Major Bibliographical References See continuation sheet 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property 46,617 sq. ft. Lowel Quadrangle name Quadrangle scale 1:25,000 UT M References * [3|111|520| Zone Easting L417/214/71810/ Northing CULLIL ELL GLULLILILILILIL BLUIL JLliLu Zone Easting Northing LLLI FLIJ LLILLL LLILL Ll LlL Verbal boundary description and justification The nominated property includes the entire lot associated with 84 Tenth Street, as outlined in red on the attached engineers' map and described in Book 1406, page 501 at the Northern Middlesex County Registry of Deeds. List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries state N/A code county code state code county code 11.
Form Prepared By name/title Betsy Friedberg,Preservation Planner, MHC, with Nancy Doonan and Elizabeth Durfee Hengen organization Massachusetts Historical Commission date May 1986 street & number 80 Boylston Street telephone 617-727-8470 city or town Boston state Massachsuetts 02116 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: national _ state * local As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. State Historic Preservation Otficer signature Valerie A.
Talmage Executive Director, Massachusetts Historical Commission title State Historic Preservation Officer date 5/28/86 For NPS use only I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register Keeper of the National Register Attest: Chief of Registration GPO 911-399 date date NPS Form 10.900-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form Brown-Maynard House, Lowell, Massachusetts Continuation sheet Item number 9 OMB No. 1024-0018 Expires 10-37-87 For HPS tee Ond received Colee date antered Page 1 Major Bibliographical References Coburn, Silas, History of Dracut, Massachusetts. Press of the Courier-Citizen Co., Lowell, 1922. Courier-Citizen Co., Illustrated History of Lowell and Vicinity. 1897. Lowell Historical Society, Contributions of the Lowell Historical Society.
Conur Ezeritat Pli ERinon or Loeti and Tis Peoble. Vol.1, MrC: Leni's Historical Publishing Hengen, Elizabeth Durfee, The Lowel1 Neighborhoods: An Historical and Architectural Overview. City of LowelT & Massachusetts Historical Comnission, 1981. Lowel1 city directories, 1846-1900. Vital records, Massachusetts State Archives. Courier-Citizen, March 1, 1926. Cambridge, MA. Maps and Atlases: 1856, 1875, 1879, 1889, 1896, 1906, 1924, 1936. JASO Form - 17 "R" June 1984 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Brown-Maynard House Middlesex County MASSACHUSETTS - resubmission - nomination by person or local government - owner objection -appeal Substantive Review: -sample Reviewer's comments: -request -appeal JUN 3 1986 Working No. Fed. Reg.
Date: 7/3/86 = Date Due: _ 7/18/86 Action: -_ACCEPT LRETURN 6-20-86 _REJECT Federal Agency: LJ 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? 7. Description yes - no Condition -excellent - good Lfair -deteriorated -ruins -unexposed Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance Check one -unaltered Daltered - 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 L clarity Japplicable criteria J justification of areas checked -relating significance to the resource J context - relationship of integrity to significance L justification of exception -other 9. Major Bibliographical References X 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property Quadrangle name. UTM References Verbal boundary description and justification Pleae giie acvense romenaten Spit in ace mnstend If Apuare 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 13.
Other date -Maps - Photographs -Other Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to - Sioned. aBya - Date 6/20/86 _ Phone: GPO 918-450 Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet NPS Form 10-900 (3-82) 102--1-88 United States Department of the Interior NationalPark Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms Type all entries - complete applicable sections 1. Name For NPS use only received JUN date entered 3 1986 JUL - 2 1986 historic Brown-Maynard House and or common 2. Location same street & number 84 Tenth Street N/A not for publication city, town Lowell N/Avicinity of state Massachusetts 3.
Classification Category district Ownership - public X building(s) Xprivate _ structure both site Public Acquisition object - in process N/A being considered code 025 county Middlesex code 017 Status x occupied _ unoccupied -work in progress Accessible Xyes: restricted - yes: unrestricted _ no Present Use - agriculture commercial educational - entertainment - government industrial military museum park X private residence religious scientific - transportation - other: 4. Owner of Property name Ted Trivers street & number New England Communities , One Washington Street city, town Wellesley N/A-vicinity of 5. Location of Legal Description state Massachusetts 02181 courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Northern Middlesex Registry of Deeds street & number 360 Gorham Street city, town Lowel1 state Massachusetts 6.
Representation in Existing Surveys Inventory of the Historic Assets of title the Commonwealth # 626 has this property been determined eligible? yes _ no date 1980 tederal X state county .local depository for survey records Boston Massachsuetts Historical Commission, 80 Boylston Street city, town state Massachusetts 7. Description Condition Xexcellent - good -fair deteriorated ruins unexposed Brown-Maynard House, Lowell, MA Check one _X unaltered altered Check one X original site - moved date Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance The Brown-Maynard House is located on a 46,617-sauare-foot rectangular lot on the north side of Tenth Street in Centralville, an urban residential neighborhood of Lowel1 on the north bank of the Merrimack River.
