Major Bibliographical References Bullding Permit i742 1001151 (1865)2 I96352161 Atlases: Hopkins Sanborn (1867, Report 11/10/1074 L843f173 Deecg L60741399 (1943) L3042:245 L85223 1090, 16585 Their docupanay(1377) 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property - 2500 sq. It. Quadrangle name Boston South UMT References Quadrangle scale 1:25,000 3/30 |6,5,1 Zone Easting $16/91131215 Northing LILLL Zone Easting DLI LUILLL Northing LLILLL ELL F GLULLIL ILLLL HLI LLIL LILILL Verbal boundary description and justification Easterly on Kilby St., 44'8-3/4"; southerly on Water St., 82'8"; Nesterly on land now or Charles R. Codman, 40Northerly on Hawes St.,2i5". Surfolk Deed heirs of 19635 f161 (12/31/80). Sce Skc. 8. List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries state N/A code county code state code county code 11.
Form Prepared By name/title Candace Jenkins, Registration Director with Leslie Larson, 6. Joy Street, Boston organization Massachusetts Historical Commissiondate May, 1981 - May,1982 street & number 294 Washington Street telephone (517) 727-8470 city or town Boston state Massachusetts 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: national - state local As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to thecriteria and procedures set forth by the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service.
State Historic Preservation Officer signature kllene Am lalmge title Executive Director, Massachusetts Historical Conmission For HCRS use only date Siptemtr. 13,D82 I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register date Keeper of the National Register Attest: Chief of Registration date GPO 938 8.
Significance 10 Liberty Square Building, Boston Period - prehistoric - 1400-1499 .1500-1599 -1600-1699 1700-1799 X 1800-1899 - 1900- Areas of SignificanceCheck and justify below - archeology-prehistoric - community planning - archeology-historic _ conservation law _ agriculture economics .literature * architecture education military art engineering - music commerce _ exploration/settlement - philosophy communications - industry - politics/government _ invention landscape architecture- - religion science - sculpture - social/ humanitarian - theater - transportation -other (specify) urban design Specific dates 1873-4 Buikdes/Architect John Hubbard Sturgis &Charles Brigham Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) Builder: I. J. Whidden 55 Kilby Street retains its integrity of location, design, setting, materials, and workmanship.
It is significant for its architectural excellence, as a work by an important Boston architect, for its associations with prominent familles, and for its location and contribution to the character of Liberty Square. The building is a fine example of post-fire commercial architecture with materials, proportions and details exoressive of its master designer. The later addition rerlects carerul design as well. High Victorian Gothic, Romanesque Revival, and other stylistic elements are combined in an ingenious, fascinating and coherent amalgam. The building thus meets criteria B and C of the National Register of Historic Places. The 10 Liberty Square Building is undergoing renovation and is in the process of certification of rehabilitation for purposes of the Tax Reform Act of 1976, as amended.
The building is part of a larger area, informally known as the Exchange District, which appears to meet eligibility criteria of the National Register. Because of the complexity of a downtown commercial district nomination and in order for the rehabilitation to proceed in a timely manner, the nomination of 55 Kilby Street is occurring first and separately- Individually, the building meets the eligibility criteria. Nomination of the rest of the Exchange District will be undertaken at a future date. The building is the only extant commercial building in the Central " Business District by the important Bôston architect, John Hubbara Stursis (1834-1888)- Gone are this architect'g Massachusetts Hospital Lile Insurance Bullding (1884), Ames Building (1884), and in the Back Bay, his YMCA Building (1882), Boston Athletic Club (1887), and old Museum of Fine Arts (1870).
In Boston proper, only the Church of yen 87 noa: no of tho 10% residential commissions of the man who started the longest association of one family with Boston's architecture, from 1851 until the present (John Hubbard Sturgis, Clipston Sturgis, Sturgis & Cabot, Sturgis Associates, Robert Shaw sturgis, Ogden Codman, Richard Codman, Stephen Codman) .
