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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston 1 In Area no. 01d Camb. Form no. oc IIB4 Cambridge ess 10 Coolidge Hill Road Sarah Orne House ent use residential ent owner Richard and Priscilla Hunt ription: 1807 urce_ deed records Georgian 1110-19A 4. Map. Draw sketch of building location in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings. Indicate north. FRESH POND 003 COOLIDG! 281 GERRYS LANDING RO$. N Architect unknown Exterior wall fabric_wood Outbuildings (describe)_garage wit h barge- board Other featuresround-headed window over entry, bay at southeast end has Greek Revival molding. Altered Yes Date 1809 Moved No Date 5. Lot size: One acre or less XX _ Over one acre Approximate frontage 75 feet Approximate distance of building from street 30 feet 6. Recorded by_Bainbridge Bunting Organization Cambridge Historical Comm.
Date_ 1964 UTM-NEWTON 191323800/4693300 30M-5-77 ASSESSOR #242A-149 NOV 1 4 1980 7. Original owner (if known)_ John G. Orne - Sarah Orne residential Original use Subsequent uses (if any) and dates 8. Themes (check as many as applicable) residential use Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development XX Conservation Education Exploration/ settlement Industry Military Political Recreation Religion Science/ invention Social/ humanitarian Transportation 9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) ) A well-preserved house surviving from the nineteenth century when most of the hill was still farmland. Initially built in 1807 by Sara Orne's son, John, it functioned as a store until 1809 when it was moved onto a different site on the property.
It was tuen eniargea into a house by Sara Orne It has an unusual tull-width facade porch with a round-headed stair window above. I n 1936 the main portionef ere housenandiseoarated fg Coolidge Hill Road. The barn was remodelled as a residence in 1900 by Ralph Adams Cram (Number 6 Coolidge Hill Road.). 10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) substantive Review NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES United States Department of the interior National Park Service EVALUATION / RETURN SHEET Property: Orne, Sarah House (Cambridae Mutis" State, County: MA-Middlesex Federal Agency: Working No. 1-14-00-2862 Fed. Reg.
Date: Date Due:_ 4-17-82 Action: - ACCEPT RETURN_ - REJECT- 4/13/82 resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal photos- maps - Substantive Review: sample - request - appeal - NR decision Reviewer's comments: ela parido n. igifiae paierin ciny tia uile fo this brilding. Please discuas the alteiations to Recom. / Criteria te brälding - in its present condition, What period Reviewer Patuck Andu Discipline- Historan does this bldq. date? Date - 4.6.02 _ see continuation sheet -Nomination returned for: -technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification Category Ownership ublic Acquleitien 4. Owner of Property Status Aecessible prosom Uco 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys has this property bean determined eligibte? - 706 - 7.
Description Ceneition excelient good fair deteriorated ruins unexposed Check ene unaitered altered Check one - original site moved date sorlie the prosant and ertginal (Il known) phryeical appoarance summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates boundary selection 8. Significance Partar Arose of Significance Chook and featity belor Butidor Arehltoo @poctte daton Btatoment el Significanco (in ene peragraph) 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 name - UMIT Roterences Varbel boundary doscriation and justiftcation 11. Form Prepared By 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluatad significance of thie property within the state ie: netional -. state -local nate Hietoric Preeervatton OMicer elgnature dete 13. Other Maps Photographs Other Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to - Signed - Date - 4113.82 Phone: 202 272 -3504 Comments for any Item may be continued on an attached sheet FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston - -' In Area no. 01d Camb. Form no. IIB4 1. Town_Cambridge Address_10 Coolidge Hill Road Name Sarah Orne House Present use residential 2. Photo (3x3"' or 3x5") Staple to left side of form Photo number ||10 - 19A 4. Map. Draw sketch of building location in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings. Indicate north.
