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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108 AREA FORM NO. 129 Town Rehoboth Address 89 Carpenter Street Historic Name Carpenter House PHOTO: (3x3" or 3x5". , black & white) staple to left side of form Photo number SKETCH MAP Show property's 1c to nearest cross geographical feat all buildings bet property and near Indicate north. Perfyville Use: Present residence Original residence DESCRIPTION: Date 1789 Source _architectural details,brick in chimney Style_Georgian/Federal Architect possibly Thomas Carpenter III Exterior wall fabric clapboard Outbuildings -see text 4636 Major alterations (with dates). see text 310 OC (MASS. Palmo sch Beckwith Sch UTM: 19/312840/4635880 Recorded by Leslie C. Abernathy, III OrganizationBehoboth Historical Commission Date April 1976; revised 1981 Moved no Date Approx.
acreage 2.36 acres Setting 75 feet from street on risei rural context (Staple additional sheets here) ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) The Carpenter House at 89 Carpenter Street is one of Rehoboth's finest and best- preserved examples of substantial transitional Georgian-Federal architecture. It is one of several houses in Rehoboth built originally as a two-family house with bake ovens on each floor. Its transitional Georgian-Federal five-room center entrance plan is representative of many built ca. 1750-1800; the date 1789 inscribed in a chimney brick seems quite plausible. It is said to have replaced an earlier ca.
1750s house; fragments of an archaic bake oven in the present chimney stack (Continued) HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the developmentof the community.) The builder and owners of thi shouse until ca. 1895 were all members of the Carpenter family, pioneer settlers in the north central part of Rehoboth. In ca. 1750, Peter Carpenter (1723-1771) built a house here on land given by his father, Deacon Thomas Carpenter. The house, sketched by William Blanding (Snape 1976:63) was also occupied by his son of the same name (1747-1806). According to Blanding, the house was bought from the younger Peter by his uncle Thomas Carpenter III (1733- 1807) who is said to have constructed the present house. Thomas III was a wealthy man and a colonel during the Revolution.
He is known to have been involved in the ownership and building of many houses and the "Old Yellow Meeting House," for which he drew a plan, of this period in Rehoboth. He appears to have been respected for both design and construction, and svmilar Carpenter houses and other homes in town may be products of his creative hand. He was also a surveyor and served as town meeting moderator. In the 1830s, the house was divided by his sons Nathan and Thomas. The former lived upstairs, the latter down. Around 1850, Samuel Vial purchased the second story of Nathan plus seven rods of land. He returned the house ownership within a year, retaining the land. The house and property belonged to Thomas Carpenter (IV?) and his heirs up to 1900.
As an intact late 18th century house which embodies the distinctive characteristics of both Georgian and Federal architectural styles and illustrates the transitional BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)(Continued) Detwiller, Frederic C. "Architectural-Historical Analysis, Carpenter House," Paper prepared by SPNEA Consulting Services, 1979. Snape, Sue Ellen. Mighty Liberty Men, 1976, PP.62-66. 10M - 7/82 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commnity : Rehoboth Form No: 129 Property Name: Carpenter House Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued belaw. Architectural Significance (Continued) and possibly reused Georgian panelling and woodwork in the left (east) parlor provide evidence of a prior structure.
The front doorway with its pediment, pilasters and eight panel door is relatively high style Georgian. Features of the newer post-Revolutionary Federal style are found in the right (west) parlor. Although the mantel has been replaced, it retains important details including a fluted chairrail and rope molding at the corner post beads. There is also a short section of chairrail with a serpentine motif chest height between the two front windows. The use of Federal motifs is continued on the second story. The mantel in the west room above is typically Federal with panelled pilasters and guilloche motif on the frieze; it may be a simpler ve sion of that originally in the room below, now gone. During the current careful restoration exterior vertical plank sheathing and also evidence of shelving in the butteries on both stories were observed.
A hip-roof dairy and two sheds were added to the southwest corner at the back of the house in the early 19th century. A section. of the original clapboards has been preserved inside one of the shed additions. The house was the center of an active farmstead until about forty years ago. It was operated as a dairy farm on land extending south and west to Wolf Plain Brook. Most of the farm buildings are now down, but the milk house and a large early 20th century barn, the latter now on a neighboring property and used for horses, still stands. A cow barn and silo also stood in this vicinity on the river bank. These are, however, foundation remains of several structures including a barn that went down in the 1940s behind the house. Closer to the house is a drive-on scale used by local dairy and produce farmers in the twentieth century.
Historical Significance (Continued) link between the two in Rehoboth, the Carpenter House meets criterion C of the National Register of Historic Places individually. 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 MB No.1024-001 :xp. 10-31-8 For NPS use only received date entered Page 2 LY 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 Substantive Review Entered in the National Register Latered in the National Register 14. Carpenter, Christopher, House (60 Carpenter St.)ntered in the National Regieter Entered in the 15. Carpenter House (89 Carpenter St.) National Begieter 16. Carpuster, Col.
Thomas, Ill,ea Jei ti Wational Bogieter 17. Cushing, Caleb, Farm combéned CALEb, 18. cushing House end FARn Intered In Fib Hahiono? Peeleter 19. Drown, Nathaniel, House Eilvoi= Hational Böeierei 20. Elm Cottage/Blanding Farm Hattanel Boeieter Keeper Attest fokeeper Attest JoKeeper Attest fkeeper Attest fokeeper Attest fo Keeper Attest Keeper Attest fkeeper Attest fokeeper Attest f vKeeper Attest Date/Signature tomar lu- Bng d 46653 AelonaByeu 616183 AelusByen clalgs delvusAgun 6/6/83 stelouesßyes 6/6/83 delousByes ol6(83 AeburByun 616/83 AelousByes 1/6/83 delmaBgan 6/6/83 ATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ho Interier ed States D itional Park Servi Carpenter House (Rehoboth MRA) Bristol County MASSACHUSETTS EYALUATION / RETURN SHEET resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Roview: Reviewer's comments: Working No. 42683 Fed. Reg.
Date: 2,2 Date Due: 26/63 - /2/23 Action: < ACCEPT- Entered inthe - . RETURN. Natilona1 Register REJECT_ Federal Agency:. - sample - request - appeal - NR decision Recom. /Criteria - Reviewer Discipline. Date continuation sheet -Nomination returned for: 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification chig Palle A 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Représentation in Existing Surveys hes fhie property teen determined: -technical corrections cited below substantive reasons discussad below 40 - - - 7. Description Choch ene Moved Be Shesi rginad (ll leoreml pley summaryparagraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates boundary selection 8.
Significance Peried Arees et Significance-Cheok and justity betew pecific dates Matamant el Signiflcanco (In ano perograpo) Bulleer: Arehiteet 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 Quedrangle neme UMT Reterences Verbal boundary description and justitication 11. Form Prepared By 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: _ netional -_ state - local State Historic Preservation Officer signature dete title 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 27:1 RAttS #129 cupeto lerse RehubotMRAM 1789 27:2 RAHS #129 CarpartoHese Rehebolh MRA, Ma 1N30) 10 P/O 39 35 P/0 39-10 89 Carpenter Street Peter Carpenter ilouse (form 129) .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