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612 MAY 2 3 1989 FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETIS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSION 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. 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 UIM REFERENCE 19/330350/4709730 USGS QUADRANGLE Reading, MA SCALE 1:25,000 AREA A FORM NO. 40 Town Wakefield Address 391 Vernon Street Historic Name Cpt. Wm. Green House NA Use: Present Residence Original Residence DESCRIPTION Date -1690 Source Bibliography Style Colonial Vernacular Architect NA Exterior Wall Fabric Shingles-Cedar outbuildings None Major Alterations (with dates) One story shed roof addition off north wall, east side.
(c.1700's) Condition Excellent Moved MES Date C.1790 Acreage - Ane and a half acres setting Setback approximately 50' on level lot in neighborhood of single family residences. Bill Jones, Bruce Merry Recorded by Architectural Preservation Associates Organization Wakefield Historical ommiss1or Date March 100 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) This house contains a fragment of a First Period structure and is a good example of a Georgian Vernacular farm house. although the structure has beer moved, it still retains integrity of design, materials, workmanship, feeling and association, and meets criterion C of the NRHP on the local level.It also meets criterion excption B, the moved building exception as it has been moved fram its orginal site. ARCHITECIURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.
This farmhouse has been moved and renovated but the high, narrow gambrel roof, rectangular massing of c. 1750, and the even earlier ell c. 1680, remain. The asymmetrical facade is typical of the Colonial vernacular, in which windows and doors were placed where they were most necessary, and not with regard for regularity. The small, high placed second floor windows are also a feature of domestic building' the period. Door surround and sash is not original. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the conmunity. lhe older part of this early farmhouse, now an ell at the rear, is believed to have been built prior to 1680 on a site across the Saugus River in Lynnfield. The newer part of the dwelling is believed to have been built by Capt. William Green in the middle of the 18th century. Capt.
Green's son Caleb acquired the house. ahout 1790 and moved it to its present site in Wakefield. Later the house and farm were owned by Caleb's son, Joshua Green. At one time the Green property included nearly 30 acres of land on the west side of Vernon Street as well as about 10 acres on the side on which the house is situated. The land remained rural and primarily agricultural until the 20th century, when post World War II development needs, the automobile, and governmentally financed road systems combined to make commuting possible from the area. - BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES maps 1874, 1889 Eaton, Chester, and Eaton, Warren, Proceedings of the 250th Anniversary of the Ancient Town of Redding, Reading, 1896. Merrii , Morrizon, "varerietars Oid Houses", nakericia denealogica." History of Reading, Boston H1stor1cal Society.
NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior 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 Wakefield MRA Middlesex County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review Date/Signature 11. Cowdry, Nathaniel, House Entered 1n the I Rooper AelueSye 7/6/89 National Begiater 12. Emerson--Franklin Poole House 13. Flanley's Block Entered1n tho Asttunai Beglater LKeeper AelmuAgun 7/6/89 Ewteret 1 tha dethaniu la later 5' 14. Goodwin, Captain--James Custis House Substantive Reviet Attest Attest Attest JnKeeper Attest Ixeeper AelaseBu BSauge 7190 15. Gould, Samuel, House Entered in the National Register Keeper AelmuBgen 710/89 Attest 16. Green, Capt. William, House Entered in the Keeper AulmnDgun 116/89 Natlonal Regiater 17.
Green, Deacon Daniel, Houseed in tha Nethones RegLater Lkeeper HuluneBogun 7/6/89 Attest 18. Greenwood Union Church Sntered in the National Regiater /-Keeper Aelmusgun17/6/89 Attest 19. House at 1 Morrison Avenue /Keeper AleenuBgun 716/89 Entered in the National Regtster Attest 20. House at 1 Woodcrest Drive LKeeper Aelurerbgu 16/89 BterolE 12a Nagluind aeist Attest UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY NAME: Green, Capt.
William, House MULTIPLE Wakefield MRA NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Middlesex DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: 5/23/89 6/22/89 DATE OF PENDING LIST: 6/06/89 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 7/07/89 REFERENCE NUMBER: 89000672 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 7/6/89DATE Entered in the Matlonai Begister 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 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 Yerbaary undary descrnption ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION sketch maps USGS maps photographs OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date presentation - Ao 391 Vernon.
