Nomination for Richardson Block

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5/9/86 NPS Form 10-900 (3-82) s/1/86 OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 United States Department of the Interior National Park 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 2 5 1986 date entered historic Richardson Block and or common same 2. Location street & number 113-151 Pearl St.; 109-119 High St. n/anot for publication Boston city, town n/a vicinity of Massachusetts 025 state Suffolk code 025 county code 3.

Classification Category _ district X building(s) structure site object Ownership - public private both Public Acquisition N/A in process being considered Sfatus occupied unoccupied work in progress Accessible X yes: restricted _ yes: unrestricted no Present Use agriculture X commercial educational entertainment government industrial military museum park private residence religious scientific transportation other: 4. Owner of Property name multiple; see data sheet street & number city, town vicinity of 5. Location of Legal Description state Suffolk County Registry of Deeds courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. street & number Pemberton Square city, town Boston 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Inventory of Historic Assets of the title Commonwealth of Massachusetts _ has this property been determined eligible?

state Massachusetts X - yes _ no date 1980 _federal X _ state - county - local depository for survey records Massachusetts Historical Commission, 80 Boylston Street city, town Boston state Massachusetts 7. Description Richardson Block , Boston. Mass. Condition excellent X good fair deteriorated ruins unexposed Check one unaltered X altered Check one original site moved date Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

The Richardson Block, located in Boston's Central Business District, is composed of nine attached marble and brick commercial buildings with principal facades on Pear! Street, secondary ones on High and Purchase Streets, and rear walls facing Gridley Street. With the exception of 115-1/ Pearl Street, the buildings are four stories in height and have marble front facades and side, party, and rear walls of brick. Designed as a unit, the marble-fronted buildings were built from 1873-1876 and exhibit the Neo-Grec architectural style. Most of the storefronts retain cast iron columns and granite lintels, but some are obscured by modern facades. Common elements among the marble-faced group include incised floral ornament in the window enframements and a variety of flat, triangular, and segmental arched-decorative lintels.

The regular fenestration pattern and continuous sill courses throughout the buildings also contribute to their unified appearance. Descriptive information on the individual buildings is organized beginning with the unit at the corner of Pearl and High Streets, then progressing southeastward building by building. 113 Pearl Street/109-119 High Street This 5-by-6-bay corner structure is basically trapezoidal in plan with diagonal corner bays at High Street's intersection with Pearl and Gridley Streets. Marble is used for the Pearl Street facade, front, and rear corner bays, while the High Street facade is of red brick. Window enframements vary with each story. On the Pearl Street facade, those on the second floor alternate flat and triangular pediments; those on the third floor feature segmental arches, while those on the fourth floor are rectangular.

Wooden sash were removed in 1964 and replaced with awning-type al uminum windows. Corregated metal extends across the facade at parapet level. The High Street facade is six bays wide, having regular rectangular fenestration at the fourth story. At the first through third levels, similar openings fill the first and sixth bays while paired openings fill the third and fourth. Within the third story's central broad segmental-arched window enframement, the year "1873" is incised in a marble panel. Contrasting with the brick wall surface are marble sill and lintel courses. Entrances are located in the two corner bays and the first bay on Pearl Street. Atlas research indicates that this was originally two separately owned structures, but by 1890 they had come under single ownership.

The architect's drawings for this building indicate steps leading up to entries in the first three bays on Pearl Street, while the fourth, fifth, and corner bays were shop windows. Alterations in 1920 closed up two of the three entries. A scrolled bracketed cornice, appearing to be of marble, crowned the facade, and the hipped metal roof was surmounted by wrought iron cresting. The current aluminum fascia was installed at cornice level in 1958. Continued NPS Form10-900-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form Richardson Block, Boston, Mass Continuation sheet Item number 2 RICHARDSON BLOCK DATA SHEET Address Parcel # Date 4179 1873 Architect Wm. G. Preston 113 Pearl St./ 109-119 High St. 115-117 Pearl St. 4180 1885 George W. Pope OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp.

