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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 LAUG 0 4 1989 1287 AREA FORM NO. 169 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 Town Somerville Address Historic Name Ho use 78 Sycamore Street Peter & Oliver Tufts Use: Present residential Original residential DESCRIPTION Date 1714-1719 Source town histories Style Georgian with Federal alterati Architect none Exterior Wall Fabric clapboard Outbuildings none See Attached Assessor's Map Z E N WTM REFERENCE 19 - 327/100 - 4695/100 USGS QUADRANGLE Boston North SCALE 1:25,000 Major Alterations (with dates) Italianate doorhood, fenestration, late-19th c. Condition good yes, on same Moved let Date 1892 Acreage less than one acre Setting West side of Sycamore Street among other residential properties o mid to late-19th century, some new apartment constructión Recorded by Gretchen G. Schuler Organization Mass.
Historical Commiss Date September, 1988 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Tufts House is one of only two extant 18th century houses in the Winter Hill area of Somerville. It is important architecturally and historically to the development of Somerville and representative of the transition from an agricultural to industrial community. The Tufts house retains integrity of design, materials, workmanship, feeling and association. It fulfills Criteria A and C of the National Register of Historic Places at the local level. The house fulfilled Exception B because its move was within the same lot. It was only moved back from the street- ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.
The Peter/Oliver Tufts House displays its original form of a gambrel roof, two and one-half story, tive-bay dwelling that has undergone some Although the house has been sheathed in shingles it is presently being rehabilitated with clapboards and fenestration of 6/6 The house has mid-19th century Italianate doorhood with heavily carved brackets. 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, settled along Broadway (originally Winter Hill Road) and several rangeways extending south Broadway. Only two 18th century houses survive in this area. Built ca. 1714, the Peter/Oliver Tufts House, so named to commemorate the 1787 to 1900s owners, occupied land set off to Elias Rowe in 1685.
Peter Tufts bought the dwelling in 1778 and eventually acquired land comprising a farm extending as far west Central Street and south of the Boston-Lowell Railroad tracks situated close to the driveway which later became Sycamore Street and the house was moved to the rear of the present lot. The farm was used for grazing and farming. Tufts family were active in establishing the early brick yards of Somerville, however, none were built in the immediate vicinity of Sycamore Street. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Draper, Martin, Map of Somerville, 1852 Somerville Historic Leaves, vol 1, April 1902. vo1 VIII, January 1910. 8/85 L ST. 149.70 L9za 15:.99 149 00 doos 1584 314 LE'OSI L0T 32-s0 76 S PEMBROKE CT ... 20°C3 SYCAMONE S T. 1105 i104 120 S10T10 dosie 2195 42.01 -3218 101.5 120 CENTRAL ST. =5 8L0TG 37.05 L01 02010% TENNYSON ST.
8 ALAS O 0-110 4083e O 40.63 IZTA 11L0 20.5 38- 0-00c- 24000 42.01 202 129 LOT Z BPT LOT 3 L.Om. : - LOT 9 6 PT. LOT 0 d1a5s 0+19 197 ® CENTRAL =100 #169 TENNYSON ST. 80.35 SYCAMORE ST. Oliver Tuffs Houese 78 SycAMuoe st. Someville (URA), Nass' NPS Form 10-900a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 AUG 4 1989 Section number - Page. Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Somerville MPS Middlesex County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review 71. Tufts, Peter and oliventered House. the National Reglsisr Date/Signature fKeeper_ AelaDyan 2/0169 Attest 72. Warren,H., House Emtered in tha Naticnal Restster taeoper AelmuByun 4/10/64 Attest 73. West Somerville Branch Library - Entered intba Nationai Regtater Vxcop Almuyu 9/18/59 Attest 74.
Williams, Charles, House intered in tha Jokaoper ileuBya 9/16/09 #ntional Bertatoz Attest st* 75. W1111ams, Charles, Jr., House Substantive Review Jonem Bt Savage 948-89 Entered in tha 76. Williams, F.G., House Mational Register MaeperAulaBqun 2/18/84 Attest 11. Worthen, Daniel, House Entered in tha National Regiotez FReeper AelouDyan 9/18/84 Attest 78. Wright House Entered Li 7sa National Realater fieéper AelorenSgu 2/18/65 Attest St79. Wyatt, George, House Substaalive RevL. Aisoper ßetg Saunge 9-18-89- Attest 80.
Somerville Theatre Net 0 Riez dontered in the Keeper HilvelBgue//20/90 latloAttestgiater UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY NAME: Tufts, Peter and Oliver, 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: 89001287 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 9/18/89 DATE Entered in the National Registen ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: RECOM./CRITERIA REVIEWER DISCIPLINE DATE DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR ./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 USGS maps _photographs presentation OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date 78 1,78 Sycanue Street MA 2.
Someruille. MA 3. C. Zellie 4.1980 5. Someruille City Hall 6. 1ookig west Tufts Petor oliver, House 7.$ 169 Sanervillo MRA, Ma Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number:64500253