Nomination for Richmond Court

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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 JUN 2/ 1985 date entered JUL 18 1985 historic Richmond Court and or common Same 2. Location street & number 1209-1217 Beacon Street N/Anot for publication city, town Brookline, vicinity of N/A state Massachusetts 3. Classification Category Ownership district - public X building(s) X private structure both site Public Acquisition object in process n/a being considered code 025 county Narfolk code 021 Status X occupied - unoccupied - work in progress Accessible X yes: restricted .

yes: unrestricted _ no Present Use agriculture commercial educational entertainment government industrial military museum park private residence religious scientific transportation X other: rental residents 4. Owner of Property name Field Corporation: Nancy Yetman, Treasurer street & number 1412B Beacon Street city, town Brookline vicinity of N/A 5. Location of Legal Description state Massachusetts courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Norfolk County Registry of Deeds street & number 649 High Street Dedham city, town state Massachusetts 6. Representation in Existing Surveys title date Inventory of the Historic Assetsof the Commonwealth June 1980 has this property been determined eligible? -yes X federal _ state county local depository for survey records Massachusetts Historical Conmission city, town 80 Boylston Street, Boston state Massachusetts 7.

Description 1368-1219 Soacon Street, Brookline; Richmond Court Condition _ excellent . good fair deteriorated . ruins unexposed Check one Xunaltered altered Check one X original site moved date 81 Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

N/A Dating from 1898, Richmond Court is a four-story brick apartment house with sandstone trim designed by the renowned Boston architect, Ralph Adams Cram. It is significant in the architectural development of apartment houses as an early example of the Jacobethan style and as a prototype for later courtyard apartments. It is located in the south side of Beacon Street between Coolidge Corner to the west and Auburn Circle (at the Boston line) to the east. Conceived by the 01msted brothers in the 1880s as a spacious throughfare accommodating streetcars, pleasure vehicles, and pedestrians, Beacon Street is noted for its fine masonry apartment blocks and commercial establishments.

Richmond Court was designed as five attached apartment houses, symmetrically arranged around a U-shaped courtyard that is screened from the street by an iron picket fence supported between brick piers with sandstone finials. The fence incorporates four gates; the two narrow outer gates are for pedestrians while the larger inner gates, spannedby decorative arches with lanterns, accommodate vehicular traffic. The courtyard itself is laid out as a small private park in the formal Italian fashion. The grassed area surrounded by the driveway contains gravel footpaths and a central fountain ornamented by Lee Lawrie's bronze statue of anymph.

The courtyard concept, employed here for the first time in the Boston , provided several amenities lacking in apartment houses of conventional It supplied more windows per apartment, thus increasing air circulation and the admittance of light; it provided each apartment with a pleasant view of an elegant and private park; and finally, it allowed a setback from the bustle of Beacon Street. Built on a U-shaped plan with its arms extending out toward Beacon Street, Richmond Court is symmetrically arranged with five distinct sections, each containing two apartments per floor, and defined by changing wall planes. Each section is provided with a separate entry to enhance the sense of privacy. This strong definition of building sections adds complexity to the massing of an essentially symmetrical structure while also allowing for additional windows.

The building is constructed of red brick, laid up in Flemish bond, with a wood frame interior and sandstone trim. It rises four stories from a sandstone-faced basement, partially exposed by wells or areaways, to a brick parapet with sandstone coping that masks the roof. from the first story, while sandstone belt courses are generally located above the first, third, and fourth story windows. Other sandstone trimmings include lintels and sills, entry surrounds, quoins at all corners of major elevations, and a decorative cartouche and parapet panel above the centermost entry. Fenestration includes single, paired, and triple windows with 6/1 double-hung sash, except at the second story, where 9/1 double-hung sash is found. Chimneys with multiple cro 97 doubre-nul flues rise from the roof at numerous locations, providing each apartment with one fireplace.

Continued NPS Form 10-900-a (3-82) United tates Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 For NPS use only received date entered Continuation sheet 1209-1217 Beacon Street; Item number 7 Page 1 Brookline The north courtyard elevation, which serves as the focal point for the building, consists of a projecting frontispiece flanked by recessed wings. The frontispiece,which forms one of the bullding sections, contains a central entry flanked by three-sided window bays rising to the base of the parapet. The entry, which is offset inside a projecting one-story porch, consists of a segmentally arched, quoined surround and a paneled and glazed wood door. The flat-roofed porch is decorated with stylized Gothic carving and quoins.