10-31-84 For NPS use only received date entered Page 1 121-125 Pearl St. 129-131 Pearl St. 4181 4182 1874-76 Wm. G. Preston 1873 Wm. G. Preston 133-135 Pearl St. 4183 1873 Wm. G. Preston 137-139 Pearl St. 141-143 Pearl St. 4184 4185 145-147 Pearl St. 151 Pearl St. 4186 4187 1873 Wm. G. Preston 1873 1873 Wm. G. Preston Wm. G. Preston 1873 Wm. G. Preston Owner Name/Mailing Address Bruno Dunn Realty Corp. 113 Pearl St. Boston, MA 02110 Sargent T. Collier c/o Hamlen Collier & Co. 10 Liberty Square Boston, MA 02109 Sargent Collier Trsts c/o Hamlen Collier & Co. 10 Liberty Square Boston, MA 02109 Sargent Collier Trsts c/o Hamlen Collier & Co. 10 Liberty Square Boston, MA 02109 Dorothy F. Billings 133 Pearl Street Boston, MA 02110 Martin F. Gavin, Jr. Trsts 137 Pearl St. Boston, MA 02110 Mass Bar Gel Corp. 141 Pearl St. Boston, MA 02110 Nick Andritsakis, et al 147 Pearl St.

Boston, MA 02110 Antonio Natola, et al 149 Pearl St. Boston, MA 02110 NPS Form 10-000-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form Continuation sheet Richardson Block, Boston, Mass. Item number 1 OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 For NPS use only received date entered Page 1 #115-117 Pearl St. This structure differs from the remainder of the group by its Victorian Commercial style(built 1885), 5-story height and red brick material, but maintains similar scale and continues the facade line along Pearl St. It is a five story red brick structure which is 6 bays in width. It is a Victorian Commercial style building which retains its square fluted cast iron piers and lintel at storefront level. A contemporary storefront treatment is now recessed several feet behind the piers.

The cornice is composed of corbelled brick coursing beneath a brownstone crown molding. End piers extend above the cornice, terminate in metal caps and are inset with square terra cotta tiles at cornice level. The regular fenestration is characterized by rectangular openings, brownstone sill and lintel courses, and decorative brickwork at the window reveals' vertical edges. Original window sash have been replaced with metal frame one over one sash units. Star-shaped caps of iron tie rods are located on the lintel courses between windows at levels 2-4. 129-131 Pearl St. This buflding forms the centerpiece of the block, projecting slightly from the remainder of the group. This three bay unit is set off by pilasters, and a marble panel with "Richardson Block" in raised letters appears above the third story windows.

A metal modillion block cornice (which also extends across numbers 119-127 and 133-135) crowns the facade and is capped by a triangular pediment with palmette acroterion. 121-125, 133-135, 137-139, and 141-143 Pearl St. Each of these buildings is three bays wide. In #121-135, windows of the three bays are now fitted with metal frame, one over one double hung sash and the metal cornice is intact. #141-143 retains original 2/2 wooden sash on third and fourth floors, but remaining windows are metal awning-type units. Original fabric at storefront level is obscured on all three of these buildings. Replacement brick is found at the cornice level from 133-135, through 151 Pearl. Window enframements of #133-5, 137-9, 141-3 feature flat pediments at level 2, segmental arches at level 3, and rectangular lintels at level 4.

Continued NPSForm10-900-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form Richardson Block, Boston, Mass. Continuation sheet Item number OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 For NPS use only received date entered 7 Page 2 145-147 and 151 Pearl St./163 Purchase St. comprise two units of 3 and 2 bays respectively, on Pearl st. replaced by brick for #145-7. The corner bay of 151 Pearl St./163 Purchase St. is rounded, and the Purchase St. facade is brick, 4 bays in width. Marble string courses contrast with the wall surface. Window openings are segmentally arched, but most have been filled in. Al though the buildings of the Richardson Block are located in a section of the City that was ruined in the fire of 1873, the site must be considered as naving some archeological potential.

Much of the Fort Hill area was lowered after the fire, but given the scale of these buildings earlier materials may have survived.

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Significance Richardson Block, Boston, Mass. Period prehistoric 1400-1499 1500-1599 1600-1699 1700-1799 X 1800-1899 1900 Areas of Significance - Check and justify below archeology-prehistoric community planning archeology-historic conservation agriculture economics architecture education X art engineering commerce exploration/settlement communications industry invention landscape architecture law literature military music philosophy politics/government religion science sculpture social/ humanitarian theater transportation other (specify) Specific dates 1873, 1874-76, 1885 Builder

Statement of significance

/Architect William G. Preston; George W. Pope (see data sheet) StatementofSignificance (in one paragraph) The Richardson Block possesses integrity of location, design, materials, workmanship, setting, and association and is significant as a distinguished example of Neo-Grec commercial architecture, an early work by the eminent Boston architect William Gibbons Preston. An early post-fire block with rare marble facade, the structure has historical assocations with the city's economically important leather industry. The group remains as a rare survivor in an area now dominated by modern high-rise office towers. As such, the Richardson Block meets criteria A and C of the National Register of Historic Places.

