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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 AUG 2 1 1989 NATION REGISTE AREA FORM NO. 151 WALTHAM, MA MRA Town Walthan, MA Address 46 Lincoln Street Historic Name Perez Smith 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 between inventoried property and nearest intersection(s). Indicate north Use: Present Residential Original Residential DESCRIPTION Date1851 Source Sanderson 1919 Style Italianate Architect unknown Exterior Wall Fabric Clapboard Outbu1ldings none Major Alterations (with dates) Large rear ells (n.d.) Condition Excellent Moved no Date n/a Acreagé_56,733 sq.ft. (.3 A.
41-7-7 Setting On large, well-landscaped lot in area of 20th c. houses UTM REFERENCE 19|315550/4695520 USGS QUADRANGLE (EXINETON SCALE 1:25,000 Recorded by Nancy S. Seasholes Organization Maltham Histerical Comm. Date August. 1986 revised C. Jenkins 2/88 -NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Perex Smith House is one of Waltham's finest transitional Greek Revival/Italianate style houses. Italianate features include its symmetrical three bay facade, deep cornice trimmed with sawn brackets, and variety of window treatments including standard windows with pro- jecting heads, round arched gable windows and a bracketed bay window on the side elevation. Greek Revival elements include the center entry with severe sidelight/transom surround, and the wide cornerboards and fascia/entablature.
The house also helps to illustrate the mid- 19th century development of Piety Corner as a fashionable residential neighborhood, and is associated with a prominent local family. setting, mATGHTYEC TURALESTANTAIZANCE teeiing and association and meets criteria A and C of Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community. Set back from a winding residential street with a few eighteenth and nineteenth century houses and a great deal of twentieth century infill, this is one of two Italianate houses with Greek ,evival features in the area and one of the best examples of this type in the city. The large house lot retains much of its pre-twentieth century rustic charm. The house is L-shaped in form and its substantial main block is characterized by a three-bay, center hall, plain main facade with two-bay end wall gables.
Covered with clapboards, its corners are accentuated by heavy Doric pilasters composed of narrow vertical flush boards. Its center entrance is flanked by sidelights and is surmounted by a narrow transom and a blind, elliptical arch with a paneled sunburst-like pattern. In - general, windows are fully enframed with projecting wooden sills and cornice-headed lintels in the Italianate manner. Windows contain 6/6 wood sash. Above the second floor windows is a heavy fascia board. The house is enclosed by a broad gable roof (with 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 was built by Perez Smith, apparently about 1851.
The date was determined by a report that Smith used the first Pond End Schoolhouse, which had just been replaced, as a tool shed while building this house, and the Town did not sell the school until 1851 (Sanderson 1919:42). Smith had, however, acquired the land as early as 1846 when he bought 22 acres that formerly were owned by the Sandersons who lived at the corner of vLexington and Lincoln streets (see 428 Lexington Street form). Most of Smith's land was on the south side of Lincoln Street near this house, but one lot comprised the triangle now formed by Lincoln, Curve, and Lexington streets and extended to the north side of Curve Street (see 508 Lexington Street form). Perez Smith was related to Nathan Smith further up on Lincoln Street and lived in a house on Main Street before this one was built. He farmed the land and, after his death in the 1870s, his son Edward P.
Smith (1841-1935) inherited the property. Edward Smith became president of the Waltham Co-operative Bank in 1895; he was also treasurer of the Waltham Gas Company and chairman of the Board of Assessors from 1892-1897 and 1918-1920. Edward Smith owned this property until his death in 1935. - BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Hunt, Marjorie Childs. Article in Piety Cornerite, v. 5, no.9. Card file. Waltham Public Library. -Genealogical information on Edward P. Smith. Card file. Waltham Public Library. Sanderson, Edmund L. 1919 Piety Corner and Pond End Schools: History and Description. Publication No. 1. Waltham Historical Society, Waltham, MA.