Sited on a slight incline, the freestanding two-story house abuts early- to mid-20th century houses to the west, north, and east, and Tenth Street to the south. A cut granite-block retaining wall with entrance posts and steps edges the sidewalk. The neighborhood consists primarily of modest 20th century dwellings erected on land formerly associated with mid-19th century estates or in agricultural use. The nominated property originally consisted of two acres, reduced to its present size by 1862. Erected circa 1852-1853, the Brown-Maynard House is characteristic of the Italianate style. It is square in plan with two rear wings. The foundation is partially exposed granite block, and the walls are sheathed with clapboards; corners are accented with paneled pilasters. The shallow hip roof features a sauare bracketed belvedere with three round-head windows on each side.
At the cornice level are paired pendant brackets. Fenestration is regularly spaced. Original six-over-six double-hung sash is enframed by molded window caps on modillions, louvered shutters, and sills with modillions. The primary feature of the south (front) and west elevations, four and five bays respectively, is the verandah supported by eight Doric columns. It extends the full width of the south elevation and the front three bays of the west, which are recessed to fully integrate the verandah into the elevation. The main entrance to the building is within the recessed portion: an octagonal paneled door enframed by an etched glass transom and partial sidelights, set within a fluted door surround. The adjacent windows are elongated. The east elevation contains three widely spaced windows on the second story; on the first story, windows are set into only the rear two bays.
The rear (north) of the house extends north in a series of wings. The first is a two-story, hip roof structure sided with clapboards. Its window, cornice, and corner treatment is similar but simpler than that of the main house. The wing appears to be contemporaneous to it. On its east elevation is a later one-story portico sheltering a secondary entrance; the wall beneath the portico is faced with tongue and groove boarding. attached shingled1/-story sedwitha pairofdonble doorsadsiitngt window above in the north end. The shed appears to have been built ca. 1900. A large frame barn which stood at the rear of the house was removed in the mid 20th century.
Continued NPS Form 10-900-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form Brown-Maynard House, Lowell, Massachusetts Continuation sheet Item number OMB NO. 1024-0018 Expires 10-31-87 For NPS usa ont received 6//s4 date entered 7 Page 1 The interior of the house has been little altered since it was constructed and exhibits some distinctive features characteristic of the Italianate period. The ground story front parlor has a cast-iron appliaue with inlay fireplace. A gold gilt cornice and center medallion highlight the ceiling, while projecting, ornate cases frame the full-height windows. The dining room, originally the music room and located just north of the parlor, features a marble mantle supported by cast-iron brackets.
The entry hall has an exceptionally fine freestanding curved stairway of mahogany. Archaeology While no prehistoric sites are currently recorded on the property, the location on a south-facing slope and proximity to Pawtucket Falls suggest a moderate potential presence of significant sites. Significant archaeoloaical potential also exists on the property, especially occupation-related features (pits, privies, wells) and the foundations of buildinas no donaer extant. Analysis of these features would help to document mhl superintendent's fanieconomic patterns that characterized this prosperous 8.
Significance Brown-Maynard House, Lowell, Massachusetts Period prehistoric 1400-1499 1500-1599 1600-1699 1700-1799 X 1800-1899 X 1900- Areas of Significance - Check and justify below -..archeology-prehistoric community planning _X archeology-historic conservation - agriculture economics X architecture education _art engineering X commerce exploration/settlement communications X industry invention landscape architecture law literature military music philosophy politics/government religion science sculpture social/ humanitarian theater _ transportation _X other (specify) community development Specific dates ca. 1852-1853 Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) Builder/Architect Unknown The Brown-Maynard House possesses integrity of location, design, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association.
It is an exceptional example of a wel1-designed and well-preserved Italianate-style house, built during a period of extreme growth and rising affluence in Lowell. The property's historical significance lies in its associations with Lowell's industrial and commercial development, for its successive owners, Samuel Brown and Caleb Maynard, both profited directly from the city's prosperity in the mid to late 19th century. The building thus meets criteria A and C of the National Register of Historic Places on the local level. Until the early 19th century, Centralville was a sparsely settled agricultural community within the Town of possibilities for residential subdivision, petitioned the General Court in 1825 for a bridge to link Centralville with the developing town of Lowell.
Over the next several decades, the land closest to the river was slowly built up with modest housing and tenements whose residents included skilled laborers and mill workers. Tenth Street, originally the colonial route to Methuen, was on the outer edge of the subdivision. Here, and on the elevated sites north and east, a number of substantial, stylish houses were built during the mid 19th century. Together with a less imposing Italianate-style house at 104 Tenth Street built in the 1850s, the Brown-Maynard House was among the first residences constructed on the street. It remained somewhat isolated well into the 20th century, when a number of modest single- and two-family residences were built as infill. The Italianate style was popular in Centralville as elsewhere in the third auarter of the 19th century.
