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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 inventorted property and nearest intersection(s). Indicate north (SEE ATTACHED MAP) UTM REFERENCE 19.318630.4688600 USGS QUADRANGLE NEWTON, MASS, SCALE 1:25,000 AREA 163 FORM NO. NC-43 Mass. M.R.A. Town Newton (Newton"dentre) Address 945 Beacon Street Historic Name Kistler House Use: Present. Original dwelling dwelling DESCRIPTION Date 1893 Source Water Records Style Colonial Revival Architect unknown Exterior Wall Fabric clapboard Outbutldings carriage house Major Alterations (with dates) Condition Good Moved no Date Acreage 28,762 sq.
ft. less than one acre Setting Suburban residential along major thoroughfare Recorded by Archit. Pres. Assocs. Organization Newton Historical Comm. Date 5/81; rev. by H. White 3/86 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Kistler residence is one of the area's most highly developed examples of the Colonial Revival style; both the main house and carriage house exhibit a textbook vocabulary of colonial Revival ornament. Therefore the Kistler house meets Criterion C of the National Register of Historic Places. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community. The Kistler house is a 2t-story, rectangular dwelling with a truncated hip roof. A two-sided verandah with slender turned balusters extends across the south and east facades. organization.
The design is based on a five-bay facade beneath a flat roofed entranceange with leaded glass sidelights is set supported by clustered Doric columns. The porch carries a deck balustrade. At the second story a Palladian window is aligned with the entrance. The wide cornice is embellished with egg & dart moulding, dentil moulding and a frieze with swags. The Kistler residence exemplifies the nineteenth century upper- middle class, architect-designed houses which once lined both sides of Beacon Street from Newton Centre westward. The house is exceptionally well-preserved, the carriage house waurfigodsdbed HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the buflding relates to the development of the community. In 1852 Beacon Street was extended westward from Chestnut Hill through Newton Centre.
The village's suburban development accelerated through the activities of real estate developers such as Roswell Turner and Charles Davis. Davis owned a wide swath of land that reached from Beacon Street north to Homer Street, and included the land on which the Kistler house stands. Andrew and Anne Kistler built this house in 1893. Kistler was a dealer in leather with a Boston business address. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Atlases: 1907 Anne Kistler, 1895 Anne Kistler, 1886 land of C.S. Davis. Directories: 1895 Andrew M. Kistler, leather, Boston. 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 81. Hyde, Gershom, House 82. Jackson House 83. Jackson, Samuel, Jr., House 84. Jennison, Joshua, House 85. Judkins, Amos, House 86. King House 87. Kingsbury House 88. Kistler House 89. Merriam, Galen, House 90.
Mount Pleasant Intorad In tha hetioral Begtate: Intored in the Metional Register 2200 Ehtered In the Anttora3 8egletar Entered in tne Jational Regisiez Entsrad in the Naticnal Register Ent the ep1910 Entercd in the Netional Tegister Ent: Mati ¡egisio" Entered in the National Fegtsier Date/Signature freeper delmByan 944 Attest fKeeper AiloueByun 11166 Attest Fkeeper AelonaByen 914116 Attest Hfeeper AelouaByu94116 Attest fieeper delmuaBzun914186 Attest frstéeper AelareByan 9/416 Attest fKeeper AelaresByun 3/4186 Attest f'Keeper AelvreByen 814/86 Attest fKeeper delmreBya 9/4/56 Attest fseeper delourByen 41+/86 Attest 86001849 WASO Form - 177 ("'R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Kistler House (Newton MRA) Middlesex County MASSACHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: Reviewer's comments: sample J request -appeal JUL 23 1986 Working No.
Fed. Reg. Date: 2/3/87 Date Due: 24/86 - 916/86 Action: LACCEPT- 9-4-86 _RETURN _REJECT Federal Agency: - -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 J original site moved date 8.
Significance Period Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Specific dates Builder/Architect Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) -summaryparagraph completeness clarity applicable criteria justification of areas checked relating significance to the resource I context relationship of integrity to significance J 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 kistleltuse Newton, M MRA 945 Beacon St, Newton Centre carriage house MR-A-2 (19) - Kistler ltuse Nextony Massi MRA 945 Beacon St, Newton centre -MR-A-2 (17) SECTION 64 BLOCK 26 RIGHT AVI WEBSTER COURT PLEASANT = 17 21 15 AVENUE SECTTON 64 BLOCK 27 STREET CRESCENT BEACON 19 SECTION 62 BLOCK 8 13 LAKE CRESCENT AVENUE Clty of Newton Assessor's Maps. Sheet 89 Yetric Series. 1979 Scale: UTM grld 1íne interval = 100 meters (328 feet) Newton, Mass. M.R.A. 945 Beacon Street, Newton Centre Kistler House 64-26-21, 21A