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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 LAUG 0 4 1989 1280 AREA FORM NO. 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 160 Town Somerville MRA Address 29 Powderhouse Terrace Historic Name Z. E. Cliff House Use: Present residential Original residential DESCRIPTION Date ca. 1900 Source map research style_ shingle/colonial revival Architect builder Z. E.
Cliff Exterior Wall Fabric clapboard outbuildings none Major Alterations (with dates)adcitions of bay windows after 1904 Condition excellent Moved no Date n/a Acreage less than one acre Setting on curving street at the edce of Tufts Park JIM REFERENCE JSGS QUADRANGLE Z E N 19 - 325/760 - 4696/100 Boston North SCALE 1:25,000 Recorded by Betsy Friedbern. Preservation Planner Organizatian Mass. Historical Conmission Date June 1936 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Z. E. Cliff House, residence of a prominent Somerville developer and politican, is a finely articulated example of the Shingle Style. Retaining integrity of location, design, materials, workmanship, teeling, and association and fulfills Criterfon ant c of the National Register of Historic Places on the local levei.
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community. The Z. E. Cliff House is an excellent example of the Shingle-Style, one of the best remaining examples in Somerville. It is characterized by a broad gambrel roof and diamond-paned window mullions in several windows. The "sucked-in" gable window, slightly recessed with contoured shingled reveals, was a hallmark of the style. Polygonal bay windows were added a few years after the building's ca. 1900 construction. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the conmunity. As one of Somerville's most active builders. Zebedee E. Cliff had a great impact on the city's development. He was an alderman and was later elected Mayor.
Cliffe as a carpenter-turned-developer who built many of the city's finest one-and-two-family houses; Powderhouse Terrace in northeastern Somerville was among his finest residential development. At the time of his death, Cliff was credited with over $2 million worth of construction. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Bromley, G. W. Atlas of the City of Somerville, 1895 1904 Somerville Director REG. LOT 47.50 & PT. LOT 4 := LOT LOT'192 100 T 100 LOT 1. 15-6,1800 :LOT 21 5,830 LOT 190 6,2010 POWDER HOUSE TERRACE LOT 165 6,3600 LOT 163 5,6340 162 5,6510 LOT 164 5,0000 00 300.7 PT. LOT 153 4,4000 ~ TT LOT ! 70.02 LOT28& PT.LOT3 4,0710 PT LOT 3 9 4,/668 --® 10 /FLOT . NOTES 4 231 LOT KIDDER AVE. 51.30 KIDDER AVE. ST /'= 100' KENWOOD COLLEGE AVE. 50 141.40 LOT 13,1250 #160 aTY LINE.
CENSUS TRACT LINE (I9 MAACEL OR LOT LINE- STREET LNE PIGHT OF WAY LINE__ BLOCK LETTER.__- LOT NO. PARCEL I NO. HOURE STREET NG- DOLCARION FTON DEEI ON AFROM DEEI LOT ISI 55788 PT. LOT 160 6,1560 30.31 LOT 156 5,350-, -~ LOT 3 5,355B 30.00 LOT 157 LOT 2 5,1820 100 LOT 30.00 100 LIBERTY AVE. Z.E. Cliff House za Powdehouse Ter. SUnierville (MRA). Mass. inpaed.n- DRAWN BY: D. Ac Momara ASBISTANT DRAFTSMAN: F. Mowr, RESEARCH CORSULTANT: NPS Form 10-900- (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 Somerville MPS Middlesex County, Nomination/Type of Review MASSACHUSETTS Date/Signature 11. Adams--Magoun House Entered in the National Registey Keeper Aelouagun 9/0/84 Attest 12.
Bacon, Clifton, House Entered in the National Begisto Keeper S Auloseyu Attest SoKeeper, 9/10/64 S.lL13. Barnes, Walter S. and Melissa E., House Substantive Review ßitat Sause 3/8/90 14. Brackett, S.E., House Entered in the Mational Regiater Keeper AluByun 7/10/09 Attest 15. BroadwayWinterillConretrn te National Register tkeper tueuBgu 1/8/69 Attest 16. Brooks, James H., House Entered in the National Register , Thesper Auloue Bgun 210b4 Attest 17. Central Library Emtered 1n the National Register Teoper AuloreByu 2/18/69 Attest 18. Cliff, Z.E., House Entered in the National Register Hkeoper AubmssSyu9/18/84 Attest 19. Cook, Thomas, House Entered in tbe National Register theoper Zelmeyen 9/18/64 Attest 20.
Cooper--Davenport Tavern Wing Entered ia tha National Register tkeeper AeloreByar 9/18/19 Attest UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY NAME: Cliff, Z.
E., 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: 89001280 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 9/18/54 DATE Intered in tha 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 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 29 Pordenhomna Tenoue 1.29 Powdenhouse Terrace 2.
Somerurlle, MA 3. C. Zellie 4. 1984 5. Somerulle Cly Nell 6. lookeny southeast 7.#160 CI.FF,Z. E. Heuse Heese scmerville MRt. Ma Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: _ 64500253