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FOR B -I-BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 Sketch Map: Draw map showing property's location in relation to nearest cross streets and/or geograph features. Indicate all buildings between :toried property and nearest inter SEE ATTA CHED MAP UTM REFERENCE 19.314590.4689950 USGS QUADRANGLE Natick, Mass. SCALE 1:25,000 AREA 63 FORM NO. 4394 Town Newton/ Aassmdale Mass. M.R.A. Address 161-163 Grove St Historic Name Harding House (Walker Missionary Home) Use: Present Institutional Original private dwelling DESCRIPTION Date c.1850 SourceJackson Homestead Public.
Style Italianate Architect unknown Exterior Wall Fabric clapboard Outbuildings none Major Alterations (with dates) addition 20th century Condition Good Moved no Date Acreage less than one acre Setting suburban residential along primary thoroughfare Recorded by Bruce Fernald Organization Newton Hist. Jomm. Date 7/27/80 rev. by H. White 3/86 IATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Harding House meets Criteria B because of its ties to Rev. Sewell Harding, a prominent local resident active in real estate speculation. The Harding House meets Criterion Cas an ornate, well-preserved example of a mid-19th century, I-plan Italianate dwelling. IRCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of ither buildings within the community. The Harding House is one of Auburndales best-preserved examples of an ornate, I-plan Italianate residence.
Typical of the style are the deep, windows with bracketed lintels and sills. The entrance with its transom and sidelights, is located at the intersection of the wings. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the uilding relates to the development of the community. The Harding House was constructed c.1850 for Reverend Sewell Harding, one of the many ministers active in real estate speculation during the early suburbanization of Auburndale. Harding sold the house in the mid- 1860s to Thos. Williams, a Boston merchant. Harding retained ownership of the western portion of the property, and built a Mansard style mansion (facing the intersection of Grove and Hancock Streets) which was destroyed by fire in 1911. Harding's daughter, Eliza Walker, founded the Home for Missionaries' hildren, located on nearby Hancock St.
In 1925 the organization (now known as the Walker Missionary Home) purchased the Harding House for use group residence. Prior to its purchase by the Valker Missionary Home, the Harding House was a dormitory of the Lasell Female Seminary for several decades during the early 20th century. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Atlases: 1874, 1886, 1895, 1907. Directories: 1868 Edith G. Field, A History of the walker Missi onary Home, 1964. 8/85 NPS Form 10-900-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form Continuation sheet Item number OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 For NPS use only recelved 7/23/86 date entered Page Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Newton MRA Middlesex County, MA Nomination/Type of Review 51. Gunderson, Jos ., House Entered in the Mational Registeit Hkeeper 52.
Harbach, John, House Attest Entered In the Fkeeper National Register Attest 53. Harding House--Walker Missionary Home Entered In the fkeeper National Register Attest 54. Haskell, Charles, House Intered in tbo ational Roetate fiseeper Attest 55. House at 1008 Beacon St. Entered in the satilozal Heglstosfafeeper Attest 56. House at 102 Staniford Street Intered In the Mattonal RogistotKeeper Attest 57. House at 107 Waban Hi11 Road Entered In the Keeper National Register 58. House at 115--117 Jewett Street Entered i2 the National Register Attest tKeeper 59. House at 15 Davis Avenue Entered in the National Register Attest fieeper 60.
House at 152 Suffolk Road untered in the - National Register Attest JKeeper Attest Date/Signature AelamByun 414116 AelurByan 914/86 delrebyen 414186 AelouDzen 9/4/86 AelmeBige 4/4186 Aelreßzun 9/4186 AelreeByn 9/4/86 DelorerByu 9/4/46 delosbyew 5/4/86 AelreByun 9/+/86 86001810 WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Harding House--Walker Missionary Home (Newton MRA) Middlesex County MASSACHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: Reviewer's comments: J sample Jrequest Working No. Fed. Reg.
Date: JUL 23400 12/3187 Date Due: _ 121/86- 7/6/81 Action: -- 9-480 Intered In the __RETURN Mational Regtaten _REJECT- Federal Agency: - Lappeal LNR decision Recom./Criteria Reviewer Discipline Date _ see continuation sheet Nomination returned for: technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification Category Ownership Public Acquisition 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Has this property been determined eligible? yes no 7. Description Condition J 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 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 Harding House - Walker Missionary Home Middlesex County, Massachusetts Multiple Property Reference Number Name Newton MRA 86001810 The following Core Documentation is missing from this entry: Nomination Form X Photographs USGS Map LASELL STREET SECTION 43 BLOCK 31 ATHLETIC FIELD HANCOCK GROVE 12 City of Newton Assessor's Maps. Sheet 5/ Metric Series. 1979 Scale: UTM grid line interval = 100 meters (328 feet) Neotos droe Aubummaale 43-31-16