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FORM 8 - BUILDING MAY 1 5 1989 MAT 1 5 iuuo 569 SOUTHBRIDGE MASS MRA AREA A 134 FORM NO. MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 Town Southbridge Address 718 Main Street Historic Name Chamberlain-Bourdeau House Foll.7|-24 Photo (3"'x3" or 3"x5*, black and white) Indicate address of property on back of photo. Staple to left side of form. in relation to nearest cross streets and/or geographical features. Indicate all buildings between inventoried property and nearest intersection(s). Indicate north Use: Present residential residential Original DESCRIPTION Date Ca1855-1870 Source maps Style Italianate Architect unknown Exterior Wall Fabric clapboard outbufldings altached period barn (c) Major Alterations (with dates) n/a Condition Excellent Moved no Date na Acreage one acre or ess Setting residential area on a hilltop with other large 19th c.
single family dwelling multifamily 19th c. dwellings nearby UTM REFERENCE 18/744 600/4662 730 USGS QUADRANGLE Southbridge, Mass-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 Chamberlain-Bourdeau House is signifiCant for its association with the town's mid- 19th century real estate development and its stylish Italianate design. It meets National Register criteria A and C at the local level and retains integrity of location, materials, 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 evaluata in terms of other buildings within the community.
The best preserved examnle of an Italianate residence in Southbridge; this two story, three bay house has been sightly altered. Characteristic of the style are the boxy shape of the main portion'of the house, the overhanging bracketed eaves, corner quoins, projecting window caps and the substantial entry porch with arch motif. Also retaining much of its original setting, the house sits back from the street in a spacious lawn with large old trees. During the same period, another large Italianate style house was built nearby on the opposite side of the street at the corner of Main and Sayles Street. It unfortunately has been altered by the application of synthetic siding. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community.
A house belonging to Oliver Plimpton was shown occupying this site on the 1855 Southbridge map. Because of its orientation to the street and difference in plan, that house seems to have been an earlier dwelling. A descendant of William Plimpton who was one of the earliest settlers (ca. 1732) of Globe Village, Oliyer Plimpton was (at an unspecified date) superintendent of the cotton of the nearby Hamilton Woolen Company. A description of ?1impton's house in Davis" Sketch of Sturbridge and Southbridge indicates that an old dwelling was still standing on this site as late as 1856. The present I-plan house, the property of Capt. John Chamberlain or Chamberlin , first appeared on the 1870 Worcester County Atlas. Chamberlain was listed in the 1875-6 Southbridge directory as an insurance agent. After Capt. Chamberlain's death in the late 1870's, Mrs.
Chamberlain continued to live in the house until the late 1880's.' By 1898 the house had become the property of Gilbert Bourdeau, a box maker. Bourdeau lived here until about 1920. Before 1855, the Oliver Plimpton house was the only building on the north side of Main Street, west of the intersection of Main and South Streets. It is likely that a sizeable portion of this land, extending northward to Hamilton Street, belonged to the Plimpton house. Between 1855 and 1870 not only was the Chamberlain-Bourdeau House built but the Hamilton Mill Agent's House (form #A-135) next door to the west and several single and multifamily houses - east of it on Main and Union Streets were built. At that same time factory housing for the Hamilton Mill was built nearby on Union, New (Oliver) and Cross Streets.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES maps, atlases, directories Davis, Sketch of Sturbridge and Southbridge Quinebaug Historical Society Leaflets, Vol. II, p. 122. 8/85 NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of theInterior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Section number Page Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Southbridge MRA Worcester County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review Date/Signature 11. Building at 38--42 Worcester Street Entered in the National Register freoper AelmuaBgen 612/29 12. Building at 52 Main Street Enteredinthe National Begister 13. Central Mills Historic District Entered in the National Reglater Attest FReeper AhlunnZgu 6/22/09 Attest txcopor sleeneBzar 4/1t4 Attest keeper_ AelmnBzen 4pz/19 14. Chamberlain--Bordeau House Entered in the bational Begister 15.
Chapin Block Entered 1n the Mational Register Attest eeper AelonByen 4/27/89 Attest 16. Cheney, Alpha M. House Entered in tne Matlonal Begister 6Keeper SebueSyun6/2245 Attest 17. Cheney, J.M., Rental Housev.ta in uie Mational Register / Keeper AelnBgen 6/2x/59 Attest 18. Clarke--Glover Farmhouse /Keeper AuereBzua 4/27/54 19. Cliff Cottage Entered in tne National Register Entered in the National Register Attest /Keeper AuleByen 42>/89 Attest 20.
Cole, E., Merritt, House Entered in t3e Naticnal Registar Reeper i TlruBge 6/23/89 Attest NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Chamberlain--Bordeau House NAME: 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: 89000569 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: OTHER: N PDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: N N N COMMENT WAIVER: N VACCEPT RETURN REJECT 60/22/89 DATE Entered in the MatLonal 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 UTMS verbal boundary description boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION sketch maps OTHER COMMENTS USGS maps _photographs presentation Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date Chamberlam.
House, (A-3A) 718 Main St. southbridge Ms cccacci, 1985 southbridge tistonical commezion Roll #1-24 MRA SOUTHBRIDGE MASS 31 03 60 MF GB 33 140 65 STREET 12023 :129 HT 119 Do21 110% Ra GB A-134| #718 49 ICHN E.O'DOIAiELL & ASSOCIATES ueuRN. MAINE 1o71 718 MainStreet SOUTHBRIDCE, MASS. STREET HAF CROSS 11.50 48 19 35 STREET ALP -XMeTT0WI 34 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000294