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Nomination for Barnes House

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,232 words across 11 pages, filed in 1989. Reproduced in full, word for word.

Source document Held by the National Archives in Record Group 79 as reference 89001362, where it exists only as a scan with no text layer. The words below were read off that scan by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the typewriter's. Nothing is summarised, corrected or written by this site. See the catalogue record, or return to the property.

The nomination, in full

Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

AUG 071989 FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSION, MA 02116 4 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 SEE ATTACHED MAP UIM REFERENCE 19/332,620 E/ 4,680, 540 N USGS QUADRANGLE Boston South, MA SCALE 1: 25,000 1362 AREA FORM NO.

576 Town Address Quincy, MA / MRA 183 Pine Street Historic Name Barnes House Use: Present single family dwelling Originalsinqle family dwelling DESCRIPTION Date ca.1870s Source Map and deed research Style Italianate Architect unknown Exterior Wall Fabric wood clapboards Outbuildings barn/carriagehouse Major Alterations (with dates) _ see attached architectural significance Condition Good Movedno- Date na Acreage _ _less than one acre: 12,060 sq. ft Setting This house is on a corner lot in this densely settled neighborhood of single double and multiple residpaces at the base of the foot of Wollaston Hill. Recorded by Fannin & Lehner/ J. Johnson Organization Quincy Historical Commission Date June 11, 1986/ May 1987 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The house at 183 Pine Street possesses integrity of design, location, materials, feeling and association.

Among the most elaborately detailed and best preserved of the Italianate residences built in Quincy's suburban developments of the late nineteenth century, the house fulfills Criterion C of the National Register of Historic Places on the local level. ARCHITECIURAL 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 comnunity. SEE INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATUION SHEET BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Assessors Records. Buidling permits. City Directories. Atlases of the City of Quincy, Mass,, 1897; 1907; 1923. John Ramsdel1. "Historic North Quincy." (written about 1934) Typed manuscript. Quincy Historical Society.

INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMI SSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Conmmity : QUINCY, HA Property Name: Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. Form No: 576 HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE - - 183 PINE STREET BARNES HOUSE The house at thelimmediate area. Ihe nouse appears to have been bullt by H. Watson Brassee, a salesman in the 1870s. In 1895 the property was sold to Sophia Barnes. The Barnes family, whose business in Boston was musical instruments, remained in residence until after 1930. Located just north of Beale Street, the house is in a section of Wollaston that was trosd, Che nouso is mn a part of the area subdivided by the Wollaston Land Associates in the 1870s. The houses erected in this section of suburban development were generally less than elaborate than those built at Wollaston Heights.

Residents commuted to Boston on the Old Colony Railroad leavingfrom Wollaston Depot at Beale and Hancock Streets. Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Conmmity : Quincy, MA Forn No: 576 Property Name : Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE - 183 PINE STREET BARNES HOUSE Che house at 183 Pine Street is one of two well preserved two-and-ahal: story sidehali Plan Itallanate houses in Quincy (the other example 1 at 248 President's Lane, #PH-77). ane, tie-77ack Salient featur Salient features of the style seen in this house are the double brackets under the eaves, the round headed window in the gable, the projecting window lintels, supported by small brackets, and the paneled bay window on the front and side elevations.

Although a second story window on the main facade has been filled in with clapboards, and a dormer added on the east elevation, these changes do not significantly detract from the building's integrity. The house is one of a handful of 19th century houses that retains its carriage house. The original gable-roofed carriage house has a flared roof cupola and is unaltered except for the replacement of clapboards (contributing). Staple to Inventory form at bottom NPS Form 10-800-e (8-86) United States Department ofthe Interior National Park Service 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 Cover Subataativa Sevion 1. Alden, Arthur, House Entered in the ational Register 2.

Brainbridge, Randolph, House Entered in the Aational Hegister 3. Barker, George A., Housentered in the Hational Register 4. Barker, Henry F., HouseEntered in the latdeaad tegiates 5. Barnes House Entered in the datLonal Begister 6. Barnicoat, S.H., Monuments..ea in atlauad Beglatar 7. Bateman, William R., Houseered in the Natlonal Register 8. Baxter Street Historie Distriet Subatantiva Review 9. Bethany Congregational Church Entered in tbe ABtelenad Begistes 10.

Brown--Hodgkinson House Entered 1n tha 1hiznd Seris' sz Date/Signature for Keeper Bitk-Savage 9-20-89 fakeeper elmeByan 9-20-+9 Attest fKeeper Aulmßyun 920-59 Attest / Keeper AulmsSyun 220+9 Attest /Keeper Aulmußyun 2-e+9 Attest /Keeper AleloueByan 9-20 +9 Attest /Keeper AhlvsSyu 9/20/89 Attest / Keeper Almetzua 2/50/09 Attest for Keoper BettY Smuage 9-20-0 Attest Keeper HelmnByen 2/20/69 Attest Keeper 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 NAME: Barnes House MULTIPLE NAME : Quincy MRA 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: 89001362 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: OTHER: N PDIL: N PERIOD: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: COMMENT WAIVER: N V ACCEPT RETURN REJECT 2/20/89 OATE Entered in the National Begistar 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 OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone presentation Signed Date 183 Pine Street Barnes House at Plamnng Dapt- Quiny prug at by: Fannin /Lehre- vem: WESt 1200 #576 76 1987 MRA Quincy, mass, 183 pine Street Barnes House- Carriage House at: Planning Dept.-Quincy by:Fannin/Lehner puy.

date: Spring 1986. View: South plt # 576 1987. 570 MRA Quincy, Mass. 1987. 65 BEALE SEE PLAN 516 ST. RES. B HARVARD 228 1576 7-- Racan Areiaguno 6100 33°.10 ichrfouman edan Carmelita Plot 9375 7C.64175 Margaret . Casey 8437 5150 ST. DI Mi PloFs 3889 Izon Bt 15 :Duploinete 12060 Wh MargaretT.Hogan Jeaa GRANGER Eugunidin 2em u.Mary7 D. 30 S391 25 ne gers A V Connelly PINE RES. A SEE PLAN 5149 Address 183 Pine Steet QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS / MRA Assessors Map # 5150 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