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AUG 0 7 1989 FORM B - BUILDING 1343 AREA FORM NO. MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSION SIREET BOSTON, MA 02116 401 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 Quincy, MA / MRA Address 444 Granite Street Historic Name South Junior High School (now Reay E.
Sterling Middle Schoo1) Use: Present Middle School Original Junior High School DESCRIPTION Date 1927 Source Original plans, Quincy Public Schoe Style Classical Revival Architect Shephard and Stearns Exterior Wall Fabric beige brick outbuildings - none Major Alterations (with dates) none Condition Good Moved no Date n/a Acreage 4.45 acres Setting The school is sited on a spacious lot close to the road in a modest 19th century residential area in southwest Quincy DIM REFERENCE 19/333,630 E/ 4,678,180 N USGS QUADRANGLE Blue Hills, MA SCALE 1: 25,000 Recorded by Fannin and Lehner / J.
Johnson Organization Quincy Historical Cormission Date July 1, 1986 / May 1987 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) A well preserved example of secondary school architecture in the Classical Revival style, the South Junior High School is the work of a noted Boston architectural firm active in Quincy at the time. Associated with Quincy's population boom of the 1920s, and the ongoing school building campaign of the early twentieth century, the school fulfills Criteria A and C of the National Register of Historic Places,on the local level,and retains integrity of association, design, feeling, materials, location, and setting. 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. Original plans, Maintenance Department, Quincy Public Schools. Quincy Patriot Ledger, June 26, 1926, September 7, 1927, November 8, 1927, November 6, 1952. INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commnity : QUINCY, MA Form No: 401 Property Name:4 J0. Jr. Hianschod' Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE - - 444 GRANITE STREET SOUTH JUNIOR Middle School) HIGH SCHOOL (now Reay E. Sterling In response to the population boom in Quincy during the 1920s, the City built several new schools.
This was part of a larger school building campaign that had begun in the 1890s and was to continue through 1930. By the mid-1920s, Quincy. like other cities across the country, was struggling with overcrowded high schools. In 1890, the total enrollment in public high schools in the United States was 202,963 persons: by 1924, that figure had risen to 3,387,878 students. One solution was the creation of Junior High Schools. Intended to encourage students to continue their education past the elementary level, junior high schools were designed to include facilities for vocational and physical education, the arts and other specialized activities. Erected in 1927, Quincy's South Junior High School was designed to reflect these goals. Quincy's third junior high school. the building contained a theatre, gymnasium, woodworking shops, mechanical drawing room.
an art room, music room, and print shop, as well as classrooms and laboratories. The school was designed to accomodate the rapidly growing neighborhoods in south and west Quincy. It is now one of five middle schools in the City. Excluding those public schools previously listed in the National Register, the South Junior High School is one of two pre-1930 schools to remain intact in Quincy. (The other one is the Coddington School, also proposed for National Register listing as part of this nomination). Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commmity: QUINCY Form No: 401 Property Name : D.dr. High Schoo Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE -- 444. GRANITE STREET SOUTH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL (now Ray E.
Sterling Junior High School) The majority of the American school buildings of the :1920s shared certain characteristics in massing and planning: they were self contained buildings, generously fenestrated, with a central axis. projecting end pavilions and decorative elements in the classical or Colonial Revival mode. In Quincy, this design is used in many of the schools built In 1927, architects, Shepard and Stearns chose this same configuartion for the main facade of the South Junior High It is the best preserved of the three Junior High Schools built in part facade is symmetrical; it is composed of two projecting end pavilions, a slightly projecting central section, which is dominated by giant pilasters, and two recessed walls of six bays.
The end walls of the projecting pavilions are ornamented with a raised panel composed of a brick diaper pattern, technique often employed relieve blank walls. The regular fenestration is made up of rectangular multi-paned sash windows. Classic ornamental details include the pilastered facade of the central portion, the three entrances with Greek pediments horizontally emphasized by the parapet. Beige brick walls are meant to look like stone. Boston architects Shephard and Stearns also desgined two add itional buildings in Quincy in the 1920s: the Munroe Building (1929; #QC-156) andthe addition to the Quincy Electric Power Company Power Station (1927; #QC-12). Staple to Inventory form at bottom NPS Form10-000- (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National ParkService National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number. Page OMB Approvel No.
1024-0018 AUG 7 1989 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Quincy MRA Norfolk County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review 61. Quincy Savings Bank Entered in the National Register Date/Signature txooper Selonapgun gp0/sg Attest 62. Quincy Water Company Pumping, Station National Register Hkecper Aulmnkgun 9069 Attest 63. Record, Jonathan DexterHou House 12: Batloww 1u1313D Hkeoper Hlungan apas Attest 64. Reed,Timothy, House Substantive Reviar Sr keeper Bett Suzge Attest 65. Richards, Alfred H., Housered in the Heeper Delmurpazu p4/59 Mational Register Attest To. satea tutaran Courch silotasto Burtanforcopor Betal Sause 9-20-81 67. Sheppard, Eben W., House ulatapt1x DOE/OWNER CBJECTIO 1 SCigbe- Betl Suge 39 Attest 68. Sidelinger, George B.Hosd in the National Register KeeperAulouByen 9/20/9 Attest 69.
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Spear, Seth, Homestead Entered in the National Register pkeeper AelureByus 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 South Junior High School 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: 89001343 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 9/20/84 DATE Intered 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 nistoric 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 A1t Granite St. Sourh Junior High Sthool by: Fannin/Lehnere at: Planning Dept - Gumey veo North dete: Spring 1986 1987 PKF# : 401 MRA Quincy, Mass. Plot 63 5004$ 0)76 KOSKY; -4339 Hail etu11 eat, Thinitr Lutheren church -2--- 103 a:predi Ruusha diurico Plot 41 12060 0300 Piot, 7450 POt s2 6o0c Aiarguret M Elmer C Behennd et un Torichea milag.n Plot 7429 5Mermenson S0 8145 IOR TERRACE City QUINCY pIcT 18 1,93 917 Also zuaier parcer anplon 3067 E of lorertst Containing 1414r 5q4 Nicol Forcucci et PloT 06 3610 4970 12 BCTS Juan South Junier High Schooi Bldg. camerine Murchisen Frank B.
Allen Lom 7879 GKANITE 444 Granite Street, South Junior High School Quincy, Massachusetts / MRA Assessors Map # 3068; 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