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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston - - - - - - -1 2. Photo (3x3" or 3x5") Staple to left side of form Photo number 4. Map. Draw sketch of building location in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings. Indicate north. See attached map. Newton Quadrangle UTM Referenc: 19/322960/4687240 Map #: 9 Acreage: approximately 2 acres * 1930 - Altered from two-family house into a one-family house: five baths, chambers, 4 new dormer windows, new layout, 14' X 8' 3-story extension for (over) stair hall. 30M-5-77 In Area no. Form no. 128/439 -85-86 1. Town Address Brookline MRA - 157 Clyde Street Name Alfred Douglass House Present use Residential Present owner J. S. Hall 3.
Description: Date 1910 Source Brookline Building Permit Style Medieval Revival Architect Charles Patch Landscape: Olmsted Brothers Exterior wall tabric Stucco & shingle Outbuildings (describe)_ Garage (1911) Other features 2½ stories; gable roof; gabled wall dormers w/bargeboards, finials & drops: hip dormers, band- ed windows; Palladian window; hood- ed entrance w/ brackets. Altered Yes* Date Moved No Date 5. Lot size: 106,630 sq. ft. One acre or less Over one acre X Approximate frontage 20' (access road) Approximate distance of building from street 365' 6. Recorded by Carla Benka Organization BHC Date 1984 7. Original owner (if known) Original use_ Alfred Douglass Two family house, servants quarters for 155 Fernwood Subsequent uses (if any) and dates A single family house atter alterations 1n 1930. 8.
Themes (check as many as applicable) Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development Conservation Education Exploration/ settlement Industry Military Political Recreation Religion Science/ invention Social/ humanitarian Transportation 9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) 157 Fernwood Road (#157 Clyde Street in 1909) is a substantial shingled and stucco home, designed by Charles Patch and constructed in 1909. Its Medieval Revival Style characteristics include the gable roof, three gable front facade, wedge-end bargeboards with finials and drops, a hooded entrance with large carved brackets and banded The house is handsomely sited on approximately 2 1/3 acres of land in a heavily wooded area at the end of an access road used almost exclusively by its residents.
In the second half of the 18th century, the land on which the house was built belonged to Moses White. White sold the land to Thomas Handasyd Perkins, a Boston merchant. Perkins gave part of his holdings to his daughter, Caroline who married William H. Gardiner. Their son, Charles, inherited the property and lived in his family's house until 1909, at which time Alfred Douglass purchased the house and land, demolished the house and built this house and the house next to it which he called "Fernwood." #157 was built for the domestic staff of the property, but in 1930, Sidney Winslow, a vice president of the United Shoe Machinery Corp., who purchased the estate in 1924, hired Putnam and Cox, and added a top floor, 5 baths, chambers, new dormers, and a 3-story extension for the stairhall.
Winslow"s son, a banker, lived here for a few years, after which time the house was rented to Casker Ranger II, a clerk, and his IC **Alfred Douglass, a retired New York merchant, bought the Gardiner estate and "beautified the land." Due to business reversals, however, he was forced 757 Clyde Street meets NRiriteroat k atarea beihg and C, being a fine example of the Medieva 10. Bibliography and/or reterences (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) vaentürlerooklene counteyestte. structure on an early Proceedings- Brookline Historical Society- 1926, P. 6.
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 UND Expires 10-31-87 For NPS use only received 914/81 date entered Page Multiple Resource Area Thematie Group Name State Brookline MRA MASBACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review 11. Cabot, Lewis, Estate 12. Candler Cottage O -13. Chestnut Hill Historic District 14. Child, Isaac, House 15. Corey, Timothy, House #1 16. Corey, Timothy, House #2 17. Cypress-Emerson Historic District 18. Davis, Robert S., House 19. Davis, Thomas Aspinwell, House 20. Douglass, Alfred, House Date/Signatúre Bntorod in the TReeper DeanaBrun 10/16 National Begister Attest Entered in the National Begiater Jikeeper delomBa M/2185 Attest Entered In the National Jegister fukeeper Aelan Byan 14k0/6.
Attest Entered in the National Begister fKeeper AelmsByu1/218 Attest Entered In tie National Register fKeeper AelmByux218i Attest fateoper Aelbyen) 10/02/81 Entered 1n Mäe detLea Attest fkeeper Eatered in the Natiene1 Begister AelnaByen1/213i Attest Entered 1n the Matienel Begister Lteeper AelmuByer 210/7/85 Attest Entered in bae Gegister fukeeper dlmßye 10/2185 Attest fteeper Nelmerßjer 10/17/85 Entered in the Jetional Begister Attest 8500326/ WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Douglass, Alfred, House (Brookline MRA) Norfolk County MASSACHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: -sample Reviewer's comments: Lrequest SEP 4 1985 Working No.- Fed. Reg.
Date: 2 3/82 Date Due: 10/3/85 -10/29/83 Action: LACCEPT 10-17-85 Em tened in RETURN Wational Hes _REJECT - Federal Agency: _ -appeal 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 Loriginal 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 ciarity 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 Reuslas, Alrred, Heus Clyde ST 157 Frruwood Brooklne MRA VIIA ROAD country - CABOT SINGLETREE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SANITORIUM 157 Cuyde4T. (128/139-85-86 Jouglas, Pred ttoede bokune Hap Jan'8i siale * HIGH SERVICE STAMDPIPE BRK. WATER WORKS SINGLE TREE HILL RESERVOIR ROAD S TREET ITLER HEATH ST. LAWRENCE CHURCH LAPLAND AD 0 ROAD CRA ROAD WA REN Badl 000MN833 STREE STREET 10