Nomination for Loring, Harrison, House

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NPS Form 10-900 (3-82) OMB No.1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms Type all entries-complete applicable sections 1. Name For NPS use only received AUG - | 1983 date entered historic Harrison Loring, House and/or common same 2. Location street & number 789 E. Broadway St. N/A not for publication city, town Boston (South Boston)e N/Avicinity of state Massachusetts 3.

Classification code 025 county Suffolk code 025 Category district X building(s) structure site object N/A Ownership - public X private both Public Acquisition - in process being considered Status X occupied - unoccupied work in progress Accessible X - yes: restricted yes: unrestricted no Present Use agriculture commercial educational entertainment government industrial military _museum -park X private residence . religious _ scientific _transportation .other: 4. Owner of Property name John D. Dilorati street & number 918 East Seventh city, town Boston (South Boston) N/ Avicinity of 5. Location of Legal Description state Massachusetts courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Suffolk County Registry of Deeds street & number Pemberton Square city, town Boston 6.

Representation in Existing Surveys state Massachusetts title Inventory of the Assets of the Commonwealth date Summer 1982 has this property been determined eligible? yes x no _federalX state .county local depository for survey records Massachusetts Historical Commission city, town Boston state Massachusetts 7. Description Harrison Loring House, 789 E. Broadway, S. Boston Condition X excellent - good fair deteriorated ruins unexposed Check one unaltered X altered Check one * original site moved date N/A Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

Constructed in 1865, the Harrison Loring House is a three-story French Second Empire style brick mansion. Built in the same year, the two-story carriage house resembles the main house in materials and style. Situated on East Broadway Street, facing Independence Square, the Harrison Loring House, during the late 1800's, enabled a view of the harbor from an elegant neighborhood. Today, adjacent to 19th century brick and brownstone rowhouses, the house forms a most agreeable ensemble with neighboring buildings. The basic plan of. the main house is that of a square (48' x 34') with a central projecting pavilion in the front facade and an addition ( in 1927) in the rear. The square block is topped by a mansard roof with a bell-cast profile. Originally shingled with slate tiles, the roof has been covered with asphalt shingles since about 1949.

Rising above the roof is an air vent and skylight in the center and four decorative brick chimneys. Dormer windows, sét into the mansard, are symmetrically arranged throughout the plan. In the front ! East Broadway side) roof, a pair of pedimented dormers flank a central projection which contains a pair of smaller windows. Underlying the mansard is a white modillioned wood cornice which continues along the facade's central pavilion, outlining its pediment. The front facade's first and second stories contain large rectangular windows, framed with white painted brownstone, with bracketed sills and louvered shutters. Three bays wide, the brick facade is punctuated with a central projecting pavilion.

The pavilion contains a large double window on its second story, four (two per story) arched window openings on its sides, and a glass paneled double door enclosed in a portico with white painted brownstone Corinthian entablature and stylized columns. The Western (M Street) facade, like the front facade, has a central projection and symmetrical fenestration. Pairs of rectangular brownstone-framed windows flank a three-sided center projecting bay which contains similar windows. The bay's roof level is marked in its center by a decorative dormer oculus. The eastern facade, three bays wide, contains similar brownstone-framed windows. Single windows are in the end bays while the central bay contains a pair of smaller windows on the second story and no opening on the first story. To the rear (south) of the house is a two-story extension which resembles the main block in design and materials.

Originally serving to house the servant quarters and the kitchen, this extension contains a brownstone-framed rear door. Attached to the extension's western facade is a single-story flat-roofed clapboard addition, built in 1927. The foundation, of granite block, steps down about 15% with the slope of the land in the rear of the building. The lot(13,459 square feet) is fenced in on its East Broadway and M Street perimeters by a robustly profiled cast-iron fence, set in stone. The interior of the house displays a monumental central staircase and rich details including ornate moldings and hand-carved fireplaces. NPS Form 10-900-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form Continuation sheet Harrison Loring House Item number 7 OMB No.1024-0018 Exp.

