Nomination for Hoosac Stores 1 & 2-Hoosac Stores 3

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Form No. 10-306 (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES RECEIVED JUL 1I 1985 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED SEP |4 1985 FOR FEDERAL PROPERTIES SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS 2 3 4 5 NAME HISTORIC Hoosac Stores 1 & 2; Hoosac Stores 3 AND/OR COMMON same LOCATION STREET & NUMBER (25 (3) and 115 (1 & 2) Water Street (Constitution Road) and Railroad Right-of-way between them._NOTFOR PUBLICATION CITY.

TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT STATE Charlestown MA 02129 CLASSIFICATION NA VICINITY OF CODE 025 COUNTY Suffolk CODE 025 CATEGORY XDISTRICT _BUILDING(S) STRUCTURE _SITE _OBJECT OWNERSHIP PUBLIC PRIVATE PUBLIC ACQUISITION -IN PROCESS n/a -BEING CONSIDERED STATUS LOCCUPIED *UNOCCUPIED - WORK IN PROGRESS ACCESSIBLE X YES: RESTRICTED - YES: UNRESTRICTED -NO PRESENT USE AGRICULTURE -MUSEUM _COMMERCIAL _PARK -EDUCATIONAL PRIVATE RESIDENCE _ENTERTAINMENT XXGOVERNMENT1&2 _RELIGIOUS -SCIENTIFIC _INDUSTRIAL -TRANSPORTATION _MILITARY X.OTHER: vacant AGENCY REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS: (If applicable) North Atlantic Regional Office (see continuation sheet) STREET & NUMBER 15 State Street CITY. TOWN STATE MA Boston NA VICINITY OF LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE. REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC.

STREET & NUMBER Registry of Deeds, Suffolk County Courthouse Pemberton Square CITY.TOWN Boston, REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS STATE MA TITLE n/a DATE _FEDERAL STATE COUNTY LOCAL DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS CITY. TOWN STATE 7 DESCRIPTION _EXCELLENT _GOOD X FAIR CONDITION S1g XDETERIORATED _RUINS _UNEXPOSED CHECK ONE X UNALTERED -ALTERED CHECK ONE XORIGINAL SITE _MOVED DATE. DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

Hoosac Stores 1 & 2, 115 Water Street (1895) Hoosac Stores 1 & 2, built in 1895, is a six-story warehouse structure of red brick laid in common bond. The building is intact with some evolutionary changes. It is trapezoidal in shape, constrained by the shape of the lot which it entirely occupies. The north/street (112'0") and south/harbor (151'1½") walls are parallel, while the east wall (ca. 91' 10½") diagonally follows the boundary with the Navy Yard. The west wall (83' 1½") is perpendicular to the north and south walls. The storehouse is approximately sixty-five feet in height and has no basement. Constructed on filled land, it has a foundation of wooden piles and granite. The external walls are load bearing and are about twenty-four inches thick on the ground floor, becoming progressively thinner on the upper floors.

Internal construction is heavy timber, mill-type with main beams of steel supported on posts. These are of round section cast iron on the first and second floors and of timber on the third through sixth Iloors. Secondary timber beams are 12 by 15 inches on the first and second floors and 10 by 12 inches on the floors above. A brick fire wall divides the interior of Hoosac Stores 1 & 2 into two equal areas. Each of the six floors is approximately 80by 125 feet or 10,000 square feet. Height of the sixth is 9 feet 4 inches, measuring from floor to underside of roof beam. The first story of the warehouse has a concrete floor while upper floors are of wood. In addition to two freight elevators, there is an enclosed stairway giving access to each floor. (redete doo a anged ned beck corice and the dtch fioor 1odtnd doors are topped by brick segmental arches.

Both features are lacking on the south elevation where door frames are placed directly beneath the copper gutter defining the roof line. Each of the small windows has a worked granite sill and is capped by a brick flat arch composed of soldiers and rowlocks. With a few exceptions, the windows are closed by metal clad wooden shutters on cast iron hinges. Freight doors are likewise metal-clad wood. To accommodate the trapezoidal shape of the building two additionalosets of slit windows were cut into the longer south wall at its east end. The ground falls away slightly toward the south side of the building so that the ground floor is a few feet above grade, allowing for level loading of freight cars. The south side of Hoosac Stores 1 & 2 supports two elevator towers, approximately 1½ stories in height. The center tower is original to the building and is without openings.

On the ground floor directly below it to provide access to the elevator is a segmentally arched loading door. A 1900 photograph shows a freight boom on both sides of the center tower for use with the loading doors. The tower at the southwest corner of the building was probably added in 1934 when the second freight elevator was installed. It has three windows on the south side, two windows on the west and a door on both the north and east sides. (See continuation sheet) Form No. 10--300a- (Rev. 10-74) 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 Hoosac Stores 1 & 2 Hoosac Stores 3 ITEM NUMBER 4 PAGE .1 Owners of Property Hoosac Stores 1 & 2, 115 Constitution Road (formerly Water Street), Charlestown U.S.