In the Boston Landmarks Commission's Central Business District Preservation Study (1980) of 809 buildings, this building was evaluated to of significance to the city of Boston (Group III). Originally the site occupied by the Richardson Block was part of a large open area that was known as Fort Field and used for grazing animals. To the east the land sloped upward to Fort Hill, one of the three hills originally located on the Shawmut Peninsula. As the town of Boston grew, the landfill process began and homes and businesses expanded. By 1772, Bonner's map of Boston shows that Gridlev Street had been laid out and several houses built along its length. The area just west of Gridley Street remained vacant except for three ropewalks. In 1794, as population pressures were increasing, a fire destroyed the ropewalks near Pearl Street and advantageously opened up the area for residential use.

The ropewalks were reestablished in another marsh flat at the end of the Common and very soon large garden residences and mansions were established on what is now the southern end of Pearl Street. Josiah Quincy, Mayor of Boston and President of Harvard College, Jonathan Harris, and James and Thomas Perkins all built fine homes in this area. In the late 1790s on a cote, Oo stere the tot the site of the Richardson Block, Jeffrey Richardson, owner of one of the burned ropewalks, built his home. The period of the Fort Hill/Pear1 Street area as a location for fine residences appeared and disappeared very quickly. The wealthy merchants, who owned large tracts of land, succumbed quickly to the rising value of the land, and sold or moved out by the 1840s.

From this point on, this section of the South End became a business and commercial area and the slopes of Fort Hill were crowned with immigrant tenements. In 1866, in an attempt to clean up these streets and fill in the newly created Atlantic Avenue, the city of Boston leveled Fort Hill. Continued 9.

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Major Bibliographical References See continuation sheet 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated propertyless than one Quadrangle name Boston South UT M References AL9 [313017 7 5] Zone Easting 14691949 Northing CLI E Quadrangle scale 1:25,000 B Zone Easting Northing DLLLILL FLL LLIL HLI LILILLL LILL Verbal boundary description and justification Nominated properties conform to assessors' parcel numbers 4179-4187, inclusive. This includes entire lots on which the buildings stand. See attached Assessor's Map. 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 Carol Kennedy name/title Boston Landmarks Commission Massachusetts Historical Commission organization 80 Boylston St. street & number date May 1986 (617) 727-8470 telephone city or town Boston state Massachusetts 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 title Executive Director, Massachsuetts Historical Commission date State Historic Preservation Officer 6/12/86 For NPS use only I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register tlure Entered in the Jyer National Regieter date 8/9/16 /Kéeper of the National Register Attest: Chief of Registration date U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1983 0 - 419-311 NPS Form 10-900-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form Richardson Block, Boston, Mass. Continuation sheet Item number OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 For NPS use only received date entered 8 Page 1 The business that took over the area vacated by the wealthy homeowners was the leather industry. Massachusetts, by the 1830s, had become the center for the production of leather boots and shoes, and the Boston area alone produced one-third of the country's total While most of the actual production of shoes and boots was done outside of Boston in towns and villages such as Lynn, Haverhill, Danvers, Brockton, Stoughton, and Hudson, it was Boston that became the business and marketing center for the industry.

Boston also provided the inventive genius that produced stitching and pegging machinery which revolutionized the industry and further retained Massachusett's prominence in the manufacture of leather goods. Originally, the leather industry was located around the North and South Markets, near Fulton and Blackstone Streets, in order to have accesibility to transportation. Dealers and manufacturers maintained sales offices and showrooms in the city and it was from these offices that the trade took place. The American House Hotel on Hanover Street acted as an informal business center, housing out-of-town dealers and providing a meeting place for manufacturers. By the 1850's however, the leather district had begun to move southward into the Pearl and High Street area and the exchange moved with it.

