Nomination for Chestnut Hill Meetinghouse

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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 OCT date entered 9 1984 NOV 1 3 1984 historic South Parish Meeting House and or common Chestnut Hi11 Meeting House (preferred) " 2. Location street & number forner of Chestnut Street and Thayer Street?. _ not for publication city, town Millville Vic- n/a vicinity of state MA 3. Classification code 25 Worcester 027 county code Category district x building(s) structure site object Ownership public X private both Public Acquisition in process n/a being considered Status .

occupied X unoccupied - work in progress Accessible X yes: restricted - yes: unrestricted _ no Present Use agriculture commercial educational .. entertainment government industrial military museum - park - private residence X religious (occasional) scientific - transportation other: 4. Owner of Property name Chestnut Hill Meeting House and Cemetery Association c/o Joseph A. Costa street & number Legg Street RFD 1 city, town Blackstone n/a_ vicinity of 5. Location of Legal Description state MA 01504 courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Worcester County Registry of Deeds street & number 2 Main Street city, town Worcester state MA 01604 6. Representation in Existing Surveys title Historic American Building Survey has this property been determined eligible? Survey #122 MA 20 Sheets yes X _ no date 1935 x tederal - - state - county - .

loca depository for survey records Library or Congress:-PTInts a Pnotograph Division, Architectual Collection city, town state Washington, D.C. 7. Description South Parish Meetinghouse, Millville Gondition 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

Description of the property

The Chestnut Hill Meetinghouse is a late Georgian style building of timber frame construction. The meeting house, which was constructed in 1769, is a two and a half story structure of rectangular plan with a gable roof. The building is five bays wide by four bays deep and has dimensions of 40' x 35'. To the east of the meetinghouse is a small burying ground, separated from the meetinghouse by an iron fence. The building and its burying ground occupy an open, grassy site of approx- mately two acres. Located approximately 14 miles north of the current town center of Millville, a small suburban/industrial town on the Blackstone River, the Chestnut Hill Meetinghouse and burying ground are set amidst an area of dispersed late 20th century residences, vacant agricultural land and woodlands of recent growth.

and sood ando of seci Bri 0 EXTERIOR FEATURES The roof of the meetinghouse is of moderate slope and sheathed with white cedar shingles, applied in 1966. A small brick chimney, built in the 1860's for a wood stove, rises from the ridge at the east end of the structure. Butted wood clapboards, painted white, cover the walls of the meetinghouse, which are enframed with plain cornerboards, watertable and a simple cornice. The foundations are of drylaid, uncoursed granite and fieldstone. There is no cellar or crawlspace. The principal elevation is the south facade, which contains nine double hung 12/12 sash arranged symmetrically around a central entrance. The frontispiece consists of double leaved doors (panelled, mid 19th century replacements) set within a plain case ornamented with applied moldings rising to a central keystone block.

Fluted pilasters with rusticated bases and bearing rosettes in the freize flank the entrance and support a deep triangular pediment. The pediment features an elaborately molded dentilated cornice whose details are echoed in a secondary cornice within the pediment. On the east and west elevations are secondary entrances and eight 12/12 double hung sash inan asymmetrical arrangement. . The secondary entrances are set within pedimented, pilastered en framements of simpler design than the principal entrance. The entrances contain o stinpter deiga ce ce ra single-leaved, panelled doors of mid-19th century date. The north elevation contains a double row of four 12/12 windows set in the two end bays. Centered between the first and second story windows is a large 15/15 double hungwindow surmounted by round arched fan containing eight lights. The window illuminates the pulpit on the interior.

All of the windows in the meetinghouse have a simple architrave; with the exception of those en che seceputron ot snoeu fan which intersect the cornice, all have splayed lintels. Sash on most of the windows are Greek Revival replacements with characteristic narrow, deep muntiners only the pulpit window retains its orginal Georgian sash. INTERIOR FEATURES The meetinghouse interior consists of the two-story auditorium space with 26 box pews, second story galleries on three sides and an elaborately treated, raised pulpit with canopy. In plan, the interior is a simple rectangle, with the primary entrance on the long (south) wall, opposite the pulpit. Visible framing members include 8" x 8" gunstock corner and intermediate posts. The walls are of lime plaster over accordion lath and retain beaded wainscot on the first floor, with plain pine wainscot in the gallery.

