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FORM F - STRUCTURE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 Photo (3"x3" or 3"x5" black and white) Indicate address on back of photo. Staple to left side of form. Sketch Map: Draw map showing structure's location in relation to nearest cross streets, buildings and/or geographical features. Indicate all buildings between inventoried property and nearest intersection. Indicate north. see altached UTM REFERENCE 10/207100/468560 USGS QUANDRANGLE _Framingham. MA SCALE 25,000 2261 NEK 0 5 1989 AREA FORM NO. 3-4 Town Framincham Address Retareen U.S. 30 and Vass.
Route Name Enamincham Reservoir #3, Dam and Gate- house Ownership: MDC Public Private Type of Structure (check one): .bridge canal pound powder house- dam street fort tower gate tunnel kiln wall lighthouse windmilt other and gatehouse DESCRIPTION Date 1875-1878 Source Intornal Banont, Mosmond Titzrerald, 1898 Architect Engineer/Designer (if known): Econce alaunh, inchtect Construction material cranite, earth. concrete Alterations (with dates)n/a Condition cood Moved Date Acreage_approximately. one acre Settingdanse suhumhon nesidontial and commercial area Recorded by Organization Date Jane Carolan Louis Berger & Ássociates January 1984: revised 1989 MDC - TRA, MASS. NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) Framingham Reservoir #3 Dam and Gatehouse are significant for their association with the Sudbur.
Supply, the second water supply system built by the Metropolitan Water Board of the City of Boston. The Dam and Gatenouse are examples of muncipal water technology and architecture of the mid to end of the nineteenth century (1876-1878). The gatehouse is further considered eligible since it was designed by George Clough, Boston City Architect from 1873 to 1883. The Dam and Gatehouse retain integrity of location, desijn, setting, materials, worlmanship and feeling and meet Criteria A and C of the National Register of Historic Places. of the Framingham #3 Reservoir Dam and Gatehouse which are being nomihated is only the gatehouse and dam and does not include any land around these structures. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the conmunity.
Framingnam Reservoir #3 is located in the crowded suburban town of Framingham. Peservoir #3 is the largest of the three Framingham Reservoirs. It is about two miles long and extends northwes from its dam and gatehouse. It is separated into two parts by the Massachusetts Turnpike, built in the mid-1950s and the tracks of Conrail. The gatehouse has a rectangular main block and wing, both with steep hipped roofs. The building is constructed of two shades of gray granite, with the darker color used for walls and the lighter color for quions, strins course and window surrounds. Windows are narrow, vertical, and rectangular and the door has a round arch. The building is topped with a brass cupola.
The granite gate chamber contains a 48" main connecting the reservoir to Framingham #1; six 4'x5' gates which control three'chambers through which water flows into the 48" pipe; three 4'x51 gates which control water into an additional 48" pipe. The dam for Reservoir #3 is located at the southeast end of the southeast portion of the reservoir. A snillway is centered between two earthern embankments, which are six feet higher -han the ovorfall HESTORICAL STENTFICANCE ExplatO st ona o? the southoast pore 9to Eeot ni ehor building relates to the development of the community. The three Framingham Reservoirs, including dams and gatehouses, were constructed during the phase Il expansion of Boston's municipal water supply system (1875-95; refer to Overview, Section 8, pp. 2-6 for additional information).
Basically this phase supplemented the Cochituate Aqueduct (Area A) of phase I by extending the system further west to the Sudbury River water shed. The major nominated resources associated with this phase are the Sudbury Aqueduct (Area B) and the three Framingham Reservoirs (3-2, 3, 4). Although its water quality was not the highest, the Sudbury River was selected as Boston's new source in 1872 because it would providea large and consistent amount of water. The Framingham Reservoirs were built in an attempt to ameliorate the problem of water quality. They served as giant settling basins that allowed natural cleansing of the water by pooling it and letting heavier foreign material fall to the bottom. Mains in the dams were placed so that water could be taken at higher levels to avoid pollution. Under the direction of Joseph P.
Davis, a civil engineer, and Alphonse Fteley, Resident Water Board Engineer, the Sudbury Aqueduct was constructed from Farm Pond in Framingham to the Chestnut Hill Reservoir (Area E) in Brighton, along with three settling and storage reservoirs on the north branch of the Sudbury River in Framingham, and a conduit from the dam at Framingham Reservoir *1 to Farm Pond. The Ashland Reservoir (4-3) was added to the system in 1885 as reservoir *4, as was the Hopkinton Reservoir (4-4) in 1891 as reservoir *6. The long-planned Sudbury Reservoir (see Area F) was added as reservoir *5 in 1893. While the Framingham Reservoirs, Gatehouses and Dams are intact today, increasing industrial development in the area surrounding the reservoirs has made the water unsuitable for use. Thus they have been removed from service.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Metropolitan Water Works, Sudbury Department, Photograohs, Vol. 1, 6201-7651, 1907-1920. Internal Report, Desmond Fitzgerald to Frederic Stearns on the Sudbury River Works, 15 June 1898 3oston Mater Works, Additional Sunoly form Sudbury River, Description of the Work, 1882. INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commmity : Framingham Form No: 3-1: Property Name: Framingham #3 Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. NATIONAL REGISTER CRITARIA STAMAHENT: attached mar, Framincham Reservoir lo.1, Metronolitan Water Works, Land Plans, January 1913. Scale: 100' = 1". ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE: on the unstream side of the embankment. The 100.25 foot lon" overflow is constructed of granite rubble laid in coment rortar.
