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KORM B - BUILDING AREA FORM NO. 11 AMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS SACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 82116 own Arlington, MA ddress 8 College Avenue istoric Name Maria Bassett House ... 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. Ise: Present residential Original DESCRIPTION: farmhouse Date ca. 1850-1870 Source Visual Analysis Style_ Italianate Architect_ Unknown Exterior wall fabric None Outbuildings Asbestos Major alterations (with dates). twentieth-century siding Recorded by -Organization Date Moved No Date N/A Approx. acreage less than one acre Betsy Friedberg Setting From the hillside on which the Mass.
Historical Commission house sits, there is a view of the December 1984 Mystic Lakes.' UTM: 19/322820/4699310 (Staple additional sheets here) ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the commmity.) This is the grandestof the remaining Italianate houses in the area. Its heavy double brackets, dentil courses, and boldly molded window surrounds are details that mark a well-executedItalianate house. A fine polygonal bay, its flat roof supported by paired brackets, extends from the building's side. The building has a high Italianate balcony and porch that may have been added or altered slightly at a later period. The single- story. porch, which wraps around the front and side of the building, is ornately decorated with brackets, dentils, paired columns, and turned spindles.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the commmity.) The Maria Basset House, built ca. 1850, is one of earliest houses in a section of Arlington - the northwest corner-that did not fully develop until the 1920s and 1930s, The gentle hills overlooking the Mystic Lakes were known in tbe second. half of_ the_ 19th cntury for dairy farming and this house, sited on a hill above the lakes, may have been associated with this endeavor. CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION The Maria Bassett House possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association. It fulfills criterion C of the National Register of Historic Places as a grand exaple of the Italiante style.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) Stadley map, 1898 Arlington Past and Present 80210w w*22#CH02EL12 OSile P0 D PIHECI ZICHO2EL NA122:0V n2C1 10M - 7/82 7,406 7535 7700 7920 18 12e MYSTIC BEVERLY 7803 14a0 6286 T8ST ISe (63) 95 C0 7303 1438 676C 765T 750 125 57500: 134.6% 229 64.99 11250 398.07 15900 -H 37940 Arlington MRA Maria Basset House 8 College Avenue E 10 TTOS 122 11457 122 3000 -1.0 758 0177 8000 13800 A-2 35.36 45.00 A-I 29,200 (T) (2 10157 11583 1901 332 ® 103 -STOWECROFT_RO 11965 650 7452 7770 86 611 4 %is 2A 1560 7884 7082 710 --SAIr IC cC 6 7601 1955 1914 Ic ce 41000: AVE.
-COLLEGE oc 40620- GASIM 1105- 729| 2 81 WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Bassett, Maria, House (Arlington MRA) Middlesex County MASSACHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: Reviewer's comments: Lsample J request Lappeal MAR 6 1985 Working No. Fed. Reg. Date: Date Due: _ 4/1/85 -4/20/83 Action: - ACCEPT LRETURN. 4-18-8s _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 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 moved date 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 title date 13. Other AMaps Please pirnie Aerle formap Photographs - Other Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to - Signed - arayer - Date - 4/18/85- _Phone: _ Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet AREA FORM NO.
11 FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02116 Town Arlington Address 8 College Avenue Historic Name Maria Basset House 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. Use: Present Residential Original_ Farmhouse DESCRIPTION: Date_ ca. 1850-1870 Source visual analysis Style_Italianate Architect_Unknown Exterior wall fabric Asbestos Outbuildings None See attached map. Major alterations (with dates) _ Twentieth century asbestos siding Recorded by Betsy Friedberg Organization_Mass. Historical Commission Date December 1984 Moved No DateNA Approx.
acreage less than one acre Setting From the hillside on which the house sits, thereis a view of, the Mystic Lakes. UTM References: 19/322820/469910 (Staple additional sheets here) ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the conmmity.) This is the grandest of the remaining Italianate houses in the area. Its heavy double brackets, dentil courses, and boldly molded window surrounds are details that mark a well-executed Italianate house. A fine polygonal bay, its flat roof supported by paired brackets, extends from the building's side. The building has a high Italianate balcony and porch that may have been added or altered slightly at a later period.
