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AREA FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108 FORM NO. 128 Town Rehoboth Address 60 Carpenter Street Historic Name Christopher Carpenter House PHOTO: (3x3" or 3x5" black & white) staple to left side of form Photo number SKETCH MAP Show property's to nearest cro geographical f all buildings property and n Indicate north Perfyville. ROAD Use: Present residence Original residence DESCRIPTION: Date ca. 1800 Source architectural detail Style Federal Architect possibly Thomas Carpenter III Exterior wall fabric clapboard Outbuildings see text 4636 PalmotS'sch 310: (MAS 118 MI. Major alterations (with dates). see text Moved no Approx. acreage 5 Date Setting 75 feet from road ; rural wooded context Beckwith Sch UTM: 19/313100/4636020 Recorded by Leslie C.
Abernathy, III Organization_Rehoboth Historical Commission Date April 1976; revised 1981 (Staple additional sheets here) ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) This house is a particularly fine local example of a five-bay, center chimney and entrance design with pure Federal style details. The doorway treatment consists of flanking fluted pilasters supporting a pediment. The fanlight has unusually delicate tracery and a center "keystone" motif. Moldings in left (east) parlor are mitered frames. Dentiled cornices and other Federal motifs are found here and on the floor above. Window sashes are twelve or twelve and twelve over eight replacement copies. The central chimney stack has a bake oven on each story.
A two-story kitchen ell added to the east end contains a chimney with full fireplace and bake oven. (Continued) HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community.) This is one of two houses still standing on Carpenter Street built by members of that family ca. 1800 (see Form #129). A house possibly dating to Rehoboth's earliest and later deeded to Deacon Thomas Carpenter. The latter gave thirty-five acres on both sides of Carpenter Street to grandson Christopher (1762-1840), son of Peter, ca. 1800. Included was a hous which was considered old, even then. Christopher may have remodelled that structure as his new home. Walling's 1850 map shows this house and one to the east belongting to a Captain Christopher Carpenter, possibly the same person, or his son.
By 1871, the property belonled to Mrs. D. Read, and in 1894, ownership, including the house and seven outbuildings, was shared by Mrs. Delight and C. Reed. One of Rehoboth's finest Federal period houses which clearly represents the distinctive characteristics of that style in a rural environment, the Christopher Carpenter House meets criterion C of the National Register of Historic Places individually. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) Everts and Richards. Atlas of Bristol County, 1895,. PP.35-36. Snape, Sue Ellen. Mighty Liberty Men, 1976, Pp.63-64. Walling, H. F. Map of Rehoboth, 1850. Walling, H. F. Map of Rehoboth, 1871.
10M - 7/82 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commmity : Rehoboth Form No: 128 Property Name : Christopher Carliseter Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. Architectural Significance (Continued) There is some evidence to suggest this is part of an earlier house. There are : lumber of small 19th century and later outbuildings located on both sides o Carpenter Street associated with the house. 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 Thematie Group Name State Rehoboth Multiple Resource Area Massachusetts Nomination/Type of Review 11. Brown House 12. Briggs Tavern - Substantive Review Entered in the National Register 13. Carpenter Bridge intered in the National Begieter 14. Carpenter, Christopher, House (60 Carpenter St.)ntered in the National Regieter Entered in the 15. Carpenter House (89 Carpenter St.) Mational Begieter 16. Carpenter, Col. Thomas, III ea it tie House Hational Begieter 17. Cushing, Caleb, Farm combered 18. (cushing/House end FARm 19. Drown, Nathaniel, House Intered In tib Ja-lene? Paeieter Lovci: Hational Bogietei 20.
Elm Cottage/Blanding Farm Lattapel Foeieter Keeper Attest fikeeper Attest fokeeper Attest fikeeper Attest fokeeper Attest fo Keeper Attest Keeper Attest fikeeper Attest fokeeper Attest vKeeper Attest Date/Signature Fone lun Bney & 4hbos AelonaByen 616183 AelusByen 6/6183 delmnaBgen 6/c/83 seloustger 6/6/83 delouaByees u/6183 AelusByer 616/83 selmusByan 6/6/83 AelmsBgen 616/83 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Inited States Dep ef she laterier Mational Park Sarvici EYALUATION / RETURN SHEET Carpenter, Christopher, House (Rehoboth MRA) Bristal County MASSACHUSETTS Working No. Fed. Reg. Date: Date Due: Action: resubmission lntered in nomination by person or local government owner objection Bational Reg18bex Federal Agency:. appeal Substantive Roviow: - sample - request - appeal - NR decision 125/83 2.284 2g/33- 6/9/6 ACCEPT_6L - RETURN REJECT_ Roviower's comments: Recom.
/Criteria _ Reviewer. Discipline Date continuation sheet -Nomination seturned for: -technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification rmarahe rublte demstaition 4. Owner of Property proso 5. Location of Legal Description Ued 6. Représentation in Existing Surveys la this property teen ertormin 7. Description good teir - eeseriorated - ruins Chock ene - uneitered _ sitared Check ene -moved doo tho procont and ertgtaad (1l kesarsal stryeiael epn summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates boundary selection 8.
Significance Peried Specific dates Statement ot Significance (in eno peragraph) kand justity betew Lullder Architeet 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 Acreage of nominated property Quedrangle neme UMT Reterences 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: - netional -_ state State Historic Preservation Officer signature date 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 Rehobon carpeito, Chrrstepno, Heuse Rehebot MnA Ma Znu. I# 66- Carpenter S IK 3 69.1758 40 50 - Per P/O 39 39 P/O 39-10 2 60 Carpenter Street Christopher Carpenter House (form 128) Town of Rehoboth Property Map 1978 scale 1"=200' Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000292