Paired windows flanking a blank central section are located above the entry at the second and fourth stories. Paired windows flanking a carved cartouche are found at the third story. A central panel, with a curvilinear profile and geometric interlace carving, distinguishes the parapet. The side elevations of the frontispiece measure approximately 15 feet and contain one window at each story. The wings, which mark the transition to a new building section, contain two sets of paired windows and one single window adjacent to the frontispiece at each story. The east and west, or lateral, courtyard elevations are identical and are joined to the central section by angled vestibules that are fronted by curved balustrades. The entries consist of arched openings with keystones enframed by Nemt ly crvd pilasters, an etablatres wit triglyps and metopes. The heavy wood doors are paneled and glazed.

Single windows are located above the entry and on the inner face of the vestibule at each story. The lateral elevations are enlivened by a change in plane, with the projecting portion closest to Beacon Street; the change in plane also reflects the transition to a new building section. The recessed section includes tripled, paired, and single windows progressing toward Beacon Street at each story. The projecting section includes one set of tripled windows and three sets of paired windows at each story, also progressing toward Beacon Street. Entries to the apartments in these sections are similar to those in the angled bays, but are slightly wider and more stylized; they are located beneath the first set of paired windows. These sections are distinguished by a sandstone facing beneath the first-story windows.

The north elevations, facing directly onto Beacon Street, are defined by paired projecting window bays and continue the first-story sandstone facing established Progressing away from the courtyard, the fenestration at each story consists of paired windows, three-sided window bays, single windows, three-sided window bays, and paired windows. Richmond Court directly abuts its easterly and westerly Beacon Street neighbors. Due to its greater depth, however, the lateral elevations are revealed at the rear of the building. The lateral east and west, and the rear south elevations lack the fine finishes of the major facades. They are laid up in common bond, and sandstone trim is confined to lintels and sills.

Moving southward on the exposed elevations, fenestration at each story consists of two windows, one paired window, one small single window, two single windows, two small single windows, and two more single windows; the small windows light closets, lavatories, and stairhalls. Continued 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 For NPS use only received date entered Continuation sheet 1209-1217 Beacon Street; Item number 7 Page The rear etevattoh is composed of three sections, defined by slight recesses, that reflect the internal apartment arrangement. Fenestration of the outer sections progresses from small single windows to paired windows to three single windows.

The recesses contain two windows on their outer faces, three on their rear faces, and one on their inner faces. The central section, which is broken up by its own recess, consists of paired outer windows and small single windows. The recess contains two windows on its rear face. A promotional pamphlet for Richmond Court noted several distinct teatures that differentiated it from other apartment houses of the period.

Its open plan eliminated "dark rooms and cheerless corridors" and provided a "great variety in the arrangement of different apartments"; its courtyard provided each apartment suite with a pleasant view; its numerous entries enhanced a sense of privacy; and finally, it was furnished with all the modern conveniences such as hot and cold running water, gas ranges, bicycoesate plumbing, and ample storage, including a special basement room for The same pamphlet also provided the following interior description: The vestibules and staircase halls, amply lighted by means of large skylights above the stair-wells, are finished in oak, panelled for about two-thirds the height of their walls, the stairs themselves being of easy ascent, with elaborate newel posts and balustrades.

The servants' staircases are surrounded with white brick, a form of construction rendering any disfigurement from the moving of furniture quite impossible, and on the score of cleanliness leaving nothing to be desired. Each suite consists of nine rooms, not including halls or passageways, all with outside light and air, among which are a large reception hall, parlor, library, dining-room, and kitchen, this last being thoroughly isolated from the rest of the apartment, though communicating directly with the servants' staircases. The rear halls are of ample size to permit the handling of heavy furniture, ice, and so forth.

