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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 294 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02108 - Area Form no. 47-124 PHOTO (3x3" or 3x5", black & white) Staple to left side of form Photo number Roll 6 - - frame 31A SKETCH MAP Draw map showing property's location in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings oI geographical features. Indicate north. N EAST HARTFORD AVE. STREET Town Uxbridge Address 87 East Hartford Ave. Historic Name North Uxbridge School Use: Original school house Present_ same Ownership: Private individual Private organization Public_Town of Uxbridge Original owner Town of Uxbridge DESCRIPTION: Date_ ca.
1870-75; 1900 Source exterior & Sprague 1927: 81 Style Italianate; Colonial Revival rchitect Cutting, Carleton & Cuttin f Worcester (1900) Exterior wall fabric clapboard Outbuildings_ none Major alterations (with dates)_none apparent Recorded by B.R.Pfeiffer Organization Uxbridge Historical Commission Date May 1981 Moved rear ell(?) Date ca.1895(?) Approx. acreage_ Setting residential area on hillside overlooking Crown & Eagle Mills UTM: 19 281740 4663150 Quad: UX (Staple additional sheets here) Form #47-124 ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within community) The North Uxbridge School is a good local example of Colonial Revival Style architecture. The building consists of an earlier Italianate style school house (south) to which a Colonial Revival style front section has been added in 1900 (north).
Both sections are built of wood, 2 stories high on brick foundations. The facade (north) is symmetrical about a center entry set in a pilastered frame with an arched transom. Flanking the entry are two oval lights. The front section is trimmed by a modillioned cornice, above which is a hip roof with pedimented dormers and a ventilator/cupola. The rear portions of the building have corner pilasters, a panelled cornice with dentils and paired brackets, and paired 4/4 sash. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community) The North Uxbridge School was built in two sections.
The earlier of thest two remains at the present building's rear which was either built on its pres- ent site in the 1870's or, perhaps, moved here from the former site of the North Uxbridge School, at #196 East Hartford Avenue. To accomodate the area's choo», i9t growing population, the front section of the building was constructed in 1900 at a cost of $16,000. It is possible that the earlier school house was moved , Ene 1ot at the iine of ehia back on the lot at the time of this addition. At present, the North Uxbridge School house remains as Uxbridge's only example of nineteenth century school house architecture, with the exception of several. one-room(former district), school houses and the Uxbridge Academy Building.
The North Uxbridge School possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials and workmanship from two periods of development, as well as historical associations as Uxbridge's largest and most well-preserved school building built before 1930. The North Uxbridge School meets criteria A and C of the NRHP. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Maps & Atlases: 1855, 1857, 1870, 1898 Sprague 1927: 81 Annual Report of the Town Officers of the Town of Uxbridge for the Year Ending Dec. 31st, 1900 p. 12 OWNER: Town of Uxbridge South Main 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/a+/83 date entered Page 3ot5 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Uxbridge Multiple Resource Area MA Nomination/Type of Review 21. Hayward, William, House Entered in the National Register 22. Holbrook, Sylvanus, House Entered in tha National Register 23. Ironstone Mill Housing and Cellar Hole z~'24. Judson-Taft House Entered Itt Fha National Regieter SubstanElve Review 25. Kensley, J., House Entered in the Nartlonel Begieter 26. North Uxbridge School - Entered In the Vational Begieter 27. Richardson, Dexter, Housentared in the Mations1 Regieter 28. Richardson, Joseph, Houseintered in the National Regieter 29. Rivulet Mill Eomplex Entered ia the National Begteter 30.
Sayles, Richard, Hause Entered in tha National Regieter freeper Date/Signature AelorsByu 10/7/83 Attest eeper AelmeByun 147/83 Attest Keepe AeluresByer 14/2/83 Attest forks eeper accept latuick Anduus 10/2/83 Attest AKeeper deloneaBye 10/2183 Attest Theeper Delmeßgun 10/2183 Attest fkteper HelresBzen 10/2/83 Attest Tkeeper dibrecze 10/2183 Attest tkeeper LelresBye 1022183 Attest Aeeper AeloresByes 1012/83 Attest WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET North Uxbridge School (Uxbridge MRA) Worcester County MASSA CHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: sample Reviewer's comments: -request -appeal AUG 2 6 1983 Working No. Fed. Reg.
Date: 2-5-85 Date Due: 2/22/83- 10/10/83 Action: -ACCEPT 10/1/83 Intered in the _RETURN National Register 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? ves no 7. Description Condition excellent good fair deteriorated ruins unexposed Check one J 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 Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) Builder/Architect 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 #47-124 North Uxbridge School 23A 000,0 110 8.º3A 120.2 131.41 1120 178.77 112.53 37.4 15° 117 23,800" 140 241.63 119 1.03A. 102.16 182./6 20 35672 146.75 158.67. 124 99.12 85.80 148.50 ST. SCHOOL 100° E 123 12,213 1:22 12/ 0.t8A. 99.31 - SAW MILL PAND 0 712.94 125 126 0.50A. 1,272 120% 22201 BOST ON ST. 135 :9900*9 134 8/32 8/3/ 8000" 95.5 98.56 97.46' 139% 140% To- 225 /37 1388 9,000 8000 - 8,000d 8760 HARVARD 86.5 145 2144 0.46 6. 76504 ST. 143, 10.800 13/4338 223 .11 Ae.() 9+58 YALE A H 1947 9270 140 0.334. ST. 1°/54 14,450% (r.gg) 155v 14,1504 6 50° 152 11.70 AC. 9500 al 193 034583 750.00 158 Ac .51 199.50 TIS 4.80 POND ST.
64163 162 V6/ 77854 60 80' 132° 3.308g. 165h/661 85° 167 10> 234.96 4158 151.09 90.90 99.59° 81.10 134.64 168.30 372.90 159 11t 10,700 130 Uxbridge Multiple Resource Area North Uxbridge School 87 East Hartford Avenue Map #47 Lot #124 Uxbridge 1" = 200, Assessors 1983 29 237' 175 1.194 T64,2.5 183 z45.8° 184 15908A 227.80 229 163.54 185-A BLA 131.19 107.01 41.55 241.6 84 186 0.25 Ác NORTH 204.56 120.13 39 716.07 186-A 1980° R0410 8212 3135 4108° / N Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000299