Department of the Interior National Park Service North Atlantic Regional Office 15State Street Boston, MA 02109 Hoosac Stores 3, 25 Constitution Road (formerly Water Street), Charlestown A & S Electrical Displays 2109 Broadway New York, New York 10023 Railroad Right-of-Way Massachusetts Port Authority 99 High Street Boston, MA 01862 Form No. 10-300a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY RECEIVED DATE ENTERED Hoosac Stores 1 & 2; CONTINUATION SHEET Hoosac Stores 3 ITEM NUMBER 7 PAGE The east elevation of Hoosac Stores 1 & 2 is brick uninterrupted by openings or architectural features, except for a very low parapet in three steps and a line of dark bricks marking the transition from the first to the second floor.

The west elevation has openings only at the ground level and, like the north elevation, is capped by a corbelled brick cornice. A wooden loading dock occupies approximately three-fifth of the first story on the west and serves two loading doors. To the left of it are a pedestrian door and two bricked-in windows. Hoosac Stores 3, 25 Water Street (1875) Built in 1875 for the Cunningham Iron Works, and converted to Hoosac Stores 3 in 1897, this is a four-story plus basement warehouse structure in the classically inspired panelled brick style popular for industrial buildings during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is 60 by 80 feet, and 61 feet high from the sidewalk. The exterior brick walls are twenty inches thick. Floors are wood and ceilings are open joist construction. The between floor height varies between twelve, thirteen, and eighteen feet.

The total floor area is 12,632 square feet and total capacity of the storehouse was originally 300 pounds per square foot on the first and second floors, 250 on the third and fourth floors. By 1941 the Boston & Maine Railroad had increased this to 500 pounds per square foot on all floors by structurally reinforcing the building. Brick pilasters divide the Water Street facade of Hoosac Stores 3 symmetrically into three recessed panels which rise the height of the building, resembling a blind arcade. Each panel terminates in a broad arch at cornice height and con- tains paired, segmentally arched windows on the upper stories. In the middle panel on the first floor is centered a wide, segmentally arched freight door, its sill slightly above street level to facilitate freight loading.

The building corners on the main facade are defined by paired pilasters, the channel between them terminating in an arch just below the cornice. The storehouse basement was lighted by arched half windows. Access to it from the outside was by means of sunken arched doors. These are all now bricked in. Like the Water Street facade, the northeastern side (toward the Navy Yard) of Hoosac Stores 3 is divided into arched, recessed panels with paired windows at each level. The 80-foot depth of the building accommodates five such panels, the center on containing a freight door on each story. Window arches are composed of two or three courses of rowlocks with a contrasting keystone of worked brownstone. A single pilaster defines the building corners on this side. Continued Form No. 10-300a (Rev.

10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY RECEIVED DATE ENTERED Hoosac Stores 1 & CONTINUATION SHEET NUMBER 7 PAGE Hoosac Stores 3 Brick string courses, panels of angled bricks centered above each arched panel, and bold corbelling define the building's cornice on the Water Street and northeastern sides. The western wall of Hoosac Stores 3 is entirely devoid of windows owing, probably, to the proximity of a Tudor Company building in 1875. The otherwise plain brick expanse is relieved, however, by the use of one course of black headers to every nine courses of red stretchers and by star-motif iron tie rods ends marking the division between each of the four stories.

The rear wall of Hoosac Stores 3 is devoid of panelling but does have three segmen- tally arched windows and an arched loading door on each story. A corbelled cornice, much smaller in scale than that on the front and northeast side, is the only other ornamentation. Alterations over time to Hoosac Stores 3 include the bricking in of several windows and doors. Many building openings retain their iron-clad wood shutters, however. The sign structure still in use on the roof was first erected by the Boston & Maine Corporation in 1954. Railroad Right-of-Way, Charles River Avenue to Navy Yard Boundary (1836-38; 1862) The railroad right-of-way which runs just to the south of both Hoosac Stores 1 & 2 and Hoosac Stores 3 originally consisted of a strip of land 24-25 feet wide. For the most part it retains this width.

Within the right-of-way there has always been one main track from which branched spur lines to the buildings along Water Street and to the wharves and piers on the waterfront just south of them. The number and pattern of secondary tracks changed somewhat over time with the construction or rehabilitation of buildings and piers. A few feet from the south side of Hoosac Stores 1 & 2 is the track on which freight was delivered to and carried away from the building. At one time this was the main track which continued into the Navy Yard. It now ends near the southeast corner of the storehouse with a cast iron bumper on legs, installed to help freight cars to stop before they derailed. Parallel to the main line on the south is the spur track which runs into the Navy Yard. A somewhat more complex network of main and spur tracks is in place along the south wall of Hoosac Stores 3.

