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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 assessors' map UIM REFERENCE 19/382420/46/2100 USGS QUADRANCLE Cotuit,MA SCALE 1:25,000 Barnstable, MA MRA AREA MMA FORM NO.
17 Town_Barnstable (Marstons Mills Center) Address Main Street Historic Name Methodist Church (former) Use: Present_Community Church (1981) Original Methodist Church DESCRIPTION Date before 1830 Source Trayser Style Greek Revival with Queen Anne elements Architect_unknown Exterior Wall Fabric clapboard: shingles Outbuildingsnone Major Alterations (with dates) belfry added c. 1890; rear ell added 1915; side ell (Memorial Hall) added 1959. Condition good Moved from Yarmouth Date 1830 Acreage .23 78/59 Setting residential village area Recorded by Candace Jenkins Organization Barnstable Historical Comm. Date 1986 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Marstons Mills Methodist Church possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials, or s9ea etorg ce teoidoetal srcoh eteree e Eul neta erterti Register of Historic Places.
ARCHITECIURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community. Built sometime before 1830 and brought from Yarmouth in that year, the former Methodist Church was a small simple building of rectangular plan and enclosed by a gable roof. Probably the belfry was added in 1888, but perhaps as late as 1908. It exhibits features of the Queen Anne style as well, such as its decorative shingling and form. The belfry rises from a pedimented entry porch centered on one of the gable ends, and containing a handsome double leaf entry whose doors are pannelled and also glazed with decorative Queen Anne style sash. The rear ell is a small one story structure. The side ell is also one story, but much larger extending for six bays.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. The Methodist Church began to be popular on Cape Cod in the very early 19th century. "Classes" were held in private homes, including one at Hamblin Plains (Area MMC), established c. 1819. These small groups were served by circuit preachers. 1826, the Methodist Episcopal Society was formed at Marstons Mills. In 1830, a church building was moved by oxen from Yarmouth to land on Main Street given by Allan Marston and Ebenezer Scudder. Remodeling projects have occured in 1858, 1888, 1908, and 1915, including addition of a belfry in the Queen Anne style, and of a small rear ell. In 1959 a surplus barracks from near-by Otis Airforce Base was moved to the church and added as Memorial Hall. Most of the work was done by church members.
In 1964-65 a parsonage was acquired. In 1968 the Osterville and Marstons Mills churches united to form the United Methodist Church of Osterville. The parsonage was rented then sold. In 1974 it was used a school called "The Children's Path." Now the building is once again being used for its original purpose as the home of the Community Church, organized in 1981 with Philip Sherman as minister. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Barnstable County Atlasses. 1858, 1880, 1907. The Seven Villages of Barnstable. 1976. Trayser, Donald. Barnstable, Three Centuries of a Cape Cod Town. 1939 NPS Form 10-900-8 (382) 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 recatved ,/27/1) date entered Page Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Barnstable MRA Barnstable Co., MA Nomination/Type of Review 71. Methodist Church D 12. Osterville Baptist Church 73. Osterville Community Church 74. Phinney, William and Jane, House 75. Rhodehouse, Nelson, House 76. Richardson, John, House 77. Robbins, Joseph, House 78. Round House B 79. Sampson's Folly--Josiah Sampson House 80. Santuit Post Office Date/Signature Tuberedin da 5.1A.. Bnstotag Keper ShemaByen 313+ Attest Bidstant1 ra Hort Keeper Patick Anduus 9/10187° Attest AettZSaose 1113/87 hltantive Tertod Keeper Attest mrad 1s FEhesyteeper diemByen3138 Attest laberad 1m Ne tolicne? tKeeper Aeemu Bogur 3-138; Attest entotent1ro Rarigfdl Keeper fatuck Andues 9/0/87; Attest Bett Sunge 1113/87 IVE VOTTEr fapieeper Patkich Anduns 1110/82 Attest BettX.
Swvage 1110/8: Batered in ths Matfosel Register tReeper AelomByen 3-13-57 Attest atantloo Rertnkieeper Tatuck Anchuo g/18/7 Attest BethX Saoage 1/18/57 ihetinatare Revief| Keeper etaide Andurs 1/10/82 Attest BettASavoge1 10/6 87000247 WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Methodist Church (BarnstableMRA) Barnstable County MASS A CHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: Reviewer's comments: sample request Working No._ JAN 27 1987 Fed. Reg. Date: 2/2/88 Date Due: _ 2/26/87-3/13/87 Jatered in Action: 20 ACCEPT 3-3-87 #ntonal Regla __RETURN_ -REJECT - Federal Agency: Jappeal -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 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 I moved date 8. Significance Period Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Specific dates Builder/Architect Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) summary paragraph completeressy S MAL.
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 Bacnstable, Massa MRA Methodist Church MMA17 Main Street 1985 facing 5 154 653/5 5.58 AC- S 41Ac 68.
98 277/3 25 .53 AC-S 28 10I AC-S 20DS 1'65AC 14 55 AC-S 15 1.49 AC-S 16 1.63 AC-S 17 2,19 AC /TULUN 119 6 -32 1.IB UPLAMO MerLAun TOTALN 24 5.02 AC 18 6.15 AC-S 19 72 AC-S 29-2 1,13 a (9-1 L-22) LANE 23 .63 AC.S 22 .37 AC-S 369/3 73 .21 AC-S 74 ..85 AC-S 63 ,39AC-3 20 .65 AC-3 2019 69/3 62 .53 AC-S Barnstable, MA MRA Methodist Church Main St., Marstons Mills Assessors' Map; Scale: 1"=100' ROAD 70A0 76 M AIN 61 77AC 29., 2,70 1215 5/691 72 .23 AC-S 64 .83 AC S/00 71- .2840 71-2 ,34 193/3 139/3 59 23 AC-S CCI A2 AC-S 92 1,82 ac MARSTONS MILLS FIRE STATION 71-4 70 ,33 71-3 ,36m 69 5.60AC 65 46AC i15/9 165/5 58 1,41 AC-S SCALE 1'100 36 .96 AC.S LOVELL'S 66 1.63 AC 237/3 EOT/S 109 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000271