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FORM A.- AREA SURVEY MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston - - 2. Photo (3x3" or 3x5') Staple to left side of form Photo number 1101-20A, 101-21A 1101-22A 101-27A 1 Form numbers in this area East Cambridge Area no. EC I.2. 1. Town Cambridge Name of area (if any) Winter Street National Register District 3. General date or period 1830s - 1850s 4. Is area uniform (explain): in style? yes - primarily late Georgiar in condition?yes - most are in good con- dition. in type of ownership? yes - private (owned individually) in use?yes - residential HIGHAWAY MBSR WINTEREE O'BRIEN STRE ORE THIRD STREET ,STREET DEEDS MINETREERIO ,02.00000-5.0 SCIARAPPA NC= NOT CONTRIBUTING DO NOT WRITE IN THIS SPACE USGS Quadrant MHC Photo no. 1.119 AcRes (over) LAMBRIDGE STR 6. Recorded by Hanriet balndriag Whitel Buntins Organization Cambridge Historical Comm.
Date_19641280 UTM-BOSTON SOUTH 19|328600/4693060 M-5-73-075074 7. Historical data. Explain the historical/architectural importance of this area. Winter Street was laid out by the Lechmere Point Corporation in 1811 as part of its plan for developing East Cambridge. Located Detween two magor thoroughfares, Bridge and Cambridge Streets, Winter Street became a desirable location for workers' housing after industries began to settle along Bridge Street to take advantage of the transpor- tation afforded by Craigie's Bridge and the Millers River. During the 1830s and 40s, a variety of workers' cottages were built on Winter Street to house employees of the area's thriving industries, particularily Bay State Glass Company and New England Glass Company.
Of the 41 persons listed on Winter Street in the 1849 Cambridge Directory, more than a third were employed in the glass factories; the rest were carpenters, bakers, and machinists. Residents ranged from day laborers and glass workers to the superintendent of the New England Glass Company. Winter Street provides an excellent example of a neighborhood of Late Georgian workers' cottages, the most characteristic form of modest single family housing in East Cambridge in the first half of the 19th century. Of the 16 houses included in the district, 14 were built before 1854. The standard house type is a narrow center hall frame cottage with simple Late Georgian cornice. Set close together with steep gable ends facing the street, these cottages opened onto narrow side yards and created a distinctive 19th century streetseape.
Winter Street retains both this streetscape and a full nange of workers' cottages from the smallest one-and-a-half story examples to a variety of double houses. It is the best surviving grouping of this charac- teristic house type in East Cambridge. SIGNIFICANT BUILDINGS: Thomas Leighton House (1833-34), 22 Winter Street: This two-and-a-half story Late Georgian workers' cottage is an important example of the early 19th century housing built in East Cambridge for skilled glass workers. Somewhat larger than most, the narrow house sits directly on the sidewalk with its steep gable end facing the street and a center entrance facing a characteristically manter Biglieagiasshwhoer wa bsbt font to aa. Caeigidge in 1826 8. Bibliography and/or references such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.
-}0 P 3/73 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Page 2 Commnity : East Cambridge Form No: ECL.2. Property Name: Winter St. N.R.D. Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. Thomas Leighton House - cont'd: to be superintendent of the New England Glass Company. Leighton was one of many skilled artisans recruited by New England Glass in England and Scotland, and much of the company's early success is attributable to his expert management. The Leighton family remained deeply involved in East Cambridge and the New England Glass company throughout most of the 19th century. After Thomas' death in 1849, his son John succeeded him as superintendent of the company, while four other sons and several grandsons also became expert glassblowers and engravers with New England Glass.
The house remained in the Leighton family until 1890. 74 Winter Street (1838): This two-and-a-half story workers'cottage is the best preserved example of the house type occupied by skilled artisans at the New England Glass Company in the first half of the 19th century. Characteris+ tic Late Georgian eaves and cornice of the house contrast with the bracketed entrance hood added in the 1870s. The house was one of four on Winter Street built for Atherton Haugh Stevens, an East Cambridge grocer who served as town selectman from 1828-31. Stevens was a direct deseendant of Atherton Haugh who moved into East Cambridge in 1635 and amassed an estate of nearly 300 acres covering most of the upland of East Cambridge. The house was recorded by HABS in 1964.
17-79 Winter Street (1838): This typical two-and-a-half story center entrance workers' cottage was built for Atherton Stevens in 1838 and sold the next year to another prominent East Cambridge grocer, Horatio Hovey. 67, 71 Winter Street (1843-44): The smallest of four houses on Winter Street built for Atherton Stevens, these modest Late Georgian one-and-a-half story frame cottages were first rented and then sold to a series of East Cambridge artisans. 24 Winter Street (pre-1854): Built before 1854, this two-and-a-half story workers' cottage was moved to its present location at the rear of the lot by 1873. Like 22 Winter Street, this house follows the characteristic East Cambridge form with a symmetrical center entrance, five bay facade facing the side yard and tall chimneys along the rear slope of the roof.
