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AREA FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108 FORM NO. 191A PHOTO: (3x3" or 3x5", black & white) staple to left side of form Photo number SKETCH MAP Show property's location in relation to nearest cross streets and/or geographical features. Indicate all buildings between inventoried property and nearest intersection. Indicate north. Town Stoneham Address 36 William Street- Historic NameShoe Shop-Doucette Ien Footer Present Owner: Stoneham Historical Society Original Owner:Peter Doucette Museum of Shoe Industry, Use: Present_Tools and Artifacts Original Shoe shop DESCRIPTION: Date ca. 1850 Source Town records Style_ Vernacular; Greek Revival details Architect_None Exterior wall fabricClapboard OutbuildingsNone - ROMEIVORTH ST. WITIA SPRING ST.
Major alterations (with dates) None Moved from Pine Street Date 1967 (LOT IS NOT NOMINATED: Approx. acreage_ 12,520 sq. feet. BLoa. bNLY) Setting. Mixed institutional/residential area Recorded by_ Carole Zellie (ed. Candace Jenkins) Organization Landscape Research Date May, 1979 Assessor's Map # 12-381 UTM: Boston North Quad 19 327580 4705280 (Staple additional sheets here) ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) The Doucette Ten Footer is a typical and well preserved mid-19th century shoemaking shop . The rectangular building is one story high with a gable roofed attic. It is sheathed in clapboards with simple corner boards and door and window surrounds. Sash is 6/6. This example, currently on the grounds of the Stoneham Historical Society, was moved from nearby Pine Street in 1967.
It is the only building on the lot currently being considered for the National Register. Doucetie HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community.) The Doucette Ten Footer possesses integrity of design, setting, materials, and workmanship as well as significant associations with Stoneham's industrial past. It meets criteria A and C of the National Register of Historic Places. This 10 x 10-foot square building is a well preserved example of a kind of shop used by many shoemakers in the late 18th to mid 19th centuries. In Stoneham during the 19th century there were many such shops scattered throughout the town. Usually, the owner-shoemaker worked alone or with family members.
Materials could be stored in the "attic." Inside the shoe museum are found tools typical of the trade: shoe lasts, wooden forms, a shoe bench, lap stone, shoe hammer, awls, wooden pegs, skivers, edgers, pincers, a rolling machine and sewing machine. Boundary Description: The nomination is confined to the shoe shop and the land upon which it directly stands. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) Interview with Mrs. Helen Kinsley, May 1979. 10M - 7/82 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 recelved 4/18/87 date entered Page Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group 6 47 Name State Stoneham Multiple Resource Area Middlesex County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review FKeeper 51. Metropolitan District Commission Pumping House Entered in the National Register Attest Hkeeper 52. Millard-Souther-Green House Entered 1a tha National Register 53: Oddfellows Building Entered in tha National Register 54. Old Burying Ground Ertered National Register Attest faseeper Attest fseeper Attest 55. Shoe Shop-Doucette Ten Footer Subatentire ferien Keeper 56. Steele, John, House 57. South School 58. Stoneham Firestation 59. Stoneham Public Library Attest Entered in the Nathonar Reststor fiteper, Attest Entered in the National Regtster fieeper Attest Entered in the National Register /Keeper Attest tKeeper 60.
Tay, Jesse, House Entered in the National Register Entered in the National Begister Attest f'seeper Attest Date/Signature OeluaBgen 413/84 AulueByen1/3/84 AelouaByu4/2/04 SelmeByan 4/12/34 trun/u-smyc /36g AulmurByen 4/13/64 AeluneByan 4/13/84 AelueByen 4/2/84 DibusByen 4118/54 delureByen 4/10/84 WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Subeianare Reviem Shoe Shop-Doucette Ten Footer (Stoneham MRA) Middlesex County MASSAC HUSETTS FEB Working No. ,28 1984 Fed. Reg. Dates25/80 Date Due: 3-29-84 Action: -ACCEPT.
RETURN REJECT- Federal Agency: - 4-13-84 1-13-84 resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: Oo sample Jrequest Lappeal LNR decision Reviewer's comments: Siqmicicant as best sumtiri Recom./Criteria lcmple of a type o ruxhing Reviewer _ Discipline colich i histmicaly imprkge. 4/13/84 _ see continuation shéet technical corrections cited below in stanekam. substantive reasons discussed below Nomination returned for: 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 Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates boundary selection Status Accessible Present Use no Check one unaltered altered Check one original site moved date 8. Significance Period Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Specific dates Builder