Most examples, however, were modest side-hall-plan, 1 1/2 or 2 1/2-story buildings with front-facing gable and perhaps a polygonal bay on the front facade. The Brown-Maynard House, with its square plan, Doric-columned verandah, abundance of paired pendanted brackets, and shallow hipped roof capped by a belvedere, is a more unusual and pretentious expression of the style. Only scattered examples of this exceptional design exist in Centralville: the three-bay Capen House, 214 Third Street, also with a belvedere, and the above-mentioned 104 Tenth Street are two other examples. The intact state of the Brown-Maynard House makes it particularly notable. 84 Tenth Street was probably built by Samuel Brown in 1852-1853. Though Brown purchased the two-acre parcel from Seth Gage in 1845, he was not recorded at this address for eight years.
At that time, Brown was the superintendent at Al though Lowell's tbrpBrsttons Hreauently brovided mousingo for its superintendentsandagents, 84 Tenth Street was apparently Brown's own home. His stylish residence is Continued 9. Major Bibliographical References See continuation sheet 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated propery 46,617 sq. ft. Quadrangle name UT M References * L19/ 13|111/5120| L417/214/71810| Zone Easting Northing cLu (less than one acre) Quadrangle scale 1:25,000 BL LILIL Zone Easting -LLLILL FLU LLILLL Northing LLILL GLILLILLL LlLuL Verbal boundary description and justification The nominated property includes the entire lot associated with 84 Tenth Street, as outlined in red on the attached engineers' .map and described in Book 1406, page 501 at the Northern Middlesex County Registry of Deeds.
List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries state N/A code county code state code county code 11. Form Prepared By Betsy Friedberg, Preservation Planner, MHC, with Nancy Doonan and Elizabeth name/title Durfee Hengen organization Massachusetts Historical Commission date May 1986 street & number 80 Boylston Street telephone 617-727-8470 city or town Boston state Massachsuetts 02116 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: national _ state x- local As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service.
State Historic Preservation Officer signature Valerie A. Talmage Executive Director, Massachusetts Historical Commission title State Historic Preservation Officer date 5/28/86 For NPS use only I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register lurey yu Registen date 7-2-86 Keeper of the National Register AI Chief of Registration GPO 911-399 date NPS Form 10-900-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form Brown-Maynard House, Lowell, Massachusetts Continuation sheet Item number 8 OMB NO.1024-0018 Expires 10-31-87 For NPS ue recerved GE9LYE date entered Page indicative of the prosperity and high standing within the community which a mill superintendent--a crucial figure in the city's mid 19th century industries--could attain.
Aeting Bought yeCthebn Israei thee per Matnara ind thragh seaed masaens eeof Wheeler Maynard in 1873. Maynard was a native of Temple, New Hampshire where he attended district schools and later became engaged in farming. Following a short stay in Boston, where he was employed as a clerk in a hardware business, Maynard arrived in Lowell in 1845 with his brother to open a fancy dry goods store at 142 Merrimack Street. (Merrimack Street was, and remains, the busy heart of Lowell's central business district (Merrimack-Middle Street Historic District, NR 1979). Its buildings, most constructed between 1870 and 1895, remain an important collection of five-story brick commercial examples of popular mid Victorian styles.) The brothers continued to operate the store for over fifty years and were particularly known for their laces and trimming goods.
A recognized resident of Lowell, Maynard was a member of the Republican party and the Middlesex Mechanic Association. Subseauent to his death in 1903, the property, then valued at $10,000, was beaueathed to his daughter, Caroline Bramhall. The house remained in Maynard's family for over eighty years. Though the Brown-Maynard House is primarily significant for its exceptionally high quality Italianate architecture, it is also important as a reflection of the lifestyles of men prominent in 19th-century industry and commerce in Lowell. Neither Brown nor Maynard were themselves exceptional individuals; rather they held positions which, by the importance of their contribution to 19th century life in Lowell, have significance under criterion A. The grand architecture of the Brown-Maynard House exemplifies the importance of these two men within the social structure of 19th century Lowell.
NPS Form 10-900-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form Brown-Maynard House, Lowell, Massachusetts Continuation sheet Item number 9 OMB No. 1024-0018 Expires 10-31-87 For HPS ue onh recelved #/3/y6) date entered Page 1 Major Bibliographical References Coburn, Silas, History of Dracut, Massachusetts. Press of the Courier-Citizen Co., Lowel1, 1922. Courier-Citizen Co., Illustrated History of Lowell and Vicinity. 1897. Lowell Historical Society, Contributions of the Lowell Historical Society. Vol.2. Lowell: Butterfield Printing Co., 1926 Coburn,istorecack lblististory.f History of Lowell and Its People. Vol.1. NYC: Lewis Hengen, Elizabeth Durfee, The Lowell Neighborhoods: An Historical and Architectural Overview.