Soon, "block after block of dwellings on High Street were levelled to make room for warehouses "Richard Herndon, Boston of Today, p. 8). In 1865, there were over 200 jobbing houses in Boston with annual domestic and foreign trade of over $50,000,000, fifty times the amount of 28 years previous. By 1860, New England was making not less than 80% of the shoes for the domestic trade. By 1869, leather dealers had formally organized into the New England Shoe and Leather Association, and had established themselves in a central location in the new district, at 107 Pearl Street at the corner of High Street. Richardson Block, across the street from the Association, was obviously a prime location. Photographs of the period show sturdy granite warehouses occupied almost exclusively by leather dealers and shoe and boot companies.

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 Continuation sheet Richardson Block, Boston, Mass. Item number 8 OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 For NPS use only received date entered Page 2 The great fire of November 10,1872, which levelled Boston's Central Business District, also devastated the physical center of the shoe and leather industry. All of the wholesale shoe and leather houses, except for a few on Hanover Street, were burned; 229 wholesale shoe dealers, 189 leather concerns, and about 100 firms in related businesses were destroyed. After the fire, the district was rebuilt, and for several years, the trade continued to cling to it. The Association headquarters relocated several times after the fire, finally settling in 1383, at 79-87 Bedford Street.

This foreshadowed the move that the entire district make towards the Summer Street/Church Green area. Eventualiy, the leather district moved into Lincoln and South Streets near the railroad lines. That area is now listed in the National Register as the Leather District. During the 19th century, the property at 109-151 Pearl Street, which was owned by the sons of Jeffrey Richardson, was divided into several lots. In approximately 1856 a granite warehouse was put up on the site. A portion of the land was acquired in 1858 by noted architect Jonathan Preston (father of William Preston). Much of the Richardson Block was erected the year following the great fire. Continuing the pre-Fire use, leather-related enterprises such as hides and leather and wholesale boot and shoe dealers occupied the entire block upon completion.

By 1889, the firms noted in the Illustrated Boston show that most of the block had been taken over by companies selling noveTties and patent medicines with the few remaining leather-related businesses dealing mostly in harnesses and saddlery. Clearly the trade had moved on. The Richardson Block provides an example of buildings conceived as a single design unit, but in which individual owners were responsible for construction on their particular parcel. Similar type commercial blocks in Boston are the North and South Market Buildings and State Street Block. Such an ownership pattern is reflected by the contrast of number 115-117 Pearl St., a later (1885) red brick Victorian commercial structure in the midst of the earlier (1873-1876) white marble Neo-Grec block. This parcel, two lots in 1874, remained vacant for 13 years following the 1872 fire.

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 Richardson Block, Boston, Mass Continuation sheet Item number OMB No.1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 For NPS use only received date entered 8 Page 3 Architect William Gibbons Preston (1844-1910), a graduate of Harvard College, studied briefly in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

At first in association with his well-known father Jonathan, and later on his own, Preston designed major Boston buildings in the French Academic, Romanesque, Queen Anne and Renaissance Revival manners, including the Museum of Natural History (1864; now Bonwit Teller's in the Back Bay National Register District), the earliest portion of the Hotel Vendome (1871-2), the Chadwick Leadworks (1887, in Customhouse National Register District), the First Corps of Cadets Armory (1887; National Register and Boston Landmark, 1977), and the International Trust Company Building (1893; 1906; National Register and Boston Landmark, 1978). He also designed numerous Back Bay residences, and Preston's facility with a range of late 19th century architectural styles evidenced by the diversity of his works.

In addition, Preston is responsible for numerous notable New England residences and vacation houses in Brookline, Marshfield, Falmouth, Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, and Rye, New Hampshire, as well as others in Ohio, New York, South Carolina, and New He also designed several important public and commercial buildings in Savannah, Georgia, including the 1886 Cotton Exchange, the Chatham County Courthouse and the Hotel DeSoto (both in 1889), and the Guards Armory, in 1892. The Richardson Block is executed in the Neo-Grec style. This style has its roots in works done in the 1840s by two French architects, Henri Labrouste and Eugene Violet-le-Duc. These architects exagerrated simple Greek construction elements, revealing the structural nature of the bearing members by compressing columns and flattening segmental arches.

In the 1860s, in The characteristic features of this style as it appeared in the 1860s and 70s are metopes, frets and acrotinas. Victorian interest in the picturesque is evident in the use of rosettes, guilloches and floral elements. Neo-Grec style buildings were often executed in white marble, partly because of classical associations, but also because the detailing was more easily distinguished when done in marble. Continued NPS Form10-900-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form Richardson Block, Boston, Mass. Continuation sheet Item number 8 OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 For NPS use only recelved date entered Page 4 The Richardson Block typifies the Neo-Grec style. The sill courses create a horizontal emphasis which is intensified by the horizontal regularity of the fenestration.

