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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 294 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02108 H-2° Area C Form no. 161 oses Idings Reading 141 Summer Avenue NameUncle Mark Temple House iginal Dwelling esent Dwelling ip: [X Private individual Private organization Public iginal owner Vonathan Temple TION: Date C. 1753 Source 1765 map Style Architect Georgian na Exterior wall fabric Fabricated siding Outbuildings Major alterations (with dates) 1856: house turned 1/4 and raised on foundations. 1973 fire escapes added. Moved no Date Approx. acreage 28,405 sa. It. Recorded by Architectural Preservation Associates Setting Faces east on Summer Avenue, Organization Reading Historical on deep lot.
Commission Date NO REVISÊD 1980 Date 6/82 UTM: 19/325930/4709880 (Staple additional sheets here) ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within community) Although this house has been turned, raised on its foundation, had its original door enframement demolished, and fenestration altered, it still retains the lines and pro- portions of the Georgian vernacular dwellings of this area. The Greek Revival portico consists of fluted Doric columns and a pediment. with an entablature containing metopes. It was .probably added when the house was remodeled about 1856.
The Greek Revival style had by that date re- (con't.) HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community) This was one of the Temple family homesteads, whose land stretched along both sides of Summer Avenue, east to High Street and west nearly to West Street. Jonathan Temple (d. 1789), who built this house, was a turner and a selectman in 1751, and was a deacon in the new Third Parish Church in 1770. Daniel Temple, Jr. (b. 1790) was a shoemaker. After exper- iencing a religious revival, he became a missionary in 1820 and served in Malta. farm in 1836 and remodeled it in 1856. He broke away from the church of his father to help found the Bethesda Church in He was a town selectman in 1855. His wife Sarah was.
active in the Reading Female Antis lavery Society organized in 1833, and she was an original member of Father Kemp's Folks concert singers. Kemp lived just down the street at 186 Summer Avenue (form no. C-158). Oscar Foote, who bought the place in 1863, was a meat purveyor and real estate developer. Hancock Streets, sold lots, and built houses for speculation. soo Sal He laid out Mineral and He sold the house to James W. Roberts, a Boston merchant. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES 1765 map Dea. Temple 1795 map D. Temple (Daniel) 1830 map yes 1854 map M. M. Temple 1875 map James W. Roberts 1889 map James W. Roberts Bishop, Rooftrees, Chapter 50 Wadlin: Concerning the Past, Ch.
94 Eaton, Memorial Volume, 162 20M-2/80 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commmity: Form No: Reading C-161 Property Name: 141 Summer Avenue Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued belov. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE linquished its hold over most of the eastern parts of the country, but was still used in Reading, where the Gothic Revival Style had little impact. CRITERIA FOR EVALUARION The "Uncle "ark" Temple house is sirnificant (1) as an early house remodeled during the 19th-century real estate boom on the Mest Side; (2) for its connection with the locally important Temple family, includins deacon Jonathan, missionary Ferk," and with real estate develoser oscar Footed selectmen wuncle and (3) as an early house. It retains integrity of general location, general.
design, settins, and ássociation, and meets Criteria A, B, and C of the National Register. 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 recelved 6(4/ry date entered Page 9af9 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Reading Multiple Resource Area Middlesex County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review 81. Sanborn, Rev. Peter, HouseEntered in the National Register 82. Symonds, Thomas, House 83. Temple, Joseph, House 84. Temple, Mark, House 85. Walnut Street School 86. Wells, Charles, House 87. Weston, Ephrain, House 88. Weston, Jabez, House Entered 1n tho Nationel Begistax Entered in tha Hatione? Regtater Ertered in the Nationa? Register Erbered in the Nationa?
Register Entered in the Nationa? Regtster Entered in tho National Register Entered in the National Register 89. Wisteria Lodge Entered 1n the National Register Date/Signature feeper AutnBgun 1-197, Attest jKeeper AlilunByen 71914 Attest fokeeper AilurBgen 119-54 Attest faréeper Aelousbagus 1-19-54 Attest fakeeper AuluusByen719-4 Attest Hkeeper AlloreBn +1974 Attest f'Keeper deloreByu +1954 Attest fKeeper DelnaByun 719-64 Attest fKeeper Aeloußjen 71964 Attest Keeper Attest WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Ry# 84002838 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Temple, Mark, House (Reading MRA) Middlesex County MASSACHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: Reviewer's comments: Lsample L request Working No. JUN 4 1984 Fed. Reg.
Date: 2L 5/85 Date Due: -J Action: 17-19-59 ACCEPT. 7-14-84 Entered in the - RETURN. National Register REJECT_ Federal Agency: _ -appeal LJ 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 I 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 141 Summer Avl. E01 -101 KING 38 8,747 122.23 84.51 150.32 37 14,541 150.0 36 84.51 140.80 LONGVIEW G5 126.33 11.32 103.68 34 2IA 11,588t 13,334 125.82 114.85 35 11,368 125.77 63.0 32 82.71 21B 11,474= 114.85 229.70 32G2 32.29 O0001 IILÉZ 20 E6'9S 54 3.98 33 LEZOI 15,346 ° 66.42 66.0 160.29 00 -06 52 13 3,500 150.0 212.77 186.81 45,068 51,007 20 NiN 1.19Acres 2IC 1.0 Acres 21 9% 22 212.301 76 100.0 19 81 132.30 18 130.51 PROSPECT 190.20 17 180.60 160.0 10G 34 97 100.0 16 15025 ST.
118.0 2 14,744 28,440 20,426 100.0 146.44 59 11,809 98.55 132.33 152.33 1870 78.31 1 +1 - 18,856 44.46 155.31+ 220.80 2 3 33,404 18,600 118.59 149 151.08 41 SUMMER 85.34 135 PLAT 71 99.80 142.30 15,266 6 141.00 71.00 70.0 4 5 125.0 8,776 8,749 MINERAL 107 95.51 6945 70.0 131 125 #C-161 141 Summer Ave. Map 60, Lot 02 1983 1" Assessors Map = 1001 BB.0 7 8,570 88.0 8,375 8 88.0 119 DATA, OR S 8Y OSTON, MASS Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000290