Boxed staircases leading to the gallery occupy the southeast and southwest corners. The ceiling is finished with beaded, matched boards installed ca 1900. The roof framing incorporates king post trusses and a common purlin framing system. 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 Far NPS use only received date entered NOV3984 Continuation sheet South Parish Meeting House Item number 7 Page 1 Notable features of the interior are the raised pulpit and the box pews. The pulpit is Georgian in style and consists of a raised rectangular enclosure on the north wall; this rests on a panelled rectangular base and is surmounted by a five sided flate canopy. The pulip is entered via a nine step staircase with turned balusters.

The pulpit itself features a three sided lectern with arched, raised panels and a Doric freize of triglyphs. To the rear of the lectern is the round-arched pulpit window, which is set in a key- stoned architrave with paneled pilasters and framed by fluted pilasters and a Doric freize of triglyphs and metopes. The freize of the canopy also incorporates triglyphs and metopes. The pilasters, entablature and metopes of the pulpit are marbleized while all other surfaces of the pulpit are grain painted. The box pews are of pegged construction with raised panels terminating in a turned spindle freize capped wtih a beaded rail. Most of the pew doors retain butterfly hinges affixed wtih leather squares and rosehead clinch nails. The gallery seating is of unfinished red oak boards.

BURYING GROUND The Chestnut Hill Burying Ground is bounded on three sides by stone walls and on the fourth side by an iron fence. These enclose a level, open plain of approximately one acre, just south of the Chestnut Hill Meetinghouse. There are approximately 302 stones in the burying ground. Iwenty of these date from the 18th century, 200 from the 19th century, and 82 from the 20th century. There are few footstones and five monuments or obelisks. Most of the stones are of slate or marble, but a few granite and four fieldstone gravestones are also present. The earliest stone in the burying ground is that of Jonna Benton, who died March 4, 1773, in the fifth month of her marriage. The latest stone was erected in 1982. The decorative carvings on the markers are typical for the 19th century and include a number of urns and willows; with other simpler engraved slabs.

A few other stones with romantic motifs, such as anchors, lambs, and pointing fingers are interspersed among these. There are very few stones with 18th century motifs, such as skulls and cherubs. The condition of the markers ranges from fair to good. Lichen and moss cover the fronts of many markers; some slate headstones have been affected by spalling. There are a few markers with broken tops. Marble surfaces are pitted. The Chestnut Hill Cemetery is the resting place for many generations of prominent Millville families including the Benson, Benton, Esty, Thayer, Aldrich, Hayward, Taylor, Tourtelotte, Darling, Taft, Daniels, Legg, Albee, and Hill Families. Most of these families lived in the Chestnut Hill area and contributed to the growth of the town of Millville on the Blackstone River at the base of Chestnut Hill.

Some are associated with the local mills: Benoni Benson founded a gristmill in 1771. In 1857, R.H. Hill owned a woolen mill on Millville Island. P.S. Thayer, by 1854, was in charge of the Millville postal service. In 1871, Doctor Saitlwick was the town physician. Today several Millville streets are named after the deceased buried on Chestnut Hill.

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Significance South Parish Meetinghouse, Millville Period prehistoric 1400-1499 1500-1599 1600-1699 1700-1799 1800-1899 1900 Areas of Significance-Check and justify below X archeology-prehistoric community planning -archeology-historic conservation agriculture economics X architecture education art engineering commerce exploration/settlement communications industry invention landscape architecture _A religion law literature military music philosophy politics/governmen science sculpture social/ humanitarian theater transportation other (specify) Specific dates 1769 Builder

Statement of significance

/Architect unknown Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) The Chestnut Hill Meetinghouse is an intact late Georgian style rural meetinghouse dating from 1769. It is significant for its excellent state of preservation and as a rare surviving example of the early New England meetinghouse type which is char- acterized by a central entrance on the long wall, directly opposite the centrally located pulpit. Historically, it is significant as the religious center from 1769 to 1%0 to 1830 of the South Parish of Mendon, Millville's parent town. It is additionally significant as an object of early preservation advocacy (1896). The meetinghouse site also contains the parish's ariginal burying ground, used for burials continuously since 1773.

