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FORM A - AREA AUG 0 4 1989 Area Letter Form numbers in this Area 178 MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02116 Town Somerville Name of Area (if any) Prospect Hill area of Somerville - Hollander Blocks Present Use residential - Photos (3"x3", or 3"x5" black & white) Indicate on back of each photo street addresses for buildings shown. Staple to left side of form. General Date or Period ca. 1890 General Condition excellent 'Sketch Map. Draw a general map of the frea indicatingproperties within it. yumber each property for which individual nventory forms have been completed. -abel streets including route numbers, if iny. Indicate north. (Attach a separate sheet if space here is not sufficient). Acreage less than one acre Recorded by Gretchen G. Schuler Organization Mass.
Historical Commission Date September, 1988 See Attached Assessor's Map TM REFERENCE Z E N 19 - 327/490 - 4694/310 19 - 327/480 - 4694/320 SGS QUADRANGLE ALE1.25,000 Baston Nerth NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Hollander Blocks retain integrity of location, setting, design, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association with the late 19ch century development of residential Prospect Hill. They are architecturally and historically significant to Somerville, thus, they fulfill Criteria A and C of the National Register of Historic Places and are significant at the local level. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of -other areas within the community.
The two apartment houses, constructed circa 1890 are Queen Anne in style with Colonial Revival features evident in their symmetry, abbreviated hipped roof embellished by an elaborate copper cresting, and the three decker porches (on 56-58 Walnut Street) with simple balustrades- and unadorned Tuscan-like columns with simplified capitals. The buildings are sheathed in clapboards with wide band courses of decorative shingles delineating the three stories of the buildings. Built on à corner lot with one building facing Pleasant Avenue and one facing' Walnut Street, the two buildings command an important tocal point in the predominately single and two-family residential neighborhood on Prospect Hill. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain historical importance of area and how the area relates to the development of other areas of the community.
Prospect Hill, one of the most substantial iesidential neighborhoods of Somerville, evolved throughout the late 19th century. Prior to that it was an agricultural community of farms. Large tracts of land were subdivided by real estate investors and well-to-do merchants in the mid Pleasant Avenue, including the corner lots on Walnut Street was part of the 1870 subdivision plan of Ira Hill an others. Each side of Pleasant Avenue was subdivided into seven lots which were then sold for development- Investor I. Clarence Hollander built the 10-unit Hollander block at 56- 58 Walnut Street and the adjoining 12-unit apartment house at 4-6 Pleasant Avenue by 1895. After the subdivision the corner lot had been purchased by Charles B. Hollander and is recorded as part of his estate by 1884. It was his for housing in the area increased dramatically at the end of the 1800s.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Bromley, G.W., Atlas of the City of Somerville, 1895. City Directories, 1880s - 1890s. Registry of Deeds, Middlesex County, Plan Book 17, Plan 88. 8/85 134.33 00001 0r:99 D2z8S 50086 7118E 07338 00% v52s JILBE - D0 3 Loc JLL9E DTLAS 310 119 10T 1d AEIEI 71071J0 -8 210 1566 439 20005 © THORPE 17.32 0015,l 1S NO1SO8 960 #0o6+ 101 1,0 08267L 1506 $9008 506 a86LE 30 Fanol WALNUT 6006 094'82 OL 2LPT23543 : ° +00 S65S # L626 *ZE 32I 000s OO»L 0 +21 8. IOT E6Z9E 10T toors 0819 4 82.9 107 GRAND VIEW AVE. 08 S11 9 91 810710 84L07 506 lasese 1 107 Ld Io1 I01 796 8zIt 910 SLZ SLZ 162E 6898 02.: - O ST- EZIS 9107 2 8z SLZ 0L 107 S22 8LI# The Hollande block 56-58 Walnut -4 - Pleasant Ave somewille (URA), Mass.
NPS Form 10-900e (8-86) United States Department ofthe 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 Date/Signature 21. Crowell, C.C., House Etored in the Natlonal Regiatar Taoper AelmerByun 9/8/09 Attest 22. Downer Rowhouses (Adams Street)ered 1c thai Nattonal Rogister Feopor ebmOzun 4/0/09 Attest 23. Downer Rowhouses (Central Street) Entered in tha Aeeper AlmuByun 2/14/89 Natlonal Reglater Attest Su 24. First Unitarian Church Substantiva Revier forkeeper Butf Sauage 9/18/89 oyut 25. First Universalist Church 26. Foster, Alexander, House 27. Gaut, Samuel, House 28. Grandview, The 29. Highland, The 30.
Hollander Blocks Ja KeeperBithA Sarase 9/15/89 Attest Entered Intha Batara nata/Keeper Alampyu 9/6/69 Attest Entered 1n tbe National Register fikeeperulueBigur 2/18/04 Attest Enteredtn tha Natlonal Begiatar txeoper ilomByun 9/18/39 Attest Entered 1n the National Reglater tkeeper AilomByu 9/16/69 Attest Intered in the National Registez fokeeper( Aelrebyer 1/1/84 Attest UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY NAME: Hollander Blocks 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: 89001296 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 presentation Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date GUZZO BROB.
com PUMEING-HEATNO-GAS RTTNG CONTRACTORS QUZZO 1 HEATING PLLA 1. 4-6 Pleasast Averue . Somerville. MA 3. G. Schuler 4. 1988 5. Somerville Kity Hall 6. 7. lookuy southlas #+8 178 Hellande Blakes Senerville MRA, Ma #WPleksbht 56-58 Walnnt 1.56-58 kalnut Street 2. Somewille. MA 3. C. Zelke 4. 1984 5. Sameruille Culy Hall 6. loking $178 Htellendo Blucks senervilto MRA, Me Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64500253