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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 Photo (3"x3" or 3"x5", black and white). Indicate address of property on back of photo. Staple to left side of form. Sketch Map: Draw map showing property's location in relation to nearest cross streets and/or geographical features. Indicate all buildings between inventoried property and nearest intersection(s). Indicate north See attached. UTM REFERENCE 19/325140/4693130 USGS QUADRANGLE Boston South SCALE 1:25,000 Valerie A. Talmage 5/28/86 AREA FORM NO. Cambridge MRA Town Cambridge, MA 2-6 University Road, 122 Mt.
Address Auburn St , and 6 Bennett St Historic Name Craigie Arms undergoing rehabilitation Use: Present for office/residential space Original Apartments DESCRIPTION Date 1897-1898 Source Cambridge Chronicle, Building permit Style Georgian Revival Architect Josephine Wright Chapman Exterior Wall Fabric Red Brick, with 1ime- stone trim Outbuildings None Major Alterations (with dates) Interior subdivisions, 1950s and 1960s Condition Good MovedNo - Date N/A Acreage Less than one acre Setting Urban context,just west of Harvard and Brattle Squares. It is the most massive building in the immediate vicinity. Recorded byBetsy Friedberg, with Robert Kuehn OrganizationMass. hist. Comm. Date April 1986 JUN - 4 1986 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT(if applicable) Craigie Arms possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, and association.
Built in 1897 in response to Cambridge's rapidly swelling demand for residential apartments, the structure offered 36 "family units' in a convenient location close to Harvard Square and public transportation. Architecturally, Craigie Arms is significant as a modest but well-detailed example of the Georgian Revival style. The building is the work of Josephine Wright Chapman, one of the first female architects to practice independently in New England, and her earliest known commission. Craigie Arms ARCHTHEETORAE StenffidANCE Bescribe Important archi tectusae Cot te National Register of Historic Places. features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community. Craigie Arms is a Georgian Revival-style apartment building located at 122 Mt. Auburn Street near Harvard and Brattle Sguares in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The building is four stories in height (plus a partial basement) with masonry-bearing walls and timber framing. The composition of the building mass is a simple but refined horizontal statement of red brick with limestone and wooden decorative trims, and corner turrets providing vertical interest. The ornamental doorways, limestone molded courses and window trims, and wooden entablature at the roof line all are characteristic of the Georgian Revival style. None of these exterior details are expansively ornate or of particularly expensive materials (and interior details and trims are even more modest). Nonetheless, the architect has created a dignified composition for a commercial application in this then popular revival style. (Continued) HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in chocalnirdstate history and how the building relates to the development of the community.
- Craigie Arms was built in 1897 in direct response to the growing market for residential apartments in Cambridge, and particularly around Harvard Square. The population of Cambridge doubled three times between 1845 (when about 12,500 persons resided in the "village" of Cambridge) and 1900 (when the population reached nearly 100,000 persons). This substantial urban growth occurred in part because of the development of East Cambridge and Cambridgeport, but Old Cambridge also changed dramatically in terms of density of development. Among the factors contributing to growth were the area's light industrialization, expansion of Harvard University and the univer sity-related community, and the construction of a public transportation system linking Cambridge and Boston.
As the turn of the century approached, Harvard Square was a terminus for the electric street railroad connecting to Boston and other suburbs (followed in 1912 by the subway). As the center of this activity, the Harvard Square environs were developed with new commercial and residential buildings, four- and five-story masonry blocks replacing two- and three-story frame structures built in the late 18th and early/mid 19th century. And previously undeveloped land became available BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES See continuation sheet. 8/85 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Commmity: Cambridge MRA MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Cambridge, MA Office of the Secretary, Boston Property Name: Craigie Arms Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. Architectural Significance, cont'd.
Craigie Arms was built in 1897 to provide 36 apartments of a modest but commodious plan. The building was in fact built as five separate structures as follows: 122 Mt. Auburn St., 2 University Road, 6 University Road, and 6 Bennett Street (all 8 units each), and 4 University Road (4 units). See attached sketch map. Each of the five buildings had a separate street entry and internal circulation system. In the eight-family buildings, there were two apartments on each of four floors with front and rear exposures. The four-family center unit had only one large apartment per floor. Each apartment had a fireplace in its turreted living room, but few other decorative details other than common wood trims. The gross square footage of the four upper floors is approximately 45,000 square feet or an average of 1,250 square feet per apartment.
