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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108 AREA FORM NO. 82 Town Rehoboth Address 40 Maple Lane Historic Name Goff Homestead PHOTO: (3x3" or 3x5" , black & white) staple to left side of form Photo number SKETCH MAP Show property's location in relation to nearest cross streets and/or geographical features. Indicate all buildings between inventoried property and Indicate norti Use: Present residence Original residence DESCRIPTION: Date ca. 1750-1780 Source architectural detail Style_ Georgian Architect unknown Exterior wall fabric clapboard; shingle Outbuildings attached garge and masonry carriage house - 19th century Major alterations (with dates). see text STREEI UTM: 19/315360/4635000 Recorded by -Leslie C. Abernathy, III Organization Rehoboth Historical Commission Date April 1976; revised 1981 Moved no Date 8 Approx.
acreage Setting 40 feet from road, gable end to road, wooden environs (Staple additional sheets here) ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) The Goff Homestead represents a rare and unusual period architectural form both in Rehoboth and in the region. Although the characteristic Georgian central hall plan hasbeen partiallyaltered during the 19thand early 20th century modifications, it retains its original trabeated entrance treatment and many interior details including mantels and chairrails. Its most striking features, however, are two triangular end chimneys. The east stack has been covered due to chimney fire damage, but the west is intact.
Few double chimney houses were built or have (Continued) HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community.) The ancestral home of the numerous local Goffs who are descended from George L or Bradford Goff was purchased by their father Asa Goff in 1784. It is unclear whether he actually built the house. The Goff family owned the house, operating a dairy farm here, until ca. 1920, when it was sold. The Goff Homestead embodies distinctive characteristics of Georgian period architecture as well as illustrating an uncommon and perhaps a discrete local variation in chimney design, and thus meets criterion C of the National Register of Historic Places individually. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) Snape, Sue Ellen. Mighty Liberty Men, 1976, p. 124.
Massachusetts Historical Commission. Southeast Massachusetts, Boston, 1982. Historic and Archaeological Resources of 10M - 7/82 - INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Community : Rehoboth Form No: 82 Property Name: Goff Homestead Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. Architectural Significance (Continued) survived in Rehoboth. This is one of two known examples of this particular end-chimney treatment remaining in Rehoboth, and the only in a 2½-story wood frame house (seé Form #36). Further, for their canted chimneys, both houses are considered to be extremely rare and perhaps unique in Massachusetts (MHC 1982). The Goff Homestead formed the center of a large farmstead into the 20th century. It is located on a large peninsula jutting north into Squannakonk Swamp.
The house was clearly built with reference to terrain and practicality, not the road. E222E It faces south with its gable end to Maple Land which was not paved full length until ca. 1950 and is still a dead end. A 19th century stone walled carriage shed attached to the house once opened onto the road. There are several archaeological 1938 hurricane; what may be the original well is located front of the house; a privy once behind the house and taken down ca. 1950; and large amounts of 19th century ceramics, glass, etc. have been surface collected around 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 3 4. Multiple Resource Area Thematie Group Name Rehoboth Multiple Resource Area State Massachusetts Nomination/Type of Review 21. Goff Farm Substantive Review Entered in the National Register 22. Goff Homestead 23. Hornbine Baptist Church 24. Hornbine School 25. Horton, Welcome, Farm Entered in the National Register Entered in the National Begieter Entered in tha National Begieter 26. House at 197 Hornbine Road Intered in the National Register 27. House at 30 Kelton Street Intered in the Matlonal Register 28. Ingal1s-Wheeler-Horton Homestead Site Batered in the Mational Register intered in tho Hatlonel Eegteter 29. Kingsley House 30.
Knapp, Seth, Jr., House Entered in the National Register Date/Signature Aae hanBny l 4/6/59 Keeper Attest tkeeper dlmusByen 6/0/83 Attest 6Keeper aelmaßgen c/6/83 Attest fReeper deluaByen 616/83 Attest Reeper selmuBgua kelr. Attest tReeper deluuatBgu 1a/ Attest fkeeper delmuaBgen 6/6/87 Attest fReeper delreaßgea 616/53 Attest Fkeeper Deloraßgen 6/6/83 Attest 6keeper AelouaByur 6/6/83 Attest NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES United States Dopa « of she interie Mational Park Service EYALUATION / RETURN SHEET Goff Homestead (RehobothMRA) Bristol County MASSACHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Roviow: Roviower's comments: Working No. Fed. Reg. Date: /25/83 2 Date Due: Action: - ACCEPT_6/6/83 Entered in the - RETURN. National. Register - REJECT- Federal Agency:- - sample - request _ appeal - NR decision Recom.
/Criteria _ Reviower. Discipline Date --- continuation sheet -Nomination returned for: - technical corrections cited below -substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification tomaratio Malte doqutattion 4. Owner of Property proco ed Uee 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Représentation in Existing Surveys hos taie property bown entermined eligtble?- - 7. Description detertorsted ruine chock ene _ uneltered snared to the prosont and ertgiel (il iacma) plry summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates boundary selection Check ene _ moved 8.
Significance Perted rees of SignificanceCheck and justify belew pecific detes Suilder: Architect Statement ef Significance (In ene peregraph) 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 boundery 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 19:10 RAHS #82 Golf Hteresteal Rehubota MRA, Ma SWA.XP, SQUANNAKONK "NVMS SQUANNAKONK 27 60 BTRdET -56192 P/O 40 - 20 40 Maple Lane Goff Homestead (form 82) 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