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AUG 0 4 1989 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. 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 See Attached Assessor's Map UIM REFERENCE Z E N 19 - 327/040 - 4695/640 USGS QUADRANGLE SCALE 1:25,000 Eoston North 1239 AREA |Winter Hili 119 FORM NO.
Town Somerville MRA Address 438 Broadway Historic Name Adams-Magoun House Use: Present residence Original residence DESCRIPTION Date 1783 Source Town Histories Style Federal Architect unknown Exterior Wall Fabric clapboard Outbuildings none Major Alterations (with dates) none Condition excellent condition Moved no Date n/a Acreage Less than one acre. Setting The Adams-Magoun House is set on a low rise overlooking a major thoroughfare in the Winter Hill Section of Somerville. Recorded by Betsy Friedberg Organization Massachusetts Historical Comm. Date May 1986 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Adams-Magoun House, the best-preserved of Somerville's 78th century residences, retains integrity of location, design, materials, workmanship, and association.
The house, once the seat of the 91-acre farm, meets Criterion A for its associations with Somerville's agricultural past, and Criterion C as an intact vernacular example of the transition from the Georgian to the Federal style. fulfilled on the local level. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community. The Adams-Magoun House is one of the four oldest structures in Somerville; of these, it is the only one remaining in an excellent state of preservation. Built ca. 1783, the Adams-Magoun House is an early example of the Federal Style, and it was built according to the Georgian four-room, center-hall Typical late-18th and early-l9th century houses in this vicinity were rural in character, and not high-styled. The ? 1/2 story gable roof house is sited with its gable end to the street.
The five-bay facade contains a central pedimented entranced with five-part leaded fanlight. The cornice rests on the lintels of the windows of the upper story. The gable roof has very wide eaves; there are two interior brick chimneys on the rear slope. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. The Adams-Magoun House was built ca. 1783 by Joseph Adams, a member of the same Adams family as the second and fifth U.S. Presidents. Adams married Sarh Tufts, the daughter of Peter and Anne Tufts who also lived on Broadway. Joseph and Sarah Adams had a daughter, Sarah Anne, who married John C. Magoun, for whom Magoun Square is named. The 71-acre Adams farm extended from the Broadway to the Boston and Maine railroad, between Central and Lowell Streets.
The Adams-Magoun House is the last eighteenth century house to survive on the entire length of Broadway. This street, once known as the "Road to Menotomy," had numerous buildinas durina the late-17th and ear]v-18th centuries (particularly at the eastern end near Charlestown Neck). Some development, primarily scattered farmhouses, occured at the western end in the 18th century. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Samuels, E. Somerville Past and Present, 198l. Somerville Historical Society - photograph collection PT REG LOT IPT. LOT 21 [3838 3400 Qurt iu RD BRAEMORE 26415g 5.00 47 370 65.29 192 470 65- LPT.LOT 1 24754 35 3361- =0. T0 LOTII 2800i LOT 1 28000 70 LOT 6 28000 70 COT 2706 70 ML LOT 425 PARTRIDGE AVE.
" 2 520 PLOTIB PILOTIA 2100 KILSYTH RD BROADWAY 685 2800* 70 28001 70 70 2800% 70 70 3010* 70 OTiI OIOT 30100 70 .OT 1800 70 LOT 28343 40 40 140 2975 - 61,02 GLENWOOD RD. 28754 3150 70 3150$ .24 70 L19720 70 Q10 1r 70 LOT c LOT LOT/D 1"=100' PTLOTZZPT.L0T 23 1250 117.66 116.5 704 40.02 -OT 37181 102.96 LOT -4 513,70 103.33 ILOT 103.22 LOT 7O LOTI2 410 68.80 LOT 26 34866 1260 1076 6840 1072° 04 05 18 23.87 138.16 46371 124.01 [43664 114.70 ULOT 44790 10.85 L49784 108.35 42930 108.28 LOT 4205 102720 70.0 -OT 5 41260 10 102.12 LOT 99.25 33620 72.1 LOT LOT 3 25094 6100 ©3." ©10.S #119 N N07O. 60.58 BARTLETT ST. /. + LOT 83866 71.00 LOT 25591 1913(014215 21.00 LOTE 1990.33.34 7100 1p8t: 71.00 20.02 LOTS 787 6,070g1 72.93 LOT 12 83.73 LOT 13 37810 104.31 60 30.10 10030 .07 10.18 LOT 16 43320 111.9 30.04.
V//30.04 PT. LOT 48758 113.85 T LOT 18 115.67 40.05 117.53 LOT 20r 461 9 118.38 39.04 NPS Form 10-900-a (8-88) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Somerville MPS Middlesex County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review Date/Signature 11. Adams--Magoun House Entered in the National Registoy Keeper AlousBgur 9/1/84 Attest 12. Bacon, Clifton, House Entered 1n the Natlonal Registe fKeeper AlorBzu 9/18/64 S.L13. Barnes, Walter S. and Melissa E., Attest forkeeper Bittt Sause 318/90 Substantive Review Attest 14. Brackett, S.E., House Entered in the National Register Keeper Aulou Byu 7/18/04 Attest 25. Brondkay Wänter HILL Congregestopah tho fkeer AueouByu 1/8/65 National Register Attest 16.
Brooks, James H., House Entered in the National Register , Theopor uloweBogen tloty Attest 17. Central Library Entered in the National Register Tkeeper AiloveByu 9/15/69 Attest 18. Cliff, Z.E., House 19. Cook, Thomas, House Entered in the National Register eeperr Aelmuesgu 9/18/64 Attest Entered in the National Register 9/18/64 20.
Cooper--Davenport Tavern Wing Entered in the Natlonal Registen Attest ( SelvenByer 9/18/69 Attest UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Adams--Magoun House NAME: MULTIPLE Somerville MPS NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Middlesex DATE RECEIVED: 8/04/89 E OF HTEO isT: 8/31/89 ATE OF PENDING LIST: 8/15/8 ATE OF 45TH DAY 9/18/89 REFERENCE NUMBER: 89001239 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: COMMENT WAIVER: N LACCEPT _RETURN ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: _REJECT 9/18/82 DATE Entered in the National Register 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 Bu11der/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 _verbal boundary description UTMS boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION sketch maps _USGS maps photographs OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date presentation 438 Broadway 1.
438 Broadway 2. Somenuille. MA 3. Carol Zellie 1983 5. Someruille cit, Hall 6. lookurg southwest 7.*119 Aclans-Magan Herse Scnerville MRA, Ma Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64500253