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AUG 0 7 1989 ORM B - BUILDING 1322 AREA FORM NO. IASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 30 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 203 Town Address Quincy, MA / MRA 36 Butler Road Historic Name "Dorothy Q" Apartments 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 ; oetween inventoried property and nearest intersection(s).
Indicate north Use: Present apartment building Original apartment building DESCRIPTION Date 1929 Sour ce building permit Style Colonial Revival Architect Graves and Epps Exterior Wall Fabric brick Outbuildingsnone Major Alterations (with dates) none SEE ATTACHED MAP Condition very cood UIM REFERENCE USGS QUADRANGLE 19/334,430 E/4,680,170 N Boston South, MA SCALE 1: 25,000 Moved no Date n/a Acreage less than cne acre: 12,180 sg.ft. Setting The apartment house adjoins the historic Quincy Homestead (NR) on as residential block adjacent to Quincy Center. Recorded by Fannin & Lehner/J. Johnson Organizatian_Quincy Historical Cormission Date July 1, 1986/May 1987 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) Forty Butler Road is a handsome brick apartment building distinguished by its Colonial Revival details.
Its construction was a direct consequence of Quincy's population expansion of the 1920's. The building retains integrity of design, materials, location, workmanship, and association, and fulfills Criteria A and C of the National Register of Historic Places on the local level. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the conmunity. SEE INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners:played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the conmunity. SEE INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Assessors Records. Building Permits. Mass COPAR. Directory of Boston Architects, 1846-1970, 1984 Quincy City Directories.
INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Conmumi ty : Form No: QUINCY, MA 203 Property Name:"DorothyQ" Apt:s Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE - 36 BUTLER ROAD DOROTHY Q APARTMENTS In response to Quincy's tremendous population growth in the 1920s, several brick apartment buildings were erected on residential streets near Quincy Center. apartment house at 40 Butler Road was constructed in 1929 at a cost of $150,000. The "Dorothy O" takes its name from the Quincy Homestead. or Dorothy Quincy House (1706; NR) located next door at 34 Butler Road. The three-story. 34-unit apartment building was built by William G. Shaw, owner of the prosperous W.G . Shaw Furniture Company located (in 1922) in the Hancock Building in Quincy Square.
Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMI SSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Cammmity : Quincy, MA Form Nc 203 Property Name: "Dorothy Ol Apt's" Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE - 36 BUTLER ROAD DOROTHY Q APARTMENTS The Dorothy Q.
Apartment building is the finest of several brick apartment buildings designed by Boston architects Graves and Eppes in Unlike the domestic scale and residential appearance of the mulit-family buildings erected in the 19th century, apartment buildings of the 1920s were relatively institutional in The five-story "Dorothy Q" building is composed of two rectangular blocks connected at one end with a courtyard between The building's blocky massing is relieved by elegant Georgian These include the quoins at the corners of the main block, the keystones over each window and the modillioned The focal point of the design is the central entrance topped by a bracketed doorhood and parapet above which rests a pedimented marble plaque reading "Dorothy Q." A path to the rear section of the building is marked by a low brick wall and two square granite columns topped with an urn and a finial.
Staple to Inventory form at bottom NPS Form 10-900-8 (8-86) United States Department of theInterior NationalPark Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 AUG 7 1989 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Quincy MRA Norfolk County, Nomination/Type of Review 21. Curtis, Noah, House MASSACHUSETTS Entered in the National Register 22. Curtis, Thomas, House Entered in tha Naticnal Register untered in the 23. Davis, Dr. Frank, House National Register 24. Dicey, Russel1 M., House Entered 1n the Mational Register 25. Dogget, Solon, House intered in the National Register 26. Dorothy Q Apartments intered in the National Regtater 27. Elks Building intered in the National Register 28. Faxon House Entered 1n the National Regtstor 29. First Baptist Church of Wollaston Intered 1n the National Register 30.
Fore River Club House Motered 1a tba National äcgister Date/Signature fropor AelousBzun 9kif4 Attest fokeeper AelmtAgan gpapy Attest fKeeper AlluueByan q/4py Attest fokeeper AeloBgen 9/069 Attest f*Keeper Allmurgen 9/509 Attest treoper Almeepun 2/20/9 Attest f Keeper Shlmupge 9/20/05 Attest JoKeeper Lilmegen 9/20/84 Attest Sheßyen 9/0/69 Attest fokéeper dllmefyen 9/20/59 Attest UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY NAME: Dorothy Q Apartments MULTIPLE Quincy MRA NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Norfolk DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: 8/07/89 9/07/89 DATE OF PENDING LIST: 8/22/89 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 9/21/89 REFERENCE NUMBER: 89001322 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: N REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: N COMMENT WAIVER: N Entered in the V ACCEPT RETORN REJECT 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 UIMS 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 36 Butler Rd Dorothy Q Apts Quincy ma Fannin/Lehner Sprng 86 planning - Dept 1987.
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Dougall ROAD Address 36 Butler Road Dorothy l Apartments QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS / MRA Assessors Map # 1122 1979 Scale: 1 inch equals 80 feet Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000289