Continued Form No. 10-300a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY RECEIVED DATE ENTERED Hoosac Stores 1 82; Hoosac Stores 3 CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 7 PAGE 3 The site is located near a largely residential area separated from the structures by elevated highway ramps . The area is bounded by the Charlestown Navy Yard to the north and a furniture warehouse to the south. The side of Water Street opposite the Hoosac Stores structures is occupied partly by Massachusetts Department of Public Works, but is largely open or paved space adjacent to a highway exit ramp. The existing Hoosac Pier is undergoing redevelopment that will include a restaurant/office building complex.

The spaces and structures intervening between Hoosac Stores 1 &2 and Hoosac Stores 3 include parking areas and the Bunker Hill Pavilion, a 1970s structure that houses a sound and light depiction of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Boston's Freedom Trail runs past or near the Hoosac Stores along Constitution Road (Water Street).

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SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD PREHISTORIC .1400-1499 _ 1500-1599 - 1600-1699 -1700-1799 X1800-1899 X1900- AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW _ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC _COMMUNITY PLANNING -LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC -CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE -LAW XECONOMICS _LITERATURE XARCHITECTURE _EDUCATION -MILITARY ART -ENGINEERING -MUSIC XCOMMERCE -EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT -PHILOSOPHY -COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _INVENTION LRELIGION SCIENCE _SCULPTURE -SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN -THEATER XTRANSPORTATION -OTHER (SPECIEVI SPECIFIC DATES 1875-1895 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE BUILDER

Statement of significance

/ARCHITECT Fitchburg Railroad Hoosac Stores 1 & 2 and Hoosac Stores 3 are significant both architecturally and by association with the historical period which produced them. A substantial brick structure, Hoosac Stores 1 & 2 was designed specifically to serve as a storehouse, and, with its austere facades and utilitarian slit windows, it is useful for that purpose only. Hoosac Stores 3, converted into a warehouse, is an industrial building with a well designed exterior. Both structures, as warehouses, stand as a particular type of historic evidence to America's industrial revolution. Hoosac Stores 3 is also the only surviving evidence of the machine shop and boiler making industry important to Charlestown in the late nineteenth century.

Hoosac Stores 1 & 2, with its vertical construction and its trapezoidal shape, reflects both the need for storage space and the limited land available for that purpose in an already developed urban setting. Hoosac Stores 3 exemplifies the classically inspired paneled brick style popular for industrial buildings of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Characteristic of this style are the paired segmentally arched windows set into recessed, arched panels which rise the height of the building and are defined by brick pilasters. With the general decline of the port of the Boston, many warehouses have been taken down and the Hoosac Stores are probably two of a few surviving structures of their type along the waterfront of Boston.

Hoosac Stores 1 & 2, Hoosac Stores 3, and the railroad right-of-way between them define the location of a once thriving nineteenth and early twentieth century complex of docks, wharves, grain elevator, warehouses, and related structures. The railroad right-of-way southeast of Water Street, between the Charlestown Bridge and Hoosac Stores 1, & 2, constitutes the northeastern end of a rail line laid out in 1836-38 by the Charlestown Branch Railroad (inc. 1836) to connect, in present day Somerville, with the Boston & Lowell Railroad. The Water Street area had been the site of extensive commercial activity with busy wharves since the seventeenth century. Here, for instance, were the seventeenth and eighteenth century wharves of several of Charlestown's reknowned red-ware potters whose kilns stood nearby.

Except during the period of Revolutionary War destruction, this area continued to be active into the nineteenth century when it became the major port of America's ice trade. Begun by Frederick E. Tudor in 1806, the ice export trade flourished during the 1830s and until after the Civil War with the help of the new railroad. From the wharves ranged along Water Street, like Tudor's, Hittinger's and Swett's, ice was shipped to southern ports and abroad. Continued 9

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Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Annual Reports, Fitchburg Railroad Company, 1864, 1870, 1873, 1895, 1896, 1900. Atlas of the County of Suffolk, Mass., including Charlestown. Philadelphia: G.M. Hopkins & Co. 1875. Atlas of the City of Boston. Philadelphia: G.W. Bromley & Co., 1885; 1892; 1912; 1922. (See continuation sheet) 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY 1-2 acres UTM REFERENCES 25 Water Street Hoosac Stores 3 A 19| 13|3,0/219d ZONE EASTING Boston South Quadrangle 1416/9/2/813101 NORTHING LILiL Hoosac Stores 1 & 2 L1,9 3 /3.05,41 46 /92 9,8,0 ZONE CASTIN NORTHING 4liLu VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION The boundary includes Hoosac Stores 1 & 2 and Hoosac Stores 3 and the railroad right-of-way between them. These are the significant properties that remain to define the historical scene with which they are associated.

