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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTQN, MA 02108 AREA FORM NO. 72/314-11 Town Brookline MRA Address 72 Walnut Street Historic Name Hotel Kempsford 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 apartment house Original apartment hotel DESCRIPTION: Date 1875 Source American Architect and Building News Style_Victorian Gothic Architect Obed F. Smith Exterior wall fabricbrick and sandstone Outbuildings 1928-2 car garage See attached map.
Boston South Quadrangle UTM Reference:: 19/325420/4688140 Map #: 75 Major alterations (with dates) 1975-modernize apartments Recorded by_Carla Benka Organization Brookline Historical Com. Date April 1985 Moved no Date Approx. acreage 4514 Sq.ft. SettingAt the foot of High Street Hill in residential neighborhood of mostly two family and multi-family houses with little setback from sidewalk. (Staple additional sheets here) ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the commmity.) Built to complement the brick and sandstone building on the corner, immediately abutting this structure, Kempsford" was designed in an almost identical architectural style and's similar to 7-9 Harvard Square which dates from 1876.
Many architectural details this building a highly distinctive appearance, including the brick patterris on the upper floor, stone banding, and stone brackets. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the commmity.) Eben Wright, who built this apartment houses, also built the Hotel Adelaide at the corner. Both were designed by Obed Smith who lived in Brookline and designed a number of single family houses in various neighborhoods of the town. Wright, -however, lived in-Nahant-and rented units in this building to people who worked in Brookline and those who worked in Boston and could commute via the nearby railroad with a station in Brookline Village, just across Boylston Street. John Koch of the American Screen Company (see form for 302 Washington Street), lived here.
In a letter to the American Architect and Building News of 1884, Obed F. Smith decribes the room arrangement in the ünits as having the parlor, dining room, etc. on one floor and the chambers and bedrooms on the floor above with the two floors connected by a private *gooz sbore witk tne tie 2100, staircase. Smith indicates that his design may have been one of the earlier ones of this type to be conceived. 72 Walnut Street meets NR criteria C, being a very early, if not first, example of the duplex concept in-apartment .house architecture and a fine and unusual example of Victorian Gothic commercial architecture in Brookline. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) Atlas-1874, 1884 Tax lsit-1874-76 American Architect and Building News-V.16, Nov.
29, 1884, p.261 10M - 7/82 NPS Form 10-800-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form Continuation sheet Item number OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 For NPS use only 9/4/83 received date entered Page Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Brookline MRA MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review 51. House «t (156 Mason Terr.) 52. Houses et (76--96 Harvard Ave.) 53. Hotel Adelaide 54. Hotel Kempsford 55. Jackson, Thaddeus, House 56. Kilsyth Terrace 57. Linden Park 58. Linden Square 59. Lynch--0'Gorman House 60.
Milestone (Harvard St.) Date/Signature Entered in the TReeper dhemuByan 14a1 Natdonel Begister Attest TKeeper delonaßya 1/2181 Entared Ta Nat1onel Register Entered in Natiowal Regiscer Attest /Keeper Attest Entered in the National Hegiater Keeper Attest GKeeper Entered in the National Register Attest Enteredin the Nationel Register 6Reeper Entered in the National Begtater Attest Keeper Entered 1n the National Begiater Attest Keeper Attest Keeper Entared Nabéoue] Begtace* Entered in the National Begister Attest Keeper Attest delouByen r0/2/5s AelouaByer 10/7/85 delorya 10/02/85 delouetByer 10/2185 delouaBgu 10/2181 deloreByca 10/0185 delouByer 10/2/85 LelouaByen1011185 85003277 WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Hotel Kempsford (Brookline MRA) Norfolk County MASSACHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: -sample Reviewer's comments: Wrequest Working No._ SEP Fed.
Reg. Date:2/3/87 Date Due: 10/3/85 Action: LACCEPT Entered In the -RETURN Natiomel Regtstem -REJECT - Federal Agency: appeal NR decision Recom./Criteria Reviewer Discipline. Date _ see continuation sheet 4 1985 10/14/85 10-17-81 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 Aceessible 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 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 L Photographs -Other Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to - Signed . Date .
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