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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 AUG 07 1989 1335 AREA FORM NO. 346 TOWn Address Quincy, MA / MRA 313 Franklin Street Historic Name Noah Curtis 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 single family owelling Original single family dwelling DESCRIPTION Date c.
1795 Source style Quincy Historical Society recorcs Federal Architect unknown Exterior Wall Fabric clapboards Outbuildings attached garage SEE ATTACHED MAP UIM REFERENCE USGS QUADRANGLE SCALE 19/334,950 E/4,677,460 N Blue Hills, MA 1: 25,000 Major Alterations (with dates) see attached (granile post ; wall e19 enhury) Condition good Moved Acreage no Daten/a 1ess than one acre: 14,634 sq.Ft. Setting This Cape sits on a large corner lot on the rise of Penn's Hill along a residential section of Franklin Street in South Quincy. Recorded by Fannin & Lehner/ J. Johnson Organization Quincy Historical Commission Date July 1, 1986/ May 1987 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Noah Curtis House is among the few well-preserved Federal period houses in Quincy.
The house possess integrity of design, location, materials, feeling, and association with Quincy's shoe manufacturing business of the early nineteenth century. The house 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 community. - 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 Assessor's Records. City of Quincy Atlases, 1897; 1907; 1923. H. Hobart Holly, Quincy Historical Society. William S. Pattee. History of Old Braintree and Quincy, 1878, p.166, 602.
Quincy Patriot Ledger, January 1937, p.F-5 - INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Cammmity : QUINCY, MA Form No: 346 Property Name: Noah Curtis Hse Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE - - 313 FRANKLIN STREET NOAH CURTIS HOUSE The house at 313 Franklin Street has historically important associations with the development of Quincy's shoe industry. Noah Curtis, a pioneer in the boot and shoe business in Quincy, built this house in about 1795 on part of the property owned by Theophilus Curtis in 1678. At the age of nineteen, Noah Curtis began to make shoes and in 1794 manufactured them for sale. In 1802 boots came into use and Curtis started making and selling them as well.
During the first decades of the 19th century, shoemaking was conducted primarily in home or workshop attached or adjacent to the farmhouse. Work was distributed to individuals by a central manufacturer who sold the product in cities up and down the eastern seaboard. In the 1850s. the making of bootsand shoes was Quincy's principal industry; by this time more and more of the work was taking place in one centralized factory. One such factory was run by Noah Curtis' son. Thomas. Thomas ran Thomas Curtis and Company in the 1860s. His house is at 279 Franklin Street (1851; #345). Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commmity : Quincy, MA Form No: 346 Property Name: Noah Curtis Hse Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below.
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE -- 313 FRANKLIN STREET NOAH CURTIS HOUSE One of two Federal period capes included in this nomination (see Pratt-Faxon House, #385), the Noah Curtis House is the oldest one in Quincy to survive without severe alterations. The one-and-a-half story, gable-roofed house may have originally had a one-room plan as suggested by discernable break in the roof line next to the chimney. The house had attained its present configuration by the 1870s. The main facade is assymetrical consisting of a central projecting gable-roofed entrance flanked by two twelve-over-twelve sash windows (not original) to the east and four to the west. Clapboard walls are adorned only with a simple cornice board. A hipped-roof, one story bay projects from the east end of the main block and a one-story gabled ell extends to the rear of the house.
A granite post and wall on the Franklin Street edge of the property may date from the early 19th century (contributing). Staple to Inventory form at bottom NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior NationalParkService 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, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review Date/Signature 21. Curtis, Noah, House Entered in the National Register Entered in the 22. Curtis, Thomas, House National Register AReoper AuloueBzun 9/2/9 Attest fokeeper( HelmuByun spopy 23. Davis, Dr. Frank, House intered in the National Regiates Attest foKeeper AelmuByun apupy Attest Entered in the Mational Register 24. Dicey, Russell M., House fokeeper Attest AulnuBgew 920p9 25.
Dogget, Solon, House Entered in the National Register fKeeper AlluuuBgen 9/7/69 26. Dorothy Q Apartments intered in the National Reglster 27. Elks Building Entered in the National Register Attest Hsaoper Aebmessepur 2/0/9 Attest AelmuySgen 9/20/65 Attest 28. Faxon House Entered in the National Regisbor foKeeper LilmusDjen 9/20/89 Attest 29. First Baptist Church of Wollaston Intered in tha National Register fakeeper Attest LhleByen 9/20/69 30.
Fore River Club House LKeeper llrugyen 9/20/59 tatered ta the National dogister Attest UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY NAME: Curtis, Noah, House 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: 89001335 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: OTHER: N PDIL: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: N N N COMMENT WAIVER: N ACCEPT RETURN REJECT 9/20/89 DATE Entered in the Mational Begistes 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 OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone presentation Signed Date 313 Franklin St.
Noah Curtls House by: Julie Johnson Lul at: Planning Dept. -Quincy date: July 1987 VIOW: East PUIt#! 346 Quinky, Masso, Brentont Eugene Canfelli 1.ux.Isabellel. 2030 303l 21163 DM Russo MaTieA. Lrpótso 4744 EdithL.Cole 19 NORMAN 233.3 Philip" Gandiane etua Eualyaf Plot73 1651 79.50 AleanderS-Smart CharenseN Cortson e Plo) CSCO 06/72 3637 869s RD. Fred J. De P:2nesn.WhiMlaker John B ford Trees ameliawhittaker Trust Joh u= Dore 3010 Piot 44 16+31 Alphanse S Alerander el un Mary? Tit-"C4-wsk Plot46 5040 -7-Tr vaHer ge Cost etax Ciheri Pl+30 8909 LE HILLSBORO Plot45 568Z 1 Plot43 14634 Roberf D Parryetur Sandra L. ST Address 313 Franklin Street QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS / MRA Assessors Map # 3032 1979 Scale: 1 inch equals 80 feet NTYNEA Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000289