10-31-84 For NPS use only received date entered Page 1 Linking the main house to the former carriage house is an enclosed passageway which was built in 1928 when the carriage house was used as a chapel. The carriage house is a brick two-story building, square in plan and capped by a mansard roof and cupola. Asphalt shingles cover the roof's upper slope whereas original slate ones cover the lower slope. Regularly spaced arched wood-frame windows are recessed into the roof. A cornice, similar to that on the main house, underlies the roof on all sides as well as the cupola. The M Street facade differs from the others in that the line of the mansard is broken by a central gable. Outlined by the cornice, the gable contains a brownstone oculus beneath which is a square window with brownstone lintel and sill.

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Significance Harrison Loring House, 789 E. Broadway, S. Boston Period prehistoric 1400-1499 1500-1599 1600-1699 1700-1799 1800-1899 1900 Areas of Significance - Check and justify below - archeology-prehistoric community planning . archeology-historic conservation agriculture economics X architecture education art engineering commerce exploration/settlement - communications X industry _ invention _ landscape architecture__ religion law literature military music - philosophy - politics/government science sculpture social/ humanitarian theater transportation other (specify) Specific dates 1865 Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) Builder/Architect unknown The Harrison Loring House retains its integrity of location, design, setting, materials and workmanship. It is significant for its architectural excellence, for its associations with prominent families and for its location and contribution to the character of South Boston. Built in 1865, the building is a fine example of a 19th century French Second Empire Style mansion; its materials, proportions and details expressive of this form of architecture. The imposing house contains a mansard roof, central projecting pavilion, rich classical moldings and details, and symmetrical arrangement of bays. The carriage house, also built in 1865, resembles the main house in materials and style. The building thus meets criteria B and C of the National Register of Historic Places.

The development of Independence Square, which the Harrison Loring House faces, began in 1822 when the City of Boston purchased a 60-acre tract in the vicinity formerly known as Brush Tree Hill, that contained several institutions including the House of Industry, the House of Reformation, and a hospital for the insane. late 1850's the institutions had been dismantled, the city lands divided in a grid and gradually sold to private investors, and in 1855 Independence Square laid out. At the close of the 1860's, Independence Square and the stretch of East Broadway between I and M Street began to assume appearance of a fashionable residential quarter. During the mid-60's, several elaborate French Mansard mansions were built for local well-to-do manufacturers often on corner lots.

The predominant building types, however, were brick rowhouses in Mansard, late Italianate and High Victorian Gothic. Telegraph Hill and East Broadway towards City Point became areas where small clusters of free-standing mansions were set back on large city lots. The south side of Telegraph Hill,with its panoramic views of the bay, provided locations, during the '60's and '70's , for substantial residences of rather individualistic design including the Second Empire and Mansard/Stick Style examples. In Boston's dense urban neighborhoods the detached brick Victorian mansion on a large lot is rather rare as a type. South Boston has the city's most notable concentration of them and one of the best known, the Harrison Loring House, was designated a Boston Landmark in 1981. The architect of the Loring House is unknown.

Believed to have been constructed by skilled shipyard carpenters, the house's interior reflects The air circulation system within the walls of the house, the structural joining details (i.e. dovetail joining), marine varnishes, and cabinets with counterswinging doors were all influenced by naval design.

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

Major Bibliographical References Suffolk Deeds Boston Landmarks Commission, Harrison Loring Estate, Boston, 1981. 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property sq. ft.= 13,458 Quadrangle name Boston South UT M References A L19/ 3/312|41710 Zone Easting 1416 /818 /8 |010/ Northing E GL D F Verbal boundary description and justification See attached deed description and assessor's map. Quadrangle scale 1:25,000 Easting Northing LILIL List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries State N/A code county code State code county code 11. Form Prepared By name/title Candace Jenkins, Preservation Planning Dir.By: Boston Landmarks Commission organization Massachusetts Historical Commission date May, 1983 street & number294 Washington Street telephone (617) 727-8470 city or town Boston state Massachusetts 12.