By means of an ingenious arrangement it has been possible to place the bed-rooms with their closets and bath, on a private passage separated by a door from the reception room and staircase hall; this device ensures the cessation of all those contretemps - often amusing indeed, but more often unpleasant - so familiar to the dweller in apartments; the entrance of a strange guest into one's bed-room under the impression that he is decorously making his way to the parlour; theytramp past a long range of mysteriously closed doors to the dining-room, or the apparently hopeless prominence given to the bath-room, being instances.... The reception rooms, halls, and staircases have been wainscoted with oak to a height of five feet and six inches. The parlours are finished in enamel and the dining-rooms in oak, with a wainscot two-thirds the height Continued NPS Form 10-900-a (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 For NPS use only received date entered Continuation sheet 1209-1217 Beacon Street; Item number 7 Page of the walls. The bed-rooms are finished in white, and the bath-rooms in enamel-tiled wainscoting and floors, the plumbing appliances being the best of their several kinds, with porcelain tubs, nickel-plated trimmings, and fixtures of the most approved patterns. The kitchens and pantries are finished in hardwood, and the arrangement of closets,2 boiler, ice-chest, sinks, and set-tubs will be found sensible and comfortable. Richmond Court 8.

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Significance 1209-1217 Beacon Street: Brookline Period prehistoric 1400-1499 1500-1599 1600-1699 1700-1799 1800-1899 1900- Areas of SignificanceCheck and justify below archeology-prehistoric community planning archeology-historic conservation -agriculture economics X architecture education X art engineering commerce exploration/settlement communications industry invention Builder/Architect landscape architecture law literature military music philosophy politics/government religion science sculpture social/ humanitarian theater transportation & other (specify) connunity development Specific dates 1896-98 Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) Ralph Adams Cram Richmond Court possess integrity of location, design, setting, materials, and workmanship as well as significant associations with the late nineteenth century development of Brookline, and with the development of the apartment house building Constructed in 1896-1898, to the designs of noted Boston architect Ralph Adams Cram, Richmond Court was the first apartment house in the Boston area to be designed in the dacobethan or English manor style, and to be arranged about a central courtyard. Richmond Court was also a relatively early apartment house built along Beacon Street after its transformation into an elegant boulevard by the 01msted brothers in 1886; in plan and style, it served as the prototype for many later apartment houses of the higher class.

Thus, Richmond Court meets Criteria A, B, and C of the National Register of Historic Places on the local level. The historical development of Richmond Court has been recorded by the Brookline Historical Commission in their comprehensive townwide inventory (26-124-7). Richmond Court was built in 1898 by the Richmond Court Trust, Francis Peabody and Noah W. Jordan, trustees. Jordan was also a trustee of the Brookline Real Estate and Building Trust which built 1056-1064 Beacon Street as well as a stockholder in the West End Land Company. (The West End Land Co. had been formed in 1886 by Henry Whitney for the purpose of improving Beacon Street, an end that was accomplished in that same year.) Born in 1846, he was listed as a financier, a trustee of the Boston and Worcester Electric Co., and a director of the Columbian National Life Insurance Co.

Like most of the other investors in Beacon ISTERE Street buildings, Jordan lived in Boston.... Among the early residents of Richmond Court whose individual buildings each had a name--Grafton Hall, Lennox Hall, Gordon Hall, St. Albans Hall, and Portsmouth Hall--were architects, lawyers, and publishers.5 Cram himself took up residence at Richmond Court in 1903. Richmond Court's primary significance derives from its innovative plan and style, which influenced many later apartment houses in the Boston area and el sewhere.

Architectural historian Douglass Shand Tucci, quoting from Cram's memoirs, described the signal role of Richmond Court thusly: Thirty-six years later, when the relatively unknown architect of 1898 had become internationally distinguished, Cram asserted in his memoirs that Richmond Court had been "the first attempt to camouflage an apartment house through the counterfeit presentment of a great Tudor mansion" and if only because he lamented the fact, this is strong evidence for Richmond Court's having been the prototype. "From then on," continued Continued 9.

