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Nomination for Farnum, R., House

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,055 words across 8 pages, filed in 1983. Reproduced in full, word for word.

Source document Held by the National Archives in Record Group 79 as reference 83004119, where it exists only as a scan with no text layer. The words below were read off that scan by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the typewriter's. Nothing is summarised, corrected or written by this site. See the catalogue record, or return to the property.

The nomination, in full

Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 294 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02108 Area Form no. 47-66 PHOTO (3x3" or 3x5", black & white) Staple to left side of form Photo number Roll 10 frame 19 - - - - - SKETCH MAP Draw map showing property's location in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings or geographical features. Indicate north. N CROSS ST. Town Uxbridge Address 20 Oak Street Historic Name / R., Farnum House Use: Original_ residence Present_ same Ownership: XkPrivate individual Private organization Public Original owner R. Farnum DESCRIPTION: Date ca.

1875-1880 Source exterior Style_ Victorian Gothic Architect unknown Exterior wall fabric clapboard Outbuildings stable & garage STABLE - FARNUM HOUSE STREET . Major alterations (with dates)_ none apparent Recorded by B.R.Pfeiffer Organization Uxbridge Historical Commission Date May 1981 Moved Date N/A Approx. acreage -44 acres Setting residential area of nineteenth and twentieth century houses. UTM: Quad Ux 19 282780 4661710 (Staple additional sheets here) Form #47-66 ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within community) archfctu farnun House an excellent 1ocal example of Victorian Gothic The house is a 2k½-storey structure set on a foundation of dressed granite. Having a side-hall plan, the house has an asymmetrical gabled facade (east).

Principal features of the facade are double doors at the entry, a porch with Gothic decorative motifs, bargeboards and a pierced apron in the gable. Similar details exist on the house's south side which has a two-storey bay window and rear porch. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community) Significant primarily for its well-preserved design, the Farnum House has no known historical associations. The house's only known owner is R. Farnum (1898) who was nearly certainly a member of the large Farnum family which settled in Uxbridge in the early eighteenth century; however, secondary sources provide no specific information on R. Farnum.

The Farnum House possesses integrity of location, design, sett'ing, materials, work- manship and feeling, and is significant as one of Uxbridge's most ornate and well-preserved examples of Victorian Gothic architecture. The Farnum House meets criteria C of the NRHP. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Maps & Atlases: 1855, 1857, 1870, 1898 OWNER: Kanty and Mary Kroll 30 Oak St. 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 OMB No.1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 For NPS use only received 8/26/83 date entered Page Multiple Resource Area Thematie Group Name State Uxbridge Multiple Resource Area MA Nomination/Type of Review 411. Capron, Charles, House Intered In tha National Regieter 12. Chapin, A., House Intierad National Register 2°13.

Cook, A. E., House Intered in the Matiotnl Begister TKeeper Attest fkeeper Attest fKeeper Date/Signature AeomByu 0/133 AelusByen c0/2183 AelureaByer 10/2/83 _ y''14. Central Woolen M111s District 15. Deane, Francis, Cottage 16. Farnum Block Attest Fufetantsvo Hovton jiseeper fuue love lugd (/e29 Attest Entered in the Nat1ona1 Register fKeeper AelmByen 01183 Attest Iatered Ip tha Partlotel Begister fkeeper delrsByua 112/53 17. Farnum, Moses, House Intered In the National Register Attest fikeeper AelrerBzur 10/2/83 18. Farnum, R., House Entered National Register 19. Granite Store Entered in the Nabtonel Register Attest fKeeper Attest /Keeper AuluresBye 10/2/83 dilnaßyen 10/2/83 20. Hall, S.

A., House Enteida lu vno Vational Register Attest fKeeper delußyen 10/7/83 Attest WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Farnum, R., House (Uxbridge MRA) Worcester County MASSACHUSETTS Entered resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: Reviewer's comments: sample request Jappeal Working No.- AUG 2 6 1983 Fed. Reg. Date: 2,-5-85 Date Due: - 9/22/83-10/18/83 etion: LACCEPT - 10/7/83 RETURN Mter _REJECT Federal Agency: - 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 J 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 :U) 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 MRA,Ma Form #47-66 R. Farnum House Uxbridge Multiple Resource Area f10.0000/ 0.254 R. Farnum House 160 Oak Street Map #47 Lot #66 Uxbridge Assessors 1" = 200' 1983 110221 | 2335 22381 218.04: 210.27 23,803 81 103.52 6. 85.09 19.82 202.57 FA 126- 1 K t0° 92* 168° 57 14, 70 92° 144 188 58 165° 164' 208.7 100° 164* 165° 16,500 100 95 65° 254.

4314 45 158.5 188' 144° 95 STREET C F 65.63 2. 62 123.85 0.18A. 63 17% 10,858 ¢ 65 12.003° 78 13,328 13.320 :80 >nou+3 163 258.16 109.87- 67 26,027 68 69 234° 0.394 18,800 70 0.15A. 1AS.S 71 45 8 STREET 14° 107.K 0.1A111,9 34 66.89° 76 926 24763+7 77 0.95A. 246 109.56 28.84° 172.04 85 0.231. 86 0.894 84 87 0.25A. 88m 16.3 1,094 4A. 75 13 0.4.5A. 0.47A. 98,97° EET 89 0.12A. 90 0.184 17- 193 131 9/ 164.03 61,300* 366.30° NORTH POND CAPRON'S 97 10° 93A. 214 13. 494- A2 PLAT 130.90 1.96 MENDON 96 12.975+8 133.69 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000299