State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: _ national Nocal As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89- 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forthby the National Park Service.

State Historic Preservation Officer signature TatunchWeslonski State Historic Preservation Officer title Massachusetts Historical Commission date 7/20/83 For NPS use only I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register delare Entered inthe fo keeper of the National Register National Register date 9/1/83 Attest: Chief of Registration date NPS Form 10-900-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 For NPS use only received date entered Continuation sheet Harrison Loring House Item number 8 Page 1 The Harrison Loring House is mainly associated with Harrison Loring, for whom it was built and named.

Although Loring once owned and operated one of the first South Boston shipyards which manufactured iron steamships and their machinery, his house is now the only property associated with him. Of Puritan stock, as direct descendant of John Alden, Loring was born in Duxbury in 1822. His early introduction to engine manufacturing came in 1839 when he was apprenticed to Jabez Coney, a millwright and steam Vne1 22. engine builder in South Boston. After seven years as an apprentice, Loring opened his own machine and boiler shop on West First Street which he operated from 1847 to 1857. In that shop, Ioring built the machinery of the steamer "John Hancock" and built the first rotary printing press. With plans to expand his business, he bought from the city, for $35,000, a large tract of land (approximately seven acres) containing some stone buildings at City Point.

This waterfront lot, located on East First Street between I and M Streets, was to be the new site of Loring's manufacturing yard. By 1860 the plant, called "City Point Works", was building iron steamships, their engines, boilers and vessels, mill machinery and various types of ironwork. Having bought out a chain manufacturing plant (Cotton, Hill and Co.), Loring incorporated his new "Boston Chain Works" into the City Point Works. Loring's yard, by 1879, had constructed such iron steamships as the "Sestas" "Sontest" , "South Carolina", "Massachusetts" "Mississippi" and "Merrimack" and the iron clad batteries "Nahant" and "Canonicus" - City Point Works continued to prosper in the following years and was sold by Loring for $75,000 in 1894. They were replaced within twenty years by the monumental Boston Edison plant.

In the years following his purchase of the City Point Works land in 1857, Loring had bought several smaller lots in South Boston, including the site of his own home at 789 East Broadway. Loring purchased the lot at 789 c 9E 750 East Broadway from the City of Boston for $6,104 in the early 1860's. 1865, the land contained a stable (probably the same one which stands today) which housed several horses, carriages, and machinery. During that year, the main house was built and Loring started living there. Selling the house to Abby J. Walker of New York in 1878 for $15,000, Loring continued to live in it (probably as a boarder) until 1895 when he repossessed the property from Walker. Loring, having paid Walker's mortgage, resold the property to Joseph D. Fallon for that amount.

Fallon owned the house until 1913 when he sold it to the Roman Catholic Archbishop for the $12,000 balance on the mortgage. NPS Form 10.900-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 Far NPS use only received date entered Continuation sheet Harrison Loring House Item number 8 Page 2 Under the ownership of the Catholic Church, the main house was used as a convent, the carriage house used as a chapel, and an enclosed passageway was built connecting the two. The property was sold to its present owner, John D. Dilorati, in 1967. After selling the property at 189 East Broadway in 1894, Loring lived as a tenant of another house at 883 East Broadway. He moved to Dorchester in 1896 and to Duxbury in 1898.

He died on December 26, 1907 in the home of his sisters-in-law, at 2 Cleveland Street in Roxbury. NPS Form 10-900-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form Continuation sheet Harrison Loring House Item number 10 OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 For NPS use only received date entered Page 1 The nominated property includes only the lot on which the building stands; it is described in Boston Assessor's Records as parcel #3925 of ward 6.