Although in fact five structures, the treatment of the building is as a unified whole. and cap as follows: The general composition of the building is of base, middle, 1) The base of the building is defined by limestone trim--a molded watertable and a molded belt course below and above the first floor level. This base is further differentiated by articulated brick coursing between the bands as compared to a smooth brick coursing above. 2) The upper three floors are uninterrupted by trimwork, but further differentiated from the first-floor base by 6/1 or 4/1 windows as compared to 1/1 windows below; and by Flemish bond as compared to the articulated, running bond below. 3) The roof line is defined by a relatively elaborate Corinthian entablature approximately five feet deep of wood construction.
This entablature is comprised of cornice work including dentils and modillions, a broad frieze band, and architrave trim. The roof itself is flat and concealed behind a small parapet created by the cornice. - Within this basic organization of the building mass, the fenestration is arranged in a generally symmetrical manner. The windows are double-hung sash with limestone sills and lintels. Window sizes vary depending on the room functions; and as noted above, the upper floor windows are 6/1 or 4/1, while the first floor windows are 1/1 only. The five entry doorways are more prominent features of each facade. The large arched openings are framed by limestone trim with egg-and-dart moldings. The wooden architrave trim has fluted jambs and head with side lights and a keystone above. Finally, there is a fanlight transom (currently boarded-in, but restorable).
(Continued) Form No: Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commnity : Form No: Cambridge, MA Cambridge MRA Property Name: Craigie Arms Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. Architectural Significance, cont'd. Another prominent design feature of the building is its turreted corners. At each corner of the building, a three-guarters round tower form occurs. Similar towers flank the center entry court off University Road. (Iwo of these seven turrets are only half rounds). These towers clearly define the building's corners while softening its edges and the overall building mass. The Mt. Auburn (north) and Bennett Street (south) elevations are near mirror images of each other.
These elevations are turreted at either end with a slight protrusion in the center and a single doorway. The University Road (west) elevation follows the same basic pattern but has two additional turrets at its center flanking the entry courtyard as well as three entry doorways. The east elevation does not face any street, but rather comprises a rear courtyard of much simpler design devoid of detail. The brick and the brick coursing is more common and trims are wood rather than limestone. The building's interior has been substantially altered since its construction in 1897. By the early 20th century, the building's 36 apartment units had been subdivided into 60 units. Modest interior trim and detail was retained, including mantels. During the course of the buildings recent substantial rehabilitation, much of this detail was retained.
Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commmity : Form No: Cambridge, MA Cambridge MRA Craigie Arms Property Name: Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. Historical Significance, cont'd. as well, as the salt marshes between Brattle Square and the Charles River were filed in to provide new sites. Craigie Arms was built in 1897 on such a site between Mt. Auburn and Bennett Streets, half a block from Brattle Square at the corner of the yet-unnamed new University Road. Building permits #6478 - #6482 were reported in the Cambridge Chronicle on April 3, 1897, as having been issued to C.H. Thurston and H.H. White, trustees and owners for the construction of 36 apartments in five buildings. The architect was Josephine Wright Chapman.
Craigie Arms is a modest but handsome structure of four stories plus a full basement in the Georgian Revival style. a unified block with horizontal definitions of base, middle, and cornice cap and with vertical counterpoint of corner turrets. le cornee tursta The five buildings are integrated as Other examples of the Georgian Revival in Cambridge during this same period include a number of buildings constructed several blocks to the east along Mt. Auburn Street. These buildings were developed in response to the growth of Harvard University under President Eliot and the need for additional student rooms. One such building is Claverly Hall (ca. 1892), originally a private dormitory that is reminiscent of Craigie Arms with its turreted corners and broad entablature. Later examples in Harvard Square itself include the Harvard Coop, Harvard Trust, and Cambridge Savings Bank buildings.
Harvard University housing policy in the late 19th century saw the development of a new housing type in and around Harvard Square--the private dormitory--erected by investors between 1882 and 1903. Iwenty of these building, offering lavish accommodations to wealthy undergraduates, were er ected. Although intended originally as family apartments, Craigie Arms joined these other structures shortly after its construction. By 1900 the property had become known as Craigie Hall and was used as "student rooms," serving as a private dormitory for Harvard students. The 1900 Sanborn Map indicates this use of the building and also shows an addition not present at the time of original construction; namely, a "swimming tank" built in the rear courtyard.