55 Kilby's important family associations include the Codman family, for whom it was built; the Sturgis family (Frances Anne Codman, one of the owners, was the wife of John Hubbard Sturgis) which, through intermarriage with the Perkins family, became dominant in the China Trade during the 19th century (also Sturgis & Bryant were the largest American firm trading with the lorthwest Indians and the Sturgis family owned property on Boston wharves through the period); and the Hubbard family (John Sturgis's maternal ancestry), one of the most prominent West Indies land owning merchants in Built on what had been the southern edge of Oliver's Dock (one of Boston's dominant topographical features from its wharving out by Peter Oliver in the 1660s to its filling in around 1800), the 10 Liberty Square Building occupies a key location in Liberty Square, a nlace important in Boston's onysical, political and commercial history.
The Stamp Act Riot of 1765 took place in the square, which was named "Liberty" in 1793 in honor of the (continuation sheét) FHR-8-300 (11-78) United States Department of the Interior Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form For HCRS use only received date entered Continuation sheet 10 Liberty Square Building Item number 8 Page 1 French Revolution. Its commercial history extends back to the late 17th century when Peter Oliver maintained a brewhouse, bakehouse, salthouse and waterworkswharf on a site immediately south of what 1s now 55 Kilby Street. This building contributes to the character of Liberty Square as the terminus of vistas from Broad up Water Street, and laterally along Kilby Street.
It forms a most agreeable ensemble with neighboring buildings, especially with two buildings across Kilby Street which are similar in style and materials. :XCHANGE TR F D TRADING FOOD & DRINK SSOMPER SALIG NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES United States Department of the Interier National Park Service Substantive Revieg 10 Liberty Square Building Suffolk County MASSA CHUSETTS EVALUATION / RETURN SHEET Working No. 9/21/82-24174 Fed. Reg. Date: Date Due: 10/2,/82-11 82 Action: ACCEPT. RETURN4/5/83- REJECT. Federal Agency:- - appeal - NR decision resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: sample request Reviewer's comments: THE NOMINSTION DDES NOT MAKE THE CASE FONL ELIGIBILIMY IN ANY DE THE AREAS ADPRESSED. ALSO, INTEGRITY COULD BE Recom.
/Criteria _ZERRN Reviewer_Mn DOUGAL A PROBLENg NEANLM YL DFTHE BUILDING IS MHE RESULTOF Discipline 1890'S ALTERATION. THE BUILMNAS CONTRIBUTION TO THE POTENTIAL Date /|/4/B2 ARANTETURAL HISTORIAN DISTRULC N WIHCH IT EXISTS AND TUE FANLY ASSOCIATIOUS WIRK see continuation sheet -Nomination teturnea or: CONSIDEREN AS RANÍ DR THE EVALUATION UNDER ME CRITERLA. SLE COMMONIS, ATTANLE - technical corrections cited below Ysubstantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification Catogory Dumarship Public Acqutsition 4. Owner of Property Btatus becessible Prosent Use 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys has this property been determined eligible? yes n 7. Description excellen good fair deteriorated ruins Chack one - unattered .altered Check one .
moved unexposed asortbo the prosent end eriginal (ll kneum) piryeical appoerance summary paragraph L completeness CNO MENTION O5 /NIGIIOR - ARE THERE SIGNIFILANT FEATURES IN THE INTERION clarity WHLLH BRDRENMN?) alterations/integrity COULDBE A PROBLEM AS IT RELATES TO SIGNIFILANCE. dates boundary selection 8. Significance ported Arocs Spocific dater Btatoment el Significanoe fin ano Chock and justity ALTERSTION S HOVD PE NDIED BECHEE IT IS MAWOR. ulider Archtteet WHO WAS ARCEHTEL OF ADOITON? Summary paragraph completeness (ste ATTALiED) clarity applicable criteria justification of areas" checked relating significance to« the resource context /1 relation ship of integrity to significance justification of excepticn other 11 Major Bibliographical References - TRE IHERE WARKS PI SURGU THAE HAVE BEEN CONSULTED? 10.
Geographical Data Acreago of nominated proporty - Quedrangle name UMT Reterences Verbel boundary doscrption and puallfication 11. Form Prepared By 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated aignificance of thie property wlthin the state is: national __ state - local ate Mistoric Preservation Ofticer signature date X 13. Other Maps :Photographs, NHE PHOTO GRSNHS EAO DOCUMENT THE APPCARANCE AT Other THE MME OF NOMINATLON. THE FORM STATES THAT THE BRICK HAS BEEN CLEANED BE THE GRAY PAINT. Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to - BRUCE MAL DOUGAL Signed Date.
