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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 19.316760.4691160 USGS QUADRANGLE NEWTON, MA SCALE 1:25,000 Town AREA FORM NO. 3196 Newton, Mass. MRA NEWTON (West Newton) Address 399 Waltham Street Historic Name Samuel Wheat House Use: Present Residence Residence Original DESCRIPTION Date c.1735 Source Jackson Homestead Pub.- Style Georgian Architect unknown Exterfor Wall Fabric Clapboards Outbutldingsnone Major Alterations (with dates) none Condition Good. Moved Acreage Setting.
no Date 46,318 sq. ft. (1.07 acre) large lot, close to busy street; mixed residential neighborh' Recordedby Organization Date Kathlyn Hatch Newton Historical Comm. January 1978 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) As one of the earliest houses in West Newton, as well as for its associations with a prominent local family, the Samuel Wheat House meets criteria B and C of the National Register of Historic Places. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe importantarchitectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the conmunity. Although it obviously underwent several remodelings during the late 18th and 19th centuries, this narrow, gambrel-roofed house has survived remarkably intact. It remains one of the oldest houses in Newton. The steep gambrel roof and narrow side elevations were undoubtedly part of the original structure.
Six-over-six window sash were added in the early 19th century, and the dormers and elaborate classical doorway also represent later alterations. The building's high, narrow profile and small dimensions, however, present a good picture of the substantial dwellings of early 18th century. Eighteenth-century two-story gambrel-roofed buildings are rare in However, one other survives in West Newton, the Dr. Samuel Warren House (NR-1/3/85) at 432 Cherry Street, built about 1716, though the house was considerably enlarged in the late 18th century. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state nistory ana now the building relates to the development of the community. The house was evidently built for Dr. Samuel Wheat (1703-1770) who came to Newton from Boston in 1713 at the age of 10, when his father, also Dr. Samuel Wheat, settled in Newton as the village physician.
In the late 1720s, Samuel Wheat, [Jr.] married Hannah [ ] and probably at that time purchased this land, part of the large holdings of Jonathan Park. Wheat played a prominent role in Newton affairs: he was on several committees including one in 1751 charged to determine the location of the new meeting house. He served as selectman in 1753. His daughter Catherine (1743-1827) married Capt. Thomas Eustis (1732-1807) in 1762, and at Dr. Samuel Wheat's death in 1770, the property passed to them. By 1855 O.F. Woodford had acquired the property. Samuel S. Kilburn, an engraver, is shown as the owner of the property in 1874. In 1898, Mrs. Edward Augustus Holyoke Allen moved into the house with her children. late husband had been a cousin of Nathaniel Topliff Allen and had taught at the nearby Allen School on Webster Street (NR-1/9/78).
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Friends of the Jackson Homestead, Newton's Older Houses: West Newton (1978), pp. 50-51. Priscilla R. Ritter and Thelma Fleishman, Newton, Massachusetts, 1679-1779. A Biographical Directory (Boston: The New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1982). 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 OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 For NPS use only recelved 1/23/86 date entered Page Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Newton- MRA Middlesex County, MA Nomination/Type of Review 111. Souther, John, House 112. Staples--Crafts--Wiswall Farm 113. Stone, Ebenezer, House CE/ 114. Stone, Joseph L., House 115. Strong's Block 116. Thaxter, Celia, House 117. Thayer House 118. Ward, Ephraim, House 119. Wheat, Samuel, House 120.
Woodward, John, House Date/Signature Entered in the National Register teper Aulmußzun so Attest Interal in the Jiationai Regis! fReeper AelunBgun 9/4/56 Attest mwatize Ieview Petergine Keeper Fide aluila Andus 9/4/5, Enterel in the Mationci Register Attest DeluByen 214/86 Attest Entareû in cie Iational Register/Reeper Aebrußzun 9(41re Attest Entiared 22 National Rogia fKeeper Aeloreßyun 914106 intered in tre National Rogister Attest fKeeper SelmeByun 914/86 Intiorod 3n t2o NatLoral Regicter Attest fKeeper AeluresByan 9/4/86 Entered in the Mational Register Attest fReeper RelmeByan 9/4/14 Eutos Matior Begistee.
Attest fieeper Sebreßyar 914/86 Attest 86001895 WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Wheat, Samuel, House (Newton MRA) Middlesex County MASSACHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: Reviewer's comments: sample request Working No. Fed. Reg. Date: Date Due: Action: Iatered in the Antional Register Federal Agency: _ 1473186 3/87 6/8 LACCEPT - 9-4-86 RETURN _REJECT. Jappeal ENR 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? 7. Description Condition excellent good fair deteriorated ruins unexposed yes 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 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 J 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 Newton, Mass. MRA 399 Waltham St., West Newton (Samuel Wheat House) Inv. #3196 36 Is 33 SECTION 33 BLOCK 30 30 ELIOT COLMAN AVENUE 10 ROAD AVENUE EET HOLDEN ROAD ST 40 BYRD ~ AL ALTHAM RIGHIOF VAT 10 SECTION 31 BLOCK 17 22.10 ORCHARD AVENUE VE LEIGH ROAD ECT1O LOC Newton, Mass. MRA 399 Waltham St., West Newton City of Newton Assessor's Maps.
Sheet 29 (Samuel Wheat House) Metric Series. 1979 33-30-39 Scale: UTM grid line interval = 100 meters (328 feet)