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070D *FORM F - STRUCTURE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION *!* Office of the Secretarv. State Hnica Rnotan In Area no. 8k Form 190 Reading dress 25 Linden Street euzn Yajei ne esent use -Gazebo Oisent owner_ Alice Owen ation in uildings, Indicate he of structure (check one) sige pound powder house street Iort gate kiln lighthouse other tower tunnel wall windmill Gazebo 5. Description Date pre-1894 Source Memorial Volume Construction material Dimensions Wood 10' x 10' Setting Condition Side yard of house at 25 Linden Street Fair 19/327200/4709900 DO NOT WRITE IN THIS SPACE USGS Quadrant MHC Photo no. (over) 6. Recordedby_ Architectural Preservation Associates Organization Reading Historical Commission Date NOVREVISED1980 Date_ 6/82 5M-5-73-075074 7. Original owner (it known) Original use_ Summer House. Subsequent uses (if any) and dates_ 8. Historical significance.
The gazebo provided a focal point in an outdoor setting, a domestic adornment, and a shady place in which to rest on a hot summer day, at a period when ladies especially did not swim or engage in active physical exercise. The presence of a gazebo indicates that the owners had time for leisure, and that part of this leisure time was spent in a quiet, domestic environment, as well as demonstrating the availability of money necessary to construct an essentially frivolous structure. The house was designed by Horace G. Wadlin. It was owned - by P. L. Bowser, who a partner in the Copeland-Bowser dnygoods store. The property was owned by E. A. Chandler when photographed for the Lemorial Volume. 9. Bibliography and/or references such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records. early maps. etc. -1889 map Mrs. M.
Bowser Chronicle, 1907 Street List: July 4,Mitchell, Jacob - merchant Eaton, Memorial Volume, p. 215 photo 3/73 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commnity : Peading Property Name: 25 Linden St. Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. Form No: C-190 CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION This razebo is significant (1) as an example of the Victorian love of domestic leisure; (2) for its connection with locel dry- rocds store ovmer R. L. Bowser; and (3) as one of the few remaining razebos in Reading. It retains integrity of location, design, set- tin?, materials, vorlmanship, and feelinz, and meets Criteria A, B, and C of the National Register. The nomination is confined to the gazebo and land extending ten feet in all directions from the structure's foundation.
Staple to Inventory form at bottom 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 roceived/nt date entered Page 3of9 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Reading Multiple Resource Area Middlesex County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review 21. Beard, Benjamin, House Entered in the National Register 22. Boston and Maine Railroad Depot 23. Bowser Gazebo Entered in tha Nationa? Register. Entered in the National Register 24. Brackett House Eobral In tlin 1.-1=" Prrirs, 25. Brande House Entered 1i ..u National Register 26. Brooks, Francis, House Entered in the National Register 27. Carro11-Hartshorn House 28. Carter Mansion 29. Coggin, Gilman, House 30.
Cook, Asa M., House Entered in che National Register Entered in the National Register Entered in the National Register Faliorel Tu hg 2inca? Register frrecper Attest freeper Attest fKeeper Attest Hseeper Attest fKeeper Attest /Keeper Attest fkeeper Attest Hkeeper Attest FKeeper Attest fikeeper Attest Date/Signature duluuByun 7/12/84 DebuaByun 1/0114 AulmuByur 1/19/84 Delueayun 7/19/84 AkloneByun 219/94 AebreByu 719184 AelruBye 7/19184 SeleByun 1119180 DelvresByesa 1/19/04 AelusBua 7119/80 WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET ry.#84004514 Bowser Gazebo (Reading MRA) Middlesex County MASSA CHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: Reviewer's comments: sample request Working No. _JUN 4 1984 Fed. Reg.
Date: 585 Date Due: 7/14/84 Eatered 1nAction: - ACCEPT _ 7-19-84 lationa? Regdsfax-RETURN _REJECT_ Federal Agency: . appeal 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? 7. Description Condition excellent good fair deteriorated ruins unexposed yes 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 Bonso Guzcho Reding MRA 25 Lind en 8t 25 hinden SX. 74 63 PLAT 75 168.27 60.00 100.0 MT. VERNON 13'65 73.00 7,600 5,395 Sq. Ft. 36 06:08 F+. 37 79,90 ST 259.82 333.33 167.55 3,510 bq. Ft 38 Ga.so 6,630 Sq. Ft. EiT 34 Ft. 50,617 40 39 105.65 Congri 177.21 107.09 35 62.25 WOBURN 407.00 26,68 9,505 Sq. Ft. 54-56 130 3la10 8,675 Sq. Ft. 33 STREET 23 ZSEI 23,6573q. F7. 22 105.73 133.73 13,970 9q. F7. 18 6,000 12055 161.0 15,318 Sq.Ft. 132.95 TO 11.015 s4. ft. Sq. Ft. 24 8/v 091ET 32 31 21 85.90 100.0 32.41 32.00 1341 Sq. Ft 134.08 5,585 80 134.59 Sq .Ft: 49.10 3la 59.0 151.0 85.0 130.93 17,860 Sq. Ft 9,866 Sq.Ft. 20 9,0 25 Sq. Ft. 134.72 300 89.65 9,800 8q. Ft. 30 662.87 60.0 31.334 37.13 LINDEN 11,224 3q. Ft.
132.00 93.63 19 26a 5,465 173.1334.87 Sq. F+ 1284.20 3620 28g+28a Sq. Ft. 2566 61.50 27.71 21,070 Sq. Ft. 23.19 28c*- 50.43 58.50 50.10-E 12,0565q. F+.p 18 84.90 1O. 7,280 l28b 26 6,580 105 186.02 33.72 Sg.F+ Sq. Ft. Sq. F+. Sq. ry 2997 WAY 29 27 98.32 HAVEN +23+ 82.6 69.A2 78-88 #C-190 25 Linden St. /2513 68-76 Map 64, Lot 24 1983 Assessors Map = 100' 137,25 66.85 8,235 Sq. Ft. 156.52 12 TO 118. 73.73 147.90 9,590 3q. F 13 17-19 60.22 7,300 143.25 140 3q. Ft. 140.02 -2la T,739 Sq. Ft. 14 T36.45 82.89 SANBORN 10,914 Sq. Ft. 14b 178°833263 29129 33.94 12.12 83.28 I7A 2 15 6104-4) 2,896 9,284 Sq. F4. 78.39 312 49.32 164 180 STREET PLAT 54 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000290