11/5/82 Phone: 202 272 -3504 Commentsfor any item may be continued on an attached sheet COMMENTS 10 Liberty Square The nomination attempts to make the case for the eligibility of 10 Liberty Square in three areas; as an example of Sturgis' work, as an example of post-fire commercial construction, andfor its associations with important Boston mercantile families. The nomination does not provide sufficient information about the context of the property in either of these three areas to demonstrate its significance under National Register criteria. If a building is to be shown to be a significant example of the work of an important local architeet, the nomination should define what features this building has which illustrate his work and state why this example is architecturally signifticant in comparion with his other works.
Also, the historic architectural integrity of the property needs to be more completely addressed. The 1890's addition of the upper floors was a major change to the building and could have a significant impact on the original design as concieved by Sturgis. Was the addition designed by Sturgis? If it was, the overall two-part composition should be assessed in the context of his work. If the building is significant under the criteria as a good example of post-fire construction, please provide further information which shows why it is significant as an example of buildings of the period. Also, state why the period is important in the architectural history of downtown Boston. In Making this evaluation please take into account the major alterations to the building in the 1890's.
If the building is to eligible for its associations with prominent Boston mercantile families, please be specifie about the nature and the time periods of these associations. Are there other buildings in Boston that are more importantly associated with these families which better represent their mercantile interests? Did this building house particular business activities of these families or was it merely held by them as a commercial property? Is the building important for association with one or more of the families due to the specifie historical link with one of them, or is it signifieant because it is unusual to have several of these families associated with the same building? NPS Form 10-900 (3-82) OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp.
10-31-84 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms Type all entries - complete applicable sections 1. Name For NPS use only received SEP _91983 date entered historic Ihe Codman Building (preferred) 10 Liberty Square Building and/or common 2. Location street & number 55 Kilby Street (10 Liberty Square) n/a not for publication city, town Boston n/aicinity of state Mass. 3.
Classification code 025 county Suffolk code 025 Category district X building(s) - structure site _ object Ownership public X private both Public Acquisition in process n/a being considered Status X occupied _ unoccupied _work in progress Accessible - yes: restricted - yes: unrestricted - no Present Use - agriculture X commercial educational entertainment government industrial military museum park private residence religious scientific transportation other: 4. Owner of Property name 55 Kilby Street Trust, Sargent Collier and Devens H. Hamlen, Trustees street & number 10 Liberty Square city, town Boston n/a vicinity of 5. Location of Legal Description state Massachusetts courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Registry of Deeds, Suffolk County Courthouse street & number Pemberton Square Boston city, town 6.
Representation in Existing Surveys Central Business District title Preservation Study has this property been determined eligible? Massachusetts state - yes _ no date July, 1980 _ federal - - state - county local Boston Landmarks Commission depository for survey records city, town City Hall, Boston Massachusetts state 7. Description Condition excellent good fair deteriorated ruins unexposed Check one . unaltered X altered Check one & original site moved n/a date n/a Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance Summary Description Located prominently on Liberty Square, in Boston's downtown commercial district, 55 Kilby Street is a 6-story rectangular, flat-roofed commercial bui lding with 3 exposed facades (narrow on Kilby, wide on Water and Hawes Streets). The fourth (narrow) side abuts the rear of 60 Congress Street, a building similar in height and width.
From Liberty Square the building appears to be free-standing. Expanded Description The walls are of pressed red Philadelphia brick, liberally trimmed with tan freestone. The foundation is granite. Finished facades comprise the 7 bays on Water Street, the 3 bays on Kilby, and one bay on Hawes Street. The balance of the Hawes facade is of red brick punctured by an asymetrical arrangement of flat and segmental-arched windows without detail. Both the Kilby and Water Street facades are symetrically organized over ground floor Gothic-arched entrances (triple on Water and single on Kilby) divided vertically by brick piers which terminate in round-topped carved and a bracketed stone cornice between floors 3 and 4.The central bay on the Kilby facade breaks forward and is further emphasized, above the entrance, by triple windows on floors 2 and 3, reducing to single windows on floors 4 through 6.
