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Nomination for Stanley, Leonard W., House

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,423 words across 10 pages, filed in 1989. Reproduced in full, word for word.

Source document Held by the National Archives in Record Group 79 as reference 89001509, 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.

- AREA FORM NO. AUG 2 1 1989 FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 NATIONAL REGISTFown :50 WALTHAM, MA MRA Waltham, Massachusetts Address Historic Name 23-25 Taylor Street N/A Leonard W. Stanley House Photo (3'x 3" or 3"x5", black and white) Indicate address of - property on back of photo. Staple to left side of form. Use Present private residential Original private residential DESCRIPTION Date ca. 1855 - 1856 Source deed research Style late Federal/Italianate Architect unknown Exterior Wall Fabricclapboard Outbuildings _ garage NC Sketch Map: Draw map showing property's location in relation to nearest CIoSS streets and/or geographical features. Indicate all buildings between inventoried property and nearest intersection(s).

Indicate north Major Alterations (with dates)late 19th century rear additions Condition good Moved no - Date -n/a Acreage 9,166 sa. ft. 0.2/A. 69-17-5 Setting _ Situated on rise, bordered on 3 sides by rubblestone retaining wall. UIM REFERENCE 19/315840/4693040 USGS QUADRANGLENEWTON SCALE 1:25,000 Recorded by Edward I Gordon Organization _ Waltham Hist. Comm. Date June, 1986 revised C. Jenkins 2/88 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) #23/25 Taylor-Street ranks among the oldest houses on Waltham's South Side. Built ca. 1855-1856, this house represents an unusual blend of late-Federal form and Italianate elements. For many years it was the home of Leonard w. Stanley, policeman. This house possesses integrity of location, design, materials, work- manship, feeling and associations, and meets criterion. Cof the National Register of Historic Places.

ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community. 23/25 Taylor Street represents an interesting example of a house which might be mistaken for a center-hall-plan Federal farm house, were it not for. certain Italianate features such as its deep cornice, segnental-arch attic windows, and a low granite-block foundation to a gable roof. In general, its center entrance above the second floor windows of the main facade. The house is U-shaped in plan. Its western ell dates to ca. 1870's, while the east ell postdates 1886. The ell windows are all simply enframed - HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community.

This house ranks among the oldest houses on Waltham's South Side; and more specifically, it is one of the oldest buildingseast of Moody Street. In 1854, Pine, Taylor and Cushing Streets were the only streets located east of Moody Street. ta 20723 Cusor Sereees 100 #23/25 Taylor Street's lot appears on the 1854 map as part of the large, vacant area on the South side of Iaylor Street, between the house of L. Green (or Gray?) and W. Maynard. September lst, 1855, Ebenezer D. Gordon of Waltham, manufacturer, sold #23/25 Tavlor Street's land to Leonard W. Stanley, policeman, for $450.00 (see Middlesex Deed - 627:119). At the time of Stanley's purchase, the South Side had only been a part of Waltham for six years.

#23/25's section of Taylor Street falls outside the boundaries of the watch factory neighborhood, west of Moody Street, and is not really a part of the chenisty neighborhood, which evolved to the east around this property until at least 1911. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Meps/Atlases - 1036, 1854, 1874, 1811, 1886, 1900 Middlesex Deeds - 627:119; 717:454 Walthan Directories - 1870's - 1890's 8/85 - (uPS Form 10-900a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page. OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 AUG 2 | 1989 . Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Sul Name State Waltham MRA Middlesex County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review Date/Signature 81. St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church Complex fN Keeper_ Substantive Review BeffSuue 1/28189 Attest 82.

Stanley, Leonard W., Hougntered in the National Register /Keeper Attest AeloseBgen 9p8/64 83. Stark Building 84. Stark, Robert M., House Entered 1n the Natlonal Register 85. Stearns, Amos, House 86. Stewart, Henry, House 87. Swasey, James, House Intered la tha Natlonal Rerister Entered in tha National Register /Keeper s Aulresye 9/20/89 Attest Keeper. Aeloseyen 9/25/84 Attest Intered 1n tha National Register Keeper dilvreesyun 9/28/44 Attest Entered in the Hatlonad Raglotor f keeper SeloraBgew 9/25/84 Attest fKeeper Aeloreßaguu 9/2569 88. Tyler, Frank J., House Entered in the National Regiater 89. United States Watch Company intered 11 tha dational Reglater 90.

Waltham Gas Light Company Entered in the National Register Attest freoper AelourBgen 2/a6g Attest freoper AelmueByu 9/0582 Attest fadoper AllmusByen 7/246 Attest_ UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Stanley, Leonard W., House NAME: MULTIPLE Waltham MRA NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Middlesex DATE RECEIVED: 8/21/89 DATE OF 16TH DAY: 9/21/89 DATEOF PEDLST1 DATE OF 45TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REFERENCE NUMBER: 89001509 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: ERNPOPROBIEM NPEODAEPROAMUSROUEDN PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: N COMMENT WAIVER: N VACCEPT _RETURN REJECT 9/28/870778 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 stanley, Leonara (W., lfes MHC # 50 23-25 Taylr SA waltham MAMRA Stale heencrd.

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