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MAY 1 5 1989 531 SOUTHBRIDGE MASS MRA FORM B - BUILDING AREA D FORM NO. MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 445 Town Southbridge Address 218 South Street Historic Name Lorenzo R. Stone House 200=2 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 Use: Present residence Original residence DESCRIPTION Datec1831-1855 Source local history, map Style Greek Revival Architect unknown Exterior Wall Fabric Sunthetic Sidina Outbuildings none Major Alterations (with dates) rear wing appears to be remodeled (mid-20th centary Condition Good Moved No Date nla Acreage lessthan one acre Setting mid-late-19th c. residential neighborhood UTM REFERENCE 18/744 305/4662260 USES QUADRANLE Southridge Hass conn SCALE 1125,000 Recorded by E. Woodford, S. Ceccacci ed. S. Ceccacci Organization_Southbridge Historical Com- mission Date May 1986 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Lorenzo F. Stone House is significant for its association with Southbridge's Globe Village development and its regionally important gable-front, Greek Revival form.
It meets National Register criteria A and Cat the local level and retains integrity of setting, location, workmanship, design, feeling, and association. The boundaries indicated on the attached assessors map are those of current ownership. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community. One of the more vernacular interpretations of the Greek Revival style found along South Street, the Lorenzo Stone House is less imposing in its scale and in the plain treatment of its main entrance. Built on the typical three bay, side entry, gable front plan, the two-and-a-half story house does have certain fine and substantial Greek Revival details such as, paneled corner boards, a wide frieze and a pediment with frieze trim within it.
Unusual details are the small porch with a Doric column on the east side and a recessed entrance on the west side of the rear portion. The smaller size of the house and its vernacular character relate it more to the middle class houses of the same general style and period nearby in the High-Sayles Street area. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. This section of South Street is known to have been settled with scattered farmhouses by 1812, and apparently earlier. South Street between High and West Streets developed in the early-to- mid-19th century first as a neighborhood of established families and later also of industrialist and successful merchants.
Located on the outskirts of the more thickly settled section of Globe Village, the area, by the mid-19th century, was typified by scattered houses in a semi- rural setting. As the Hamilton Mill prospered, Globe Village expanded. This house, because of its similarity to those along High, Sayles and Winter Streets nearby, appears to have been part of that expansion. The High-Sayles-Winter Street houses were owned by foremen, super- visors and skilled craftsmen of the Hamilton Woolen Company. The occupation of the original owner of this house, Lorenzo Stone, is not known. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES maps, atlases, directories Ammidown, Holmes. Historical Collections, 1874. 8/85 NPS Form 10-000- (8-80) United States Department of theInterior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 Section number .
Page Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Southbridge MRA Worcester County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review 61. Oakes, J.J., House 62. Phillips, E.M., House 63. Plimpton, Simon, Farmhouse rntered in'the National Regiater 64. Richard, Stephen, House 65. Sacred Heart Church Historic District Entered in the National Begister 66. Smith--Lyon Farmhouse 67. St. George's Greek Orthodox Church Entered in the National Register 68. St. Peter's Roman Catholic Chercha the St. Mary's Schoo1 Entered Natlonal Register 69. Stone, Lorenzo R., House Entered in the National Register 70. Sumner, George, House *nteret in the Natlonal Beglster Date/Signature Intered in the Natingal Regtstar ftecper Almpiyun 4/2/84 Attest in5ered ih toe Mational Zegister FReeperAlmexByur 4/22/4 Attest Ikeoper duluuerByen 6/22/9 Attest Leoper.
AulorenByar /21) 110 00+ baumsal Beglater Attest Greper AulrenBgen e/s-p9 Attest Entered in the National Register Heoper fulunaByen o/2=/s Attest ReeperAhlreByer 6/22/54 Attest Keoper AulnByu 0/1s/ Attest Keoper SeebmBgen 4/2z/rg Attest frteperTletmaßgen 6/2217 Attest NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY NAME: stone, Lorenzo R., House MULTIPLE NAME: Southbridge MRA STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Worcester DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: 5/15/89 6/16/89 DATE OF PENDING LIST: 5/31/89 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 6/29/89 REFERENCE NUMBER: 89000537 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: N OTHER: N PDIL: N PERIOD: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: N COMMENT WAIVER: N VACCEPT RETURN REJECT 8/22/89 DATE Entered in the National Register ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: RECOM./CRITERIA REVIEWER DISCIPLINE DATE DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N CLASSIFICATION count resource type STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION FUNCTION historic current DESCRIPTION architectural classification materials descriptive text 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 BIBLIOGRAPHY GEOGRAPHICAL DATA acreage _verbal boundary description UTMS boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION sketch maps USGS maps photographs OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone signed Date _presentation 218 bouth Streer (D-445) Lorenzo R.
Stone House Southbridge, MAM NA 1984 Soumbride Histrical Commission MRA 218 South Street 34 MAIN 33 4, 165 4T 48 RIVER 178 36 35 32 34 coar. 33 SOUTHBRIDGE MASS 104 122 A Tusz 33 139 129 54 35 D-445 #218 52 SOUTHBRIDGE, MASS. ILbi art Kory*-r ERENAT HOSPITA 260 10 48 AVENUE 48 49 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000294