On the Water Street facade the triple window central bay is repeated but with double windows on floors 4 through 6 and flanking single window bays from 2 throungh 6. The balance of the windows on all finished facades are paired. Windows on floors 2 through 5 are flat-arched while on 6 they are round-arched, reflecting the form of the roof pedestals. Varied and refined details include carved stone lintels and pilaster capitals, brick corbelling and sawtoothing, and unusual carved doughnut-shaped stone projections designed as vertical drain pipe supports. The original 1874 building was 4 stories high, probably with dormers on the 4th floor. It is believed that floors 5 and 6 were added in the 1880s. The dormer windows were retained on floor 4 and were augmented by additional flanking windows.
An ornate iron fire escape was attached to the Water Street facade, probably at the time of the addition. On the interior of the structure, a limited amount of original oak panelling remains in the lobby. Eight wood and stone fireplace mantels are situated in various locations throughout the building. aThere is one brick vault with heavy iron door on each floor. Molded wood window trim original to the 1872 structure and 1880s addition is located throughout the building. All of these features were retained in the recent rehabilitation of the structure. 8.
Significance Period - prehistoric 1400-1499 1500-1599 1600-1699 1700-1799 X 1800-1899 1900- Areas of Significance - Check and justify below - archeology-prehistoric _ community planning - landscape architecture archeology-historic conservation .law agriculture economics _ literature architecture education _ military art engineering - music commerce communications - exploration/settlement - philosophy - industry - politics/government - invention 101-1 - religion science sculpture - social/ humanitarian _theater - transportation _ other (specify) Specific dates 1873, c. 1880 Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) NooArchitect John Hubbard Sturgis & Charles Brigham Builder: T.J. Whidden Summary Significance 55 Kilby Street (the Codman Building), as altered in about 1880, retains its integrity of location, design, setting, materials and workmanship.
It meets National Register criterion C as a fine early example of the design work of the important Boston architectural firm of Sturgis and Brigham and as one of only two commercial buildings designed by the firm remaining in Boston. Al though altered by the addition of two floors (probably about 1880), there is ano Brigham as eii dence tu ugnes tea tes cotnic ornonen dest proportionedform, also serves as an important transitional design between the restrained classicism of Sturgis and Brigham's Bureau of Charities Building and their High Victorian Gothic Museum of Fine Arts. Expanded Significance Al though Sturgis and Brigham's practice focused primarily on residential work during their 20-year partnership, they received several important non- residential commissions in the Boston area.
These included the Bureau of Charities Building (1868-69), the Codman Building (1873), the old Museum of Fine Arts on Copley Square (1870-76), the Church of the Advent (1875-78), the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company Building (1881), the Young Mens' Christian Association Building (1882 by John Hubbard Sturgis) the F.. L.. Ames Building (1883), and the Boston Athletjc Association Club (1887-88 by John Hubbard Sturgis and Clipston-Sturgis). _After Sturgis's death in 1888, Charles Brigham forged a distinguished career of his own, numbering among his com- missions the north extension to the Massachusetts State House (1889-95), the. Burrage Mansion on Commonwealth Avenue (1899), the Christian Science Mother Church (1904-6), and an impressive series of public buildings for the town of Fairhaven, Massachusetts.
The YMCA Building, the Museum of Fine Arts, a railroad station in Dedham, Massachusetts and Sturgis & Brigham's submission in Boston's Trinity Church design competition (eventually awarded to h. h. Richardsop) were published in American Architect and Building News during the 1880s. Thus, the firm's non-residential work was clearly receiving recognition from the architectural profession at the time. Sturgis and Brigham's practice was unusual in the 1870s and 1880s. While most American architectural firms relied on publications to keep abreast of European trends, Sturgis and Brigham had direct access to devel opments abroad as a result of John Hubbard Sturgis' professional education in and frequent return tirs t tnglnMargaret henderson floya, architectural historyan and Sturgis and Brigham scholar states that, "The architectural firm of Sturgis and Brigham (Cont.) 9.
Major Bibliographical References American Architect and Building News; Boston, Mass.; Nov. 29, 1884, Jan. 3, 1880, Oct. 30, 1880, April 4, 1885. Floyd, Margaret Henderson: "A Terra-Cotta Cornerstone for Copley Square: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1870-1876, by Sturgis and Brigham"; Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; May, 1973. 10. Geographical Data 3500 Sq. Ft. Acreage of nominated property Quadrangle name Boston South UTM References Quadrangle scale 1:25,000 A 119 3/310651 Zone Easting CLL ELI GLL 4|691 3|2,5 Northing LLLLL casting Northing F UUNL H Verbal boundary description and justification See attached assessor's map. List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries state N/A code county code state code county code 11.
