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ORM B - BUILDING LASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION office of the Secretary, State House, Boston - 2. Photo (3x3" or 3x5") Staple to left side of form Photo number 1/03- 25 - FRANKUIN c/8c5 c152 c/540 ¿ 19/5" (1885 19,30 2ATSON In Area no. Form no. CPT C'port IIC4 1. Town Cambridge Address101 Pearl St.,{5-7 Cottage St) Name_ Valentine Soap Workers Cottage ,Present use residential Present owner. Antonetta Rosa 3. Description: Datel 835-36 NOV 1 4 1980 Source_deed records Style no particular style Architect Charles Valentine - builder Exterior wall fabric synthetic siding Outbuildings (describe). none Other features low-pitched gable rook contains two interior chimneys on the ridge Altered Yes - minor. _ Date_UNKNOWN Moved - No Date__--- 5. Lot size: One acre or lessX Over one acre Approximate frontage_55 feet Approximate distance of building from street 10 feet 6.
Recorded by Robert Rettig. OrganizationCambridge Historical Comm. Date December 1962 4TM- BOSTON SOUTH 19/326590/4691940 30M-5-77 AsSESSOR # 106-11 7. Original owner (if known) Charles Valentine Original use residential Subsequent uses (if any) and dates 8. Themes (check as many as applicable) Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development residential Conservation Education Exploration/ settlement Industry Military Political Recreation Religion Science/ invention Social/ humanitarian Transportation 9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) These are twin houses built in 1835-36 by Charles Valentine, owner of a Cambridgeport soap factory, as housing for soap workers. They are significant as early examples of factory housing, a rare type in Cambridge.
The house at 5-7 Cottage Street is a 1½-story double workers cottage, originally identical . to 101 Pearl Street. The center door and porch are later additions. This modest, square plan structure was subsequently coyered with asbestos, and exhibits no decorative detail. The house at 101 Pearl is identical in form to -/ Cottage Street, and I1kewise was subsequently clac with synthetic siding. It differs only in its orientation to Pearl Street, rather than Cottage Street. 10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) FINPS SUSAPTONAPVIREGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION / RETURN SHEET Vacentine Soap Worlers coltage Property: Cambriage Multiple Resouse a rea State, County: MA middleaer Federal Agency: United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Working No.L1-14-80 2862 Fed. Reg.
Date: Date Due:_ 4.17.82 Action: ACCEPT. resubmission L RETURN7 913/82 nomination by person or local government - REJECT - owner objection appeal photos- maps - Substantive Review: - sample - request - appeal NR decision Reviewer's comments: Please address te sigmficance o Hús houre inrelation to the proveems wittits wtegrity. There change. seem sather sulotantiae for sucha Recom. /Criteria Retuen modest dwelling. Reviewer Krauham Discipline anch. /tes Date 4.2.82 _ see continuation sheet - technical corrections cited below substantive reasons discussed below -Noruination returned for: 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification Calogory Ownorship Public Acquleition 4. Owner of Property Btatus Accessibie Prozont Uco 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys has thie property been dotermined eligibte? - 19 - no 7.
Description Conditie excellent good fair deteriorated ruins _ unexposed Check ene unaltered _ altered Check one -original site -moved date acribo the procant and ortginal (Il known) phryeieed eppoeranco - summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates boundary selection 8. Significance partol Aroas of Significane Specifc fetes Btatoment el Signifieenoo (in ano paragrapto ok and juatity beler ailder Areblles 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 Aoreage of nominated property Quedrangle name UNT Poterencen Verbal boundary doscription and justhicatton 11. Form Prepared By 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evetuated signiticance of thie property within the state is: netional - state - loca te Hietoric Preeervation Officer eigneture det 13. Other Maps Photographs Other Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Brackaw Signed Brawam - Date 4.13.82 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 - 1. Town Address Name_ In Area no. C'port Form no. CPT II.C.4.b Cambridge 101 Pearl Street Valentine Workers Cottage Present use residential 2. Photo (3x3" or 3x5") Staple to left side of form Photo number - - 4. Map. Draw sketch of building location in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings. Indicate north. @7.H WILLIAM 10k 53 AWP WATSON Present owner Antonetta C. Rosa 3.
Description: Date 1835-36 Source tax records Style Federal Architect unknown asphalt siding Exterior wall tabricover clapboards Outbuildings (describe) none Other features COTTAGE ST. 57 117E DO NOT WRITE IN THIS SPACE USGS Quadrant MHC Photo no. Assessor #106-11 UTM- Boston South 19/326590/4691940 5M-2-75-R061465 (20M-2476) rWP Inoc Altered yes - minor Moved no 5. Lot size: Date unknown Date One acre or less _ Over one acre Approximate frontage 55 feet Approximate distance of building from street 10 feet 6. Recorded by Charles M. Sullivan Organization_Cambridge Historical Com. Date 1983 (over) 7. Original owner (if known)_ Charles Valentine Original use residential Subsequent uses (if any) and dates 8.
Themes (check as many as applicable) residential Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural 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) The Valentine factory workers' cottages are twin houses built in 1835-36 by Charles Valentine, owner of a Cambridgeport slaughterhouse and soap factory, as housing for his workers. They are significant as early examples of factory housing, a rare type in Cambridge, and for their associations with soap manufacturing, once a major Cambridge industry- Both 101 Pearl Street and 5-7 Cottage Street are double houses sited with their gable ends to Cottage Street.
