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NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number - Page. OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 MAY 2 2 1989 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Winchester MRA Nomination/Type of Review Middlesex County, MASSACHUSETTS Date/Signature 11. Cole House Entered in the Natlonai Begister 12. DeRochmont House Entered in the lational Register 13. Dike--Orne House Entared Ir tra Natlonal Regiater 14. Dwight, Edmund, House Entered in the National Register tkooper aelmur Syen 1/5/89 Attest Heoper Aulou Bgue 115159 Attest trespr Aulau1Bgaa 11519 Attest tReeper Ahlua1 Sya 1/5189 15. Elder, Samuel, House Attest Entered in the Batlonal Begister GReeper AulmusSyad 9/5/34 16. Everett Avenue--Sheffield Road Historic District BuSoaTiA Reriom 17.
Firth--Glengarry Historie D'strict Entered Natienal Hoglater Attest SorKeeper Beth& Sarge 7-5-89 Attest Attest HeeperMelouByu 7/1789 18. Gardner, Edward, Ilouse usbstaabd ve BoricaforKeeper pettf. Saurge 7-5-89 Attest 19. Gardner, Patience and Sarah, Ouse cntered Natlonai Begleiez Keeper AlunBye 7/5184 20.
Ginn Carriage House Intered In tha Nstlozal Rogialaz Attest Foper Aieusgun 7/5/69 Attest - UNITED STANATIONATPARKSORVEINTERIOR NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY DeRochmont House NAME: MULTIPLE Winchester MRA NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Middlesex DATE RECEIVED: 5/22/89 DATE OF 16TH DAY: 6/22/89 DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REFERENCE NUMBER: 89000642 DATE OF PENDING LIST: DATE OF 45TH DAY: 6/06/89 7/06/89 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: N N PDIL: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: COMMENT WAIVER: N VACCEPT RETURN ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: REJECT 7/5/59 DATE Intered in thä.
National Registor 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 nistoric DESCRIPTION current 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 (IPS Fomm 10.900-a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number - Page .
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1024-0018 ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION APPROVAL: DeRochmont House 84000642 Suemßyu 2psk Elder, Samuel, House 89000643 Aueni1Bya 2p4/2 Childs, Webster, House89000644 - - Slbußgaw pster Skillings Estate House 890006%5 - Ahenns Sgew 2p8/21 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION PROPERTY DeRochmont House NAME: MULTIPLE NAME: Winchester MRA STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Middlesex DATE RECEIVED: 2/05/91 DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATE OF PENDING LIST: DATE OF 45TH DAY: 3/22/91 REFERENCE NUMBER: 89000642 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 LACCEPT _RETURN _REJECT 2/28/4 DATE LYS 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 _ USGS maps -photographs presentation OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date AUG 1990 2.4 Rangelly Roal Rangeley Place Winchester MRA,, Avg.
1990 Neg. in Winchester Archival Ceater De Rochmunt Huxe AUG 1990 DeRochmont Hoist 2-4 Kanguay Ra. WinchisterMA MiRn MHC Inv#587 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. Von RANGELY RIDGE RAVINE ROAD éjaro CHURCH SCHL UTM REFERENCE USGS QUADRANGLE SCALE AREA FORM NO. 387 Town Winchester Address 2-4 Rangeley Road Historic Name 5kiklings-Hebb Mouse Use: Present dwelling Original dwelling DESCRIPTION Date 1876-77 Source Woburn Journal, Oct. 7, 1876, June 9, 1817 Panel Brick Style Architect George D. Rand Exterior Wall Fabric brick Outbuildings none Major Alterations (with dates) Condition excellent Moved no Date n/a 160001-6,485 sq. ft. Acreage 160002-12,698 sq. ft.
Setting residentåal area formerly known as Rangeley Place Recorded by Carl Hagge, Carol Bly Organization Winchester Historical Comm. Date 12/78; 10/87 revised by C. Jenkins; 8/90 revised by M. Meister NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Skillings-Webb House possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and associations. It is significant as one of Winchester's Panel Brick style houses, all designed in the mid-1870s by George D. Rand. It features red and tar-dipped black brick to produce a polychromatic wall surface, carved vergeboards, and a complex massing of gables and dormers. It also represents the finer homes that began to be built in Winchester in the 1870s as suburban living was becoming more popular. It meets criteria À and C of the National Register of Historic Places.
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community. The Skillings-Webb Mouse is a 2t-story brick structure enclosed by a complex hip roof with numerous cross gables and exposed rafter ends. Vergeboards with an overlapping circular motif trim all of the gables. The house also is trimmed with a sandstone watertable, lintels and sills. At the first story, the lintels are carved with a floral motif, while at the second story they are executed with a sawtooth pattern. Eastlake posts divide windows in the gables and frame the dormers on the north elevation. The house was built as a duplex, and each of its two halves is defined by a large gable. Bach half was entered through a side porch.
The angled siting of the house acknowledges Church Street, yet requires guests to approach it from fangeley Road, which it faces. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. This Panel Brick house was the fifth rental property to be built by David N. Skillings on the grounds of his estate, called iangeley Place. A fourth house, of brick and stone, was built at the same time, but has since been torn down. (See the American Architect, June 23, 1877, for an illustration)) Skillings reported in the June 9, 1877, Woburn Journal that he had leased one side of the two-family house to a Mr. Webb, and it was noted that a Skillings son lived in the other side. William Webb was a salesman in Boston with Carter, Harris & Hawley.
