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1340 FORM B - BUILDING AUG 0 7 1989 AREA FORM NO. MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSION STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 WH 525 Town Address Quincy, MA / MRA 133 Grandview Avenue Historic Name Randolph Bainbridge 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 Original single family dwelling single family dwelling DESCRIPTION Date ca.
1900 Source Map and directory research style - Shingle Style Architect unknown Exterior Wall Fabric wood shingles Outbuildings one car garage- Major Alterations (with dates) none SEE ATTACHED MAP Condition Good UIM REFERENCE USGS QUADRANGLE SCALE 19/333,550 E/4,680,530 N Boston South, MA 1: 25,000 Moved no Date Acreage less than one acre: 4,944 sq. ft. Setting This house is near the top of the hi on Grandview Avenue, a prinicipal street of substantial late 19th century residences on Wollaston Heights. Recorded by Fannin & Iehner/ J. Johnson Organization Quincy Historical Conmission Date June 21,1986/ May 1987 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Randolph Bainbridge House retains integrity of design, location, materials, feeling and association with the development of Quincy's firstaffluent, suburban residential neighborhood.
The well-preserved Shingle Style house is characteristic of dwellings erected in the Wollaston Hill neighborhood by Quincy businessmen, civic leaders and Boston commuters. 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 Assessors Records. Buidling permits, alterations. Robinson's Atlas of the City of Quincy, MA., 1888. Atlases of the City of Quincy, MA.,1897; 1907; 1923. D. Foster Taylor, "Wollaston As It Was In the 1870s." (written in 1946).
Quincy History, Quincy Historical Society, January 1985. City Directories. INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Canmmity : Form No: QUINCY, MA WH-525 Property Name : Randolph Bainbridge tse. Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE -- 133 GRANDVIEW AVENUE RANDOLPH BAINBRIDGE HOUSE This Shingle Style house was built about 1900 by Randolph Bainbridge, Quincy's Commissioner of Public Works from 1901 to 1911. A further owner, during the 1910s and 1920s was John B. Buchanan, a Boston editor. This house is located in Wollaston Heights, a neighborhood of substantial suburban houses built during the last three decades of the 19th century. Defined as the section of Wollaston located on Wollaston Hill.
the Wollaston Heights neighborhood is roughly bounded by Beale Street (north): South Central Avenue (south); Newport Avenue and the MBTA tracks (east); and South Central Avenue (west). The neighborhood was part of a 300 acre tract of farmland purchased by the Wollaston Land Associates in 1869. The Associates marketed Wollaston Heights a status residential community for affluent Quincy businessmen and Boston commuters. Key to the success of the development was access to the railroad which, by the 1860s, had opened a station at Beale and Newport Street. In an arrangement negotiated by George Pinkham, business manager for the developers, the Old Colony Railroad issued free passes good for three years to anyone purchasing a house lot from the Wollaston Land Associates. Rapid building construction ensued with the majority of houses in the neighborhood built by 1900.
Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commmity : Form No: Quincy, MA wH-525 Property Name : handoph bämbridge Aa Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE - - 133 GRANDVIEW AVENUE RANDOLPH BAINBRIDGE HOUSE This is one of several Shingle Style houses in Quincy that employ the gambrel roof form of the Colonial Revival style. 133 Granview Avenue is the best example of this type in Wollaston Heights. The dominant aspects of this Shingle Style residence are the massive two-story cross gambreled roofs and the shingles which envelop the walls. Fronting the main facade is a simple one-story columnar porch.
The fenestration consists of regular sash windows, a side bay, and a naive Palladian window in each gable, a popular decorative detail of the period. A one car garage in the rear of the property dates from the 1930s (noncontributing). Staple to Inventory form at bottom NPS Form 10-000- (8-86) United States Department ofthe Interior NationalPark Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number - Page. OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 AUG T 1989 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Quincy MRA Norfolk County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review Cover Aubatantive Seviow 1. Alden, Arthur, House Entered inthe Mational Registes 2. Brainbridge, Randolph, House Entered in the Eational Kegistar 3. Barker, George A., Housentered in the National Register 4. Barker, Henry F., HouseEntered in the Natlened Registor 5.
Barnes House Entered in the AgtLonal Reglater 6. Barnicoat, S.H., Monuments red in tbe atelouad Beglaçar 1. Bateman, William R., Houseered in the National Registes 8. Baxter Street Historie Distriet ubatantIva Reylew 9. Bethany Congregational Church Entered in the ABtdonad Begistez 10.
Brown--Hodgkinson House Iatered in tba 1hit 32 Date/Signature for Keeper BatAX Savage 9-20-89 Jakeepet HebnuByan 2-21-+9 Attest fKeeper AhleByu 920-59 Attest / Keeper C lresgan 9-2079 Attest / Keeper LulmuySyun 2ze+9 Attest Keeper AelouBgun 9-3019 Attest / Keeper Ahressga 9/20/84 Attest / Keeper Ahemutzu 2/10/69 Attest for keeper Betey Smage 9-20-5 Attest AilmerBye 2/20/09 Attest /Keeper Aelusspu 9/20/89 Attest UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Bainbridge, Randolph, House NAME: 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: 89001340 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 ACCEPT RETURN ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: REJECT 9/20/89 DATE Entered in the Natlonal Regiaten 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 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 133 Grandview Ave.
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