Classical architectural elements are expressed in the pedimented and segmentally arched windows. Pilasters on the corners of the bays are a vertical element, but their flattened appearence, along with the heaviness of the window surrounds, create a feeling of solid weightiness. sare a ountero The floral ornamentation and varied fenestration are a counterpoint to this, bringing a lightness and interest to an otherwise plain facade. The Richardson Block, with its French inspired characteristics, reflected a trend that was typical of this period throughout the city. Boston, in the 1860s and 70s, was greatly influenced by French architectural ideas. During the 1860s, Preston, Richard Morris Hunt and Arthur Gilman were studying in France. The fire of 1872, andthe rebuilding it necessitated, provided these architects with numerous oppurtunities to express their classical training.

The Richardson Block, while not as elaborate as many of the buildings designed after the fire, is interesting asa rare example of the Neo-Grec style executed on a more modest scale for commercial use. INDIVIDUAL BUILDINGS: 113 Pearl St. Constructed in 1873, this corner structure was owned in 1874 by Jeffrey Richardson, heirs of Elisha N. Holbrook, and Jerome A. Bacon. In 1877, the occupant of what is now #113 (1874 Atlas: #109-115; Whiting: #-1 Was the firm of Davis & Whitcomb, boots & shoes in cases. 115-117 Pearl St. This structure was erected in 1885, and designed and constructed by builder GeorgeW. Pope for owner John Howard Lee, whowas in business with E.L. Sanborn as J.H. Lee and Co., sellers of boots and shoes. The two lots of land on which this building stands had been owned by Barnabas Hammatt in the 1870's. Edwin L. Sanborn purchased the property from Hammatt in 1885.

The following year, the land with the new stores was conveyed by Sanborn and Lee to Arioch Wentworth in an apparent mortgage foreclosure. Wentworth was in business as Arioch Wentworth and Co., marble workers, at 17 Haverhill. Continued NPS Form 10-200-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form Richardson Block, Boston, Mass. Continuation sheet Item number OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 For NPS use only received date entered 8 Page 5 Builder George W. Pope was responsible for a number of Boston buildings during the 1870's to late 1890's, including: 707 and 727-731 Boylston, 22-24 and 26-30 Lincoln; 11-17 East; 85-89 Essex (the Edinboro Building); 71-73 Summer; three houses at 144-148 Commonwealth Ave., and the West Newton Union Congregational Church. 121-125 Pearl St.

This parcel of the block was vacant in 1874 and owned by Clement, Colburn and Co., a boot and shoe concern then operating at 124 Summer St. By 1877 the Pearl Street structure was completed and occupied by M. Frank Paige, dealer in boots and shoes in cases. 129-131 Pearl St. This section of the Richardson block was built in 1873, and owned in 1874 by Isaiah D. Richards. Richards and Sons were in business selling wines, cigars, etc. at 87 State St. that year, while Claflin and Thayer wholesale boot and shoe dealers were housed in the Pearl St. building. 133-135 Pearl St. Erected in 1873, this building was owned in 1874 by Josiah M. Jones. Jones and Company operated a hides and leather concern nearby at 80 High St. In 1877, the basement was used for storage of green hides; the street level was occupied by Thomas O. Pray, boots and shoes in cases, and levels 2-4 were vacant.

By 1923, the structure was the Boston office of J.M. Huber, "one of the largest manufacturers in this country of Carbon, Black Dry Colors, Varnishes, Fine Letter Press, Lithographic, Rotogravure, News, Comic and Magic Inks" (Boston Herald; Sunday magazine section, May 20 of July 1, 1923). 137-139 Pearl St. Put up in 1873, this structure was owned in 1874 by the heirs of Isaac Williams, when Andrew G. Smith, wholesale boot and shoe dealer, and Edward Turner's hide and leather business were housed here. In 1877,leather trades occupied the entire structure: basement and street levels of the building were occupied by A.W. Hayden; floors 2 and 3 housed A.G. Smith jobbers, and H.L. Daggat and Co. was located on the fourth floor. All were dealers of boots and shoes in cases.