The legal boundary description is: (See continuation sheet) LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE CODE NA COUNTY CODE STATE CODE COUNTY CODE FORM PREPARED BY NAME/ TITLE Ann Booth, ORGANIZATION Historian Technician & Edward Henson, Archives Technician National Park Service Boston National Historical Park STREET & NUMBER Charlestown Navy Yard CITY OR TOWN Boston March 1983 TELEPHONE (617) 242-5668 STATE MA 12 CERTIFICATION OF NOMINATION STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER RECOMMENDATION YES X 5/30/85 NO vatteue Talmose shpo STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE In compliance with Executive Order 11593, I hereby nominate this property to the National Register, certifying that the State evaluate its significance.

The evaluated level of significance is Historic Preservation Officer has been allowed 90 days in which to present the omination to the State Review Board and to FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVE SIGNATURE Eluma OBearees TITLE chay nustouaw Naclimad Ports Snvecs FOR NPS USE ONLY 1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER DATE juma 26, 1935 8/11/85 DATE NTESTECTOR. OFFICEOF ARCHEOLOGY AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION DATE KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 899-214 Form No. 10-300a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY RECEIVED DATE ENTERED Hoosac Stores 1 & 2; CONTINUATION SHEET Hoosac Stores 3 ITEM NUMBER 8 PAGE 1 In 1846 the Fitchburg Railroad (inc. 1842) purchased the Branch Railroad after having had the use of the line since 1843.

The line was extended into the Navy Yard by the Fitchburg in 1863 for wartime munitions delivery. Completion of the Hoosac Tunnel in 1876, close to the Massachusetts-New York border by the state of Massachusetts, occasioned much of the late nineteenth century prosperity of the port of Boston. The Hoosac Tunnel provided the shortest route to the West and an alternative to the route of the Boston & Albany. By the 1890s, sixty percent of Boston's export trade arrived via the tunnel. The state still owned the tunnel, and the rail line through it, in 1879 when the Hoosac Tunnel Dock & Elevator Company was incorporated to build the Hoosac Docks between the Navy Yard and Tudor's Wharf. The docks and related structures were planned as a steamship facility for the reception, storage, delivery, and forwarding of freight received from or sent to the Hoosac Tunnel.

Here goods were transferred to or from ships bound for foreign ports. The Fitchburd Railroad, whose line parallel to Water Street was to serve the new docks, owned a 37.4-percent interest in the new company from the beginning. The railroad had previously acquired Hittinger's and Caswell's wharves near the Navy Yard in 1870. During the early 1880s the Hoosac Tunnel Dock & Elevator Company lengthened and widened the former ice docks to accommodate large steamships at the Fitchburg Railroad's waterside terminus. The docks in fact served the railroad almost exclusively and in 1887 the Fitchburg purchased the dock company outright along with all of its property.

This included wharves, docks, storage sheds, bonded and unbonded warehouses, and a 600,000-bushel grain elevator at 55 Water Street (midway between the future locations of Hoosac Stores 1 % 2 and 3)which the Fitchburg rebuilt to a 1,000,000 capacity elevator. In 1887 the Fitchburg Railroad also acquired sole ownership of the Hoosac Tunnel. By 1892 the remodeled ice docks had been replaced entirely by new In 1895 when the Fitchburg Railroad built Hoosac Stores 1 & 2 as a wool storage facility, Boston was the nation's second ranking port and the Fitchburg was the primary bulk freight carrier to Boston from the west. More than fifty percent of the freight (primarily grain and live animals) exported from Boston was exported from Hoosac Docks. At that time Boston was also the major center for wool import in America and most of it arrived via the Hoosac Docks.

The products of New England manufacturing industries were destined primarily for theAmerican market although raw materials for those industries (wool, hides and skins, cotton, hemp, flax, etc.) were imported through Boston and were the port's major imports. Continued Form No. 10-300a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY RECEIVED DATE ENTERED Hoosac Stores 1 & 2; CONTINUATION SHEET Hoosac Stores 3 ITEM NUMBER 8 -PAGE2 In 1897 increased commercial activity prompted the Fitchburg Railroad to purchase Thomas Cunningham's storehouse at 25 Water Street and convert it into Hoosac Stores 3 for additional wool storage.

Founder and owner of the Cunningham Iron Works, Thomas Cunningham had been in business on Water Street since 1854 with an office in downtown Boston and his steam boiler works in Charlestown. The Cunningham warehouse was constructed in 1875 to store the iron and steel boilers, wrought iron pipe, and iron fittings manufactured in the adjacent brick structure at 29 Water Street. Although Thomas Cunningham died in 1881, his son continued the business on this site until1891. The storehouse was then leased out until its purchase by the Fitchburg Railroad. As America's foreign trade declined so did the railroad's need for storage facilities. Hoosac Stores 3 was leasedby the Boston & Maine Corporation (with which the Fitchburg Railroad merged in 1919) for several decades before it was finally sold in 1966 to A & S Electrical Displays, Inc., the building's present owner.