FRESH POND PKNY COOLI 281 _GERRYS LANDING- COOLIOGE MicL ASSESSOR # 242A-149 30M-5-77 Present owner Richand and Priscilla Hunt 3. Description: Date 1807 Source deed records - '- Style Georgian - Architect_ unknown Exterior wall fabricwood Outbuildings (describe)_garage wit h barge. board Other features_round-headed window over entry, bay at southeast end häs Greek Revival molding. Altered Yes Date 1809 Moved No Date 5. Lot size: One acre or less XX Over one acre Approximate frontage 75 feet Approximate distance of building from street 30 feet 6. Recorded by_ Bainbridge Bunting Organization Cambridge Historical Comm. Date 1964 UTM- NEWTON 191323800/4693300 NOV 1 4 1980 7. Original owner (if known) John G. Orne - Sarah Orne Original use residential Subsequent uses (if any) and dates residential use 8.
Themes (check as many as applicable) Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural XX The Arts Commerce Communication Community development Conservation Education Exploration/ settlement Industry Military Political Recreation Religion Science/ invention Social/ humanitarian Transportation 9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) A well-preserved house surviving from the nineteenth century when most of the hill was still farmland. Initially built in 1807 by Sara Orne's son, John, it functioned as a store until 1809 when it was moved onto a different site on the property. It was then enlarged - n 1936, the service wing was separated from the main portion of the house and is now Number 8 Coolidge Hill Road. The barn was remodelled as a residence in 1900 by Ralph Adams Cram (Number 6 Coolidge Hill Road.). 10.
Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET - MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commnity: Old Cambridge Form No: OC II.B.4 Property Name: Sarah Orne House Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. The Sarah Orne House is associated with the Josiah Coolidge Farm, 'which occupied a drumlin on the banks of the Charles River in sight of Harvard Square until it was sold for a subdivision in 1910. It was the last working farm in Cambridge, and the last of the Old Cambridge estates to be subdivided. The following description is drawn from Report Four: Old Cambridge of the Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge: The history as well as the location of Coolidge Hill sets it somewhat apart from Brattle Street.
Here, at what later became known as Gerry's Landing, the bank of the Charles River offered a firm landing place, and it was near this point that Sir Richard Saltonstall in 1630 established the first Watertown settlement. Until Memorial Drive was extended through to Fresh Pond Parkway in 1y46, this valley was meadowland leading down to the Charles River. When the initial settlers removed 'toward Watertown Square after 1635 the allotments were gathered into farms by a few remaining families. Most of Coolidge Hill was acquired by the Samuel Thatcher family, in whose possession it remained until 1793. Owned later by Elbridge Gerry - and thus briefly annexed to Elmwood estate - it came eventually into the hands of Josiah Coolidge and nis son Joseph, who kept the farm together until World War I, except for some 1l acres sold in 1865 to the city for the Cambridge Cemetery.
the farm disappeared in 1924. Near what had earlier been an access road cambrsdgeo Cenet nad The last remnant of to a farm further south on the river, Coolidge Avenue was laid out in 1830 and became the boundary of the newly founded Mt. Auburn Cemetery. Partitioning of Coolidge Hill began in 1910 with sales of the lower meadows to Browne and Nichols School and in 1925 to Shady Hill School; the eastern crest was purchased by the Forbes family in 1910 and developed as a family enclave. The more intensive subdivision of the hill's norther slope as Coolidge Hill Road took place in 1915, ve suba: 12610105. while larger hilltop lots were laid out in 1924. Surrounded by cemeteries, school grounds, and a traffic artery, Coolidge Hill is very much of an island, and it is further protected by one-way streets that seem only to lead 'out'.
As a result, the district's streets are as quiet as they were forty years ago and heir layout [Prof. Henry V. Hubbard of Pray, Hubbard & Whitel at- ains the same picturesque informality as Larchwood, although the houses on top of the hill are larger. Like Larchwood [a nearby development of 1915l, they provide a perfect locality in which to study and compare high-grade residential building before and after the First World War. (see over - continuation) Staple to Inventory form at bottom Though the 17th-century Thatcher farmhouse near the corner of Coolidge Avenue and Mt. Auburn Street disappeared in 1831, five other structures of some antiquity survive on the hill. Numbers 8 and 10 Coolidge Hill Road are the service wing and main portion (separated in 1936) of the Widow Orne's house.