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85.0 30.22 B53 854 12036 10592 IRST METHODIS 80.0 144" ARSONAG 117.39 602.28 395.11 19D 205.03 19E (4336 .N58 13782 10852 20C 126.41 13700 736.48 20B 11703 anen A 40 SCALE: 1'= 80' .38 * TO T1E 32001* 59744 19 AIB 52,191 516.50 228,2,77 N12 11494 109 38 15670 130.32 NIO 10720 90 20 3.2 ACRES FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 Photos 72:1 facade 72:6 lst floor, east room 72:10 2nd floor, rear room, summer beam 72:24 north plate, joint with west post and chimney girt FIRST PERIOD SURVEY JAN 2 4 1990 185 FORM NO. 90 Town Wakefield.
017 391 Vernon Street Address Green House Historic Name Sketch Map: JUNIPER VERNON - UTM REFERENCE USGS QUADRANGLE Z E N 19 / 330-350 / 4709-720 Reading SCALE 1:25,000 Use: Present Residence Original Residence DESCRIPTION Date 1680, 1750 Source Visual assessment, secondary sources Style First Period Architect None Exterior Wall FabricClapboard Outbuildings_None Major Alterations (with dates) Main block, c. 1750, incorporating moved ca. 1680 house: house moved 1790. Condition Excellent Moved Yes Date House - 1790; ell 1750 Acreage 1.4 acres Setting Setback approx. 50 feet on level lot in residential neighborhood of 20th c. houses.
Recorded by Chris Boshears Organization Boston University Date January 1986 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Conmunity : WAKEFIELD Form No: 90 Property Name: Green House Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. SIGNIFICANCE The Green House retains integrity of design, materials, and workmanship in its late 17th century frame incorporated into a larger Second Period dwelling, making it eligible under Criterion C. The types of chamfer stops in the east end point to a late 17th/early 18th-century construction date. EXTERIOR DESCRIPTION The Green House is a 2 1/2 story clapboarded structure with an asymmetrical 5 bay facade and a tall narrow gambrel roof. The second floor windows are placed high under the eaves; the door and surround are reproduction 20th century Colonial'.
A small one story kitchen and screened porch addition wraps around the east rear corner. The c. 1680 east section of the house was reputedly moved to Wakefield in the 1750's, when the west end and gambrel roof were added, creating a central chimney plan house. The entire building was moved in the 1790's to its present location. MAJOR FIRST PERIOD FEATURES Both floors of the east end of the house exhibit late 17th century chamfered frames with chamfer stops. The first floor east room has exposed summer beam, chimney girt, northwest post, and rear girts with wide bevel chamfers. Where the summer beam meets the chimney girt, the north side of the summer has a lamb's tongue stop with three notches; the south side has a simple triangular stop. The chimney girt has a triangle stop where the north end of the summer meets the girt.
The south end of the girt is now covered, but also seems to have the remnants of a triangle stop where the girt meets the summer. The exposed northest part has a bevel chamfer with taper stop. The chimney and rear girts have triangle stops at this corner. The two east rooms on the second floor exhibit simpler stops. The south hall and southeast corner posts have bevel chamfers with taper stops. The south plate is exposed and has a very rough bevel chamfer with a taper stop at the southeast corner. The exposed east end girt has a bevel chamfer and a very flat lamb's tongue or triangle stop in the southeast corner.. The second floor northeastern chamber has an exposed transverse summer beam with bevel chamfer and lamb's tongue stops at the north end. The north plate has a very crude bevel chamfer.
1 Staple to Inventory form at botton INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Canmunity : Form No: MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL CAMMISSION WAKEFIELD 90 Office of the Secretary, Boston Property Name: Green House Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. LATER SIGNIFICANT FEATURES The rooms in the western half of the house exhibit good Second Period boxing and paneling. The rafter feet of the gambrel roof are visible on the second floor, meeting the sides of the south plate, an unusual detail probably resulting from the construction of a gambrel roof on top of a First Period frame. HISTORICAL INFORMATION Local historians state that this one cell 2 1/2 story First Period house was originally built across the Saugus River in Lynfield, ca 1680. The house was moved to Wakefield and incorporated into a Second Period 2-cel1 gambrel-roof house by Capt. William Green around 1750.
Captain freen's son, Caleb, acquired the house around 1790 and moved it to its present site. The moves and alterations experienced by the Green House may be typical of the fate of many frame buildings in the 18th century, when it was possibly more economical to move and add to a dwelling than to build a new one. Staple to Inventory form at botton 391 Vernon 8 Wakefeld, Ir Greln Herse Ist Pericl Buildings of Fe. Ma, 1 1985 391 Vernon Sr. wakefeld. MA. Grees Herse Istpoiid Buldlngs of E, Mo, TR 1985 391 Vernon sr wakefield, n Grees Hese Ist Pored Bildngs uf 5. Ma, TR 1985 Hat ts Che dig Green Hase 391 Vernon Wakefreld Ist perid Buldligs of Te. Ma, Te (*J.E Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000300