From 1953 to 1976 the former Cunningham storehouse was leased to the Maxwell Corrugated Box Co., a manufacturer of shipping containers which used it primarily for storage. Hoosac Stores 3 has been vacant since 1977. In 1981 A & S Electrical, a New York based firm, was granted a zoning variance by the City of Boston to convert the building into eight apartments. Hoosac Stores 1 & 2 continued to function actively as a storehouse until 1980 though it was sold by the Boston & Maine Corporation to the W. F. Schrafft & Son Company in 1964. Schrafft, the candy manufacturer, used the building for cold storage until 1967when it was sold to Constitution Tower Realty Trust which leased it in 1970 to the Deran Confectionary Company, Inc.

The National Park Service acquired Hoosac Stores 1 & 2 in 1981 because of its proximity to the Charlestown Navy Yard and the USS CONSTITUTION and to preserve the historic It is included within the authorized boundaries of Boston National Historical Park. The Park's General Management Plan calls for the building to be used as a curatorial storage facility. The rail line paralleling Water Street(now Constitution Road)was last used in the winter of 1980-81 to haul material into the Navy Yard for the repair of Pier 1, and remains functional. Form No. 10-300a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM Hoosac Stores 1 & 2; Hoosac Stores CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER FOR NPS USE ONLY RECEIVED DATE ENTERED 9 PAGE 1 Boston City Directory 1874-1892. Charlestown City Directory 1852-1874.

Documentation Pertaining to the Acquisition of Hoosac Store 3 for Wool Storage, 1897. Middlesex County Registry of Deeds, Southern District 891:152; 1051:358 (Hoosac Stores 1 & 2). Suffolk County Registry of Deeds 7873:570; 8151:583; 8379:13; (Hoosac Stores 1 & 2); 2410:605; 8024:515; (Hoosac Stores 3). U.S. Department of the Interior. National Park Service. Boston National Historical "Hoosac Docks: Foreign Trade Terminal," by Paul O. Weinbaum. Special History Study. Boston, 1982. Form No. 10-300a (Rey.

10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY RECEIVED DATE ENTERED Hoosac Stores 1&2 CONTINUATION SHEET Hoosac Stores3 ITEM NUMBER 10 PAGE 1 Hoosac Stores 1&2: Beginning on the Southeasterly side line of Water Street, and at land of United States of America; thence running South57° 18' 15" East by the last mentioned land, one-hundred eight and 25/100 (108.25) feet to a point at land of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; thence turning and running by the last mentioned land on two (2) courses as follows: South 57° 41' 22" West two-hundred ninety-three and 57.100(293.57) feet and North 32° 08' west, ninety-eight and 72/100 (98.27) feet to said Water Street, two-hundred forty-seven and 51/100 (247.51) feet to the point of beginning, be all said measurements, more or less, said parcel containing about 26.615 square feet (0.61 of an acre) of land.

(Suffolk County Registry of Deeds 6294:504).

Hoosac Stores 3: Beginning at a drill hole in walk located in the Southeasterly side line of Water Street and at a point where the most southwesterly portion of the Boston and Maine Corporation's premises meets the most northwesterly portion of land of Commonwealth of Massachusetts "Parking Lot", formerly "Tudor Company"; thence running along Water Street North 57° 28' 40" East 35.68 feet to a point; thence turning and running again along Water Street north 57° 52' East 41.22 feet to a point; thence turning and running along the southwest bound of a 152 square foot lot South 19° 02' 15" East 13.05 Raci feet to a point, thence turning and running again along land of Commonwealth of Massachusetts South 32° 8' 00" East 56.24 feet to an iron pipe; thence turning and running along land of Boston and Maine Copporation South 46° 51' 40" West 40.28 feet to an iron pipe, thence turning and running South 57° 39' 00" West 50.60 feet to an iron pipe; thence turning and running "Parking Lot" , formerly "Tudor Company" North 32° 04' 40" West 75.44 feet to the point of beginning, be all said measurements more or less, said parcel containing about 6,498 square feet, and being shown upon plan marked "Land in BOSTON,MASS, Boston and Maine Copporation to A.

& S. Electrical Displays, Inc. J. D. Batchel- der Eng'r of Design Scale: 1 in=15 feet, December, 1965" (Suffolk County Registry of Deeds 8024:515.) Railroad right-of-way: See attached deed (Suffolk County Regis- try of Deeds 10737:320). The deed does not correctly describe the parcel, but the plan referenced in the deed is correct. That plan is included; also included is a site map (City of Boston: Topographic & Planimetric Survey,1962, revised 1972 and 1975).