This building began life in 1807 as a store across the parkway, on the grounds of the Home for Aged People; two years later it was moved to its present Its barn (6 Coolidge Hill Road) was remodeled as a residence in 1900 by Ralph Adams Cram. Coolidge houses also survive: 24 Coolidge Hill Road (1822, re- modeled 1900) and 34 Coolidge Avenue built in 1856. there is the trim little Federal house of 1801 at 144 Coolidge Hill, moved here in 1929 from 15 Appian Way. The Orne House is a two-story hip roof wood frame structure with five bays, a center entrance, and a single dormer centered above it. A porch spans the entire front of the house, with flush boarding underneath and clapboards elsewhere. Built in 1807 as a store, it was moved in 1809 and converted to a house; the details which are described are presumed to date from that remodelling.
The house is important as an early farmhouse of the period; the move occurred so early that it does not detract from its significance. The Orne House meets Criterion A as associated with the development of Cambridge, and Criterion C as an important example of its type. NPS Form 10-900-a (7-81) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form Continuation sheet Item number For NPS use only received date entered Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Page /2117 Name State Cambridge Multiple Resource Area MA Nomination/Type of Review 111.Y Mason, W. A., House Substentive Heview Keeper Date/Signature Brna de a 6 7007 Attest 112. Building at 259 Mount Auburn Substant1ro Herlo Keeper Street tomer he Dhen 6 3033 - 113. Howells, William Dean, House Attest Suastentira Bew Keeper wwianH.Brackai 4.13.82 Attest 114.
Mount Auburn Cemetery Reception House Substantive Review 115. Mount Auburn Hospital -Main Building DOE/OWNER Keeper Dane, deBryl 6-30-87 Attest Determined E11g. OBJECTION Keeper Attest BilAry 63003 116. Higginson, Colonel Thomas Wentworth, House Keeper tiikiamHt Bracham 41382 Attest 117. Noyés, J. A., House Keeper WieliamH.Bracham 41382 Attest 118. Coolidge, Josiah, House Keeper Biner Ma- Dauel 6 3087 Attest "119. Orne, Sarah, House Substantive Review Keeper Attest '120 Hooper-Eliot House Keeper Bimhus (63013 tvan le Brap 63087 Attest Sarah Orne House 10 Coolidge Hill Road Photo: c.1969 N.R.
# OC II.B.4 TIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Hed states Depertmant ef tho lnterien onsi Park Service Substentive Revion EYALUATION / RETURN SHE* Orne, Sarah, House (Cambridge MRA) Middlesex County MA resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Subatantive Roview: Reviower's comments: DOCUMENTATTON JUBSTANTIALLY REVISED. Working No. 11.14.80-2862 Fad. Reg. Date:- 2-1-84 Date Due: 7/4183 Action: -ACCEPT 6/20/83 _ RETURN - REJECT- Federal Agency: - sample _ request - appeal - NR decision Recom. /Criteria _AY Reviewer_ Discipline Date A-lt - D:30-82 _ so Continuation sheet technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussad below -Nomination returned for: 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification aogary Btadue 4. wase ramdansor Owner of Property mosoa vos 5. Location of Legal Description 6.
Representation in Existing Surveys W tr propery tom tmsened - - 7. Description po0d - eoonoraad Dock ono - unarterad - aitered hpoed (Il keroat po summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/ ntearitv Chock ene -mored deco - - mored 8. Significance Portod Aroas ot significance Chock and juattty baow Specific datos Blatomani ol stgniticance (In ano paragraph) Suilder Architec 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 name UMT Reterences Verbal boundary doscription 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 Preaervation Ofticer signature date tttle 13. Other Maps Photographs Other Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Signed Date Phone: 202 272-3504 Comments for any item maybe continued on an attached sheet 1110-19A 086LIA0N 0 4 3 C Canbridge MRA, Ma orne, sarah, House 10 Coolidge Hill Road 1110 - 19 A Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000275