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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 MAP) UTM REFERENCE 19.320860.46,1380 USGS QUADRANGLENENTON, MASS. SCALE 1:25,000 AREA FORM NO. 1360 Town Newton, Mass.
MRA Newton (Newton Corner) Address 57 Hunnewell Avenue Historic Name Simpson House Use: Presentdwelling Original dwelling DESCRIPTION Date late 1890s Source City Directories Style Queen Anne/Colonial Revival Architect unknown Exterior Wall Fabric _shingles/stone Outbuildings carriage house Major Alterations (with dates) none Condition Very Good Moved Date Acreage 26,298 - square Setting suburban residential eessthan oneacie Recorded by K. Hatch Organization Newton Historical Comm. Date 3/77: rev. by H. White 4/86 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Simpson residence is one of Newton's finest examples of an elaborate Queen Anne style house with abundant Colonial Revival overtones and therefore 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 Simpson residence occupies a prominent corner lot at the corner of Grasmere Street and Hunnewell Avenue. It is an exceptionally elaborate and well-preserved example of late Queen Anne period design. The building's overall form is boxy, with projections at each corner and a complex roofline punctuated by numerous dormers and gables. rusticated stone at the first level, are richly embellished with windows inene ricn The wall surfaces of random in a variety of sizes and shapes, including a Palladian window flanked by free-standing columns. A long veranda with a stone base, Ionic columns, and an attached porte-cochere dominate the street lacade. An equally well- preserved ornate carriage house is located to the rear of the property.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. Joseph Simpson (b.1851) bought most of the land belonging to Henry Claflin estate in the late 1890s. - The northern end of Grasmere street was laid out on the property, as was simpson Street. Joseph founded the simpson Brothers Corporation, concrete pavers, with his brother, G. Frederick Simpson, and served as the company's president. Frederick Simpson also lived in Newton Corner at 315 Franklin Street in the Farlow & Kenrick Parks National Register Historic District. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Atlases: 1907, 1895. City Directories: 1899-1897: Newton Granphic Publishing Company. Beautiful Newton (ca. 1917), pp. 252, 257.
8/85 NPS Form 10-900-8 (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form Continuation sheet Item number DMB No. 1024-001 :xp. 10-31-84 For NPS use onty recelved 7/23/86 date entered Page Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Newton MRA Middlesex County. MA Nomination/Type of Review 101. Rawson Estate Date/Signature J6E 107. 102. Richards, James Lorin, House Entered in the "r11-na? Rezist Attest /Keeper Aelousu 114/86 103. Riley, Charles, House Entered in the National - Register 104. Sacco--Pettee Machine Shops Latered 105. Salisbury, Jonas, House 62 Walnut Park Entered Jetica Attest fReeper Attest in the hesistkeeper Attest f Keeper egister Selnsboqun 94186 AelmuBzu126316 delausbyu914/16 Attest 106. Salisbury, Jonas, House 85 Langley Rd. Entore?
in the Tepist Steper delorebyun 1/1/86 Attest Subetantive Xoriew Defermined Silver Lake Cordage Company DOE/OWNER CBJECTIONOMlifeeper Patude hadeus 9/4/56 Attest Bexnd Savuge 9/4/81 108. Simpson House Entered in the National Register | AelaresAzan 5/4/86 109. Smith, S. Curtis, House Attest Entered in the. Hettonal Fegist JKeeper AelareByun911/66 110. Smith--Peterson House Attest feeper DelrueByan e11146 Attest WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) 06001880 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Simpson House (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 1986 Date Due: _ 8/21/86 Action: LACCEPT-.
9-4-86 Entereu Mntional Degistee _RETURN -REJECT Federal Agency: _ -appeal L NR decision Recom./Criteria Reviewer Discipline Date see continuation sheet 3107 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 L 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 J 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 title date 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 133013 simpser lterse Mewton, Mass; MRA - 57 Hunnewell Ave, Newton Corner_ 77-A-24 (6A-7) STREET SEOTRN HUNNEWELL SIMPSON STREET 3 75 SECTION BLOCK 86 9C 90 ROAD 9E 14 JRASMERE MERTON 7 10 10A SECTI ON 71 OCK 28 7 STREET 12 SECT ION BLOCK 71 26 I7 Fª NEWTON BOSTON (APPROXIMATE! 19 AVENUE SECTION DLOCK 71 WASHING ELMHURST PRAIN EASEMENT CE MEMIOM MAIN 10 SECTION 71 BLOCK 27 3<5./1 Clty of Newton Assessor's Maps. Sheet 36 Metric Series. 1979 Scale: UTM grid line interval = 100 meters (328 feet) Newton, Mass. M.R.A. 57 Hunnewell Avenue, Newton lorner 71-25-7