21,25,27,29 Winter Street (pre-1854): five bay facadof and steep gdale rorstpro fdeseanoexeeslenttexams with of the simplest and most characteristic form of single family housing built in East CambrstaplertnInventory form at bottom the first half of the 19th century. INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commmity : East Cambridge Form No: EC I.2 Property Name: Winter St. N.R.D. Page 3 Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. 28-30 Winter Street (pre-1854): Built before 1854, this wide one-and-a-half story frame house is actually composed of two standard two-room center hall plan workers' cottages set back to back with party wall chimneys along the ridge of the wide gable. 31-33 Winter Street (pre-1854): ation in siting was followed in other corner houses in the Winter Street area.
In the 1870s elaborate bracketed hoods were added over the deeply recessed entrances, and 33 Winter Street was enlarged to three stories. 61 Winter Street (pre-1854): flthough it follows the basic East Cambridge workers' cottage plan vith two rooms and a center entrance, 61 Winter Street appears consider- ably larger than its neighbors because its corner location allows the main facade of the house to face the street. The heavier cornice and broad entrance further emphasize the larger scale of the house. 65 Winter Street (pre-1854): This one-and-a-half story workers' cottage has a handsome entrance - hood with spindle frieze and brackets added circa 1880. 19 Winter Street (c. 1850s): A one-and-a-half story workers' cottage built in the late 1850s, 19 Winter Street shows the persistence of this single family house form in East Cambridge. 34-42 Winter Street (c.
1870s): This three-story bracketed tenement block built in the 1870s reflects the need for increased workers housing in this neighborhood in the second half of the 19th century. The Winter Street National Register District includes portions of Winter Street between Third and Fifth Streets (see Cambridge Community Development P. D. Quad Map 1A). Its boundaries were determined by the density of workers' cottages extant. -END- Staple to Inventory form at bottom 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 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Cambridge Multiple Resource Area MA Nomination/Type of Review 1. XEast Cambridge Historic District OMB NO. 1024-0018 EXP.
12/31/84 For NPS use only received date entered Page / f17 dnr-11 Keeper Subetent1ve Attest 1%. Winter Street Historic District Keeper Revtom Attest 3. Upper Magazine Street Historic District V Keeper Subataative Hevlew Attest Hastings Square Historic District Substantive Review / Keeper Attest 1:5. Salem-Auburn Streets Historic| District Keeper Subadaativo RovIew Attest 16. Inman Square Historic District V Keeper Revfey Attest V:T. old Cambridgeport Historic District Keeper 835g caFIre Hertau Attest 1.8. Norfolk Street Historic District / Keeper Suäs Hev1ew Attest Date/Signature somur ua Drego 6:30-83 Wieliam H. Bravham413: 4.13.8 WilamH.Brauham WeliamH.Bracham 4-13.8. Weciam A Bracvam 413.82 Wiam H. Brasham 4.13.8. Br, Wetamit.Bravham 4.1382 r9. Cambridge Gateway Historic substantive Beviow Keeper District DOE/OWNER OBJECTION ectuen 1.13.82 Attest / 310.
Bigelow Street Historic District Peacive Hovdr Keeper (Wilkam /.Brauham 483 Attest Substantive Review NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES United States Department of the Interior National Park Service EVALUATION / RETURN SHEET WInTer STeut HesToRic DisTRit Property: (Cambridge multipke Resmnce Afra) State, County:_ MA- nuddlecex Federal Agency: resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Working No. /I-14-80-2862 Fed. Reg. Date: Date Due:- Action: ACCEPT 4/13/52 RETURN_ - REJECT- photos4 maps. Substantive Review: - sample -request _appeal NR decision Reviower's comments: concent ration of hale beargian worker houning Recom. / Criteria Reviewer - Discipline Arch Pis Date - 115.82 _ see continuation sheet -Nomination returned for: - technical corrections cited below - substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3.
Classification Ratun Aasocolbte rocomt Ueo walle de squlelttes 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys aperty beon determined eligtsa? - 190 - 7. Description letertoratec good tair ruine Ohook _ unaitered _ afared Chock ene - - original site _moved dete sseribe the procent and ertginel (il kneren) phryeieet appoarane summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates boundary selection 8. Significance erto sotlly baler ate I ed su balllaenao flo eno paraoraas 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 vated property - arbed boundery 11. Form Prepared By 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The eveluated significance of thie property wderin the state le: - Btate - leca Sate Hietorte Preservetten Officer eignature dot 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 shoet H12-101| 086L1A0 Canbrida MRAMa winter st. HID 79-65 WinterSt. 1101-21A 1101-27A 006l I AON 0 79 C Cambridee Ma HiP, winte st HiPi 22 WinterSt. 1101-27A 1101-20A NOV 1 4 1980 ELO Cambridge MRA Ma hirater-st H,D. WINTER ST. 75 winter St. 1101-20A 1101-ZZA 086L71100 0790 Cambride MRA, Ma winter st. HID. 65 winterSt. 1101-22A Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000275