Jek 17 1 06PN *34 KWOM ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that BOSTOW AND MAINE CORPORATION, - corporation duly organized and existing under the lavs of the State of Delaware, with oftices at Iron Horse Park, North Billerica, Middlesex County, Massachusette 01862, for $78,000.00 paid to them by the MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY, a body corporate and polític, duly organised and existing under Chapter 465 of the Acts of 1956, as amended, with a usual place of business at 99 High Street, Boston, Suftolk County, Massachusetts 02110, does hereby give, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto said Massa- chusetts Port Authority, its successors and assigns, all of its right, title and interest in and to a parcel of land situated in that part of Roston called Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, and bounded and described as follows: NORTHWESTERLY - by land of the grantee, shown on plan here- inafter referred to as Mass.

Port Authority, 14.52 feet; SOUTHEASTERLY - by other land of said grantee, 713.33 feet; SOUTHWESTERLY - by Charles River Avenue, so-called, 17.85 NORTHWESTERLY - by land of the Commonwealth of Massachu- setts, 99.33 feet; SOUTHWESTERLY - again by land of the Commonwealth Massa- Chusetts, 6.75 feet: NORTHWESTERLY - again by land now or formerly of 46 8 Elec. DispLay co.. 50.60 teet: NORTHNESTERL* - again by land now or formerly of & & 6 Elec. Display Co..40.28 feet: Book 10737:320 NORTHBASTEI - again by land of the grantee, 16.65 feet: and NORTHWESTERLY - again, also by land of the grantee, 523 feet; by all of said measurements more or less, however other- wise bounded and described, said parcel containing an area of 12,115.9 square feet, more or less, and shown upon plan entitled: *Land in Boston, (Charlestown) Mass.

Suffolk County Boston 6 Maine Corporation to Massachusetts Port Authority Scale: 1 in. * 40 ft. November 23, 1983°, to be recorded herewith. The grantor also grants to the grantee all of its right, title and interest in and to a 15° wide strip of land located NORTHEASTERLY from the above described parcel and shown on said plan as "15' Easement for Railroad Use Book 6294. Page 504°. The grantor also grants to the grantee all rights reserved as set forth and rights as set forth in instrument recorded in Book 6294, Page 504 as confirmed by instrument recorded in Book 6326, Page 233.

The grantor also releases to the grantee any right, title and interest of the grantor in the grantee's real estate as shown on plan entitled "Plan of Land of Massachusetts Port Authority, Hoosac Pier, Lease Plan - December 1983- and recorded on December 30, 1983 with the Suffolk Registry of Deeds, Book 10714, Page 159. By the acceptance of this deed and as part consideration therefor, the grantee hereby covenants and agrees for itself, Ita successors and assigns, to assume, and does hereby assume, NOTE:The deed does not correctly describe the parcel, but the referenced plan is correct. 2020 050 748 PRO: ROAD TOS CAL 1430 JOINER 12,239 15Ps 2308 PARK LOII 1184 1250 GOl CHELSEA 5300 1073 EXPRESSWAY Soee CHAMB ER 1570~ [COMM. OF MASS. DEPT PUBLIC WORKS 22,427 S,T.

3836 4869 ?C4: CHARI .3000 4796 3,809 963 105 HUDSON ST 16,099 1469 31.A27 STREET 31.027 WATER 24167 .,S WATER *24161 641,203 SEA 100 200 300 400 FARKINS 26,659 STREET *2 LINCU. 4SS | 4560 266/4 TIT CONSTITUTIO, 641,203 Hoosac Stores 1,2 and 3 Boston (Charlestown) MA Boston Redevelopment Autherity 1983 500 FT. NORTH #36 BOSTON 4 MAINE CORP. RI-26-11 CHARLES RIVER AVENUE 17.85 N 29* 23'3 PK (F OUND) 102.02 N57°28' 40" E (FOUND) NAIL IN LEAD N 57°28'40"E /N57°52"E 35.68 54.39 MK IN RR SI TFOUND) 84.45 N 33°57 311 W COMMONWEALTH OF MASS. A AS ELEC. DISP LAY CO. 04'40' 99.33 50.60 N37-35°E 6.75 40.28 7N46-5(40 E 65.08 R = 597.94 N 33- 53' 30"W RAPIDS REALTY CO L.C. CERT. Nº. 69980 530°5530w 547. 8 FOR REGISTRY USE ONLY #246 146 WATER STREET N 57-52'E 623.00 MA SS. IPORT AUTHORITY BIT. CONC. PARKING LOT BIT. CONC. PARKING LOT 523.00 N 52° BOSTON, AND, MAINE CORPA 12.115.9..39.