The foundations of this tank are still visible in the courtyard today, and its existence is further confirmed by the City of Cambridge Tax Assessors' records, which list the property as "Craigie Hall, Dormitory and Tank" between the early 1900s and mid 1930s. It is reasonable to suppose that this swimming tank was added as an amenity to attract students from the more central Harvard Square dormitories to this somewhat more remote location. Josephine Wright Chapman The architect for Craigie Arms was Josephine Wright Chapman. Nothing has been (Continued) Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Community : Cambridge, MA Cambridge MRA Property Name: Craigie Arms Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. Historical Significance, cont'd.
discovered about Miss Chapman's early life or formal training. Neither is much known about her professional career after 1906, when she reportedly moved from the Boston area to New York City. However, in the period from 1897 to 1905, she designed as an independent practitioner several notable buildings that establish her as one of the earliest successful woman architects in New England. Craigie Arms was her first attributed commission. The first known record of Miss Chapman is her listing in the Boston Directory of 1892. She is listed as a "draughtswoman" with her office at 18 Music Hall (an office building off Winter Street in Boston), and with her residence at 2 coa, re appeanad a e ditaseonge a, fact that she was a boarder at 194 Clarendon Street, and later at 9 Park Street, Boston.
It is believed that Miss Chapman served her apprenticeship until 1897 as a draughtswoman with noted Boston architect Clarence H. Blackall, whose business address coincided with her own. Miss Chapman probably "moonlighted" the design of Craigie Arms for Messrs. Thurston and White while still working in Blackall's office and then completed her apprenticeship just in time to be the architect-of-record for Craigie Arms. She must have been an ambitious and talented person to establish a practice in this manner, since a building of the scope of Craigie Arms would be a prize first commission even today. Architecture first became an an organized profession in the United States in 1857 with the formation of the American Institute of Architects.
However, the first formal degrees in architecture were not awarded until after the formation of the first architecture school at MIT in that year, followed shortly by a school formed at Cornell. The first known woman architecture graduate received her degree from Cornell in 1880. Only 39 academically trained women (including 14 in non-degree programs) became architects between 1880 and 1900. However, an unknown number of additional women entered the profession as apprentices, quite common at the time. As suggested above, it is likely that this is the route that Miss Chapman successfully took, since there is no record of her attendance at any of the likely women's colleges and/or architecture schools. Clarence H. Blackall, on the other hand, had considerable academic training. He studied at the University of Illinois and then the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Par is.
After working briefly in New York and Boston, he became the first American recipient of the Rotch Traveling Scholarship (and remained active in the affairs of that fellowship program throughout his life). In 1889, he returned to Boston and established his own practice, working with a number of different partners over the years but most closely associated with the firm of (Continued) Form No: Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Commmity : Form No: Cambridge, MA MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Cambridge MRA Office of the Secretary, Boston Property Name: Craigie Arms Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. Historical Significance, cont'd. Blackall, Clapp and Whittemore. It was during this period that Miss Chapman's apprenticeship occurred.
This firm had an early and consistent success, des igning many Boston theaters, office buildings, and newspaper buildings. The careers of Josephine Wright Chapman and Clarence H. Blackall converge again in 1899 with the publication of a proposed design for "The Boston Woman's Club" building to be located at 15 Beacon Street in Boston. This design was published in American Architect and Building News (4/15/99, V. 64, p. 23, pl..1216) listing C.H. Blackall and Josephine Wright Chapman as architects. (A check of the Boston Street Atlas from this period indicates that this site was indeed vacant and owned by the "Woman's Club House Corp.") The design of the proposed club shows a ten-story building ornately decorated at its lower and attic floors.
The building was never erected, although another building was constructed on the same site in 1902, similar in form, size, style, but without the ornate elaboration, and credited Clarence Blackall alone as architect. The next architectural commission attributable to Josephine Wright Chapman is the New England Building at the Pan American World's generally undistinguished Exposition, held in Buffalo, New York, in 1901. According to the Pan American Art Handbook, page 44: "This building, representing the New England States combined, is a type of early New England colonial building, colored to give the effect of red brick and white marble. It was designed by Josephine W. Chapman of Boston, Massachusetts." Unfortunately, this building was considered an auxiliary building and not further described or illustrated.
Miss Chapman's next documented commission was for the Worcester Woman's Club, announced in the American Architect in 1902 (12/27/02, v.78, p. 103, pl. 1409). This clubhouse is a four-story brick structure with neoclassical decorative trim. At the building's corners are large circular bays which flank entries on Salisbury and Tuckerman Streets. Much of the building's trim is of limestone, including a Tuscan entry porch and balustrade, water molded courses and Ionic capitals. Other trim includes a copper cornice, pressed metal panels with decorative wreaths, and splayed window lintels.