Form Prepared By name/title Candâce Jenkins, Registration Division organization Massachusetts Historical Commission with William G. MacRostie, Langelier Historic Properties, 1200 New Hampshire, NW Washington, D.C. 20036 202-659-2107 ; and date August 3, 1983 Leslie Larsen street & number 294 Washington Street telephone617-727-8470 city or town Boston state Massachusetts 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: national state - local As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. State Historic Preservation Officer signature Paturia 1.
Westowski 8/29/83 State Historic Preservation Officer title Massachusetts Historical Commission date For NPS use only I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register date 10/19/85 MKeeper of the National Register, Attest: Chief of Registration date NPS Form 10-900-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 For NPS use only received date entered Continuation sheet Item number 8 Page 1 was unique among its professional contemporaries"4 for this reason. Having studied at London's Architectural Association under the noted authority on Gothic architecture and foliate ornamentation, James K. Colling, and as an adherent of John Ruskin's Gothic philosophy, Sturgis brought to the Boston firm a passion for English Gothic architecture.
Fine Arts established the firm as "the purveyors of Engl ish design in America, "ff Indeed, Sturgis and Brigham's 1870 design for the Boston Museum Elements of English design, albeit on a more modest scale, were utilized as well in the design of the Codman Building. Gothic arches and crisply executed foliate ornamentation (which became almost a signature of the firm's style) appear in both commissions. Thus, while the Museum of Fine Arts was a fine high style example of the emerging High Victorian Gothic, the Codman Building survives as a restrained yet wel1-executed example of Sturgis and Brigham's use of the Gothic style. The great Boston fire of 1872 destroyed 776 buildings over 63 downtown Acres.
The frenzy of building activity following the fire (when tastes were changing from classical to more picturesque styles) produced a great number of hastily designed buildings, often pastiches, laden with randomly applied ornament. The Codman Buildingis set apartfrom many of its contemporaries by its restraint, attention to detail, and selective use of ornament for structural articulation rather than surface decoration. The crisply stylized ornamental details--no mere selections from pattern books--ha ve been carefully designed to suit this building. The high relief foliate carving on pilaster capitals and console brackets closely resembles the ornament of the Museum of Fine Arts.
The Codman Building successfully combines a classically symetrical structure with Gothic details, thus forming the transition from the restrained classicism of the architects' Bureau of Charities Building to their exuberantly Gothic Museum of Fine Arts. During the 1870s and 1880s, John Hubbard Sturgis received a number of archi- tectural commissions from members of the Sturgis and Codman families -- both prominent Boston merchant and land owning families in the 18th and 19th architect. "6In an informal sense he can be considered to have been the "family The fact that Sturgis was married to Frances Anne Codman, part owner of the Codman Building, no doubt led to Sturgis and Brigham receiving the original commission to design the building. Given this close relatior ship the firm had with the Codman family, it is quite possible that the family turned to the firm to design the addition.
Unfortunately, incomplete building permits from the period and the lack of Sturgis and Brigham office archives prevents this hypothesis from being definitely proven. The two-story addition to the Codman Building, while altering the original appearance of the structure, is so stylistically and proportionally sympathetic to the original four floors that the building as it presently exists may be con- sidered an illustration of stylistic evolution over a brief period of time resulting in a closely unified whole with substantial stylistic integrity.? NPS Form10-900-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp.
10-31-84 For NPS use only received date entered Continuation sheet Item number 8 Page 2 In addition to the familial relationship discussed above, there is strong stylistic evidence which helps link the Codman Building addition to Sturgis and Brigham. In 1883, the firm designed the F. L. Ames Building which, with its vertically articulated bays and round-headed windows capping each bay, is similar in overall design to the Codman Building after the addition of its two upper floors. This similarity suggests that the Ames Building and the Codman Building addition may have been undertaken by the firm during the same period. The Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company Building (1881), with its polychromed masonry, overal proportions, and relationship of sold to void also fits into a progression of design treatments which includes the enlarged Codman Building.
larger area, informally known as the Exchange District, which appears to meet downtown commercial district nomination and in order for the rehabilitation to proceed in a timely manner, the nomination of the 10 Liberty Square Building is occurring first and separately. Individually, the building meets the eligibility criteria. Nomination of the rest of the Exchange District will be undertaken at a future date. 1 The James Codman Building, 44-48 Kilby Street, was designed by Sturgis & Brigham in the early 1870s. Source: The letters and personal papers of John Hubbard Sturgis, Boston Athenaeum. 2 Of these buildings, only the Church of the Advent and the Codman Building remain standing. American Architect and Building News; Nov. 29, 1884, Jan. 3, 1880, Oct. 30, 1880, April 4, 1885.