The Chestnut Hill Meetinghouse and burying ground possess integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feelings and association and meet criteria A and C of the National Register on the state level. Architecturally, the meetinghouse is one of approximately three dozen 18th century meeting- nouses of its type surviving in the state of Massachusetts and a very rare example of an 18th century rural meetinghouse retaining the majority of its fabric intact and unrestored. The only other example in Massachusetts of comparable integrity of materials, etc. is the Rocky Hill Meetinghouse (1785, NR 1972) in Amesbury, which postdates the Chestnut Hill meetinghouse by 16 years. Other similar meetinghouses in New England include the Sandown (New Hampshire) meetinghouse (1773), the Rockingham (Vermont) meetinghouse (1787) and Saint Paul's, Wickford, Rhode Island (1707).

In design, the meetinghouse is a typical example of the Protestant meetinghouse form which dominated New England ecclesiastical architecture in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Chestnut Hill Meetinghouse is characteristic of this type, with a rectangular form, gable roof and semi-domestic appearance. In plan, the building is entered on the long elevation with the pulpit located on the opposite long elevation. Of outstanding significance is the nearly intact retention of the meetinghouse's original exterior and interior fabric and detailing. While a brick chimney and exterior sashes and doors are 19th century additions or replacements, all other framing and exterior features date from the 1769 construction of the building. The auditorium retains its 1769 interior intact: included are box pews, galleries on three sides, deacon's desk and high pulpit with sounding board.

Many surfaces retain grained or marbleized painting. Historically, Millvillewas the location of a peripheral settlement of Mendon, one of earliest settlements (1667) of Worcester County. Initial development of the area followed the classic pattern of New England town formation. In 1766, the south part of the First Precinct was set off as the South Precinct of Mendon. Iwo years later, the church at Chestnut Hill was organized as the Third Parish in Mendon and the following year, the present meetinghouse was constructed. The Chestnut Hill meetinghouse remained the religious focus of the community through 1830, when the church disbanded.

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Major Bibliographical References Chestnut Hill Meeting House and Cemetery Association Record Book 1898-1942. p.15. Colony Law 1762 to 1770 Vo1 II p.304 - Mendon Town Records IV. Mendon, Massachusetts Proprietor Records 1667-1816. Mendon Town Records Book II,III, IV. Metcalf, John G M.D Annals of the Iowa af Mendon 1659 1880, Providence, R.I.. E.I. Freeman 10. Geographical Data and Co., 1880. Acreage of nominated property approximately 2 acres (37,000 s.I.) Quadrangle name Blackstone, Mass.-R.I.

UT M References * Lu9l |2|816/21210/ Zone Easting 1416|517 /31310 Northing Quadrangle scale 1:25 000 Zone C E DLI Laui Easting LiLiL Northing LiLu F GLUJLIILAJ LILILIL .Hud LlehditoleLu Verbai boundary description and justification The nominated property is as indicated by the heavy black line on the attached assessor's map titled"'Chestnut Hill Meetinghouse and Cemetery"and drawn at a scale of 1" = 2400' List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries state N/A code county code state N/A code 11. Form Prepared By county code name/title Sarah Zimmerman, Preservation Planning Director, with R. Christopher Noonan, preservation consultant organization Massachusetts Historical Commission date 7/25/84 street & number 294 Washington Street .......telephone ... (617) 727-8470 Boston city or town state Massachusetts 02178 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 State Historic Preservation Officer Valune A.

Talmage title Massachusetts Historical Commission date- Sigtinaser 27, 1984 For NPS use only I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register elares .Intered in the Mational Registon date 1113-84 Keeper of the National Register At1 Chief of Registration GPO 894-785 te 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 South Parish Meeting House Item number MB No. 1024-00 10-31- 8 For NPS use only received date entered NOV | 3 084 Page 1 Among the factors influencing the church's dissolution were the introduction of textile manufacture in the community in 1814 and the subsequent completion of the Blackstone Canal in 1828, both of which drew the focus of settlement to the falls area of the community, on the Blackstone River to the south.

In its brief tenure as a meeting- house, Chestnut Hill settled only two ministers. Large numbers of dissenters, Quakers and Baptists in the Blackstone Valley area may have contributed to the difficulty Chestnut Hill parishioners apparently had in raising funds to provide a living for their ministers. Since 1830, the meetinghouse has been used only occasionally. The maintenance and preservation of the meetinghouse has been a great concern locally since the end of the 19th century. In 1896, a private association accepted the charge of protecting and preserving the building. On May 15, 1896, the Massachu- setts Legislature granted a charter to the Chestnut Hill Meetinghouse and Cemetery Association.