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Major Bibliographical References The Brickbuilder; May 1900. Vol. 9, No. 5. Brookline Historical Conmission. Townwide Inventory. Carla Benka & Leslie Larkin. Richmond Court #26 -124-7. Une 1980. Cram, Ralph Adams. My Life in Architecture, Little, Brow, & Co Boston, 1936 10. Geographical Data 29,927 sq.++. (cont.) Acreage of nominated property Quadrangle name Boston South UT M References Quadrangle scale 1:25000 A 1121 1312,516,6,0 Zone Easting 14,689/8,30 Northing E Zone DLI F LILu Easting LLL LILIL Northing LLLL H Verbal boundary description and justification The nomination is confined to the parcel occupied by Richmond Court. See attached assessor's map. Sheet 26, lot 7. It is planned to nominate the surrounding Beacon Street area when research is complete.

List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries state n/a code county code State code county code 11. Form Prepared By name/title Candace Jenkins, Preservation Consultant organization Field Corporation date April 1985 street & number 1412B Beacon Street telephone 617-738-5700 city or town Brookline state Massachusetts 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: _ national state X 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 accordingto thecriteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service.

State Historic Preservation Officer signature Valene /almage title Executive Director, State Historic Preservation Officer SUfgtts Historical Cormission. I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register Alorea Entered in the tiene1 Ingister fnosper of the National Rregisder Attest: Chief of Registration date May 30,1905 date 7-18-85 date U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1983 0 - 419-311 NPS Form10-900-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 For NPS use only received date entered Continuation sheet 1209-1217 Beacon Street; Item number 8 Page Brookline Cram, "this sort of thing has run riot in multifarious exaggeration all the Eastern seaboard, and I have wondered many times since, if a measure of guilt does not attach itself to us for what, unwittingly, we had done." Yet, as in the case of the "dishonest" two-suite house, there was good and in this case even venerable precedent: apartments for courtiers, after all, had always been a standard feature of palaces. And Boston is fortunate in many of the local apartment houses that were inspired by Richmond Court: the most conspicuous and grandiose example, begun in 1900, is Riverbank Court Apartments (now Ashdown House), designed by Henry B. Ball and H. E.

Davidson on the other side of the Harvard Bridge, but perhaps the best is Burton Hall in Cambridge, built at 10 Dana Street in 1909 and designed by Newhall and Blevins. Here the way the elements of Richmond Court have been reorganized on an oddly shaped lot is imaginative. Certainly the grandest courtyard apartment house, however, is the Stoneholm in Brookline. (Beacon Street) 6 Richmond Court not only introduced the courtyard 1andscaped to serve as a park rather than as a mere lightwell, but also solved the problems inherent in the ubiquitous dumbbell plan which was long, narrow, and dark, with indentations on each side for light shafts. Its appearance in Brookline in the late nineteenth century was fortuitous as the community was undergoing rapid development with both single and multi-family dwellings.

Ralph Adams Cram (1863-1942) was born in Hampton Falls, N.H., and received his academic education and architectural training in New England. He opened an architectural office in Boston at the age of twenty-four in partnership with Charles Wentworth. In 1891, Bertram G. Goodhue was taken in as a third partner. In 1910 Goodhue left the firm to establish his own practice. Cram is especially wel1 known as an ecclesiastical architect, reflecting his own deep interest in religion. Cram was instrumental in establishing the popularity of the English Gothic style in the early twentieth century. Among his many local commissions are Al1 Saint's Church in Ashmont (Boston; NR 6/16/80), and A11 Saints Church in Brookline. He was also supervising architect at Princeton University as well as at Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, and Wellesley Colleges. He was consulting architect of the Cathedral of St.

John the Divine in New York City, and architect of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.? Richmond Court is also significant for its associations with Lee Lawrie (1877-1965), the sculptor of the courtyard fountain statue. Lawrie received the gold metal of the American Institute of Architects twice, and had a long association with Cram and his various associates. He worked under Philip Martiny and Augustus Saint Gaudens. Among his works are sculptures for the Nebraska State Capitol and the statue of Atlas in Rockefeller Center, New York City. The building has recently undergone a certified rehabilitation in accordance with the standards promulgated by the Secretary of the Interior, restoring it to its former standard excellence.

