archifectuva ( Histeryin Cambridge series, Report Threei Canduidgeprt p.50.

- 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 1.1 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Cambridge Multiple Resource Area MA Nomination/Type of Review " 51. Read, Cheney, House aire Herlew/ Keeper Date/Signature WiliamHt. Bracham 4.13-82 Attest 52. Reardon, Edmund, House SerIow Keeper wiwamHt.Bravam4.138: Attest 53. River Street Firehouse Hay Ie Keeper Williamt. Bracham 41382 Attest ~54. Sands, Ivory, House Hovta Keeper WicianHBralham 41382 ,55. Senior House DOE/OWNER OBJECTIONVReeper 56. South Row Attest Attest BayTaDv Keeper Leject Attest Detuca 41352 413.82 -57. Urban Rowhouse (40-48 Pearl St.) Keeper Weeliam H. Bracham 4.138 Attest 58.

Urban Rowhouse (30-38 Pearl St.) Keeper WieliamHBracham 4.13.82 Attest Urban Rowhouse (26-32 R1VeuostantIve Hevtew v Keeper tow-de Pig 6-30.83 Attest 60. Yvalentine Soap Workers Cottages (5-7 Cottage St.) Keeper Attest Bruulun Oong 69 2 Substentive Hevie NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION / RETURN SHEET Ivokyj Bands House (Cambrudge Property: muttple Resounce Acca) State, County: MA- nuddlesed Federal Agency: United States Department of the Interior National Park Service resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Working No.- 11-14-80-2862 Fed. Reg. Date:- Date Due: 4/17/82 Action: ACCEPT4/13/82 - RETURN- - REJECT - photos L maps - Substantive Review: sample - request _ appeal - NR decision Reviewer's comments: This building is tocally sugripicant for its histonic association uith the develafment o .

the buuck industry in cambridae and aichitecturally as one of the tew tederal style brck houses in cambridae. acept- 4,0 Reviewer - Discipline_Historian Date3/16/82 - see continuation sheet -Nomination returned for: -technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification gery damorabia dollc M opetattio 4. Owner of Property Matu Accocsible rosomt Ueo 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys dee ote property boon detormined eligtto? - Fo - n 7. Description - exceller good fair deteriorated ruins Dheck ene _unaitered aitered rocont and ertginal (il known) plryaieal - summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates boundary selection Check one - originai site - moved dete - 6.

Significance and jetily beler balldor/ Aroto summary paragraph completeness clarity applicable criteria justification of areas Checked relating significance to the resource context relation ship of integrity to significance justification of exception other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data horaaga ol nominated property - auadrangto namo. UNIT Roterences arbel boendery doscrbatton and hrstfhcatton 11. Form Prepared By 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Tho evatuated elgnilicence of thie propperty vtthin the atete is: _ pational - Bate - local Blate Mlatoric Presorvatien Oficer elgneture 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 DO NOT ENTER IMES 1O1-IA NOV 1 4 1980 cambridge, MN.A Ma Sards, Fvory, House 79 C 145 Elm St. 1101-1A Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000275