Its boundary is as follows: Beginning at the northwesterly corner of the premises, at the southeasterly corner of Broadway and "M" Street; thence running eastwardly bounded by Broadway, one hundred and seven and 67/100 (107.67) feet; thence southwardly parallel with "M" Street, one hundred and twenty-five (125) feet; thence westwardly parallel with Broadway, one hundred and seven and 67/100 (107.67) feet; and thence northwardly by "M" Street, one hundred and twenty-five (125) feet to the point of the beginning. Containing thirteen thousand four hundred and fifty-eight and 75/100 (13,458.75) square feet more or less.

(Suffolk Deeds L1360 f1113, January 18, 1876) WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Harrison, Loring, House Suffolk County MASSACHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: Reviewer's comments: -sample -request Working No._ AUG 1 1983 Fed. Reg. Date: 2-7-84 Date Due: - 9/1/83 - 9/15/83 Intered fitighs LACCEPT - 9/1/83 Nationsl Regieter- _RETURN REJECT- Federal Agency: . Lappeal NR decision Recom./Criteria Reviewer Discipline Date. - see continuation sheet Nomination returned for: _ technical corrections cited below .substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification Category Ownership Public Acquisition 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6.

Representation in Existing Surveys Has this property been determined eligible? yes no 7. Description Condition excellent good fair J deteriorated ruins unexposed Check one unaltered altered Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates boundary selection Status Accessible Present Use Check one Loriginal site moved date 8. Significance Period Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Specific dates Builder/Architect Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) 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 Acreage of nominated property Quadrangle name_ UTM References Verbal boundary description and justification 11. Form Prepared By 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: national state _local State Historic Preservation Officer signature title date 13.

Other Maps Photographs Other Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to _ Signed Date Phone: _ Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet PHOTO # 1 of 5 Harrison Loring House Boston (South Boston) Suffolk County, Massachusetts Photo Credit: Diana Filios Negative: Boston Landmarks Commission Date: September 3, 1980 Identification: View from north Harrison Loring House Boston (South Boston) Suffolk County, Massachusetts Photo Credit: Diana Filios Negative: Boston Landmarks Commission Date: September 3, 1980 Identification: View from west (with rear addition) PHOTO #2 of 5 PHOTO #3of 5 Harrison Loring House Boston (South Boston) Suffolk County, Massachusetts Photo Credit: Diana Filios Negative: Boston Landmarks Conmission Date: September 3, 1980 Identification: View from west (rear addition and carriage house) PHOTO #4 of 5 Harrison Loring House Boston (South Boston) Suffolk County, Massachusetts Photo Credit: Diana Filios Negative: Boston Landmarks Conmission Date: September 3, 1980 Identification: Carriage house from north PHOTO #5 of 5 Harrison Loring House Boston (South Boston) Suffolk County, Massachusetts Photo Credit: Diana Filios Negative: Boston Landmarks Connission Date: September 3, 1980 Identification: View From east SQUARE INDEPENDENCE N Harrison Loring House 789 East Broadway South Boston, Massachusetts 1" = 100' UTM References: 19/332470/4688800 2445 49 189/ 189!

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Carol Shull, Chief National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Department of the Interior 18th and C Streets, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20240 Dear Ms. Shull: Enclosed you will find the following nomination forms: Boston - Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church (local) Boston - Harrison Loring House (local) Chicopee - Valentine School (local) Gardner - Heywood-Wakefield Complex (local) Greenfield - Garden Theater Block (local) Monterey - Rock Ridge (local) Pittsfield - Allen Hotel (local) Williamstown - Col. Benjamin Simond House (local) All have been voted eligible by the State Review Board and have been signed by the State Historic Preservation Officer. Owners were notified of pending State Review Board consideration 30-75 days before the meeting and were afforded the opportunity to comment. Canments received to date are attached to the nomination forms.

Sincerely, Candace lenkins Candace Jenkins Registration Director Massachusetts Historical Cormission AUG - | 1983 CJ/hi Enclosure