This building bears a striking resemblance to Craigie Arms, designed by Miss Chapman five years earlier, with similar use of brick and limestone trim, the clear definition of the ground floor and cornice line, and the turreted corners (albeit more prominent in the Woman's Club design than at Craigie Arms). The detail work of the clubhouse, however, is richer and more varied than the earlier apartment building. Miss Chapman is believed to have moved to New York City in 1906--the first year she was no longer listed in the Boston Directory, and details of her subsequent career are unknown. Staple to Inventory form at bottom - INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commmity : Form No: Cambridge, MA Cambridge MRA Property Name : Craigie Arms Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES American Architect and Building News, New York and Boston. 4/15/99, v. 64, p. 23, pl.1216 (Boston Woman's Club) b) 10/25/02, v.78, p.31, pl.1400 (15 Beacon Street) c) 12/27/02, v. 78, p.103, pl.1409 (Worcester Woman's Club) Boston Directories, Polk, 1890-1910. Boston Street Atlas, G.W. Bromley and Company, Boston, 1902. Cambridge Chronicle, April 13, 1897 (reference for building permits). Cambridge Historical Commission, Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge, (01d Cambridge - Part 4), MIT Press, 1973. Cole, Doris, Women Architects, I Press, Boston, 1973. New York Times, September 14, 1914 (letter-to-editor). Pan American Handbook (Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture, and Art Catalogue to the pan American Exposition), David Gray, Buffalo, N.Y., 1901 (p. 44 reference for New England States Building).
Sutton, S.B., Cambridge Reconsidered, MIT Press, 1976. Torre, Susana (editor), Women in American Architecture, Watson Guptil Publications, New York, 1977 (reference for early history of women architects). Worcester Inventory, Brian Pfeiffer as consultant to Worcester Heritage Preservation Society and Massachusetts Historical Commission, May 1979, (continuation p. 4, item 7 reference to Worcester Woman's Club). Withey, Henry F. and Elsie R., Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (deceased), Los Angeles, Hennessey and Ingalls, Inc., 1970 (pp. 59-60, reference to Clarence H. Blackall, 1857-1942). Staple to Inventory form at bottom NPS Form 10-000-0 (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 Page Multiple Resource Area Thematie Group Name State Cambridge Multiple Resource Area MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review Teterr Pate/Signature Substaative Review 191. Cambrsdge ArBoryDOE/ OWNER OBJECTpokpeper Eliible Patuick Andur 5/1186 Attest Bettof. Sauze 514-56 malnel 150 192. Halaavard Graduate Center Substantive Review DOE/OWNER OBJECTION Keeper B55-34 Attest Sexp8. Suage $1/57 evonii alrvee yar Harvard Yard Historic Districantiva GiKeeper tatünk Anduu s/sto wttdiam DOE/OWNER OBJECTION (pu t01) Rétermtnertttest Bersf Saioge 5-14-56 194. Kennedy, The DOE/OWNER OBJECTION Keeper Substantive Do ouatt 1/26/8 Attest Substantive Revie,Petermined #igibte Soyn195. Kresge Auditor 1um Keeper *O DOELOWNER OBJECTION 1os(2912 attest 1/26/8; 196. Massachusetts Institute de Tech H1B5EP1GE DOE/OWNER T1GNKeeper Attest Substantive Review petarnined mu 197.