His wife Martha was a member of the Art Committee of the Fortnightly Club, a town women's organization. Mrs. George Rand, wife of the architect, was on the same committee. Years later, in 1901, the widowed George Rand married the widowed Martha Webb. They spent ten years of marriage together in Auburndale, Newton, until Rand's death in 1910. The other half of this house was occupied by James Skillings and his family. Skillings worked at his father's lumber business in Boston. In the late 1880s, probably 1889, the Skillings family moved to 38 Rangeley Road, which they leased through 1920. In 1921, James and his wife bought 4 Rangeley Road. Skillings died on August 1, 1930, and his widow Lucy remained in the house until her death on August 14, 1942. The Webb house was later occupied by another prominent Winchester couple, Benjamin and Adeline Church, both physicians.
They moved to this house by 1887 and spent many years in it. ( BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Woburn Journal, Oct. 7, 1876, and June 9, 1877 Winchester Archival Center resources: maps, town directories National Census of 1880, p. 64 American Architect, June 23, 1877 "Suburban Homes," Boston Herald, March 30, 1881 MAY 2 2 1989 642 FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 10 a10 98579 05 291035 Photo (3"x3" or 3"x5", black and white) Indicate address of property on back of photo. Staple to left side of form. Ls3u3093 tb1s Sketch Map: Praw 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 1"=200' 5 Ba! RAVINE ** - SCHOOL AREA FORM NO.
387 Winchester, Mass., TOWn WINCHESTER MRA Address 2-4 Rangeley Road Historic Name DeRochmont House BOLO Use: Present dwelling (two family) Original dwelling DESCRIPTION Date - c1876 Source History of Winchester (Chapman) style _ Panel Brick (Queen Anne) Architect unknown Exterior Wal1 Fabric Outbuildings none brick Major Alterations (with dates) converted to two-family use Condition excellent Moved no AcIeage Setting Date n/a 16-0001 16-000Z .44A 6,485 12,698 residential area formerly known as the Rangeley Estates UIM REFERENCE 19.324040. U1840 USCS QUADRANGLE LEXINGTON, MASS SCALE 1:25 000 Recorded by Carl Hagge, Carol Ely Organization Winchester Historical Comm. Date 12/78: 10/87 revised bv C. Jenkins NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The DeRochmont House possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials, manship, feeling and associations.
It is significant as one of three Panel Brick housesyos 08 in Winchester, all located in the Rangeley area. It features red and tar-dipped black , patterned brick to produce a polychromatic wall surface, carved vergeboards, and a com- plex massing of gables and dormers. It also illustrates Winchester' s growing popularity as a fashionable suburb, in this case, the exclusive Rangeley Estates. It meets criteria A and C of the National Register of Historic Places. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community. X08 10 "[x"() OJONY The DeRochmont House is a 24 story brick structure enclosed by a compley slate hip rogt" with numerous cross gables and exposed rafter ends. Vergeboards with an overlapping cie- cular motif trim all of the gables.
The house is further trimmed with a sandstone water- table, lintels, and sills. At the first story the lintels are carved with a floral motif, while at the second story they are executed with a sawtooth pattern. Eastlake type posts divide windows in the gables and frame the dormers on the north elevation. The house lacks a major elevation, perhaps because of its corner location, and the entry occupies an incon- spicuous location on the west elevation beneath a simple wood-frame porch with Eastlake type posts. A secondary entry is located in a one story brick ell. 9ra toetinoA HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local of state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. This fine Panel Brick style house, was built by David Skillings on the grounds of his Es-e193ni tate Rangeley. It is one of three similiar houses.
Skillings, a lumber entrepreneur from Maine, came to Winchester in the late 19th centuryy bought a large parcel of land west of the railroad tracks near the townl'center, and developed it into a walled residen- tial park. A handsome stone retaining wall with granite piers still marks the perimeter of the Rangeley Estates along Church Street. Skillings built a house for himself as well as five others which he sold to people of his selecfion.Nothing is known about its ori- ginal occupant who was named DeRochmont.) SOCY 9gS. TUA pr 21588. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Chapman, Henry Smith. Históry of Winchester. Winchester ARchival Center resources: files. S5008 Vol. II. p.13.
GHON 2020 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000303 NATIONAL RECISTER * ME TITCPIACTLAE "COMMISSIOEA ADE January 30, 1991 Ms. Carol Shull National Register of Historic Places Department of the Interior National Park Service P.O. Box 37127 Washington, DC 20013-7127 RE: Winchester Multiple Resource Area Dear Ms. Shull: Enclosed you will find additional information on the following properties, which were listed on the National Register as individual properties in the Winchester Multiple Resource Area Nomination, Winchester MA, in 1989. Skillings-Webb House Skillings Estate House la.k.a. DeRochmont House) V 37 Rangeley Road 2-4 Rangeley Road Skillings-Cutter House Skillings-Manny House (a.k.a. Webster-Childs House) (a.k.a. Samuel-Elder House) 9 Meadowcroft 38 Rangeley Road (a.k.a.
16A Ginn Road) Please add this further information to your files. Feel free to contact Doug Kelleher, National Register Assistant at this office, if you have any questions. Sincerely, V!1: Betsy Friedberg National Register Director Massachusetts Historical Commission Enclosures Massachusetts Historical Commission, Judith B. McDonough, Executive Director, State Historic Preservation Officer 80 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 (617) 727-8470 Office of the Secretary of State, Michael J. Connolly, Secretary