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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 294 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02108 Area Form no. 50-21 PHOTO (3x3"' or 3x5", black & white) Staple to left side of form Photo number 5 frames - 33-35 - - SKETCH MAP Draw map showing property's location in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings or geographical features. Indicate north.
N Town Uxbridge Address Hazel Street Historic NameAaron Taft House Use: Original_ residence Present -same Ownership:XX Private individual Private organization Public Original owner Aaron Taft (?) DESCRIPTION: Date 1749 Source 250th Anniversary book Style timber-frame vernacular Architect unknown Exterior wall fabric clapboard Outbuildings garage HAZEL STREET CROSS Recordedby B.R.Pfeiffer Organization Uxbridge Historical Commission Date May 1981 Major alterations (with dates) Greek levival stvle entrv added(1840' ear ell added (mid-20th century), 6/ sash (19th C.?) Moved no Date N/A Approx. acreage less than 1/4 Setting rural-fields immediately surrounding the house, woods beyond.
UTM: Quad Ux 19 280630 4661830 (Staple additional sheets her Form #50-21 ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within community) The Aaron Taft House is an exceptionally fine and well-preserved example of vernacular architecture of the mid-18th century. The original portion of the house is contained in the front(west) section of the present building, a rectangular plan structure with a central chimney. Of timber-frame constructiol the building rests on a granite foundation and is enclosed by a gambrel roof. The facade (west) is asymmetrical, having two windows south of and one window north of a central entry. Window frames have moulded caps which are set into the cornice on the facade.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community) One of only five gambrel cottages of the eighteenth century extant in Uxbridge, the Aaron Taft House derives its historical significance from its preservation of this once-popular house-type. One local history provides the date of 1749 for the house, and, based on similar buildings such as the Cornet Farnum House of ca. 1729 (Form #47-93) and the Samuel Taft House of ca. 1744 (Form #56-53), such a construction date seems probable. Of the house's owners, little is known. Uxbridge's 250th Anniversary history notes Aaron Taft as the house's first owner; however, the earliest owner marked on local maps is J.S.Taft, a farmer and lumber dealer who owned the house during much of the nineteenth century, at least as late as 1870.
Immediately northeast of the house, Taft had a small mill pond and saw mill, which existed here as early as 1830 and as late as 1870. The production of this saw mill was probably very small as Taft's business is not listed in any of the manuscript industrial censuses (federal) of the mid-nineteenth century (1850, 1860, 1870). The Aaron Taft House possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship and feeling, as well as historical associations with the settlement of Uxbridge by members of the Taft family during the early and mid-eighteenth century. The house is also a well- preserved example of a vernacular house type associated with the settlement of Uxbridge. The Taft House meets criteria A and C of the NRHP. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Maps & Atlases: 1830, 1855, 1870, 1898 Uxbridge 1727-1977: 250th Commemorative Book, 1977: p.98 OWNER: Barbara S.
3 lanchard Hazel 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 recerved 8/eol83 date entered Page 5 mps Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Uxbridge Multiple Resource Area MA Nomination/Type of Review 41. Whipple, A., House Entered in the National Register 42. Williams, N., House Entered in the Nations1 Regieter 43. Taft, Aaron, House/ Intared in the Nationa1. Register 24'44. Taft, Bazaleel, Jr., House and Law Office Substantive Review 45. Taft, Hon. Bazaleel, House Entered in the National Begteter 46. Taft Brothers Block Intered In tlia MatLonel Begteter 47. Taft, George, House Entered in thaa Natione1 Begieter 48.
Taft, Moses, House Intered in the National Register 49. Taft, Samuel, House 250.
Taft, Zadock, House Liuuicu in Lne Natlonal Begiater Entered in the National Register f'Keeper Attest }keeper Attest fkeeper Attest fal Keeper Attest -Keep Attest tKeeper Attest fkeeper Attest fkeeper Attest fkeeper Attest fkeeper Attest Date/Signature delareaByun 10/z/83 dluaByur 10/218: AelmeBye 10/2/83 accept Ratuch Andurs 10/1/83 AelrByen 10/1/83 Ahlresbyun 42/83 AelriaByer (0/2/83 AuluresBgan 10/2/83 dtilnaByas 10/7/83 deloreaByen 10/1/83 WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Taft, Aaron, House (Uxbridge MRA) Worcester County MASSA CHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: Reviewer's comments: sample request AUG 26 1983 Working No. Fed. Reg. Date:. 2-5-85 Date Due: - 9/22 Entered Aqtipp: ACCEPT.
10/7/83 Hat1ona1 Begteter - 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: UxbridgeMRA,Ma Form #50-21 Aaron Taft House 113.52 Ac. (s) Uxbridge Multiple Resource Area Aaron' Taft House Hazel Street Map #50 Lot #21 Uxbridge Assessors 1" = 200' 1983 G'ACE STREE NORTH 21 *ES HAZEL Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000299