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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108 AREA FORM NO. 109 Town Address Rehoboth 2 Anawan Street Historic Name_ Briggs Tavern PHOTO: (3x3" or 3x5" , black & white) staple to left side of form Photo number 10W 0- ne -116 Use: Present residence Original residence/tavern DESCRIPTION: Date ca. 1780 Source architectural detail Style Federal Architect_ unknown Exterior wall fabric clapboard Outbuildings 20th century garage *142 109 Grave Pit 1:North Rehoboth Stevens Corner / Cem 422 :Cem 1 Mission Ch. UTM:19/315920/4641250 Recorded by Leslie C. Abernathy, III Organization_Rehoboth Historical Commission Date_April 1976; revised 1981 Major alterations (with dates)_ side ell added, 19th century; entrance surround altered 1930s(?) Moved no Date Approx.
acreage 2 Setting 40 feet from street at "T" intersection; open rural context (Staple additional sheets here) ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) Rehoboth's only known surviving commercial building of the Federal period and its most intact and sophisticated example of a small number of well-developed center hall, double internal chimney plan houses is the Briggs Tavern. Tavern occupies a prominent location at the intersection of Anawan Street and Tremont Street, two early transportation routes, and is notable for the preservation of its well-crafted interior and exterior details: splayed window lintels (rare in Rehoboth), panelled chimney breasts, chairrails and cornice trim.
In addition, (Continued) HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community.) Built in a period when settlement was increasing in this area of northern Rehoboth and sited at a major intersection of two primary roads known as Stevens Corner, Briggs Tavern reflects the development of the community in the late 18th through 19th centuries. Individually, it meets criterion C of the National Register of Historic Places and with additional documentation may be shown to meet criteria A and/or B.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) 10M - 7/82 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commnity : Form No: Rehoboth 109 Property Name: Briggs Tavern Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. Architectural Significance (Continued) the construction of its chimney bases is unusual, composed of four wooden posts supporting a wooden crib superstructure; chimney bases in Rehoboth are more commonly parallel rectangular fieldstone piers or the ground surface. Staple to Inventory form at bottom 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 Item number OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp.
10-31-84 For NPS use only received date entered Page 2 L4 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Rehoboth Multiple Resource Area Massachusetts Nomination/Type of Review 11. Brown House 12. Briggs Tavern 13. Carpenter Bridge Substantlve Review Entered in the National Register üntered in the National Begister 14. Carpenter, Christopher, House (60 Carpenter St.Intered in the National Begiater Entered fn thie 15. Carpenter House (89 Carpenter St.) National Begieter 16. Carpester, Col. Thomas, I1T, ea J1. t20 National Begieter 17. Cushing, Caleb, Farm combened CALEB, 18. (Cushing/House and FARm Entered In Fib 1a"cne? Peeieter 19. Drown, Nathaniel, House Eivois Hational Bogierei 20.
E1m Cottage/Blanding Farm taCtunel Bogleter Keeper Attest fokkeeper Attest JoKeeper Attest fkeeper Attest fokeeper Attest fr Keeper Attest Keeper Attest fkeeper Attest fokeeper Attest furkeeper Attest Date/Signature Aoner lu Bnyd uhirs MelonaByeu 6/6183 AelusBye 61cl83 delvusBgen 6/6/83 delouesßge 6/6/83 deloueBgeen o/6183 AeluusByer 6(6/83 delousByan 6/6/83 delmaßgan 6/6/83 IATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES - ma l Intted Sta lat I Pert: Briggs Tavern (Rehoboth MRA) Bristol County MASSACHUSETTS EYALUATION/RETUN SHEET Working No. 4/25/83 Fed. Reg. Date: 7.84 Date Due:_ /26/83-6/9/83 Action: LACCEPT 6/6/83 resubmission Irtered In Era - RETURN nomination by person or local government fationa? -Regiater - REJECT- owner objection Fadoral Agoncy:. appeal Substantive 1 Roview: - sample - request - appeal - NR decision Roviower's comments: -Nomination returned for: Rocom.
/Criteria - Roviower. Discipline. Date see continuation sheet -technical corrections cited below -substantive reasons discussad below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification nt Vor valle boqdaltio 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 5. Reprósentation in Exiating Surveys tos whis property boon toconained oligesta? - - 7. Description chock feie pexpoco d orotel (l keo summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates houndarygelection Chack em noved 8. Significance Perted Aress of signifteance. Chook and lestity botew ecifie dates Lullder Arehitect Btatement el stgnificenoo (in eno peragraph) 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 Acreege of nominated property - Quedrangie neme - UMT Reterences Verbel boundery description and juatification 11. Form Prepared By 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evalusted significance of this property within the state is: -netional - state - locai Seate Historic Preservation Officer signature date Utle 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 -vu: Rehobah Briggs Taveon Rehobota MRA, Ma Corner Anawan a III znu. 96 69.1930 I56 4 97 104 264.83 SRUS 8g 002 160 180.5 eet 3 Sosl 105 ETes 10g 200 (3 SUSSE 21001 26 089 _MESLS -41.989 39 23, 4331L51 1057 8 10322 30%4 48 *HLA 0582 -fe1s 55 0%.
. NYMVIRV FoogP0t 2 Anawan Street Briggs Tavern (Form 109) Town of Rehoboth Property Map scale 1"=200' 1978 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000292