City of LowelT & Massachusetts Historical Commission, Lowel1 city directories, 1846-1900. Vital records, Massachusetts State Archives. Courier-Citizen, March 1, 1926. Oral interview with Dorothy Waterhouse, March 8, 1984 Northern Middlesex Registry of Deeds, Lowell, MA. Registry of Probate,856, 1875, 1879, 1889, 1896, 1906, 1924, 1936. East Cambridge Court House, Cambridge, MA. 61 7506 08.42 62 83.32 61.I0 52 6782 60 5l 199/ 57.30 104.4 20 VARNUM 109.5 50 sfll 72.75 56 9502 75.25 69 110.95 131.60 215.3 83.50 STREET 107.68 STREET 00,05 79 10730 50 66 14688 68.5 SIII 219.78 80 11759 52.39 AlV T2 12452 60 100.25 190 7.500 223.79 93 8443 52.39 Brown-Maynard House 84 Tenth Street Lowel1, Massachusetts 91.88 A2 60 75 MYRTLE 50) STREET 228.63 84 21458 225.44 34.64 - 100 145 Ineso + 96 21463 94 61.26 City of Lowell, Engineering Dept.
"Topographical Plan of Land in Lowell", 1980 Sheet 196 1"=50' A 62,44 104 17350 78 TENTH 100.09 87 100 112 5714 50 50 90.2 150 6763 75.14 BEECH STREET 62.23 149 10506 3: 163 2100~11- Sheet 196 195 Topo Tran zz Landin La 76001460 WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Brown--Maynard House Middlesex County MASSACHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government - owner objection appeal Substantive Review: -sample Reviewer's comments: request Working No. 6-3-86 Fed. Reg. Date: 2/3187 Date Due: _ 8-11-86 Action: LACCEPT...
Entered in the Nationel Iegister - RETURN REJECT Federal Agency: -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? 7. Description Condition -excellent good fair J yes Lno - deteriorated Druins J unexposed Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance Check one -unaltered Daltered J summary paragraph completeness clarity J alterations/integrity L 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) LJ summary paragraph L completeness LJ clarity - applicable criteria justification of areas checked -relating significance to the resource - context Lrelationship of integrity to significance -justification of exception Dother 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 13.Other date -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 BROWN-MAYNARD HOUSE 84 Tenth Street, Lowell, MA Photographed by Vern Letourneau February 1984 Negative filed at Photo 10f2 Photo #1: View looking northeast at south (facade) and west elevations BROWN-MAYNARD HOUSE 84 Tenth Street, Lowell, MA Photographed by Vern Letourneau February 1984 Negative filed at Photo 2 of z Photo #2: View looking northwest at south (facade) and east elevations PEXid The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of the Secretary of State Michael Joseph Connolly, Secretary Massachusetts Historical Commission Valerie A.
Talmage Executive Director State Historic Preservation Officer May 29, 1986 ?157781123 Carol Shull National Register of Historic Places Department of Interior National Park Service P.O. Box 37127 Washington, DC 20013-7127 Dear Ms. Shull: Enclosed you will find the following nomination forms: Amherst, EAST VILLAGE HISTORIC DISTRICI, Located on Main, North tast and South East Streets. Beverly, HOSE HOUSE #2, 30 Rantoul Street. Lowel1, BROWN - MAYNARD HOUSE, 84 Tenth Street. All have been voted eligible by the State Review Board and have been meupeang ams rane aronter the oportunty to a l, orent recetted to date are attached to the nomination forms. Sincerely, Särak Zimmorman Sarah Zimmerman Director, Preservation Planning Massachusetts Historical Commision SZ/dr Enc.
80 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 (617) 727-8470 JUN 3 1986 GRRE BTIOCRACLA P 093 546397 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of the Secretary of State Michael Joseph Connolly, Secretary Massachusetts Historical Commission Valerie A. Talmage Executive Director State Historic Preservation Officer June 24, 1986 Carol Shull, Keeper National Register of Historic Places Dept. of the Interior National Park Service P.O. Box 37127 Washington, DC 20013-7127 Dear Ms. Shull: Enclosed is a corrected nomination to the National Register, the Brown- Maynard House at 84 Tenth Street in Lowell, Massachusetts. The acreage has been indicated. Sincerely, sally Zimmernan Sarah J. Zimmerman Director, Preservation Planning Massachusetts Historical Conmission SJZ/dr Enclosure ..JUN 2T.1986 1980 80 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 (617) 727-8470
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