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AUG 0 4 1989 PORM 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 19 - 327/140 - 4695/450 Boston North USGS QUADRANGLE SCALE 1:25,000 1240 AREA Witer Hilll FORM NO. 121 TOWn Somerville MRA Address 178 Central Street Historic Name Charles Admas - Woodbury Locke House Use: Present residential Original residential DESCRIPTION Date ca. 1840 Sour ce map research Style Greek Revival Architect unknown Exterior Wall Fabric clapboard Outbuildings garage (ca.
1923) (c) Major Alterations (with dates) Addition of porch roof, ca. 1910; shed dormer ca. 1900; removal of ell and barn, ca. 1870. and 1850, respectively Condition - Excellent Moved Date n/a Acreage Less than one acre. Setting. The Adams - Locke House is located un an urban residential neighborhood on Winter Hill in north central Somerville. Recorded by Betsy Friedberg Organization Massachusetts Historical Comm. Date _ May 1986 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENI (if applicable) The Adams-Locke House retains integrity of location, design, materials, and workmanship. Historically, the house was orginally a farm, significant for its association with Somerville's early-l9th century past and as the home of Charles Adams, a state legislator and one of the first merchants at the Boston's Quincy Market.
Architecturally, the house is significant as a wel1-preserved and finely detailed example of the Greek Revival style. - Adams-Locke House thus fulfil1s Criteria A and C of the National Register of Historic Places on the local level. ARCHITECIURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community. The Adams-Locke House is significant as one of the first non-agricultural houses built on Winter Hill. The structure, built ca. 1840, is a wel1-preserved example of a pretentious Greek Revival-style side-hall house. The three-bay facade is sited with its gable end to the street. Other notable features include the broad entablature at the cornice, wide corner boards, and full-width Doric porch (to which a ca. 1910 roof railing has been added). entrance is offset-to the right and is flanked by full-length sidelights.
interior retains most of its original doors, door and window enframements, baseboard moldings, and decorative moldings. HISTORICAL SICNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. Originally a farmhouse, the house stands on land the boundaries of which once extended south to Medford Street and north to Broadway. Adams gave the city the land at the northern end of his property for the first schoolhouse on Winter Hill. The school stood on the site of the present-day Winter Hill Congregationa1 Church (#118). The house was built by Charles Adams, a well-known figure on winter Hill during his day. Adams was a farmer, animal husbandman, and state legislator. He is known to be one of the original merchants at Boston's Quincy Market.
A subsequent resident of the house was Woodbury Locke, a "cutter" employed in the leather/shoe business in Boston. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES raper, Martin, Map of Somerville, 1852 Hopk ins, G. M. Atlas of the City of Somerville, 1874 Ol 107 I01 GIS9 coz $ seso 79.00 SIZS 80.10 NMOYE bose 001 asee O O SPIS 06229 S0 211 06 -60 71 COOIS 1S 0016 - 10T 41.39+76 40 0101L. 90004 8 LI 103.12 083601 sI SEI TERI 164 CENTRAL STEET D OOSt 0 100 SNINAE B z 107 6 107 1031 0098 - 107 1d 98 10 E FIOT98UIOT 10193 SE 58 0 04 6218 g O1 107 101 18 38 5O * 1E TH -9929 107 : 163 49.04 LOT DI69E 107 25sa #1999 2 10 ST. #121 100 charles Adars yoodbinydlck SoMewille Mass.
ADAMS 0Z6I9 8 107 9107 101 siREzi 601 107 07107 35.18 00000 00095 2181 -0382 9 107 WID 094C + 10 LS 107 04 12 10 06ZZ OI 107 04 121 T6SS 128.21 19 16 CENTRAL 100.3° NPS Form (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number. Page OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Somerville MPS Middlesex County. MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review Substantive Reviow Cover 1. Dow, L.W., Farmhouse Subatant10e Rey1ng AOWTTR CP jKeeper fokeeper Attest Date/Signature BotkDaage 9-18-89 BittY. Särige 2. Hollingsworth, Robert, House JOE/OWNER DEJECTI foKeeper -l1g1bla aunge Attest 3. House at 437 Somerville Avenue Sübstan Determined Ple oneeper Cligikle DOFFOWNER GEJECTION 3/2/20 Attest 4.
House at 53 Hudson Street futüta DOE/OWAED A9JECTIONJoKeeper Cligieles-89 Betfos Gauk Attest 5. Mentzner, W.C., House M... DOE/DANER 0P3 for Keeper 1ON Clifibles9 Buky 11gtb1 ange Attest 6. Sparrow, Edmund, House Substantive Review DOE/OWNER ORJECTION for Keeper clisible -18-8 Surt Attest 7. Mt. Vernon Street Historic Disttöred in the Jeceper AeluuaByu 2/4/65 National Register Attest 8. Spring Hill Historic District batantivaBarlerforKeeper betk. Surge 9-18-89 Attest 9. Westwood Road Historic Districftered in the Natlonal Reglater 10.
Adams, Charles--Woodbury Locke Hous Ehe Enteredin National Registen /Keeperc XetmueBqu 918/89 Attest faepor AulneBgan 9/18/85 Attest UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY NAME: Adams, Charles--woodbury Locke House MULTIPLE Somerville MPS NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Middlesex DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: 8/04/89 8/31/89 DATE OF PENDING LIST: 8/15/89 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 9/18/89 REFERENCE NUMBER: 89001240 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: N OTHER: N PDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: N N COMMENT WAIVER: N ACCEPT RETURN REJECT 9/18/89 DATE Entered in the National Register 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 OTHER COMMENTS _USGS maps photographs Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone _presentation Signed Date 178 centras 1.
178 Central st. 2. Somerulle. MA 3. Carol zelle 4. 1983 5. Someruille Culy Hall lo. lookng north 7.* 121 Adlams, Charkes - hedkry Locke Hfeese Scnervible MRA, Ma Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: - 64500253