The houses are divided lengthwise, with an entrance in the centen of each flve bay facade. The broad gable ends and relatively steep roofs give the houses Federal stylistic characteristics, an impression reinforced by the severe detailing Both houses have been covered with artificial siding. An additional entrance has been placed in the gable end of 5-7 Cottage Street, and a porch and shed have been added to 101 Pearl Street. A third similar double house built by Valentine in 1841 at 95-97 Pearl Street has been demolished. Soap manufacturing, which became a characteristic Cambridge industry, was initiated on an industrial (rather than household) basis in Cambridgeport in 1804 as a profitable means of disposing of the tallow that was an otherwise unusable byproduct of slaughtering.
The industry was a direct result of the cattle trade that developed with the opening of the West Boston Bridge and the turnpikes connecting 10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge, Report Three: Cambridgeport INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commnity : EpTn No: Cambridgeport II.C.4.a Property Name : Valentine Workers Cottage Indicate each item ori inventory form which is being continued below. Page 2 9. (continued) Charles Valentine, as a slaughterhouse on Pearl Street in Cambridge. Then in an isolated area of Cambridgeport, the factory site was remote both from the settled neighborhoods around Central Square and from the proposed residential development of Pine Grove around Fort Washington.
The housing built for the workers six years after the factory was established was three blocks away on the fringe of the Central Square neighborhood, the distance reflecting the noxious character of the industry. Although the soap industry developed to very large proportions by the first half of the twentieth century - the United States headquarters and factory of Lever Brothers left Cambridge in 1952 - no other structures remain from it. While additions have been made to these and they have been covered with artificial siding, their basic integrity is intact and easily recoverable. The original clapboards remain under the siding, and the later additions have not destroyed the original fabric of either structure. These houses are significant in the and architectural history of Cambridge regardless of their present condition and meet both Criteria A and Criteria C.
Staple to Inventory form at bottom 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 7 41) Name State Cambridge Multiple Resource Area MA Nomination/Type of Review 6I.X Valentine Soap Workers Cottages (101 Pearl St.) 62. Opposition House Substantive Review Substanülve Reyie! Keeper Attest Keeper Attest 63. Frost, Walter, House Lzdsban Keeper - 64. Attest al Keeper Attest Francis, Ebenezer, House DOE/OWNER OBJECTION Keeper Attest Subatantire sevte 66. Loivering, JOSEPhO WONER OBJECTION suner abpeten flkeeper withdr Attest GT.Y Atwood, Ephiram, House Keeper 58./Buildings at 104-106 Hancock St. Baasra Attest Keeper Attest -69.
Colburn, Sara Foster, House Subafantive HeviewKeeper bubstantiva 10. Brooks, Luther, dHeyOWNER OBJECTION eeper wwnw abjecten withdrawn Attest Attest Date/Signature fonu-Aaa Bruyd40ts Wilian 4. Bracham 413.87 Weiam H.Bracham 4.13.82 latuch Anduus 9/12186 sothX. Saurse a/12g Hawend Patuick Anders 9/12186 BethY.Sauzge ?/12/8 toner tu Bteng d bhers Bru-li Dang l 61) WiliamH Brockam 4.13.82 Patuicks Anduus q/ra8a Bethh Sovage 1/1/86 VATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES setted states coper of the latorte dational Park Survio Substantive Reviev Valentine Soap Workers Cottages (Cambridge MRA) Middlesex County MASSACHUSETTS (i0i Pearl St.) EYALUATION / RETURN SHEE : Working No. 1144-80-2862 Fed. Reg. Date: 2- 7-84 Date Due: 514/83 Action: ACCEPT RETURN REJECT.
6/3083 resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objoction appeal Substantive Roviow: - sample - request appeal Foderal Agoncy: _NR decision Reviower's comments: SICNIFICANDE PROJIOTO Rocom. / Criteria - Ate Reviower. Discipline- Dato AULTP. 30/83 seo continuation sheet -tochnical corrections cited below .substantive reasons discussad bolow -Nomination returned for: 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification Prasans Uoo 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys t preserty tom e Choek em - move 7. Description -hoch en _ unetteres C pross ertetaas (il bsaural porpet summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates 8.
Significanco Purted Mee el S 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 wnd property. wndrangte ramo MIFT Roteramoe 11. Form Prepared By 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The eveiuse oe of shie prosperty wulerin tne ssde is: atate -- laca: paervetten Ofcen elpnatun 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 VALGODOE SORA WORNER COUNES 5-7 COTTAGESTREET CHC 1196-6 canbridae, M2t, na CAMBRIDGE HISTORICAL COMMISSION PHOTOGRAPH By_ CmSuuro No.1208 Date 1 - 83 Valertine Soap Warker cettages Cambrilee MRA, Ma 5-7 COTUIZE + 101 PERRL STS CAMBRIDGE HISTORICAL COMMISSION PHOTOGRAPH Cu Sozcnew No._ 1208 Date |-83 Valentine Scup harker coffags Cambridey MRA Mo S-7 COTTABE ST Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000275