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1284 FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 AUG 0 4 1989 AREA FORM NO. 164 Town Address Somerville 237 School Street Historic Name Elisha Hopkins House 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 Use: Present residential Original DESCRIPTION Date residential ca. 1868 Source map research / directories Style Italianate Architectnone Exterior Wall Fabric synthetic siding Outbuildings_ none Major Alterations (with dates) sidinge ca.1970s.
Condition fair/good synthetic See Attached Assessor's Map Moved Acreage Daten/a less than one acre Setting Southeast corner of School and Oakland Streets. Residential neigh- borhood of late-19th century dwelling UTM REFERENCE 19 - 327/500 - 4695/280 USGS QUADRANGLE Boston North SCALE 1:25,000 Recorded by Gretchen G. Schuler Organization Mass. Historical Commissio Date September, 1988 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Elisha Hopkins House is one of the only center gable, Italianate houses remaining in the Winter Hill area. It is important architecturally and retains integrity of location, setting, design, feeling and association. It fulfills Criterion C of the National Register of Historic Places at the local level. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.
The Elisha Hopkins House displays an Italianate plan that was popular in the 1850s and 1860s. Although the siding has been changed, the house retains its massing and setting. The three-bay house has a center gable, glazed oculi (round windows) in the gable ends and a full Colonial Revival porch with turned posts and an unadorned balustrade. One-story projecting bays flank the center entrance on the first floor. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. Winter Hill, a 4000 foot drumlin in the north section of Somerville, was settled along Broadway (originally Winter Hill Road) and several rangeways extending south from Broadway.
Most of the School Street area between Medford Street and Broadway was not developed until the late-19th century with the exception of a few Italianate and Mansard houses on the east side. The rest was apple orchards belonging to Jonathan Poor. The Elisha Hopkins House, built before 1870, belonged to shipmaster, Hopkins. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Hopkins, G.M. Atlas of the City of Somerville, 1874 8/85 1'=100' #164 218 87.12- 0 09.34 100. LOT 100 30000 2 LOT 10 LOT 3000L LOT o0- LOT 34 50000 6027 LOT 37 g 2960g 50240 18 TO PT. LÓT 42 295008 136.41 LOTE 16,00- 130.00 1005 490,0181 SCHOOL ST. 30 12 PT. LOTS 27 6 20 -11.00- PT. LOT 35 43840 PT. LOTS 36 8 43 = 234 3 LANGMAID LOT 12748 BRADFORD AVE. STS: OAKLAND AVE.
PT LOT B 85 50.00 3530 45.0 L01 2800 20208 LOT 50640 0.00 -S100ups 19z 47.74 TEMPLE BROADWAY LOT Z 17,820g RE 14000 LoT 10 44006 gie 18ist. LOT 4600 TLOTS 5 86 302601 -33.70 PT LOT 21 35 (3) 3936L EVERGRE NPS Form 10-000 (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, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review Date/Signature 31. Hopkins, Elisha, House tatord 1nothstarKeeper Aulmuaßyu 9/151 Attest 32. House at 10 Arlington Street Entered 1n the Akeeper Auloms Zyu 2/17/4 Natiopal BegisteDAttest 33. House at 14 Chestnut Strentered 1n the treoper Aulmbgu 91519 Natlonal Begister Attest 34.
House at 16--18 Preston Road Entered in the Kkeeper AelrByun 9/18/04 National Regiater Attest_ 35. House at 197 Morrison Avegufered 1n the Keeper AulmuByun 9/18/69 National Register Attest 36. House at 21 Dartmouth Street intered in the Natlonal Regiater Areeper AulmeByu 7/18/45 Attest 37. House at 25 Clyde Streetentered in the National Regiater FReeper AulmurByu 9/18/22 Attest 38. House at 29 Mt. Vernon Street Entered 1u the Hceper AulrByu 8/18/59 National Register Attest 39. House at 343 Highland Avenue Entered 1a the Aeoper AhlmaBgu 1/18/69 Naticual Register Attest 40.
House at 35 Temple Street Entered In the HReeper OuloneBye 9/18/9 National Reglator Attest - UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Hopkins, Elisha, House NAME: MULTIPLE NAME: Somerville MPS 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: 89001284 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 V 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 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 verbal boundary description boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION photographs sketch maps _USGS maps OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date _presentation 237 school 1.
237 School Street 2. Someruille, MA 3. C. Zellre 1984 5. somperulle co Hall b. lookung ecest 7. *164 Hepkeins, Feliska, Hese sener ville MRA, Ma Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64500253