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: 1560 FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 AUG 2 1 1989 NATIONAL REGISTER AREA FORM NO. 96 WALTHAM, MA MRA Town Waltham, MA Address 26 Liberty Street Historic Name Marshall 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 Date 1846-1847 Source Deeds StyleGreek Revival Architectunknown Exterior Wall Fabric Clapboard Outbuildings_garage-NC Major Alterations (with dates) Bay window on north (n.d.) Condition Fair-good Moved no Date n/a Acreagé O.2A 8,055 sa. ft.
60-7-11 Setting On residential street vith mid-19th c. houses; across from large institutional building UTM REFERENCE 19/316/00/4693920 USGS QUADRANGLE LEXINGTON SCALE1:25,000 Recorded by Nancy S. Seasholes Organization Waltham Historical Comm. Date August 1986 revised C. Jenkins 2/88 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Marshall Smith House is a well detailed and preserved example of a vernacular sidehall plan Greek Revival style house in the city. Its story form is detailed with a full entab- lature, pedimented gable ends, cornerboards and a full Doric porch. With its well documented succession of owners, this house is a particularly good illustration of the development of the north central Main Street area in the mid-19th century as a home for workers and small businessmen.
It possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and associations. It meets criteria A and C of the National Register of Historic Places. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community. Set on a residential street of predominantly nineteenth century houses very near a major commercial district, this house is an excellent example of a modest side-wall center entrance Greek Revival house with full porch and one of the few houses of this type in the city. Ihe house is characterized by a pedimented attic, a plain entablature and. cornerboards, fluted Doric columns supporting the porch and a brick foundation. The unusual porch balustrade, the bay on the north, and the long ell on the west are all probably later additions.
It is a clapboard clad structure rising 22 stories to a gable roof. Its symmetrical, traditional five bay facade is centered on a double entry. Flanking windows, as well as the five aligned above, contain original 6/6 sash. 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 probably built in 1846 or 1847 by Marshall Smith, a chair and harness maker. Smith owned it for only a year; it then passed through various hands, was owned for about 10 years by Stephen Stone, a yeoman, and was auctioned to pay his debts. It was finally acquired in 1865 by Phebe Foster, a widow. The Fosters occupied it until about 1912; it was then acquired by Patrick J.
Healy, a teamster, and in 1923 the members of his large family were variously employed as a stenographer, phone operator, salesman, bookkeeper, electrician, and lineman. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Middlesex Deeds - 506:413,418; 515:11; 598:15; 695:134; 942:166,167 Maps and atlases - 1854, 1875, 1886, 1900, 1911, 1915, 1923 Directories - 1871, 1886, 1901, 1911, 1915, 1923 8/85 - (oPS Form 10900 a 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 Name State Waltham MRA Middlesex County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review 71. Potter--0'Brien House 72. Prospect House Date/Signature Entered in the Batoca Resator freopor Aelre Bzun 9p8t6s Attest Entered 1n tha Natlonai Register Leeper delneBgan 1/2414 Attest 73.
Robbins, Royal E., School wtored in the National Register /Keeper Silerßgun 9/24/9 74. Sanderson, John, House Entered in tha Natlonal Register Attest Keeper AhilvuaBgen 9/25/9 Attest 75. Sanderson, Nathan, I, House intered 1n the Keeper dational Registe StelruaBzu 7/25/89 Attest 76. Sanderson, Nathan, II, Houseintered 1a tha atoe 1e3at eper SlelmuBgen 9/20/69 Attest 77. Sanderson--Clark Farmhouseentered in the National Register Entered in tba 78. Smith, Marshall, House National Register Ikeeper AlibreBgue 2/20/09 Attest KReeper AlelrerByeu9/27/89 Attest 79. Smith, Perez, House intered in tha National Register Eseeper AlruSyu 9/24/44 Attest 80. St.
Charles Borromeo Church Heeper AhlmnegBza 2/4189 Entered 1n thu Nationad Regiataz Attest UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Smith, Marshall, House NAME: MULTIPLE waltham MRA NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Middlesex DATE RECEIVED: 8/21/89 DATE OF 16TH DAY: 9/21/89 DATE OF PENDING LIST: 9/05/89 DATE OF 45TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REFERENCE NUMBER: 89001560 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: OPHERN PATA PROBLEME N CANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS N PDIL: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: COMMENT WAIVER: N LACCEPT RETURN REJECT 9/s/6705e Entered in the Iational 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 26 Whuly st WALTHAM,MF M2A M.
Smith Hozisc Lihely ALTHEI WALTHAM, MA MRA Marshall Smith House #96 26 Liberty Street 1" = 100' 1975; updated to 1987 Waltham Engineering Dept. lot #60-7-11 E 672,000 City of Waltham CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHC 83.75 31.83 . +7- 118.5 725(5) 42 60 54 99 75.8v 2 = 100 100 ASAN 100 26 00 27 80° 92 63 LO 5676 8 -9 160 0 Si.TN 85 NN 17. #31.640 7 10 118.08 55.92--62:76 -88.5 13 3-85 1.5..- 460 15425083253 uui -92.59- 15-17 81$2 N3-21 -25 27-200533 7 204 4: 68.0 LA 45.71 62.5 726:3258 413 68.49 OU 22 UBERTY 1 8 -119.39 2099 66.12 - 575-57 57IR 96.67 562 102 (d) 70(s) 45(s) 65.74(d) 561-55+ 130 33.75 552 5-4 116.S 964565 562 55.53 558-555 929 93.74 97.4 426T D9,Bh 1C 116.26 TINGS 5237 38. 58,5 3 72.5 63.25 9269 75.6 -/.58.25 545 -542: 220.5 (Plan) -34 - 81(s) Foman Catholic.
EArchbano 8 4 "Bostor 225(s) 75(s) 83(s) L Coman Catholic Archbishou _of 3os(: 290(s) -537-527-319 30.66 60.83 16.43() 112.45ki) (eap» et9Z 14 APPLETON 70 53.0 228.96 -72.5 N 502,01 98.57 64.85 1200 1375 5290 560770 CHAR OR UNIVERSA UNITARIAN CHURCH 438B2 4034 8730 C PARK' CHURCH 8888 3360 13676 *2 950 10900 3980 5893 1970 Atlas, City of Waltham Compiled by the Waltham Engineering Division Scale: 1 inch = 140 feet oku AUOL WALTHAM HIGH SCHOOL 55 4055 | 7626 30 IST. PETER': SCHOOL R 857 LIBERTY 6564 8750 HOVEY 7997 32000 MEMORIAL 9243 [ST.JOSEPH'S 31 Waltham, Massachusetts MRA 26 Liberty Street Marshall Smith House 16-Q-19 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000301