713.33 S 57- 43'22'w STORY BRICK MASS. PORT AUTHORITY L CITY OF BOSTON DRAINAGE EASEMENT RIP RAP ICERTIFY THAT THIS SURVEY AND PLAN WE RE PREPARED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROCEDURAL AND TECHNICAL STANDARDS FOR THE PRACTICE OF LAND SURVEYING IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. DATE it, Les tibttculen REGISTERED LAND SURVEYOR 40 10 80 20 CITY OF BOSTON DRAINAGE AND SEWER EASEMENT ROBERT 160 FEET 40 METERS STORY BRIC K PISTH HOOSAC PIER S'EASEMENT RAIL ROAD -100.00 100.00 LAND IN BOSTON, (CHARLESTOWN) MASS. SUFFOLK COUNTY BOSTON & MAINE CORPORATION TO MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY SCALE I IN.- 40 FT.

NOVEMBER 23, 1983 NOTE: This conv is a 44 nercent reduction of the original nlan 11-92-12 10737-320 IASO Form - 17 *R Joni 1984 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Hoosac Stores 1 and 2; Hoosac Stores 3 Suffolk County Working No. Fed. Reg. Date: Date Due: Action: - resubmission - nomination by person or local government _ ACCEPT _RETURN _ REJECT. J owner objection Federal Agency: -appeal Substantive Review: -sample -request Lappeal LNR decision Reviewer's comments: The nomination is acceptable in its present form and meets Recom./Criteria_ criterion A for what the complex illustrates about the operation of late nineteenth century American trade and Reviewer Bles lng DisciplineMsk transportation facilities.

The property also appears to be Date_ 12-30-83 eligible under criterion C but there is not enough context - see continuation sheet provided to evaluate the architectural significance of the property. Nomination returned for: _technical corrections cited below (See comments in section 8) _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 Aenz plero ynu file f ent Use Condition -excellent -good -fair - deteriorated -ruins _ unexposed Describe the present and original (if known) physi reneieznst Sorray yer suhmeth k one iriginal site noved date - summary paragraph - completeness clarity - alterations/integrity - dates - boundary selection WASO Form - 177 ('R" Jun» 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Prelimens Aeven Hoosac Stores 1 and 2; Hoosac Stores 3 Suffolk County MASSACHUSETTS Working No. Fed. Reg.

Date: Date Due: Action:_ ACCEPT resubmission RETURN nomination by person or local government _ REJECT- owner objection Federal Agency: appeal Substantive Review: sample request appeal NR decision Reviewer's comments: The nomination is acceptable in its present form and meets Recom./Criteria criterion A for what the complex illustrates about the operation of late nineteenth century American trade and Reviewer Dles Ung Discipline Musk transportation facilities. The property also appears to be Date eligible under criterion C but there is not enough context 12-30-83 see continuation sheet provided to evaluate the architectural significance of the property. Nomination returned for: - _technical corrections cited below (See comments in section 8) .substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification Category Ownership Public Acquisition Status Accessible Present Use 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 J excellent good fair deteriorated ruins unexposed Check one unaltered altered Check one J original site moved date Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates boundary selection 8.

Significance Period Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Specific dates Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) Builder/Architect 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 An evaluation of how this property represents a significant type of industrial architecture is needed to justify the choice of architecture as an area of significance. This would include a discussion of geographic and thematic context and an assessment of the architectural integrity should be answered follow: How do the Hoosac Buildings niques or architectural qualities make these storehouses important examples of this building type in the locallty or region? Have alterations detracted from the architectural significance of the property?

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 WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REr# 85002339 Swaioubye RevIew Hoosac Stores 1 & 2-Hoosac Stores 3 Suffolk County MASSACHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Working No.

JUL I 1 1985 Fed. Reg. Date: 2-4-86 Date Due: _ s/7/85-8/25 753 Action: VACCEPT 8-14-55 _RETURN REJECT Federal Agency: _ NP.S Substantive Review: A sample _request appeal -NR decision Reviewer's comments: ACREDGE IS AWKWEND. SHOULD HAVE BEEN EITHEN MONE THAN ONE DR LESS THXN TWO BUT IT CAN BEFILURER OUT Recom./Criteria_ ACCEST /CRITERIONAtC ON THE MAP) Reviewer HIsoK SGNILLA FORASSOUATION WITH THE FITLH BURG RALROAD'S Date _ POEE THE WOOL INDOSTRY UL AUOD BAEDRESI _ see continuation sheet Nomination returned for: - _technical corrections cited below IS CLEARLY DEMONSTRATED. IN ADOLTON, WALEHOUSE _ substantive reasons discussed below 3IS ARCHITELTURALLL SIGNIFICANT AS A PANEL BRILK STYLE BUILDING AND FOR ITS 1. Name ASSOUATION WITH THE BOILER MAKING INDUJIRY, 2. Location ALTOUGE AHE CASE FOR BORE OF THESE ARGUMENTS COULD BE STRONGEN. INCLUSION 3.

