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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 294 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02108 -- Area Form no. 57-137 PHOTO (3x3" or 3x5", black & white) Staple to left side of form Photo number Roll 6 frames 0A-3A - SKETCH MAP Draw map showing property's location in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings OI geographical features. Indicate north. N Town Uxbridge Address 210 Linwood Street Historic Name_ Butler Block / /,m ^A Use: Original residential & commercial Present_ same Ownership: &X Private individual Private organization Public_ Original owner_A. Butler DESCRIPTION: Date ca. 1845-1855 Source exterior & atlases Style Greek Revival Architect unknown Exterior wall fabric brick Outbuildings barn (19th century) RAILROAD PROV. +WORC.
LINWOOD BLOCKU BARN STREET Recorded by B.R.Pfeiffer Organization Uxbridge Historical Commission Date May 1981 Major alterations (with dates) sash, doors, dormer and one-storey addition to nort end (ca.1900) Moved Date N/A Approx. acreage .75 acres Setting_predominantly residential area; railroad bed and elevated road- west. UTM: 19 281300 4663700 Quad UX (Staple additional sheets r Form #57-137 ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within community) The Butler Block is a good local example of Greek Revival commercial architecture. The building rests on a rock-faced granite foundation and is built of red brick laid in common bond, except for the north elevation which is wood-frame above the first storey.
Building corners are trimmed with heavy pilasters and window openings are framed by rectangular lintels of rock-faced granite. Elevations are asymmetrical; the gable of the south elevation is framed as a pediment by a brick cornice. A one-storey brick addition (ca.1900) exists at the north end. South of the block is a timber- frame barn set on granite piers. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community) The Butler Block has few known historical associations. Built immed- iately east of the Providence and Worcester Railroad bed, the block was more directly connected (both by road and visually) to the neighboring village of Linwood (Northbridge) prior to the elevation of North Main Street (Route #122) in the twentieth century. Owned by A.
Butler as early as 1855, the block was labelled as a store in 1857. Subsequent atlases mark it as the property of A. Butler (1870) and Mrs. Rebecca Butler (1898). The building's plan, prox- imity to the railroad bed and physical resemblance to Goldthwaite's Block (ca. 1845, burned 1895) at Uxbridge Center, suggest that the structure served both as a store and as the Butler's residence or as a boarding house. The Butler Block possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials and workmanship, and is significant as the only local example of Greek Revival style com- -mercial architecture, one which preserves its original decorative details. The Butler Block meets criteria C of the NRHP. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Maps & Atlases: 1855, 1857, 1870, 1898 OWNER: Charles M.
Allaire Quaker Highway Uxbridge, MA 01569 20M-2/80 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 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Uxbridge Multiple Resource Area MA Nomination/Type of Review 111. Adams, Benjamin, House 2. Albee, E., House OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 For NPS use only received 8/24/83 date entered Page (ofs dnr-11 Intared in the National Register Iintared in the Nation1 Begieter ,00 3. Aldrich, Daniel, Cottage and Entered in the Sawmill Nationel Begieter 2º4. Aldrich, J., House SubetantIve RevIew 5. Aldrich, W., House Intered In the National Register 6. Aldrich, S., House Entered in the Nat1oDa1 Begleter 7. Bank Building Entered in the National Begieter 8. Brown, E., House Entered in tha Nationa1 Begteter '9.
- Butler Block Entered in the Natlonal Begieter 10. Carpenter, George, House Iatared in the Metlotn1 Regieter Date/Signature Fkeeper AelaunByan 10/7/k3 Attest tkeeper AclureaByun 10/7/83 Attest fkeeper lureaByer 10/.183 Attest y Keeper Tuce hm Drgl 1/20/84 Attest fikeeper AlueByen 10/7/8= Attest ) Keeper delureByen 10/7/83 Attest HKeeper dlmeskyen 10/7/83 Attest fizteper AelreByen 10/7/83 Attest fikeeper delmesBye 10/7/83 Attest fKeeper Deluesye10/2/83 Attest WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Butler Block (Uxbridge MRA) Worcester County MASSA CHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: Reviewer's comments: L sample request AUG 2 6 1983 Working No._ Fed. Reg.
Date: Date Due: _ 9/2283- 10/10 Entered inAgtien: LACCEPT- 10/2/83 Natlonel Register - RETURN _REJECT Federal Agency: Lappeal -NR decision Recom./Criteria Reviewer Discipline Date _ see continuation sheet Nomination returned for: _technical corrections cited below substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification Category Ownership Public Acquisition 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 Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates boundary selection Status Accessible Present Use Check one - original site moved date 8.
Significance Period Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Specific dates Builder/Architect Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) 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 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 Town: Uxbridge Form #57-137 Butler Block-Barn A Ma Town: UxbridgeMRA,Ma Form #57-137 Butler Block AVE. 1 Co 56 PLAT 108 86 CINE 120 0.25 12/ 633A 12.80 Ac (3) 32.03 100.93 193 0 W-N 0.36 119 184 79.70 100.93 1,907p. 135 79.P 11T50 136 122 171 192 167.67 5595 6 2,44 134 06 123 161.42 165 23 167.82 R= 77.48 218 50 0.84 Ac. 2715 311.0118 24%. 1.30A. 265.8 133 86.52 122A 105. 131 0.4) 65.66 40,6800 117 0.37 AC. (6) 130.06 131-5 279. 4izS1 18955 18.825 137.20 48 HIGHL 160 124 Ac. 0.73 Ac. (5) 14.1 + 287 402 138.5 ND 06:Ac (3) 60 18° 130 100 0.15AC3 (6) PARK :125 115 e35. 12.70 230.0 128 4015A.0 I5.S 70.2. 737.28 126 190 0.46 Ac.(S) STR 11 19 137.6 737.6 222 N,3.460 113 137.87 1So.
121g 0.37 Ac.(s) 10.30Ac-6) WALL 1680 10° STREET 327- 17.325° 66 138 105 111.3 326.8 107.06 180./S :400, 107 137.30 194.05. 7990* RCH 180 140 17,412 1 19,059 134.72 STREET 120.16 2/097 (5) 63B .0.28 0.92 Ac (5) 79.74 121.27 C 205.5 16/ 91.0 8 199 50.62 PARKIS 139.15 10 p.72 0 60 Ac.(6) 93 1.23 Ac. (5) 100.15 12.225$ saoc 81.20 :50-A 109.10 1.31 Ac2 129.41 137. 9, 15/ 100 343 -, iB 1oo. 0.82 Ac.(8) 10.42 15,3364 112.46 138 BOUF L M A / R. 150 17,250% 160 H. 27, 127* 1228 +.C5) NORTH Loi SIA L22831 STREET 2/5/59% 187.7 158A 900+. ,OG" 25 D7a bh MAPLE 157 162.2 16.1124 157 Uxbridge Multiple Resource Area Butler Block 210 Linwood Street Map #57 Lot #137 Uxbridge T" = 200 Assessors 1983 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000299