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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 1094-12A - '- AV F(cone) Eh PRE 30(1925 FRANKLIN ....G 1865 AOURN (over) ASSESSOR# 93-56 93.55 93-54 93-53 93-52 30M-5-77 In Area no. C'port 1. Town Cambridge Address 30-38 Pearl Street Name_Urban Rowhouses Present use residential Form no. C PT LIC Present owner_(Please see other side) 3. Description: Date 1874 Source assessor/deed records Style Ruskinian Gothic/Panelled Brick Architect anonymous Exterior wall fabric brick Outbuildings (describe) none Other features brick ornamentation (red and black bricks); steeply pitched mansard roof. Altered No Date -- Moved No Date --. 5. Lot size: One acre or less XX Over one acre Approximate frontage100 feet Approximate distance of building from street 8 feet 6.
Recorded by_Bainbridge Bunting Organization Cambridge Historical Comm. Date 1965 UTM- BOSTON SOUTH 191326740/4692100 NOV 1 4 1980 7. Original owner (if known) Hiram A. Gerrish Original use residential Subsequent uses (if any) and dates same 8. Themes (checkas many as applicable) Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development XX Conservation Education Exploration/ settlement Industry Military Political Recreation Religion Science/ invention Social/ humanitarian Transportation 9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) This important grouping of urban rowhouses was built in 1874, striking a clearly urban note. This type of awelling resulted from the growing pressure for housing and the need for denser lana occupation.
Their continuous street facades and masonry appearance created a street- scape very different from that produced by the surrounding detached wooden houses. The houses feature elements of the Panel Brick style, with red and black bricks creating ornamental banding, a distinctive ornamentation popular in the 1870s. All five houses in the grouping are crowned by a steeply pitched mansard roof in order to provide a more seryiceable headroom in the attic story. Present owners; 30 Pearl Street: Edward D. Cacciola Jr. Pearl Street: Bruce E. Mohl 34 Pearl Street: Trustees of H. E M. Trust - Harold Gilboard, Malcolm I. Kates. 36 Pearl Street: Hessie M. Kearney 38 Pearl Street: Loretta M. Stickels 10.
Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) - 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 Norlewv Keeper Date/Signaturep Wiliam/t.Bracham 4.13-82 Attest 52. Reardon, Edmund, House Sertew Keeper Wiiam/.Braunam4.13.8: Attest "53. River Street Firehouse HayIei Keeper WilliamH. Bracham 4.13.82 Attest ~54. Sands, Ivory, House SubatantIve Hovtmn Keeper WiccianH.Brachom 41382 155. Senior House DOE/OWNER ÖBJECTIONKeeper South Row Attest Detuca 4.352 Attest Has ai Keeper Dejec 41382 Attest -57.
Urban Rowhouse (40-48 Pearl St.) Keeper Weeciam H. Bracham 4138 Attest 58. Urban Rowhouse (30-38 Pearl St.) Keeper WieliomH Bracham 4.13.82 Attest Urban Rowhouse (26-32 Riveuostantive Rerfew - Keeper Attest ta-1eig 6-30-3 60. Valentine Soap Workers Cottages (5-7 Cottage St.) Keeper Attest Pr.cal Ti38T anBongp 630.9 Substantive Revfew NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES United States Department of the Interior National Park Service EVALUATION / RETURN SHEET Unban Rowhouses Cumbrulge Property: multiple Resouece ARIN -30-35 Peml Working No. 11-14-80-2862 State, County:MA-nuddleax Fed. Reg.
Date: - Federal Agency: Date Due: 4-17-82 Action: ACCEPT 4/13/82 resubmission - RETURN- nomination by person or local government - REJECT- owner objection photosL appeal maps Substantive Review: -sample - request - appeal NR decision Reviewer's comments: dignificant rowhorece exampler- utulying bick- Should te cos; tred with o then seaul street Houdes Recom. /Criteria. Reviewer - Discipline asch /tis. Date 4.2.82 - see continuation sheet -Nomination returned for: - technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification Cetogory Ormorship Pebtc Aoqutaltion 4. Owner of Property Matus hecosolbie Prasont Ueo 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys las the property beon determined oligible? yao - no 7.
Description Condition excettent good tair detertorated ruins unexposed Dhock ono _ unattered altered Chack one original site .moved date earbe the pe an and ertginal (il known) physieal appoarens summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates boundary selection 8. Significance erte lees of eeie deter Chock and foattly beler hllder Aretale nf el sigalfieanoo fin ene pa 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 Aoraage ol nominated property Quedrengie name _ UNT Roterencer Vertel boundery foscriatien and jestiicatior 11. Form Prepared By 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evetuated eignilicance of thie propperty wutthin the etate la netional otate Bute Mletoric Preserretion Oficer eignorure dote 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 URBAN ROWHOUSE 26-32 RIVER STREET CHC 1196-18 Canbridge MRA. Ma 1104-8A Urban Rowhouses 8.6 C Caubeidge MRA, Ma 26-32 River St. 1104-8A Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000275