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PORM B - BUILDING IASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 30 BOYLSTON STREET 3OSTON, MA 02116 AUG 0 7. 1989 Photo (3"x3" or 3"x5", black and , white) Indicate address of property on back of photo. Staple to left side of form. in relation to nearest cross streets and/or setween inventoried property and nearest intersection (s). Indicate north SEE ATTACHED MAP DIM REFERENCE USGS QUADRANGLE 19/333,700 E/4,678,590 N Blue Hills, MA SCALE 1: 25,000 1367 AREA FORM NO. 410 Town Quincy, MA / MRA 23-25 Prout Street Address Historic Name n A Use: Present single family dwelling Original single family dwelling DESCRIPTION Date ca. 1880s Source Map and directory research Style Quincy Cottage Architect unknown Exterior wall Fabric wood clapboards, shingle Outbuildings none Major Alterations (with dates) none Condition Good Moved no Date Acreage less than one acre: 3, 748 sq. ft.
Setting The house is located on a densely settled street of late 19th century cottages in west Quincy. Recorded by Fannin and Lehner / J. Johnson Organization Quincy Historical Cormission Date June 21, 1986/May 1987 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The house at 23-25 Prout Street possesses integrity of design, location, materials, feeling, and association with the Quincy granite industry and the development of workers' housing in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The house is among the best preserved examples of a vernacular type once common in Quincy, and therefore 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 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 Assessors Records. Atlases of the City of Quincy, 1897; 1907. Atlas of Norfok County, 1876. Robinson's Atlas of Norfolk County, Mass., 1888. H. Hobart Holly, Quincy Historical Society. " Southwest Quincy: Then and Now." Quincy Neighborhood Housing Services. Text by Julie Johnson., 1983. n:L-. INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Cormmity: QUINCY, MA Form No: 410 Property Name: 23- 25 Prout St. Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE - - 23-25 PROUT STREET The two-family house at 23-25 Prout Street is associated with the granite industry and the development of workers housing in Quincy during the late 19th century. as part of his small subdivision developed in the 1870s and 1880s. Clarke built this house, and others like it, on property that had been known in the late 18th century as Bass' Common. Clarke was a leading investor in the granite industry during the last quarter of the 19th century. One of the incorporators of the Quincy Quarry Railroad Company, a railroad connecting the quarries in West Quincy (1895) was also director of the V.P. Lyons Granite Company and Prout Brothers Granite Company. In the 1870s Prout Street and portions of Smith, Garfield, Dean and Clark streets were platted by Clarke; houses were erected in the 1880s for workers in the nearby guarries.
Clarke rented this house to workers about whom little is known. In 1907. Clarke sold the property to Theophilus King, another wealthy investor. Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Conmmity : Quincy, MA Form No: 410 Property Name: 23-25 Prout St. Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE - 23-25 PROUT STREET The house at 23-25 Prout Street is one of the finest intact examples of the "Quincy Cottage" in Quincy. So-named, by the Massachusetts Historical Commission survey team, because of its presence in large numbers in Quincy, the Quincy Cottage is a one-and-a-half story gable roofed rectangular block with a projecting central entrance and twin roof dormers.
The dormers, which pierce the lower slope of the roof and the eave line, are the characteristic feature of the style. possible model for this house type appeared in the late 19th century pattern book Villages and Farm Cottages, by Cleaveland and Backus (1856). Typical stylistic variations of the Quincy Cottage form are found in the Baxter Street district. The choice of stucco or clapboards, the dormer type, and the appearance of details such as Italianate brackets, Stick Style paneling or a porch distinguish each house from its neighbors. The house at 23-25 Prout Street has shed-roofed dormers and richly articulated walls decorated with saw-toothed shingles and clapboards. Greek Revival style pilasters frame the main block and brackets support the eaves.
Staple to Inventory form at bottom NPS Form10-900e (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 AUG 7 1989 Section number - Page - Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Quincy MRA Norfolk County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review Date/Signature 31. Glover House Entered in the National Register freeper Aulßyen 1/20/89 Attest Entered in tha 32. Granite Trust Company Natiopal Register /keeper lmsBgu 7/20/89 Attest 33. Halloran, John, House Entered in the National Register /ReeperKelmeByu 9/2489 Attest 34. Hardwick House Entered in the National Register Lreeper AklouByud 9/20/59 Attest 35. Hersey, Ebenezer B., Housestered in the National Register LKeeper AulvuByur 9/24/69 Attest 36. House at 105 President's Lane ered in the Yational Register /Keeper SelrByu 9/20/59 37.
House at 15 Gilmore Street Entered in the National Register 38. House at 20 Sterling Streetntered 1n the Matlonal Register (xcaper SlubreByul 9/2019 39. House at 23--25 Prout Streetred in tha Mational Register 40.
House at 25 High School Avenue Entered Ir tha Natlocal Reglstar Attest Lkeeper Ahluspyur 4/20/89 Attest Attest Ikeeper Afelurepyus 9/20/53 Attest fkeeper ilmeßyum 9/20/69 Attest UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY NAME: House at 23--25 Prout Street 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: 89001367 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: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: N N COMMENT WAIVER: N VACCEPT _RETURN REJECT 9/20/89 DATE Intered in tbe Mational 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 OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone _presentation Signed Date 23-25 Prout St.
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