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FORM B - BUILDING AUG 0 7 1989 MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREEI BOSTON, MA 02116 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 i auitoings between inventoried property and nearest intersection(s). Indicate north SEE ATTACHED MAP UIM REFERENCE 19/334,600 E/4,679,500 N USGS QUADRANGLE Boston South, MA SCALE 1: 25,000 1349 AREA FORM NO.
QC-156 Town Quincy, MA / MRA Address 1227-59 Hancock Street Historic Name Munroe Building Use: Present Offices/stores Original _Offices/stores DESCRIPTION Date 1929 Source Building permit Style Colonial Revival Architect Shephard and Stearns Exterior Wall Fabric_brick Outbuildings none Major Alterations (with dates) window alterations (1980s) - see reverse Condition Good Moved no Date nla Acreage 1.2 acres Setting_ The Munroe Building is the more intact oftwo adjacent two-story Colonial Revival office buildings erected in Quincy Center in the 1920s. Recorded by Fannin and Lehner/ J.
Johnson Organization Quincy Historical Cormission Date July 1, 1986 / May 1987 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Munroe Building retains integrity of design, location, materials, feeling, as well as associations with the growth of Quincy and the redevelopment of Quincy Center in the 1920s. The work of noted Boston architects, the Munroe Building is Quincy's most elaborate and intact example of a commercial building in the Colonial Revival style. The building fulfills Criteria A and C of the National Register of Historic Places on the local level. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describeimportant 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 community.
SEE INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Atlas of Norfólk County, Mass., 1876. Robinson's Atlas of Norfolk County: 1888. Atlase Pof toe Cty o Sunenir Ba7t 00, 119, p. 22. "Sprague Genealogy of Old Braintree Families". Microfilm at the Quincy Historical Society. INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORI CAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commmity : Form No: Quincy, Mass. QC-156 Property Name : Munroe Bidg. Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE -- 1227-1259 HANCOCK STREET MUNROE BUILDING The Munroe Building, 1227-1259 Hancock Street, was constructed at a cost of $250.000 in 1929. It was the second of a pair of large two-story commercial/office buildings to be built on the west side of Hancock Street in the 1920s. The first.
the Dimmock Building (1929), erected a block away, has been significantly altered. Both buildings were among several large masonry buildings erected along Hancock Street, north of Quincy Square, in the 1920s. These structures replaced frame stores, houses, and taverns after Hancock Street was widened in the mid-nineteen teens. The building has housed retail establishments in its ground floor storefronts and professional offices on the second floor. Built by Henry M. Faxon. the Munroe Building occupies land that had been under, the ownership of the Faxon family for over one hundred years. Henry inherited the property from his father. Henry, senior, was a successful real estate entrepreneur and temperence crusader who owned many houses and stores in Quincy as well as large holdings in Boston and Chelsea.
His son, Henry Munroe Faxon (1864-1949), a founder and president of the Quincy Electric Light and Power Company. continued his father's real estate business. Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commmity: QUINCY Form No: QC-156 Property Name : Munroe Bldg. Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE - - 1227-1259 HANCOCK STREET MUNROE BUILDING This 1929 two-story brick and limestone commercial block is the finest Colonial Revival commercial building erected in Quincy Center in the 1920s. It was designed by Shephard and Stearns, Boston architects who also designed South Junior High School (1927; #401) and the addition to the Quincy Electric and Power Company Power Station (1925; #QC-112).
The architects resolved the buiding's corner location in a most successful manner. The Hancock Street elevation consists of three gables, each composed of an arched window framed by two single windows on the sides, a variation of the Palladian design. Between the gables are three triple windows capped by a blind elliptical arch decorated with a raised fan motif. The lower elevation, around the corner has the same pattern repeated with only two gables. These varied decorative elements are unified by a contrasting string course on the ground and second floor level.
The corner is further emphasized by the presence of two contrasting pilasters framing a triple window, topped by an inset panel with letters that say "Munroe Building." The detailing of this building includes numerous late Georgian elements, in particular the fine swags embellishing the applied gables on two facades and the frieze of triangular triglyphs and rosettes over the store windows. The conversion of several second story windows to one-over-one sash, and the replacement of two wood storefront enframements, with anodized aluminum (1980s) has not compromised the building's overall architectural integrity. Staple to Inventory form at bottom NPS Form10-000-8 (8-05) United States Department of the Interior National ParkService National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approvel No.
10240018 AUG 7 1989 Section number - Page Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Quincy MRA Norfolk County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review 41. House at 32 Bayview Avenuetered in the National Register 42. House at 92 Willard Streetntered 1n the National Register Date/Signature SaloruByuu 9/20/19 Attest LKeeper_ AulrusByun 9p0/59 43. House at 94 Grandview Avenue Entered in the National Register Attest Reeper LuloreBgen 9/20/89 Attest 44. Jewell, David L., House Intered in the National Register Keeper_ NlneDyu 9p01) Attest 45. Lennon, Edward J., Houseintered in the National Register Keeper_ AuloeByu q/4p4 46. Marsh, Charles, House Entered to tba National Registen Attest LkeeperKAlmeDgen 9/20/69 Attest 47. Marsh, Edwin W., House Entered in the National Register Keeper_ AelusessAyu 9/24/19 48. McIntire, Herman, House 49. Miller, Edward, House 50.
Munroe Building Attest Entered in the National Register Jukeeper XulanByun 9pu/s9 Attest Substaative Beview farkeoper 20lloz Sauge 3/8/90 Attest Entered in the National Register firseper AlieByun 1/2062 Attest UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Munroe Building NAME: MULTIPLE NAME : Quincy MRA STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Norfolk DATE RECEIVED: 8/07/89 DATE OF 16TH DAY: 9/07/89 DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATE OF PENDING LIST: 8/22/89 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 9/21/89 REFERENCE NUMBER: 89001349 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 9/20/89 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 USGS maps photographs presentation OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date Quincy Cooperative Bank 1227-1259 HancockSt.
Munroe-Building by: Julie Johnson at: Planning Dept -Quincy date: July 1987 VIeW: west piet#: QC-156 Quincy, MASS. SEE PLAN 1130 SEE PLAN 1129 SEE PLAN 1128 SEE PLAN 1128 AVE. AVE ST. HANCOCK 1S Alva Mo -130m Robert M Faron The Faxon Trust P/ot12 51,460 1151 rioT 13 51162 3770 LAN ncy ve Ptot 11 7/54 MMond 157,330 Bay Trans. Authority Mass. -}-- Address_ 1227-1289 Hancock Street Munroe Building QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS / MRA Assessors Map # : QC-156 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