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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 8O BOYLSTON STRBET, BOSTON, MA 02116 AREA FORM NO. 300 Towa North Adams MRA Address 1072 State Road Historic Name William B. Sherman Farm PHOTO: (3x3" or 3x5" , black & white) staple to left side of form Photo number SKETCH MAP Show property's location ia relation to nearest cross streets and/or geograpbical features. Indicate all buildings between inventoried property and nearest intersection. Indicate north. Use: Present residence Original_residence DESCRIPTION: Dateca. 1820-1830 Source_Deeds StyleGreck Revival Architect_N/A Exterior wall fabric clapboard OutbuildingsGarage (20th century) Major alterations (with dates) North porch added, ca. 1870-1875 Moved No Date _N/A Approx.
acreage_less than one acre Setting The house is located on a wooded Recorded by Betsy Friedberg Organization Mass Historical Cormission Int fronting the State Road, Once part Date July, 1985 of a large farm, the land has since been subdivided for residential development. Williamstown Quadrangle UTM reference: 18/649620/4729000 0 ad2029620/12le aedieionat sheets here) ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the commmity.) The house is architecturally distinctive as a Greek Revival farmhouse which was later embellished with a striking Italianate-style veranda. The original house is five bays wide with Doric corner pilasters supporting an entablature with a full pediment in each gable end. The sash have original six over six lights.
Sometime around 1870 (possibly earlier), the house was remodeled with the addition of the present large This consists of four posts linked by broad arcading. In the spandrells of the arches is an unusual filigree design.. The floor-length windows and double doors off the veranda are part of the same remodeling. HisToRicto y and ow the bundain telarose oothe deveyopnen totorstamity.) This house is historically important as part of the William B. Sherman dairy farm. It is one of a very few surviving unalterated farmhouses in North Adams. William B. Sherman was a native of Rhode Island, where he was born in 1759. In 1780 he married and settled in Williamstown, Mass., where he built a house and established a grocery store. The present house stands on farmland purchased by Sherman in 1813. At some undetermined date, possibly around 1830, Sherman erected this house.
The land on which it stands was originally part of Williamstown. (It did not become part of North Adams until 1900.) Sherman and his son Eber developed the land as a dairy farm, raising sheep as well. Eber constructed a large Greek Revival-style residence for himself a few hundred yards to the east of his father's home. The Eber Sherman house was apparently built around 1843, the jear he purchased his father's farm. (The Eber Sherman House, 1010 State Road, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.) William Sherman, who retained life tenancy to his home, died three years later in 1846. Eber Sherman II sold the entire farm to Augusta Hull in 1862. Hull then divided the property, selling the Eber Sherman House to Henry Chapman in 1871 and the William Sherman House to J. Y. Lewis in 1873.
It may have been around that time that the housewas remodeled with the large verandaand floor-length windows. (see below) BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) Record of Deeds, Adams, MA Eber Sherman House, 1010 State Road, No. Adams, MA National Register nomination form, 1982 Historical Significance cont'd:" After Lewis' death, his heirs sold the farm to Allen D. Phelps in 1885. The Phelps family continued to manage the property as a farm well in the the twentieth century. Since World War II, however, the surrounding farmland has been sold off for commercial and residential development, and for the North Adams Airport. The building today sits on a lot of less than one acre.
10M - 7/82 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 OMB No. 1024-0018 Expires 10-31-87 or NPS uee celved late antered al1af8s Page 24z Multiple Resource Area Thematie Group Name State North Adams MRA Bershire County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review 11. Hathaway Tenement Erbored im tae National Register 12. Johnson School Entered in tze National Register Date/Signatúre freeper duemByun Np0t05 Attest fKeeper KemBye 10/25/85 13. Johnson Manufacturing Company Attest tKeeper Themu Byur 10/25/80 Entered Ix National Hegiwbes 14. Norad Mill Entered in the National Register 15. Sherman, William B., Farm Entered in the National Regieter Attest fKeeper AeenurBgan 0/25/. Attest tKeeper AuluaByu10/2% 16.
Sykes House Attest &Reeper AlmuByun 210125/65 Entared 1m . ational Regteter Attest 17. Wells House &Keeper deluuBzan 10/25/05 Entered in the Netional Register Attest 18. Phelps House Keeper 5. Remen Attest 19. Keeper Attest 20. Keeper Attest WASO Form -177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Sherman, William B.,Farm (North Adams MRA) Bershire County MASSACHUSETTS 85003479 resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: Reviewer's comments: - sample Jrequest Working No. _ SEP/1 2 1985 Fed. Reg. Date: 2/3/82 Date Due: 10/85 Entered 1m Action: LACCEPT 10/27/85 10-25-85 National Registez - RETURN REJECT- Federal Agency: - Lappeal 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 J unaltered L J 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 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 William B. Sherman House 1072 State Road North Adams, Mass. North elevation. Photo by R.Reed, 1981. Negative at NAHC William B. Sherman Farm - Sketch Map 1072 State Road North Adams, Mass. North Adams MRA cócuL0 10 8 625 80 170* 312300 ,85"" 219'+ 2 wilham B Sherman Howse North Adams Assessors' ca. 1915 1'=401 William B. Sherman Farm 1072 State Road North Adams MRA MaP, 16.=% 138 85'÷ George Malnati