Since then, concerned local residents, the Association, and numerous other historical organizations, including the Mendon Historical Society, Daughters of the American Revolution and the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities have actively worked for the preservation of the meetinghouse. Those efforts, in combination with the meetinghouse's brief period of active use and the peripheral location of the Chestnut Hill area, have resulted in the preservation of an important 18th century meetinghouse of remarkable integrity. Very few 18th century meeting houses in Massachusetts have been documented archaeo- logically. Because of its integrity both in structure and setting, the Chestnut Hill Meeting House has signifcant archaeological potential.

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 South Parish Meeting House Item number 9 OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 For NPS use only received date entered NOV 13 1984 Page 1 Map of Mendon, Nov. 1794 by Benjamin Read Surveyor, Massachusetts Archives, Maps & Plans 1268 Map of Mendon, June 1830 by Newell Nelson Surveyor, Massachusetts Archives, Maps & Plans 2121 Private letters, other correspondence, bills, and newspaper clipping belonging to the Chestnut Hill Meeting House and Cemetery Association. Sinnott, Edmund W., Meetinghouse and Church in Early New England (New York, McGraw-Hill) 1963. Continuation Part 6 Inventory of the Historic Assets of the Commonwealth 1980 (#1) State X Massachusetts Historical Commission Boston, MA 02108 15-S -KCSNiGiN 1.6 AC.

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Brookline, MA North page 2 SEE MAP 2 CHESTNUT 6, ST 21780 KASE 146 100 TREE 15 1.6 AC PICKETSON 19 45 AC. SEE MAP 4 Bentsen James WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Chestnut Hill Meetinghouse Worcester County MASSACHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: Reviewer's comments: L sample LJrequest Working No._ OCT 9 1984 Fed. Reg. Date c2/44 84 Date Due:11/8/54 =11/23/54 Entered in Adtton: ACCEPT _ 11-13-84 Dational Register -RETURN _ REJECT Federal Agency: -appeal L 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 Junaltered 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 I 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 NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 2009 supplemental information OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 84000434 Chestnut Hill Meeting House Millville (Worcester), MA Page1 Re-evaluation of construction date due to dendrochronology As a result of the dendrochronology testing the Chestnut Hill Meeting House in May of 2002, the (SPNEA) acting as liaison. Their report, cited below, presented the following results and conclusions. Twelve samples were taken from the wall and roof timbers of the building, and one from a section of pew end from the east gallery. Two braces in the roof produces precise felling date: one felled in the winter 1766/7, and another in the summer of 1768. A wall stud was felled in the summer of 1767, and a sill beam in the winter of 1767/68. The tree used for the gallery newel was felled in early 1771.

These results tell us that it is most likely that the frame of the meeting house was constructed during late 1768 or 1769, although it is possible that construction did not begin until early 1771. It is more likely, however, that the gallery and stairs were constructed a year or two after the main timber frame of the meeting house was built. The full results of the analysis are presented in: D. W. H. Miles, M.J. Worthington, and Anne Andrus Grady, Development of Standard Tree-Ring Chronologies for Dating Historic Structure in Eastern Massachusetts, Phase III, Interim Report 2003/9, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities and Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory, May 31, 2003. The full report can be found at SPNEA, now known as Historic New England, and at the Massachusetts Historical Commission.

A note on dendrochronology dating In recent years tree-ring chronologies have been developed for eastern Massachusetts and adjacent regions, and a number of buildings or parts of buildings have been evaluated and given new construction dates due to tree-ring dating, or dendrochronology. The principle behind tree- ring dating is a simple one: the seasonal variations in climate produce variations in growth which are reflected in the varying width of the annual rings of the tree. The rings in timbers from historical houses are compared with previously dated ring sequences from old-growth trees and from timber from structures with well-established dates to allow precise dates to be ascribed to each ring. Computer comparisons quantify how good the match is between the two. A dendrochronologist then analyzes the results and establishes the date the tree was felled.

Some caution must be used in interpreting these dates to determine the construction date of a building. Sometimes timbers from the same construction phase of the same building have been felled one, two or more years apart. However, it was common practice to build timber-framed structures with green or unseasoned timber, and it is likely that construction was completed within twelve or eighteen months from the felling date.