Classification OF THE ADSKENT RIGHI DE WAY HINKINT Category tAE STRULTURES Ownership Public Acquisition Accessible THE SIGNIMCANCE DE THE RALL BOAD. 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 Check one J original site moved date Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates boundary selection 8.

Significance Period Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Specific dates Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) Builder/Architect 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 NEW ENGLAND DISTRIBUTING & WAREHOUSE CORP. PHOTO 1 Hoosac Stores 1 and 2, Boston, Massachusetts. Blaise Davi, 1981. Boston and National Historical Park Neg. # HOOSAC STORES-1. North west elevations. PHOTO 2 Hoosac Stores 3, Boston, Massachu Anne Booth, 1903. Boston Nationa Park Neg. # HOOSAC STORES-3. Eas1 TAR NEW ENGLAND DISTRIBUTING & WAREHOUSE CORP. PHOTO 3 Railroad right-of-way, Boston, Mas Anne Booth, 1983. Boston National Park Neg. # HOOSAC STORES-2. Sout Hoosac Stores 1 and 2. YA NASTE OF SUCCESS PHOTO 4 Hoosac Stores 3, with railroad rig Boston, Massachusetts. Anne Booth Boston National Historical Park Ne STORES-4. West and south elevatio right-of-way looking east toward t 1 and 2 and Charlestown Navy Yard.

JUN U5 1935 loit The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Office of the Secretary of State Michael Joseph Connolly, Secretary 811 H-32 BasT Massachusetts Historical Commission Valerie A. Talmage Executive Director State Historic Preservation Officer May 31, 1985 Herbert S. Cables, Jr. Regional Director National Park Service North Atlantic Region 15 State Street Boston, MA 02019 Dear Mr. Cables: The Massachusetts Historical Commission, at its May meeting, voted to recommend that Hoosac Stores 1 and 2 and Hoosac Stores 3, in Charlestown, MA, be listed to the National Register of Historic Places. Therefore, 1 am returning the nomination to you for forwarding to the National Register office in Washington. The National Register staff has-recently notified our office of a change in their address. In case you Htave not been so notified, the correct address is: Ms.

Carol Shull, Keeper National Park Service Department of Interior P.O. Box 37127 Washington, DC 20013-7127 Sincerely, Voluie Valerie A. Talmage ldlmge Executive Director State Historic Preservation Officer Massachusetts Historical Commission VAT/1s enclosure 80 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 (617) 727-8470 TMENI OF THE United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL PARK SER VICE North Atlantic Region 15 State Street Boston, Massachusetts 02109 JUN 20 2 56 PM "85 IN REPLY REFER TO: June 14, 1985 H32 (NAR-PC) Memorandum To: Chief Historian Through: Bruce Craig, Mather Taining Center 9½1 From: Regional Historian, North Atlantic Region Subject: National Register Nomination for Hoosac Stores 1 and 2 and Hoosac Stores 3, Boston NHP Enclosed is the National Register nomination form for the subject site.

Your earlier comments have been incorporated and the Massachusetts State Historic Preservation Officer has reviewed the form and recommended that the structures be listed. The completion of this form is also a requirement of the historians' workshop held at Mather Training Center last February. Although Ann Booth and Edward Henson did the preliminary work on this nomination, Park Historian Dr. Paul Weinbaum is responsible for its final form and should be credited with completing this aspect of the workshop. hte, slaidly Pitcaithley Dwight Enclosure THL INTERIOR OEPARTMENT United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL PARK SER VICE P.O. BOX 37127 WASHINGTON, D.C.

20013-7127 IN REPLY REFER TO: H32(418) JUN 28 1985 Memorandum To: Chief of Registration Shull, Interagency Resources Division From: Chief Historian Subject: Entry of Hoosac Stores 1 and 2 and Hoosac Stores 3, Boston National Historical Park, in the National Register Enclosed is the documentation for the subject properties supporting their listing in the National Register of Historic Places. The nomination was given a preliminary review by our staffs and returned to the North Atlantic Region, along with our comments, on January 11, 1984. Historian Weinbaum of the Boston National Historical Park has addressed our comments in his revision of the documentation. The updated form has been signed by the Massachusetts State Historic Preservation Officer, while I, as the Service's Historic Pres- ervation Officer, have reviewed and signed the documentation. Coincidentally, I wish to commend Dr.

Weinbaum for being the first professional to complete a National Register form as required to secure certification for attendance at the historians' workshop held at Mather Training Center in February. The completion of the requisite National Register forms is important in demonstrating to senior management the value of workshops of this character. Eduus acress Enclosure Rer 1//85