NPS Form 10-300-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form Continuation sheet 1209-1217 Beacon Street Brookline Item number 9 For NPS use only received date entered Page "Richmond Court Apartments." Promotional brochure. 1898. Tucci, Douglass Shand: New York Graphic Society. Boston. Built in Boston, City& Suburb 1800-1950. Withey, H. F. & E. R. Biographical Dictionary of American Architects Deceased. Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc. Los Angeles. 1970. OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 Footnotes 1. Tucci, Douglass Shand. Built in Boston. Pp. 118-119. 2. "Richmond Court Apartments." Promotional brochure. 3. Ibid. 4. Tucci. Op. Cit. Pp. 118-119. 5. Brookline Historical Commission. Inventory form #26-124-7. 6. Tucci. Op. Cit. P. 119. 7. Withey. Biographical Dictionary of American Architects. Pp. 145-147.

Atlas of the Town of Brookline Brookline DPW, 1975 Engineering Division Sheet 26, Block 124 Scale: 1" = 100' BEACON 33 M-2.5 ST--PAUL STREET- J.I.KREY ET AL EXECUTORS 31807 8163 155 H. BERNSTEIM. M.F. CASTAGNO J.A. CAMER J. BARONIAN 9000 A.M. FATERSEK 29 244 4503 J.L.CHRISTIAN 125 ET AL 4406 1123 STREET 1203 M. 8 F.S. SWARTZ LAZARUS 1199 P.H. +N.D. KASARJIAN 3210 GREEN 38670 I.J. BLOOMBERG ET AL W.W.RUSSELL ET AL. (A.M. KATZET AL - 29927 69%0 ET+* MANOLOULES 6256 H.W. FREUNDLICH 89058 124 802? D.A.WONG, ET AL 8503 D.R. A G.K. RYAN JE.BECK, TR. 1353 1413 -MA. 8197 9059 D. I.ZUSSMAN, TR. M. GREEN, ET AL 3907 3787 20A 3905 4959 39/6 38/3 3939 4088 - MARSHALL HOUSE CONDOMINIUM 140 28 25 24 29 27 25 26 AVENL CM-L2 SEWALL MARSHAL F 567 POORVU REAL ESTATE CORP. 125 MAC D.C.+H.E BEGELFER A.M.HODGKINS W.P.+ H.A.MURPHY 14000 SEWALL - MARSHAL CORP.

31637 16531056 3335 14861 32103 14988 100 5085 DIMEO CONSTRUCTION COMPANY H.+B. CUKER H.A. COHEM ET AL, TRs. M. FIHH ROOM BED F BED ROOM KITCHEN BATH HALL SCRVANTS H* TMAIN HALL PARLOR UIBRARY KITCHEN HALL DINING ROOM BCD ROOM BATH C BATH BED ROOM KITCHEN SERVANT KITCHEN BED ROOM BATH VESTIBULE TLRRACE PARLOR BED ROOM BED ROOM PARLOR HALL TO BICYCLE ROOM VESTIBULC MAIN HALL LIBRARY HALL PARLOR BED ROOM ROOM 1KITCHON KITCHEN BED ROÒM O BATH. HALL BED ROOM PARLOR ERVANTS MAIN HALL VESTIBUL LIBRARY Nº 3 FIRST FLOOR HALL DINING ROOM BED BATH BED.ROOM. PARLOR BED BATH PARLOR TERRACE DRIVEWAY DRIVEWAY WALK WALK BLACON STRELT PLAN, RICHMOND COURT, BEACON ST., BOSTON. CRAM, GOODHUE & FERGUSON, ARCHiTECTS.

BED DINING ROOM KITCHEN MAIN HALI LIBRARY KITCHEN VESTIBULE HALL DINING ROOM PARLOR BED ROOM BcD BED ROOM IBATH BEO ROOM PARLOR HALL KITCHEN VESTIBULE MAIN HALL KITCHEN LIBRARY HALL PARLOR BED ROOM BED ROOM BRICK BUILOER MAY 1900 DINING F C.CL C.CL ROOr RICHMOND COURT, BEACON STREET, BOSTON, MASS. CRAM, GOODHUE & FERGUSON, ARCHITECTS. THE BRIOKBUILDER, MAY, 1900. RICHMOND COURT, BEACON STREET, BOSTON. MASS. CRAM, GOODHUE & FERGUSON, ARCHITECTS. BRKKBUKDER 1900 WASO Form - 177 "R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REFE 85001575 Richmond Court Norfolk County MASSACHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: Lsample Reviewer's comments: Jrequest Entered in the Natlonal Hogister Lappeal JUN Working No. Fed. Reg.

