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1AUG 0 7 1989 ORM B - BUILDING 1378 AREA FORM NO. IASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 10 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 431 Town Address Historic Name Quincy, MA / MRA 53 Taber Street Edward J. Lennon 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 setween inventoried property and nearest intersection(s). Indicate north Use: Present single family dwelling Original single family dwelling DESCRIPTION Date ca. 1888 Source Map and directory research Style Queen Anne Architect unknown Exterior Wall Fabric Wood shingles, clapboar: Outbuildings none Ma jor Alterations (with dates) none SEE ATTACHED MAP Condition Good Moved Acreage no Date nla Less than one acre: 12,010 sq. ft.
Setting This house is one of several workers cottages that surround the small landscaped park, Liberty Square. UTM REFERENCE USGS QUADRANGLE SCALE 19/334,040 E/ 4,677,800 N Blue Hills, MA 1: 25,000 Recorded by Organizatian Fannin and Lehner/ J. Johnson Quincy Historical Commission Date July 1, 1986/ May 1987 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Edward J. Lennon House is the best preserved example of a modest Queen Anne style residence once conmon in the neighborhoods of south and west Quincy. The house retains integrity of design, location, materials, feeling, workmanship, and setting, and 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 community. SEE INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Assessors Records. Atlases of the City of Quincy, 1897; 1907; 1923 Norfolk County Atlas, 1876. Robinson's Atlas of Norfolk County, MA. 1888. H. Hobart Holly. Quincy Historical Society. " Southwest Quincy: Then and Now." Quincy Neighborhood Housing Services. Text by Julie Johnson, 1983. . INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Conmmity: QUINCY, MA Form No: 431 Property Name: Edward J.Lennon Hse. Indi cate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE - - 53 TABER STREET EDWARD J..
LENNON HOUSE This Queen Anne style cottage was built circa 1888 for Edward J. Lennon, an inspector for the Board of Health. The Lennon family retained the property until after 1923. The building is located on what had been known in the 1600s as Captain's Plain. which later belonged to the Adams Family. Before the death of Charles Francis Adams in 1889, his heirs formed the Adams Real Estate Trust and the land was subdivided into streets and residental lots including this area around Taber and Liberty streets and the park across from the house known as Liberty Square. Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commmity : Quincy, MA Form No: 431 Property Name : Edwand J. Lennon House Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below.
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE -- 53 TABER STREET EDWARD J. LENNON HOUSE The house at 53 Taber Street is an archetypal example of a Queen Anne cottage. It is the best preserved of two identical houses that face each other on Liberty Square in Southwest Quincy. A prototype appeared in pattern books of the day such as Edmunds V. Gillon. Jr.'s Early Illustrations and View of American Architecture, figure 225, page 36. The 1llustration shows the same gable-end facade with decorative truss work on the projecting end of the roof line, the gable filled with varied shaped shingles, and a front porch supported by thin turned posts and small decorative brackets. Although several such houses were built in Quincy during the latter half ofthe nineteenth century. the house at 53 Taber Street is the only one to retain all of its original decorative detail.
Staple to Inventory form at bottom NPS Form 10-900- (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page. - OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 AUG 7 1989 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 in tbe Mational Register Date/Signature /Keoper LluByu 9/24/9 Attest Keeper_ AlresByun 920/59 43. House at 94 Grandview Avenue Entered in the National Register Attest Reeper Auloreßgen 9/20/89 Attest 44. Jewel1, David L., House Entered in the datlonal Register Keeper_ HerDyu 9puly Attest 45- Lennon, Edward J., House ¿ntered in the National Begister Keeper Shlueßyu 7/20/4 46.
Marsh, Charles, House Entered in tba National Register Attest LkeeperKAlmenyan 9/20/09 Attest 47. Marsh, Edwin W., House Enteredin tbe National Regiater Keeper Lelespyu 9/24/89 Attest 48. McIntire, Herman, House Entered in the National Register /Keeper_ AklanByen 2p0/s9 Attest 49. Miller, Edward, House Subataative Review 50.
Munroe Building Entered in the National Register JrKeeper Batlos Savge 3/8/90 Attest ftieeper AlelreBze 9/20/62 Attest UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Lennon, Edward J., House NAME: 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: 89001378 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 VACCEPT RETURN ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: REJECT 9/20/8 OATE Entered Dr tbä National Begiater 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 53 Taber Street Edward J.
Lennon Hous by: Fannin/Lehner date: Spring 1986 Via plorth tast Dept. -Qui pilt# 431 Quincy, M. 3085 3080 350 LIBERTY SQUARE TABER ST. COLUMBIA 55 57-1 arturo PRusconi E 3000 125-Flizs Plof 11 10000 8000 129 Plat 8 6000 Danicl Dibona aux. Anferste .124 0oc Lehn dalducci Lena Phot9 r-6Co0 Fiana Speranzo et.un Giseidá 3084 65as Jenere Vanelli Emu Vanelli Susan Msiy Rügconi Plot 13 6000 B000 Plt2 172 175 1AZ ... 186 LIBERTY 560C Mor1o 6600 6582 65 70 Vilda RigZi Graziette 308l Cedrom omena 8832 Fulmine et Elzobeth M Bowten Harcid E Autro Concetto Papi Fulvio Berraw 98 Pbt 2 2010 9019 A. 15 Plot 21 10374 Tís TRAFFORD 10 Plot 6000 Alfred J.Cappola Annie Lamanno oina Chiararol Deva D. Vincentis 7465 Cée. 156 200 .52 204 RE 122 9864 Angelo JCianfaran P4. ITZP416 Pbt 6 6940 eTe Monhesi ret.caa Franinca Rurpuratua Fortundta 7000 70 14 ST.
Address 53 Taber Street QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS / MRA Assessors Map # :3082-83-84 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