Above sround the rubble is faced and coned with cut sranite. Ihe bottor of the sheet ciling ertends 14' below the bottom of the masorry which itself entends 151 below the level of the meadow. The overflow was protected with flashboards held in place by stone pins. Ine dam above the foundation was constructed by J.3. Fuller and ".. lash, Worcester: the k: eretehouse, desirned br the office of Georce A. Clough, Boston City Architoct, was built br iBenjamin F. Dewins, Boston. *.. For additional information, please refer to Overview, Section 7: Reservoirs, Dams. iu-cLarge passive reservoirs of this type have not been included for nomination due to their ky glarge size and lack of readily perceivable man-made features.
Staple to Inventory form at botton Nº9 Porm 100000 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 Section number _ Page _ Water Supply System of Metropolitan Boston MPS Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk and Worcester Counties, MASSACHUSETTS Sabatantive Rerter COVER 1. Ashland Dam and Spillway < 56/12. Framingham Reservoir No. 3 Dam and aEs4 Tertod 3. Framingham Reservoir No. 2 Dam and Gatehouse 4. Framingham Reservoir No. 1 Dam and Gatehouse 5. Hopkinton Dam and Spillway 6. Lake Cochituate Dam 7. Medford Pipe Bridge Sik/ 8. Middlesex Fells Reservoirs Historic District Subataalivo Xoyton 9. Mystic Dam - Su1, 10. Mystic Gatehouse 11. Mystic Pumping Station Jubstandivo Joriaa 12. Sudbury Aqueduct Linear District 13. Sudbury Dam Historic District 14. Weston Aqueduct Linear District 15.
Fisher Hill Reservoir and Gatehouse 16. Forbes Hill Standpipe 17. Bellevue Standpipe DATE LISTED Bett & Seurge 0r-18-90 seneDye1-18-50 BAkk. Sunge 0r-18-90 AulnuRgue1-16-90 AhbomDyna 1-15-90 AelunByud 1-18-90 AlelansDyao 11870 AhlaseBgue1-1890 Pactb Souze -18-50 MeloueByu11840 fetst-Soege erios AltuByu 1t 40 AhloueBgu 17840 AtelousBgas11840 AelauByu 11890 AelmesDyun 1-18-90 ecmBgun11840 Aluceye 11896 18. Chestnut Hill Reservoir Historic District L Sul: 19. Marlborough Brook Filter Beds aubatandiva Reries (opa orm 10-800- United States Department of the Interlor National Park Service Natlonal Register of Historlc Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approval No. 1024-0010 Sectlon number Page. SUPPLEMENTARY LISTING RECORD NRIS Reference Number: 890Ø2261 Date Listed: 01/18/90 Framingham Reservoir No.
3 Dam and Gatehouse Property Name Middlesex County Water Supply_System of Metropolitan Boston MPS Multiple Name MA State This property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places in accordance with the attached nomination documentation subject to the following exceptions, exclusions, or amendments, notwithstanding the National Park Service certification included in the nomination documentation. Sithsaur Ol signature the Keeper 01-18-90 Date of Action Amended Items in Nomination: 10. Geographical Data The UTM provided is incomplete; it should read 19/29719Ø/468513Ø. This information was confirmed by Ann Tait, MASHPO, by telephone.
DISTRIBUTION: National Register property file Nominating Authority (without nomination attachment) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Framingham Reservoir No.
3 Dam and Gatehouse NAME: MULTIPLE Water Supply System of Metropolitan Boston MPS NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Middlesex DATE RECEIVED: 12/05/89 DATE OF 16TH DAY: 1/04/90 DATE OF PENDING LIST: 12/19/89 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 1/19/90 DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REFERENCE NUMBER: 89002261 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: OPPERI N DATA PROBLEM: N TANDSCAPE: N - LESS THAN 50 YEARS: N PDIL: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: NPER DRAFT: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: NATIONAL: N N N COMMENT WAIVER: N VACCEPT _RETURN REJECT 1/18/90 DATE ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: hocalle woally ae coicert dam aud jatehoese inthiupolitan water mipply dwvelgmment.
RECOM./CRITERIA Accept a+c DISCIPLINE Archetetural HHistory 01-18-00 DOCUMENTATION see attached comments XDsee attached SIRDN 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 MDC - TRA, MASS.
Framiy hom Resewoii Dano Go Jane Carolara/ Martha Bourrs 19 wuis Birger d'Ass. Wate sepply systen o Metrepelitan 1 3243085024 .87º10'E.78.10 208S70 DRIVEWAY 12"PIPE NO.I Framingham Reservoir #3, Dam and Gatehouse Framingham Reservoir No.1, Metropolitan Water Board, Land Plans, January 1913. Scale: 200' = 1". #3-4 MDC - TRA, MASS. 3,57-00- Tdmos 304 75,05N S.16-46 O0"E 09-00.E.! TRAMINGIAM RESERVOIR NO.I TON FWAO 80'84 faitsl 26141,: 214.061 9269. ArG S 0.71 Acres W.D. 60.63 0.55 Acres W.D. 80 40+50g : 1037.18 of Dike Street Worcester Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64500254