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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 294 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02108 Azea Form no. 212 PHOTO (3x3" or 3x5", black & white) Staple to left side of form Photo number 103:1 : SKETCH MAP " Draw map showing property's Iocation in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings or geographical features. Indicate north.
Perfyville ROAD TOWTI REHOBOTH Address 85 Carpenter Street Historic Name Samuel Viall House Use: Original wash house or summer kitchen Present residence Ownership: Private individual Private organization_ Public Original ownerpeter or Thomas Carpenter DESCRIPTION: Date ca 1800 Source tradition Style Greek Revival Architect unknown Exterior wall fabric clapboard Outbuildings : barn N 56 19:2' 4636 310 00 (MASS Palmed fi Beckwith Sch UTM: 19/3128800/46358800 Recorded by .V H Adams Organization Rehoboth Historical Commission Date June 1981 Major alterations (with dates)_ completely remodelled ca 1850° Moved no Date Approx.
acreage one Setting_30" from road; gable end to road; rural context (Stanla additinnal chaate haral ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within community) The architectural significance of the Samuel Viall House is dual; it stands as a well detailed and proportioned three-bay sidehall plan Greek Revival cottage, very few of which were built in Rehoboth, and also illustrates the architectural metamorphoses so often generated by this conservative and economically limited town in the 19th century. The core of this house was probably built by Peter or Thomas Carpenter of 89 Carpenter Street ca. 1800 as an outbuilding, perhaps a wash house and summer kitchen. The house has undergone several transformations since it was purchased from the Carpenters by Samuel Viall in ca. 1850.
The original structure of unknown height was built into a hill on the street (north) side. The original brick foundation, highly unusual in (Continued) HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the commmity) The Viall family, members of whom were prosperous dairy farmers, owned the property into the twentieth century. This is the only house built on Carpenter Street between the early 19th and mid 20th centuries. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Community : Rehoboth Form No: 212 Property Name: Samuel Viall House Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. Architectural Significance (Continued) Rehoboth, rises to a full story on the south side.
The structure retains a center brick chimney with a fireplace and oven on the south side at ground level. The original post and beam construction is fully exposed here. A stone lintel support for a hearth directly above appears original, indicating at least one original floor above the cellar. Above, at street level, renovations have created a one-and-one-half story Greek Revival sidehall plan cottage. In the entrance hall and front (north) parlor, the door and window moldings mirror the chanelled pilasters found on the exterior of contemporary large Greek Revival structures such as the Village Congregational Church (#2). Undecorated square blocks mark corner interesections. The same motif is echoed in the parlor fireplace mantel. Details are completed by a dado and chairrail. In 1953, the north room was enlarged (west), but the dado and trim were reused or replicated.
The south room is unaltered, although less interesting architecturally, but contains a massive free standing "High Street Furnace Com" cast iron fireplace with engaged ionic columns and brass trim. The east additions to the house, including garage and sunporch, date to the 20th century. A late 19th to early 20th century barn, earlier at the site of the present garage, was moved south of the house approximately two hundred feet ca. 1940. As a particularly handsome example of an uncommon architectural type in Rehoboth which also represents the evolution of building form, the Samuel Viall 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 OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 For NPS use only received date entered Page +L4 Multiple Resource Area Thematie Group Name State Rehoboth Multiple Resource Area Massachusetts Nomination/Type of Review P 31. Martin Farm Substantive Review Keeper -32. Peck-Bowen House Entered in the National Register 33. Perry, James House Entered Ix Nat1onal Register 34. Pierce, Capt. Mial, Farmntered In tha National Regiater Attest fkeeper Attest fKeeper Attest fokeeper Attest 35. Viall, Samuel, House Entered in the National Begister Keepe 436. Wheeler, Aaron, House Attest Intared in this fokeeper National Begigter Attest i37. Wheeler-Ingalls House Keeper Attest 38. Keeper Attest 39.
Keeper Attest 40. Keeper Attest Date/Signature Taur Ju Mayl 6/4/e. Xibres Bgen 6/6/83 AelunaBgas 6/6/83 SelmuByas 6/6403 SebmBgun 616183 AelmaByen 616/83 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Untted States Dopar Mational Park Service EYALUATION / RETURN SHEET Horton, Welcome, Farm (Rehoboth MRA) Bristol County MASSACHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Roview: Working No. 625/83 Fed. Reg. Date: 2 Date Due: 26/83. Action: ACCEPT Entered in the - RETURN National Register_ .REJECT. Fodoral Agoncy: - sample - request - _ appeal - NR decision Roviower's comments: 84 6/6, Recom. / Criteria - Reviewer_ Discipline Date se continuation sheet -Nomination returned for: -technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification pomeratio wlte M 4. Owner of Property 5.
Location of Legal Description UeA 6. Représentation in Existing Surveys hes thie property toon eetermined eligtcte? - - 7. Description dtle detertorater ruins -heck eno _uneltered - sitered d th proccat and artglaad fll laaeral plyaieat summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates boundary selection Check ene - moved 8. Significance Peried Areas of significanceCheck and jeatity batow Specific dates Statement ef Significance (in eno peragraph) Builder Architect 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 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 # 212 85 CARPENTER STREET 1031 ViacSanivel Hes Rehehet MIRA P/O 39 40 85 Carpenter Street Samuel Viall House (form 212) 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