BlockBefore

Nomination for Hapgood, Richard, House

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,170 words across 9 pages, filed in 1986. Reproduced in full, word for word.

Source document Held by the National Archives in Record Group 79 as reference 86001284, where it exists only as a scan with no text layer. The words below were read off that scan by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the typewriter's. Nothing is summarised, corrected or written by this site. See the catalogue record, or return to the property.

The nomination, in full

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

FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTQN, MA 02108 APR 4 1986 AREA MID CAM. FORM NO. II B 31A USGS Map #18 Cambridge, Mass. Town Cambridge MRA Address 382-392 Harvard Street Historic Name Richard Hapgood House PHOTO: (3x3" or 3x5" , black & white) staple to left side of form Photo number_ 24-2A 1 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 residential DESCRIPTION: Date 1889 Source tax records Style Queen Anne Architect J.R. & W.P. Richards Exterior wall fabric wood Outbuildings NA Major alterations (with dates) none SEE ATTACHED MAP Recorded by_ T. Alduino Organization Cambridge Historical Com.

Date 1985 UTM 19/325980/4692940 USGS Quad: Boston South (Staple additional sheets here) Moved no DateNA Approx. acreage - 2412 acre Setting The immediate neighborhood of 382-392 Harvard Street contair an agreeable mixture. of one, two and three lamily houses inter- spersed with apartment buildings. RCHITECTURAL SIGVIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the commmity.) Hapgood, Reckenro, ltocse 382-392 Harvard Street (1889, J.R. and W.P. Richards) is a large Queen Anne style house with projecting center tower and two lower side gables with projecting side bays. Individual entrances for the six units are grouped around the center pavilion,and on the end walls.' Queen Anne details include turned porch posts, irregular roof line, and variegated shingles.

For its imaginative use of the Queen Anne style on a multi-family house, the Richard Hapgood House meets Criterion C. ISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the commmity.) The Hapgood House marks a shift in Cambridge's development away from single-family dwellings towards multi-unit housing. After the 1870's, lack of available buildings sites, as well as rising construction and rates cramped the housing alternatives, especially for the lower and middle classes. The solution was multi-unit.dwellings. Gradually, two and four family dwellings gave way to tenements and apartment houses based on row house precedents. 382-392 Harvard Street, a six unit apartment house disguised as an elaborate, shingled, Queen Anne single family house was among the first and most ingenious solutions to the problem.

For its importance in understanding the development of mülti-family dwellings in Cambridgè, the Hapgood House is significant under Criterian A. IBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) SEE ATTACHED BIBLIOGRAPHY 10M - 7/82 - INVENTORY FORM CONTINUALIUN OILLL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston waCambridge, Mass. Cambridge MRA MC II B 31A Hapgacd Richerd, lhouse Property Name: 382-392 Harvard St Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued belaw. Bibliography/References Cambridge Historical Commission. Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge: Volume I, East Cambridge (1965), out of print.

Volume II, Mid Cambridge (1967), Cambridge, MA Volume III, Cambridgeport (1971), Cambridge, MA Volume IV, Old Cambridge (1973), Cambridge, MA Volume V, Northwest Cambridge (1977), Cambridge, MA Cambridge Historical Society, Proceedings (1906-Present), Cambridge, MA. D.A.R., Winthrop Chapter, An Historical Guide to Cambridge (1907), Cambridge, MA. Gillman, A. (ed.), Cambridge of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Six (1896), Cambridge, MA. Paige, L.R., History of Cambridge (1877), Boston, MA.; Supplement (1930) , Boston, MA. Rand, C., Cambridge, U.S.A. (1964) , New York, NY. Rettig, R.B., Guide to Cambridge Architecture (1969), Cambridge, MA. Stillman, W.J. (ed.), Poetic Localities of Cambridge (1876), Cambridge, MA. Woods, R.A., and Kennedy, A.J. (Warner, ed.), Zone of Emergence (1962), Cambridge, MA.

Zaitzevsky, C., with the advice of the Review Committee members, The Harvard University Study of Historic and Architectuzal Properties in the Environs of Cambridge, (April 1983-December 1984), Cambridge, MA. Staple to Inventory form at botton 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 Exp. 10-31-84 For NPS use only received date entered Page Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Cambridge Multiple Resource Area MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review 50yr 171. Cambridge Common Historic District (Boundary Increase) Substantive Revies Date/Signature Iltered Nat1ona Kéepen automaturely kestere 1/6/8 172. Dana-Palmer House Substantive Revtew Attest 6r) Keeper 173. Dunvegan, The Entered in ti National Reglster 174.

Eliot Hall at Radcliffe College Entered 1m National Begister No 175. Follen Street Historic District Suastantive Revtew 176. Fogg Art Museum Entered in tlve Nationl Begister Attest fseeper Attest ofkeper Attest fr Keeper Attest fuseeper Attest latrick Anduu 5/19/56 Betz Sunge 514-8 Aibmapgenlst4tro AlluuByasta/8 177. Gray Gardens East and West H. Dist. Entored Ix Nationel Register Keeper Attest 178. Harvard Union intered in thKeeper Natiora.1 latuck Anduns 5/19/86 ButsY. Sauge 5448 AilaneBgan 19/66 Auemußozal taltb automdeaan 1p26/5, 179. Hapgood, Richard, House Entored in ble National Regtater Attest /Keeper AeluByun 14188 180.

Jarvis, The SarTer Net1ome heeister Attest futkeper Attest 514/86 86001284 WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Hapgood, Richard, House (Cambridge MRA) Middlesex County MASSA CHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: Reviewer's comments: -sample request APR Working No.- Fed. Reg. Date r2/3/87 Date Due:0 Action: _ACCEPT - Entered in tl _RETURN _ REJECT Nat1onal Reg Federal Agency: 4 1986 5 79-86 appeal - NR 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 J 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 moved date 8. Significance Period Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Specific dates Builder/Architect Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) 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 LOR ,Ersroi. Vtna sp2ns agoltoh 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: GPO 918-450 Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet Richard Hapgood House Canbridee 382-392 Harvard Street 24-2A N HARVARD OLo LATSI GH "9e MASSACHUSETTS REMINGTON AVE Cambridge, Mass. Cambridge MRA RICHARD HAPGOOD HOUSE City of Bust'Assesgor's l'lans Cambridge January 1983 ST INDRAGAOUMO STAUCTUPAE 54221 ST.

TROWBRIDGE Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000275