Middlesex Deeds - 484:575 Maps and atlases - 1854, 1875, 1886, 1900, 1915, 1923 Directories - 1871, 1880, 1884, 1886, 1888-89, 1893, 1895, 1897-98, 1899, 1901, 1907, 1909, 1910, 1912, 1921, 1923 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Conmumity: Form No: Waltham, MA Property rerez Smith House 151 Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (cont'd) distinctive wide, end wall gable profiles). The attic exhibits two round arch windows. The deep cornice features closely spaced brackets. To the rear of the main block is an ell composed of two-story and one-story segments. Staple to Inventory form at bottom - aps Form 10800a United States Department of the Interlor 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 Name State Waltham MRA Middlesex County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review 71. Potter--0'Brien House 72. Prospect House Date/Signature Entered in the Sacona Retotor fxeper AeloresBgun 9p8s6s Attest_ Entered 1n tha Natlonai Register eeper 9/2444 Attest mtered in the 73. Robbins, Royal E., School National Register /Keeper StilourBgun 9/2/65 Attest 74. Sanderson, John, House Entered 1a the National Register /Keeper ( AlelvuaBgan 9/05/49 Attest 75. Sanderson, Nathan, I, House intered in the siateona) RegisterKeeper Stelrußzu 2/5/9 Attest 76. Sanderson, Nathan, II, Houseintered 1n tha National Registol Keeper SllruBge 9/25/4 77. Sanderson--Clark Farmhouseentered in the National Regieter Attest (Keeper SilreyByan 2/28/49 Entered 1n tbig 78.
Smith, Marshall, House National Register 1nestotos Kxcoper SlelresByen 2/27169 79. Smith, Perez, House entered in the Hational Regiater 80. St.
Charles Borromeo Church Entered in the Nationad Registaz Attest Attest Lseeper AhlmusByur 9/24/64 Attest HKeeperAhlmneybzu s/2/19 Attest_ JNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOF NATIONAL PARK SERVICI NATIONAE ALUASTOR RE URN SRTC PLACES REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Smith, Perez, House NAME: MULTIPLE Waltham MRA NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Middlesex DATE RECEIVED: 8/21/89 DATE OF 16TH DAY: 9/21/89 DATE OF AHDALIST 10059 10/05/89 DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REFERENCE NUMBER: 89001558 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: N PDIL: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: B N REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: N COMMENT WAIVER: N VACCEPT _RETURN REJECT ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: 9 /2/52 0e Intered in tha Matlazai Register RECOM./CRITERIA REVIEWER DISCIPLINE DATE DOCUMENTATION see attached comments ./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 presentation Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date 46 Lincoln st Peret smith House WALTHAM, MA MRA- #151 STEVEN GYURINA smith 44 Lincoln 5t WALTHAM, MA MRA 15) smith, foez, Hese STEVEN GYURINA 16 Lincoln St.
WALTHAM, MA MRA #151 smith Perez, Heix STEVEN GYURINA R4 LNCOLN STO4C WALTHAM, MA MRA #157 Sm.f3, Perez, Huxe MAIMAAONEAL 3 13983 4 DE-7.20 108.65 107.94 ROND 107.9 75.43 2560 PRIVATE --PUBLIC 8 - 60.14 5 5 A ,88-720 15/8 6 POND 7 15 PRIVAT 5 00 206.38 0.23 33 RD.i SANDERSON 12279 50.75 2 POOL 28.95 3 2028 4 7 134.29 8229 50 6 3118 0N3 52 23 28-120 E5V25 85.63 5 15900219 592 LIVERMORE 39.06 (3578 3268 gL.T. 10 8g 6. 87 29.45 35.0 9045 14 _94.75 8i47 90 71.97 90.8L (3782 75 5635 PaüL 21 4592 91.68 BIGELOW 16 40 17 WALTHAM, MA MRA Perez Smith House #151 46 Lincoln Street 1" = 100' 1975; updated to 1987 Waltham Engineering Dept. lot #41-7-7 39.22 2373 :5625 16 UNCOLN J2 3 7 000 -00.
96-663 1 00 LINÇOLN 0025 22300 9050 '31,45 12305 20 101 5,000 POND 15/90 84 '9so> ROAD /~ 33 SANDERSON 7506 35 36 6635 G 33 3, POA- 1970 Atlas, City of Waltham Compiled by the Waltham Engineering Division Scale: 1 inch = 140 feet CURVE 50 LIVERMORERD 161 Acre B 6028 78/0 ROAD 13-/4-15 22106 13415 7170 25585 A 6750 8232 13 IGELOW 2515 1465 63971 Waltham, Massachusetts MRA 46 Lincoln Street Rerez Smith House 49-3-8 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000301