The single-story porch, which wraps around the front and side of the building, is ornately decorated with brackets, dentils, paired columns, and turned HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state spindles. history and how the building relates to the development of the commmity.) The Maria Basset House, built ca. 1850, is one of the earliest houses in a section of Arlington--the northwest corner--that did not fully develop until the 1920s and 1930s. The gentle hills overlooking the Mystic Lakes were known in the second half of the 19th century for dairy farming, and this house, sited on a hill above the lakes, may have been associated with this endeavor. CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION The Maria Bassett House possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association.
It fulfills criterion C of the National Register of Historic Places as a grand example of the Italianate style. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) 1898 Stadley & Co. Atlas' Arlington Past and Present - 10M - 7/82 IPS Form 10-900-1 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form Continuation sheet Item number CXP. 10-31-8-0008 Page Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name Arlington Multiple Resource Area State Middlesex County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review 11. Bassett, Maria, House Entened Is vss Matisee? #ogt star ytte suies. Buildings at 1334 and 1339 Massachusetts Ave. Jubatanttke leviin 13. Call-Bartlett House Hatered in Metionel Nog Ftom 14. Capitol Theater Building Estered in Met1onel Megistir 15. Chapel of St.
Anne Estered in tha Hationel Hegtoter 16. Cushman House Entered in Mationel 1 17. Cutter, Jefferson, House Entered in National No 18. Cutter, Second, A.P., House 19. Damon House 20. Farmer, Kimball, House Baibizsil iz Mettoaie! Be gtrtor Batered in the' Metlonel Bogieter Haterod in ta Metional Bogteios.
Date/Signature fritper Ahelonßyur 9/271 Attest Keeper Attest fkeeper AeeneByen 4t16/85 Attest fRéeper duemBgun t/i0/rs Attest Aeeper AeenrByen tha/rs Attest Tieeper Slilune Bgen wotts Attest tKeeper AdluusByen 4/18/8s Attest Reeper AelovaßByen 4118/85 Attest fatéeper deloueByer 1/15/65 Attest /Reeper DemnByun 4/18/85 Attest WASO Form - 177 ("'R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REi= # 85002681 Bassett, Maria, House (Arlington MRA) Middlesex County MASSACHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: Reviewer's comments: LJ sample LJrequest Entered 1n NatLoba LJappeal Working No. 3/60/85 Fed. Reg. Date: * Date Due: _ Action: 9/28/85 ACCEPT 4-27-0S RETURN _REJECT ster Federal Agency: .
LJNR 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. Ciassification 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 J 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 J moved date 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 8 CollegeAre lassett, Mara Vtie Roll 9 h 25A 68 39 15 15A 7406 7700 18 7535 7920 Torg 720 MYSTIC 134.86 182028g 6To 670 67.0 103 10989 7603 7790 6286 185T 7303 1488 6186 7857 7322 7550 70.59 78.97 11437 101.97 7A 7693 1347 310 11583 Lon TiQ0 i9ss 122 1935 T5.0 (62) 222 126. 75o 6499 1o2e 1022z FST 95o0 250 100.0 125cc 30.00 8000 57500: 317 22.00 11250 13800 A-2 45.00 15900 H 37940 E A-I 29,200 Arlington MRA Maria Basset House 8 College Avenue Scale: =120' Arlinptm Toun Assessns Mup 1960 STOWECROFT-RD. 65 0 7452 4225 7884 710 1C cC 41580: 150 7770 2A 1960 7082 41000: CASIN 10 5- 11965 7601 4 1974 AVE COLLEGE 1o ec 40620- 339 T05.0 23 6821 1s 0 729| 24 12.,2 25 8846 55 79 3 Rt of Way 2600 56L5 630 1& 8 0,080 63.0 C 10643 ySaösra F347 13836 To2 48642 343 43,910 95 23.0 PTS.
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