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 Richardson Block, Boston, Mass. Continuation sheet Item number OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 For NPS use only recelved date entered 8 Page 6 141-143 Pearl St. Built in 1873, this building was owned in 18/4 by Albert Tirrell, whose business was nearby at 149 Pearl. 1874 occupants included H. and D.W. Watrous, and Booth and Co., dealers in hides and leathers. Its occupants in 1877 were Booth & Co., storing salted sheep skins in the basement, Nichols & Dalton, leather, on the first story, and the upper stories were vacant. By 1923, Dalton Lighting Fixture Co. was located here. 145-147 Pearl St. Built in 1873; by 1874 the owner was John C.

Bucknam whose wholesale boot and shoe business was here, along with Bucknam, Rayner, and Co., dealers in hides and leather. In 1877, street level and basement were occupled byA. Knight, hides and leather; W. Mallard & Son, sheepskins, was at the second floor, and E.F. Maynard, finisher of harness leather, occupied the 3rd and 4th floors. 151 Pearl St. BuiTt in 1873, the structure was owned by Betsy Tirrell, with J. and A. Tirrell and Co. (hides and leather business) and W. and C. Blanchard (wholesale boot and shoe dealers) doing business here in 1874. In 1877 it was owner-occupied by J. & A. Tirrell & Co., sole leather dealer. 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 Richardson Block, Boston, Mass. Item number OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp.

10-31-84 For NPS use only received date entered 9 Page 1 BIBLIOGRAPHY Boston Herald; Sunday magazine section, May 20 or July 1, 1923. SPNEA clipping file. Boston Landmarks Commission. Central Business District Preservation Survey, Building Information Forms. On file at Boston Landmarks Commission, Boston City Hall. Deed records. Suffolk Registry of Deeds. 185:67. 228:202. 292:217. 708:209, 210, 21, 212. 724:177. 726:54, 67. Plan, 726:68. 736: 25, 26, 21, 28. 737:93. 811:171. 821: 26. 822:244. 850:50. 887:186. 924:225. 959:257. 1170:243. 1157:83. 1685:20. 1742:612. Boston City Directories. Hollister, Susan E. Boston University, 1983. Unpublished student report on potential designation of the Richardson Block as a Boston Landmark. On file at Boston Landmarks Commission Whiting, John. A Schedule of the Buildings and Their Occupancy... 1877. Withey, Henry F. and Elsie Rathburn.

Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased). Hennessey and Ingalls, Inc. Los Angeles. 1970. RYMARCH MLt OLIVER 33 FRANKLIN 606 U/C 2895 5398 9 1237 210 900 1887 NO 10 CUSTL 32 $794 880 38 816 404 1709 BATTERYMARCH STREET 83 85 8> 24,125 1858 M962 72-72A 1076 5400 BROAD 80 82 84 86 8g 91 93 95 97 L1a/ PARY STREET 7436 88 570 ST.

24,251 2031 521° 3502 212 1222 250 258 270 204 290 22294 30e 28° 283 2024 28) 2139 2318 STREET 99 3429 218 10,209 18 TREET 3500 174 176 172 WHARF 102 10 O5 3047 N 4303 880 STREET 99 19, 95 97 4202 3415 3187 3975 5567 0601 2154 10,693 206 200 190 192 194 184 STREET WENDELL 12,346 241 243 245 5, RAMP HIGH 13g 6365 67 717375 146 148 150 STREET '30 PARKING 22,987 FORT SQUARE HILL HIGH AICT 197 2009 195 191 2026 189 185 183 339 239/ >3 2995 + 165 2388a 3245 3055 130 STREET 3541 6427 8139 90 92 94 130 99,291 FORT HILL TATION 1270 85 (8ig) Richardson Block 113-151 Pearl Street Boston, MA (So. Quad) STREET MICN STREET 48,354 UTM References: 19/330775/4691040 scale: 1" = 100' Boston Assessor's Map Map #1 of 2 GRIDLEY SQUARE DEWEY M. B. T.

A SOUTH STATION 934,668 PARKING 4065 2440 ENTRANCE 8011 STREET 209 21,773 FIRST HIGH STREET PARKING GARAGE 7192 STREET KEYSTONE BUILDING 28,680 209 CONGRESS TL URCHASE EXP. BUS TERMINAL ATLANTIC GRIDLEY IDLE, STREET 3330 10. 76.606 STERN WE UNION TELEGRAPH CO 3,957 218220222 226228230 232 4560 - JOHN 624 18,446 17,603 330 340 -NELSON | 282 RESERVE 305 FEDERAL 272 Richardson Block 113-151 Pearl Street Boston, MA ( So.