Date:2/4186 Date Due: 7/45183 - 8/5/85 Action: /ACCEPT - 7-18 -85 -RETURN _REJECT_ Federal Agency: LNR 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 vnersh blic Acquisiti 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 I good fair deteriorated J ruins unexposed Check one -unaltered - altered Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates bounry 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 title date 13.

Other -Maps L Photographs -Other Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to _ Signed Date- _Phone:_ Com sfor yi may be continued on an attached sheet Richmond Court 1209-1217 Beacon Street Brookline, Mass. Candace Jenkins 1985 North facade and Gate Photo 31 of 2 Richmond Court 1209-1217 Beacon Street Brookline, Mass. Candace Jenkins 1985 West courtyard elevation Photo #2 of 2 FIELD CORP. 1412 B Beacon Street, Brookline, Massachusetts 02146 REALTORS Telephone (617) 738-5700 April 23, 1985 Carol Shull, Chief National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Department of the Interior 18th and C Streets, N.W. Washington, DC 20240 Dear Ms. Shull: Field Corporation recognizes that the following property will be considered for Nomination to the National Register of Historic Places by the Massachusetts State Review Board at its meeting on May 8, 1985.

Richmond Court 1209-1217 Beacon Street Brookline, MA 02146 Field Corporation is aware of both the incentives and disincentives of the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 and other consequences of National Register listing and hereby waives by right the 30-day commenting period. Thank you. EGEIVE APR 2 6 1985 Very truly yours, FIELD CORPORATION "Naucy & Yetmeu Nancy C. Yetman Treasurer NCY/eg CC: Sarah J. Zimmerman, Preservation Planning Director Massachusetts Historical Commission MLS RESIDENTIAL - CO RCIAL - COND( ® IMS - PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Recd 5/8/85 52 TOWN of BROOKLINE MassachuscECEIVED MAY - 0 1925 April 30, 198ASS. HIST. COMM. BOARD OF SELECTMEN EDWARD NOVAKOFF, Chairman STEPHEN B. GOLDENBERG MICHAEL W. MERRILL ZVI A. SESLING JEFFREY P. ALLEN RICHARD T.

LEARY Executive Secretary Carol Shull, Chief National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Department of the Interior 18th and C Streets, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20240 Dear Ms. Shull: The Chief Executive Officers recognize that the foll- owing property will be considered for Nomination to the National Register of Historic Places by the Massachusetts State Review Board at its meeting on May 8, 1985. Richmond Court 1209-1217 Beacon Street Brookline, MA 02146 The Chief Executive Officers are aware of both the incentives and disincentives of the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 and other consequences of National Register listing and hereby waive by right the 30 day commenting period. Thank you. Very truly yours, earat. oard cc: Sarah J.

Zimmerman, Preservation Planning Director Massachusetts Historical Commission Sele The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of the Secretary of State Michael Joseph Connolly, Secretary Massachusetts Historical Commission Valerie A. Talmage Executive Director State Historic Preservation Officer May 31, 1985 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief National Park Service Department of Interior P.O. Box 37127 Washington, DC 20013-7127 Dear Ms. Shull: Enclosed you will find the following nomination forms: Attleboro, Makepeace Building, 46 Pine Street. HPCA completed, #0445-83-MA-83-0440. LBrookline, Richmond Court, 1209-1217 Beacon Street. Notification waived. HPCA pending, #0405-83-0394. Lincoln, Lincoln Center Historic District, roughly bounded by Bedford, Lincoln, Old Lexington, Sandy Pond,Trapelo and Weston Roads. 59 properties. Lynn, Lucian Newhall House, 281 Ocean Street.

HPCA pending, number not yet assigned. Al1 have been voted eligible by the State Review Board and have been signed by the State Historic Preservation Officer. Owners were notified of pending State Review Board consideration 30-75 days before the meeting and were afforded the opportunity to comment. Comments received to date are attached to the nomination forms. Sincerely, Saral J. Dimmemean Sarah J. Zimmerman Director, Preservation Planning Massachusetts Historical Commission SJZ/1s enclosures 80 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 (617) 727-8470 0/ 95