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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 bufldings between inventoried property and nearest intersection(s). Indicate north (SEE ATTACHED MAP) UTM REFERENCE 19.317910.4686580 USGS QUADRANGLE NEWTON, MA SCALE 1:25,000 AREA FORM NO. NH 270 Newton, Mass. MRA Town_NEWTON (Newton Highlands) Address 230 Winchester Street Historic Name Use: Present Original residence residence DESCRIPTION Date 1873 Source Atlas; City Directory; Tax List Style Italian Villa Architect unknown Exterior Wall Fabric clapboards Outbufldings_carriage barn Major Alterations (with dates) none Condition Good.
Moved no Date --- Acreage 31,016 sq. ft. (less thon | acre) Setting Scattered Victorian-era dwellings intermixed with 20th-cent. housing stock Recorded by Organization Date Deborah Shea Newton Historical Comm. May 1981 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) As an elaborate and well-preserved example of the Italian villa style of architecture in Newton Highlands, 230 Winchester Street, meets criterion of the National Register of Historic Places. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community. This well-preserved residence has the informal massing and irregular silhouette of a country villa, uinque to the Highlands and one of very few in the city. The design features a 2-1/2-story corner tower with a decorative slate Mansard roof contrasted by a hipped main block and a hipped gable front.
The long narrow tower windows are arched in the Roman style, while a canted gable field window echoes the facade roof shape. The facade window detail is particularly distinctive: a shallow triple oriel is capped by an entablature with a peaked center section, jigsawn detail, ancon supports and protruding "nailhead" moulding, a motif sililarly featured on the double second-story window. The entrance features full sidelights (one side) surmounted by a segmental fan and moulded trim. The raking eaves are projected and detailed with scroll sawn brackets, paired on the tower section. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. Jesse P. Newcomb, employed in the boot business in Boston, was the initial occupant of this Italian villa, a rare style in the Highlands.
Situated on a hillside, the villa overlooking a broad expanse of farmland with the Charles River to the southwest. The houselot was part of a larger 24-acre (approx.) parcel of land owned by the Highlands Land Associates. The area was subdivided into house lots, though there was was apparently little construction as the property was not convenient to public transportation. The land appears to have been sold off in large tracts. This house stands as a solitary vestige of Victorian era housing amid a 20th-century development. The house was probably one referred to in the June 1873 Newton Republican, which reported that the Highland Land Associates "are just completing two 2-story mansard roof houses on Winchester Street" (13 June 1873). BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Newton Atlas: 1874, 1886, 1895, 1907. Newton City Directory, 1877. Newton Republican 13 June 1873.
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 MB No. 1024-001 xp. 10-31-8 For NPS use only recelved 7/23/16 date entered Page Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Newton MRA Middlesex County, MA Nomination/Type of Review 61. House at 170 Otis Street 62. House at 173--175 Ward Street 63. House at 203 Islington Road 64. House at 215 Brookline Street 65. House at 2212 Commonwealth Avenue 66. House at 230 Melrose Street 67. House at 230 Winchester Street 68. House at 3 Davis Avenue 69. House at 307 Lexington Street 70. House at 309 Waltham Street Date/Signature Intered in the National Registor fkeeper Allewßyen 9l.
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Attest 6Keeper delorenByen 9/4/86 Attest 86001825 WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET House at 230 Winchester Street (Newton MRA) Middlesex County MASSACHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: Reviewer's comments: -sample Jrequest Working No. Fed. Reg. Date: 23 1980 7/3/87 Date Due: _ 8/21/86 - 6/86 Intered in thAction: -ACCEPT 9-4-82 Netional Register -RETURN _REJECT Federal Agency: _ -appeal J 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