Quad) UTM References: 19/330775/4691040 scale: 1" 100' Boston Assessor's Map #2 of 2 REARL 64,539 STREET- INE FITZGERALD EXPRESSWA 520 PARKING 1085 8600 1504 WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET - Richardson Block Suffolk County MASSACHUSETTS - resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: L sample Reviewer's comments: Jrequest Working No. UN 25 1986 Fed. Reg. Date: . Date Due: _ 8 3/56 7318 8/2/86 Entered in the Action:ACCEPT -_ 8/9/86 National Register -RETURN REJECT Federal Agency: - Lappeal 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? yes - no 7. Description Condition -excellent - good J fair deteriorated Jruins 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 Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) Builder/Architect summary paragraph compieters wul clárity applicable criteria justification of areas checked relating significance to the resource context relationship of integrity to significance justification of exception Jother 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 Richardson Block 113-151 Pearl St. Boston, Massachusetts Carol Kennedy, 1985 Negative on file at Boston Landmarks Commission Photo number l of 6 Northern oblique view; camera facing south from Pearl and High Streets NTERNATIONAL - HOUSE Richardson Block 113-151 Pearl St.

Boston, Massachusetts Carol Kennedy, 1985 Negative on file at Boston Landmarks Commission Photo number 2 of 6 Oblique view of northeast facades, #115-117, 133-135; camera facing south Carl's DELI Hestnurnnt COPY CENTE MAIN ENTR John W. Murray Company, Inc. OFFICE EQUIPMENT & SUPPLY CENTER S les - Servi e -Rentats Martins TOWN HOUSE FOOD & DRINK 3lul "ONE STOP OFFICE EQUIPMENT CENTER" -TYPEWRITERS -OFFICE FURNITURE - COPY MACHINES -CALCULATORS - STATIONERY SUPPLIES - PRINTING PRINTING WHILE U WAIT BUSINES! CARDS JOHN W MURRAY COMPANY INC 426-2312 PHOTO Richardson Block 113-151 Pearl St. Boston, Massachusetts Carol Rennedy, 1985 Negative on file at Boston Landmarks Commission Photo number 3 of 6 Oblique view of northeast facades, including #119-127, 133-135, 137-139, 141-143; camera facing south Richardson Block 113-151 Pearl St.

Boston, Massachusetts Carol Kennedy, 1985 Negative on file at Boston Landmarks Commission Photo number 4 of 6 Eastern oblique view; camera facing west from Pearl and Purchase Streets (151 Pearl St. at left) ICH ARD S ON BLO Richardson Block 113-151 Pearl St. Boston, Massachusetts Carol Kennedy, 1985 Negative on file at Boston Landmarks Commission Photo number 5 of 6 Detail, upper stories of 129-131 Pearl St., showing portions of 121-125 and 133-135, northeast facades; camera facing southwest Richardson Block 113-151 Pearl St. Boston, Massachusetts Carol Kennedy, 1985 Negative on file at Boston Landmarks Commission Photo number 6 of 6 Western oblique view of corner bay at High and Gridley Streets; camera facing east 152 BF May 4, 1986 RECEIVED MAY - Y 1986 MASS.HIST. COMM. Massachusetts Historical Commission Valerie A.

Talmage Executive Director State Historic Preservation Officer 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts Re: 145-147 Pearl Street, Boston, Ma., 02110 we, Nikos Andritsakis, Anastasia Andritsakis, husband and wife, tenants by the entirety - owners of a one-half undivided interest in the above captioned property and George Vouloukos and fet Vouloukis, husband and said property and object to the listing of this property and the nomination thereof to the National Register of Historic Place.

Wrikees Anbritsakis Nikos Andritsakis mastasia Cbitakel Anastasia Andritsakis fucrok Uuladres George Vouloukos Aivrva Vovloutos Anama vouloukos COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS SUFFOLK, SS MAY 4, 1986 Then personally appeared before me the above named, Nikos Andritsakis, Anastasia Andritsakis, George Vouloukos and Natty Vouloukos, and acknowledgec the above statement to be their free act and deed, Notary Public William Goldberg My Commission Expires: 8/10/1990 May 4, 1986 S2 BP RECEIVED MAY - 9 1986 MASS. HIST. COMM. Massachusetts Historical Conmission Valerie A. Talmage Executive Director State Historic Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Ma., 02116 Re: 149-151 Pearl Street, Boston, Ma., 02110 I, Antonio Natola, certify that I ai the owner of the above captioned oroperty and object to the listing of this property and the nomination thereof to the National Register of Historic Place.