Metropolitan Storage Warehouse DOE/OWNER OBJECTIO etiseeper Elquble Paturk tnduus 5/9/96 Substantive Review Determtned eg1t BottX Savoge 514-8 _198. M.I.T. Chape1 DOE/OWNER OBJECTION Keeper Los /22182 Attest 199. Riverbank Court Hotel Substantave keview DOE/OWNER OBJECTION folKeeper Attest Eliüible latuck Anders 5/14/40 Bitzt Sarase 5141 200. Craigie Arms Entered in the Iational Register tReeper Attest 86001575 WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Craigie Arms (Cambridge MRA) Middlesex County MASSACHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: sample Reviewer's comments: request JUV 4 1986 Working No. Fed. Reg. Date: 1387 Date Due: - 7/3/86 119/86 Iatered In Aition: _KACCEPT... 7-10-86 National Register - 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? 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 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 Vivw 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: _ GPO 918-450 Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet Missing Core Documentation Property Name County, State Craigie Arms Middlesex County, Massachusetts Multiple Property Reference Number Name Cambridge MRA 86001575 The following Core Documentation is missing from this entry: Nomination Form X Photographs USGS Map NOTE 1 SEE CAMBRIDGE ASSESSORS MI UNIVERSITY (artend) ROAD 4400° NOTE PAM ANO OREO REFERENCES RECITED HENEON REPER TO LANS AND DEEOS RECORDED AT THE MIDOLESEX COUNTY OEEDS, SOUTH DISTRICT, IN CAMBRIDOE PLAN 35,973 137/39 OF 982 AUBURN (-PUBLIC-) STREET 15 63450-08E *122-124 109.00' 4 sroet BRICK FRED 2 CONROY, TR A AREA : 18,692 #1,10:1/×92 160.00' - STOAY BRICK 109.00' N 63450:02°W 38 BENNETT STREET (-PUBLIC + N/F M.B.IA.
BNICK CONNEN YYC P ON CERMANC TATTSPAULESSON PULATIONS REGULATIONS THE DEEDS THAT THE PROPERTY ANOSTO ESTABLSHED, AND - AN 10 LOF EXISTING OWNERSHIP OR FOR SAUIIY MTS MAY 85 Muhoke 1 HEREBY TO THE MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING OR OTHER ANL SITUATED OA COJOINING PROMSS AN THE LOCATICNS OF 17HE ONAWCODE THE Nihola Dlno SURVEY RESOURCES SHTON MACE OPOr PLAN CF CRAIGIE ARMS LOCATED IN CAMBRIDGE, MASS. TITLE: PROPERTY LINES SCALE /": 20 DATE 3 MAY 85 CRAIGIE ARMS ASSOCIATES CAA Housing Associates 806 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 617 661-9100 April 2, 1986 Carol Shull, Chief National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Department of the Interior 18th and C Streets, N.W. Washington, DC 20240 Dear Ms.
Shull: Craigie Arms Associates recognizes that the following property will be considered for Nomination to the National Register of Historic Places by the Massachusetts State Review Board at its meeting on April 9, 1986. Craigie Arms 122 Mt. Auburn Street Cambridge, MA Craigie Arms Associates is aware both of the incentives and disincentives of the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 and other consequences for National Register listing and hereby waives by right the 30 day commenting period. Thank you. Very tculy,yours! huth seh Robert H. Kuehn CC : Sarah J. Zimmerman, Preservation Planning Director Massachusetts Historical Commission Charles Sullivan, Executive Director Cambridge Historic Commission RHK/mpc EIVE APR 8 1986 INSTONVISD CITY OF CAMBRIDGE CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 02139 TEL. 498-9011 EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT ROBERT W. HEALY City Manager April 3, 1986 RICHARD C.
ROSSI DEPUTY CITY MANAGER Carol Shull, Chief National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Department of the Interior 18th and C Streets, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20240 Dear Ms. Shull: The City Manager's Office recognizes that the following property will be considered for Nomination to the National Register of Historic Places by the Massachusetts State Review Board at its meeting on April 9, 1986. Craigie Arms 122 Mt. Auburn Street Cambridge, MA 02138 The City Manager's Office is aware both of the incentives and disincentives of the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 and other consequences for National Register listing and hereby waives by right the 30 day commenting period. Thank you. Robert W. Healy City Manager RWH/b cc: Charles Sullivan Executive Director Cambridge Historical Commission Sarah J.
Zimmerman Preservation Planning Director Massachusetts Historical Commission Robert H. Kuehn, Jr. General Partner Craigie Arms Associates TM TINE 9 093546432 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 23, 1986 Carol Shull, Keeper National Register of Historic Places Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service P.O. Box 37127 Washington, D.C. 20013-7127 Dear Ms. Shull: I hereby request that the Multiple Resource Area nomination to the National Register for Cambridge, Massachusetts be amended to include the following properties: CRAIGIE ARMS, 122 Mt. Auburn Street, HPCA pending #0306-83-MA-83-0416 Mas 122 Mt.
As the designated State Historic Preservation Office for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. The evaluated significance of this property is 1ocal. The property has been voted eligible by the State Review Board. 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, Valere Talmage Valerie A. Talmage Executive Director State Historic Preservation Officer Massachusetts Historical Commission Enclosure VAT/dr 80 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 (617) 727-8470 JUN 4 1986