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584 SOUTHBRIDGE MASS MRA FORM B - BUILDING MAY 1 5 1989 AREA FORM NO. MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 B 215 Town Southbridge Address 59-63 Crystal Street Historic Name na 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 residential Original residential DESCRIPTION Dateca.1899-1904 Source maps Italianate/ Colonial Revival Style Architect UnKhown Exterior Wall Fabric clapboards Outbuildings shed.
(NC) Major Alterations (with dates) porches add, (after 1904 but early 20th c.?) Condition Good-fair Moved No Date nla Acreage less than one acre Setting industrial/residential UTM REFERENCE 18/745875/4662 140 USGS QUADRANGLE Southbridge, Mass-Conn. SCALE 1:25,000 Recorded by E. Woodford, S. Ceccacci ed. S. Ceccacci Organization Southbridge Historical Com- mission Date May 1986 - NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) 59-63 Crystal Street is significant as an example of multi-family housing constructed during the rise to prominance of the American Optical Company and the growth of the town's eastern section late 19th century. It meets National Register criteria A and 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. This two-and-a-half story house is representative of some of the larger houses built in the neighborhood near American Optical around the turn of the century. Ihe gable front, side hall plan of the front section of the house was the most popular house plan in Southbridge and in Central Massachusetts all during the second half of the 19th-century The porches and shingle trim in the facade gable are the major ornamental elements. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. Larger houses such as this replaced some of the smaller cottages which had been built in this area during its initial period of development during the 1870's and 1880's.
Around the turn of the century a number of existing houses on Crystal Street were enlarged and other new houses, some multifamily, were built here. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES maps, atlases 8/85 NPS Form 10-000e (8-86) United States Department of the Interior 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 Wørcester County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review 41. High--School Streets Historic District Entered in the National Register Date/Signature Keeper AueBgu 6/2/04 Attest 42. Hodgsfon, William, Iwo-Family House Entered 1n tha Matlolad BeglsLar Fseeper hemnBgen af245 Attest 43. House at 18 Walnut Street antored in 6ue National Regiater Heeper ulruryu 6/22/4 Attest 44. House at 3 Dean Street 1
detionad 13g13.92 Fkeeper AubueByun 6/2/69 Attest 45. House at 34 Benefit Street Keeper AlihneByun 6/22/89 Natlonal Registar Attest 46. House at 59--63 Crystal Street chiclcd lh LuC Keopor Almalgua 6/22/39 Natlunai Baglatar Attest onlcica Ill cic 47. House at 64 Main Street Vational Regiater treeper Lelnu Byu 4/12/6 Attest 48. House at 70--72 Main Street intered in the sature tachototeeper AelunBgu 4/2/09 Attest 49. House at 91 Coombs Street Entered in the KReeper AlilmeByen 4/22/09 National Register Attest 50.
Judson--Litchfield House Entered in the Mational Begister fikeeper StelmeaByu412/09 Attest NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY NAME: House at 59--63 Crystal 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: 89000584 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 ACCEPT RETURN REJECT 6/27/89 DATE Entered in the National Register ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: RECOM./CRITERIA REVIEWER DISCIPLINE DATE DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR X/N CLASSIFICATION _count _resource type STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION FUNCTION historic current DESCRIPTION architectural classification naterials lescriptive 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 descriptio oundary justificatio ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION _sketch maps OTHER COMMENTS _USGS maps photographs presentation Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date 59.63 Crystal Street (B.215) South bridge, MA ceccacci.
1986 south bridge tistorical commission Roll #5 MRA SOUTHBRIDGE MASS 35 eXPMPT PUOLIC + 47 JOHN EO'CIKHELL A ASCOCIATES AUBURH, MAIHE 1971 59-63 Crustal streer 30 29 134 15133 10130 128 1150E HI 179 B-215 #59-63 (0) 18 ©IT ENEMPT - 13 SOUTHBRIDGE, MASS. 21D: 155 -16 / 37 36 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000294