Netola Antonio Natola COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS SUFFOLK, SS MAY 4, 1986 Then personally appeared before me, Antonio Natola, and acknowledged the above statement to be his free act and deed, Notary Public William Goldberg My Commission Expires: 8/9/1990 #1 013 54 TIVP LIANTAND 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 12, 1986 Carol Shull Chief of Registration National Register of Historic Places Dept. of Interior, NPS P.O. Box 37127 Washington, D.C. 20013-7127 Dear Ms. Shull: Enclosed you will find fifteen nominations forms for properties in Boston and Richmond, Massachusetts. Eleven of the Boston properties are being submitted for Determinations of Eligibility due to owner objection.

The remaining properties are being submitted for nomination to the National Register. Owner objections have been received for the Appleton, Auchmuty, Federal Reserve, 20-30 Bromfield, Hemenway, National Shawmut Bank, Parker House, Phoenix, Richardson, Sears Block and Crescent, and Tremont Temple buildings. sle 1r)11188 All of the properties have been voted eligible by the State Review Board andhave been signed by the State Historic Preservation Officer. Owners were notified of pending State Review Board consideration 30-75 days before the meeting and were afforded the opportunity to comment. Comments received to date are attached to the nomination forms. Sincerely, Saran zimmenan Sarah Zimmerman Director of Preservation Planning /sjz enc. JUN 2 5 1986 80 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 (617) 727-8470 U.S.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE DATE TIME OF CALL TELEPHONE REPORT 7/14/86 AM PM 1. CALL FROM (Name) 2. ADDRESS (Tel. No. if needed) ally K SUBJECT, PROJECT NO. emmerman sttro offie nt DETAILS dF DISCUSSION Bichardam BeakmA AuffelCo Senel ounen- heat an percen for Jeating mot DoE frone aljectin NAME OF ERSON PLACING CALL y gyen TITLE OFFICE FHR-8-227 June 1978 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 August 21, 1987 Mr. Martin F. Galvin, Jr. Frances Realty Trust 85 Regatta Road North Weymouth, MA 02191 RE: 135-137 Pearl Street, Boston, MA 02110 Dear Mr.

Galwin: The Massachusetts Historical Commission is in receipt of your 1987, informing us that your client letter, dated August 1°, listing oftherproperty, part of the Rich- to object to the ardson Block, on the National Register of Historic Places. Your letter was received outside the period of comment established under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, that all pro- We have checked our records and have determined per procedures were followed by the Massachusetts Historical Com- mission as part of the nomination process. All owners of record were notifiedland a majority of owners did not object to the pro- posed listing. The nomination was sent to the National Park Ser- vice and was listed in the National Register on August 9, 1986. Because the property has already been listed, we have forwarded your letter to the National Park Service. Sincerely, Valmui Talmage Valerie A.

Talmage Executive Director State Historic Preservation Officer Massachusetts Historical Commission cc: Carol Schull, Keeper, National Register of Historic Places Judith McDonough, Executive Director, Boston Landmarks Commission enclosure VAT/BF 80 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 (617) 727-8470 SEP 2 1987 BF Martin F. Galvin, Jr. 85 Regatta Road N. Weymouth, Ma. 02191 August 10, 1987 RECEIv- AUG 20 1987 MASS. HIST. COM Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Attention of Ms. Valerie Talmage Re: Frances Realty Trust Richardson Block 135-139 Pearl Street Boston, Massachusetts 02110 Dear Ms.

Talmage: In response to your letters dated June 13, 1986 and June 5, 1987, informing our client that the above-named property has been accepted for list- ing in the Natural Register of Historic Places, you are hereby notified that it is the intention of all the stockholders of Frances Realty Trust to object to the listing of 135-139 Pearl Street in the National Register. If you have any questions regarding this matter, or require any further documentation from the parties, please feel free to contact me. Very Truly yours Waata1. Cocl Mantin F. Galvin, Jr.