4 Margaret Henderson Floyd; "A Terra-Cotta Cornerstone for Copley Square: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1870-1876, by Sturgis and Brigham" , in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians; May, 1973, p. 84. 5 Floyd, Ibid, p. 103. 6 Telephone interview with Margaret Henderson Floyd, Ph.D., Director of the Sturgis Research Division, Architectural Heritage Foundation, Boston, by William G. MacRostie, February 14, 1983. Margaret Henderson Floyd shares this view in her unpublished manuscript on the Codman Building, August, 1981. (See bibliographical references.) 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 9 Page 1 Major Bibliographical References (cont.) Floyd, Margaret Henderson, Director, Sturgis Research Division, Architectural Heritage Foundation, Boston; telephone interview by William G. MacRostie; February 14, 1983. Floyd, Margaret Henderson; The Codman Building (1873), 10 Liberty Square, Boston; unpublished manuscript; August, 1981. Copies available from Langelier Historic Properties, 1200 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W., Suite 320, Washington, D.C. 20036. The letters and personal papers of John Hubbard Sturgis, Boston Athenaeum. .RESS 965°01 098'01 AVENUE STATE 45 33 2622 LANE 2000 CONGRESS 14 3202 QUAKER LA. STREET ?5303 40 42 IDERAL BUILDING S.
POST OFFICE COURT HOUSE 48,382 79 81 250 12,629 1032 13,574 2458 70 14 10 12,629 ~ 74 80 84 86 /11.9 BUTLED 2341 2724 1100 104 3056 126 144148/52 154: 66 60 KILBY $9,924 2942 90 92 94 STREET 105 1109 9103 1594 BROAD 89 95 81 5/06 1345 423 1520 125 1350 28 30 715 1240 STREET 2464 10 12 25 27 29 31 32 35 DOANE 23 4990 7589 P2821 AO 46 ALLEY 38 20 -BANGS CENTRAL 29,149 35 37 3680 960 ROW 125 |29 131 135 INDIA 13,593 20 22 STREET 14 PLACE EXCHANGE PARKING KILBY PLACE 46/643 48 52/017 54/600 58 320° 112 WATER 2650 130 120 126 STREET 3 123 125 840 1842 E1172 2689 2839 STREET n in 4T 19,555 50 LIBERTY SQUARE 5731 WATER STREET HAWES 82 STREET 85 13,551 3800 CRAB 22 5841 BATTERYMARCH 2895 32 15,128 1203 STREET 5398 '9 3, POST 6523 SQUARE OFFICE MONUMENT STREET 19530 1T3 115 117 119123 125 22,306 PEARL 10 LIBERTY SQ. BUILDING 55 KilbySt.
Boston, Massachusetts 1"=100' UTM References: 19/330651/4691325 1981 Source: Assessor's Map NORTH 51-57 Kilby Street (90-92 Water Street, Hawes Street) WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Substantive Review Codman Building (10 Liberty Square Building) Suffolk County MASSACHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Working No. 9/21/82- 2474 Fed. Reg.
Date: 5-85 Date Due: 16/24/83 Action: LACCEPT- 10/19/83 _RETURN _ REJECT_ Federal Agency: _ Substantive Review: Asample -request appeal NR decision The Codman Buildiny is architecturally aymfriant conafire connenein dotre sy tat,tilpp Recom./Criteria damnee oede encbitrcteral fum ye Discipline_ and a later Romanesgue Revival addition Nomination returned for: _ technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below bccept C Kotaian - 12/18/83 see continuation sheet cuca 10/19/83 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification Category Ownership Public Acquisition Status Accessible Present Use 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Has this property been determined eligible? yes no 7.