(end) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION PROPERTY NAME: Chestnut Hill Meetinghouse MULTIPLE NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Worcester DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: 4/28/11 DATE OF PENDING LIST: DATE OF 45TH DAY: 6/13/11 REFERENCE NUMBER:| 84000434 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: OTHER: N PDIL: PERIOD: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: COMMENT WAIVER: N ACCEPT RETURN REJECT DATE ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS : Additional Documentation Approved neom a EiBOgpyet REVIEWER TELEPHONE DISCIPLINE Atil DATE 6:131 DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, nomination is no longer under consideration by the NPS.

Chestnut Hill Meeting House Chestnut Street Millville, MA 01529 R. Christopher Noonan 2/83 16 George Street Mendon, MA 01756 Photo 1 ôf 4 North and west facades. Chestnut Hill Meeting House Chestnut Street Millville, MA 01529 R. Christopher Noonan 2/83 16 George St., Mendon, MA 01756 Photo 2 of 4 South facade and cemetary Chestnut Hill Meeting House Chestnut Street Millville, MA 01529 R. Christopher Noonan 2/83 16 George St., Mendon, MA 01756 Photo 3 of 4 South facade entry Chestnut Hill Meeting House Chestnut Street Millville, MA 01529 R. Christopher Noonan 2/83 16 George St., Mendon, MA 01756 Photo 4 of 4 Interior- pulpit, gallery NSE PETIDPLA RECEIVED 2280 APR 28 2011 NAT. REGISTER CFHISTORIC PLÁCES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE SSVO LIBEN The Commonwealth of Massachusetts April 19,2011 William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Massachusetts Historical Commission Mr. J.

Paul Loether National Park Service National Register of Historic Places 1201 Eye Street NW, 8"h floor Washington, DC 20005 Dear Mr. Loether: Enclosed please find supplementary information for 34 properties previously listed on the National Register of Historic Places, reflecting recent scholarship regarding their dates of construction, based upon dendrochronological techniques.

These properties include: Boston (Suffolk County): James Blake House (NRIND, 5/1/74) Pierce House (NRIND, 4/26/74) Cambridge (Middlesex County): Cooper-Frost-Austin House (NRIND 9/22/72) Dedham (Norfolk County): Fairbanks House (NRIND, NHL, 10/15/66) Deerfield (Franklin County): All properties are located within the Old Deerfield Village HD (NRDIS, NHL 10/15/66) Allen House (MHC # 20) John Ashley House (MHC #31) Eldad Bardwell House (MHC #23) Bull-Williams House (MHC #47) Childs House (MHC #53) Frary House (MHC #13) Eliezer Hawks House (MHC #58) Hinsdell-Williams House (MHC # 24) Jonathan Hoit House (MHC # 9) 220 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125 (617) 727-8470 - Fax: (617) 727-5128 www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc Little Brown House (MHC #79) Moors House (MHC #39) Nims House (MHC #12) Russell House (MHC #49) Saxton House (MHC #48) Severance House (MHC #19) John Sheldon - Hawks House (MHC #32) Stebbins House (MHC # 36) John Williams House (MHC # 50) Essex (Essex County): Cogswell's Grant (NRIND 4/19/90) Gloucester (Essex County): White-Ellery House (NRIND, NRTRA 3/9/90) [First Period Buildings of Eastern MA, TRA] Ipswich (Essex County): Paine-Dodge House (NRIND, NRTRA, 3/9/90 First Period Buildings of Eastern MA, TRA Merchant-Choate House (NRDIS, NRMRA, 9/17/80) [High Street HD] Lexington (Middlesex County): Hancock - Clarke House (NRIND.

NHL, 7/17/71) Millville (Worcester County): Chestnut Hill Meeting House (NRIND 11/13/84) Newbury (Essex County): Tristram Coffin House (NRIND, NRDIS, 5/24/76) [Newbury HD] Salem (Essex County): Eleazer Gedney House (NRDIS, 10/1/74) [Gedney and Cox Houses HD] Pickering House (NRDIS 8/28/73) [Chestnut Street HD] Sandwich (Barnstable County): Wing Fort House (NRIND 6/3/76) Winthrop (Suffolk County): Deane Winthrop House (NRIND, NRTRA 3/9/90) [First Period Buildings of Eastern MA, TRA] Please add the enclosed continuation sheets to the existing National Register nomination files. Sincerely, Betry tredhey Betsy Friedberg National Register Director Massachusetts Historical Commission Enclosures