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574 FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 MAY 1 5 1989 SOUTHBRIDGE MASS MRA AREA A 151 FORM NO. Town Southbridge Address 25-27 River Street Historic Name nla 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 3-decker rCsidente Original 3-decker resndence DESCRIPTION Date ca.
1910 Source Sanborn maps Style- Colonial Revival Vernacular Architect UnKnOwV Exterior Wall Fabric clapboard Outbuildings none/ Major Alterations (with dates) none Condition Good Moved no Acreage Date n/a less thanoneacte Setting in a row of 3-deckers across street from Harrington Cutlery factory UTM REFERENCE 18/744 910/4662930 USGS QUADRANGLE Southbridge Mass-ConD SCALE 1:25,000 Recorded by E. Woodford, S. Ceccacci Ceccacci Organization southbridze Historicac acc- mission Date May 1986 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) 25-27 River Street is significant as an examplé of the distinctive - regional multi-family housing type known as the triple decker, constructed during the growth of the town's eastern section late in the 19th- to eariyin the 2oth century.
meets National Register criterion C at the local level and retains integrity of setting, 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 evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community. One of two similar three deckers standing next to one another, this house is of the more severe Classical style which was common during the 1910's and 1920's. This severity contrasts with the lacy effect of the porches seen on many three deckers in the Flats for instance, which were built ten to twenty years earlier. This is one of the best preserved three deckers in the Hamilton 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. - Built on a large plot of land, opposite the "New Mill" of the Hamilton Woolen Company, which had remained vacant well into the 20th century, this was one of a row of six three deckers of several different designs. all built at about the same time. 'The sustained activity of the Hamilton Woolen Company at a time when many other New England textile mills were shutting down was the source of continued housing growth in Globe Village during the 1910's and 1920's. Hamilton Woolen continued to remain competitive in the world textile market through the introduction of new fabrics and by the replacement of obsolete machinery until a strike forced it to close in 1935.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES - maps MHC Renonaissance Report 8/85 NPS Form 10-000 (8-06) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page OMe Approvel No. 1024-0018 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Southbridge MRA Worcester County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review Cover 1. Academic Brochu 2. Alden, William E., House 3. Alden--Delahanty Block 4. Ammidown--Harding Farmhouse 5. Ashland Mill Tenement 6. Bacon--Morse Historic Distrifitered 1n the National Register 7. Beechwood 8.
Boyer, Alexis, House Date/Signature fReeper BethY Saye 6-22-81 Entered in the National Register ThemmsSyen 6/20/89 Attest Entered in the National Ragister tKeeper AheneaBzun 6/22/69 Attest Entered in the Mational Register tkeeper XuennBgus 0/2219 Attest Entered in the /eeper AuemuBgu 4/2014 National Begister Attest Entered in the Mational Register fteoper ulnneBgun 4/22/05 Attest Asceper Aelmusazun 6/22/15 Attest Entered in the National Register Toopr c/22/85 Attest Enteral in Nat1oDad Bectater fReeper AhelerSyan 6/20/89 Attest 9. Building at 25--27 River Street fKeeper AelvesByen 6/22/89 Entered in the Natlonal Register 10.
Building at 29--31 River Street Entorsd 3n t5g Nalinpa1 Rarlstor Attest fokeeper Attest AebmesSyen 6/28/89 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY NAME: Building at 25--27 River Street MULTIPLE Southbridge MRA NAME: 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: 89000574 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: OTHER: N PDIL: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N N - LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: N N N COMMENT WAIVER: N V ACCEPT RETURN REJECT 6/22/8PATE ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: Entered In the National Begister 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 USGS maps photographs presentation OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date 25-27 River Street (A -151) Southbridge, MK.
1986 Southbridgs Htistorical Commission ROll #4 Form# A-151 Southbridçe 2S-27 River street 1986 photo Roll#4 MRA SOUTHBRIDGE MASS 31 03 MF 137 H0 1:9 152 CANAL GB 120 ICHN E. ORUELAN, N ASSOCIATES RUEUHN, 25-27, River Street A-151 #25-27 HAMILTON HAF 0c2 109 54 55 50% 49 SOUTHERIDEL, MASS. 34 48 37 103 35 STREET 6X - EXEMP 36 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000294