Description Condition excellent good fair deteriorated ruins unexposed Check one unaltered altered Check one - original site moved date Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates boundary selection 8. Significance Period Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Specific dates Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) Builder/Architect summary paragraph completeness clarity applicable criteria J justification of areas checked relating significance to the resource context relationship of integrity to significance J justification of exception other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property Quadrangle name UTM References 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: national state local State Historic Preservation Officer signature date title 13.
Other Maps _ Photographs -Other Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to - Signed - Date - Phone: _ Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet BOSTOH 10 LIBERTY SQUARE BUILDING 55 Kilby Street Boston, Massachusetts photo: 9/18/82 photographer and negative filed: Leslie Larson 6 Joy Street, Boston, MA view of Kilby Street facade photo #l of 6 1016 9/18/82 10 10 LIBERTY SQUARE BUILDING 55 Kilby Street Boston, MA photo: 7/15/82 photographer and negative filed: Leslie Larson 6 Joy Street, Boston, MA view of Kilby Street facade, floors 3-6 photo #2 of 6 BOSTON 2 g 6 7/15/82 10 LIBERTY SQUARE BUILDING 55 Kilby Street Boston, MA photo: 9/24/82 photographer and negative filed: Leslie Larson 6 Joy Street, Boston, MA view of Water Street facade Photo #3 of 6 osToN 9/24/82 10 Liberty Square Building 55 Kilby Street Boston, MA photo: 9/24/82 photographer and negative filed: Leslie Larson 6 Joy Street, Boston, MA view of ground floor arches, Water St.
photo #4 of 6 :) BosTON TER ST. 14 g 6 10 10 LIBERTY SQUARE BUILDING 55 Kilby Street Boston, MA photo: 9/18/82 photographer and negative filed: Leslie Larson 6 Joy Street, Boston, MA view of plaster capital and arch detail, Kilby St., ground floor photo #i6 of 6 ) BOSTON 9/18/82 KILBY ST. GROUNDFL. Missing Core Documentation Property Name Codman Building County, State Suffolk County, Massachusetts Reference Number 83004097 The following Core Documentation is missing from this entry: Nomination Form _Photographs (missing #5) USGS Map MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Office of the Secretary of State 294 Washington Street Boston, Massachusetts 02108 617-727-8470 MICHAEL JOSEPH CONNOLLY Secretary of State September 14, 1982 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Department of the Interior Washington, D.C.
20243 Dear Ms. Shull: Enclosed you will find the following nomination forms: Attleboro: Boston: Boston: Falmouth: Milford: Herbert A. Sadler House (local) 10 Liberty Square Building (local) Wigglesworth Building (local) Wood's Hole School (local) Gillon Block (local) Al1 have been voted eligible by the State Review Board and have been signed by the State Historic Preservation Officer. Owners were notified of pending State Review Board consideration 30-75 days before the meeting and were afforded the opportunity to comment. Comments received to date are attached to the nomination forms.
Sincerely, Candace Jenkins Registration/ Director massachusoiis fisiurical Conmission CJ/sac enclosure RCEIVED SEP 21 1982 FOTIONAL REGISTER MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Office of the Secretary of State 294 Washington Street Boston, Massachusetts 02108 617-727-8470 MICHAEL JOSEPH CONNOLLY Secretary of State August 29, 1983 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Department of the Interior 18th & C Streets North West Washington, D.C. 20240 Dear Ms.
Shull: Enclosed you will find the following nominations forms: Boston: Codman Building (resubmission) Boston: Tugboat Luna (local) Brockton: South Street Historic District (local) Clinton: Bigelow Carpet Company Woolen Mills (local) Easton: Furnace Village Historic District (local) Medford: 0ld Medford High School (local) North Adams: Eber Sherman Farm (local) Rando1ph: Gills Farm Archaeological District (state) Sturbridge: Tantiusques Reservation (state) South Hadley: Woodbridge Street Historic District (local) Williamstown: Mill Village Historic District (local) All have been voted eligible by the State Review Board and have been signed by the State Historic Preservation Officer. Owners were notified of pending State Review Board consideration 30-75 days before the meeting and were afforded the opportunity to comment. Comments received to date are attached to the nomination forms.
Sincerely, Candace Penkins Candace JenkIns Director Preservation Planning CJ/pb
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