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2291 FORM F - STRUCTURE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 DEC 0 5 1989 AREA FORM NO. 3-2 Town Framingham Address Winter Street Name Framingham Reservoir #1, Dam & Gate- House Ownership: MDC Public Private 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 attached UTM REFERENCE USGS QUANDRANGLE SCALE 19/298500/4684840 Framingham.Ma 1:25,000 Type of Structure (check one): bridge canal dam fort gate kiln 11ghthouse 2X pound powder house street tower tunnel wall windmill other includes gatehouse DESCRIPTION Date 1876-1878 Source Boston Water Board, Annual Rerorts 1877,1870 Architect Engineer/Designer (if known): Georse A. Glounh. Architect Construction material 2anth, mranito, concrete Alterations (w1th dates)nla Condition TRir Moved no Acreage Date approx. one acre. Setting crowded suburban commercial and residential area Recorded byJane Carolan Organization Louis Bormon $. Associstos Date February 1984; revised 1989 MDG - TAA, MAOO.
NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) Framinghan Reservoir #1 Dam and Gatehouse is significant for its association with the Sudbury upnlz, the second water suonly system built by the Metropolitan Water Board of the City of Boston. The Dam and Gatehouse 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 tam and gatehouse retain integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship and feeling and meet Criteria A and C of the National Register of Historic Places. The boundary ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe (mportant design features and evaluate in terms of otherued) structures within the community.
Franingham Reservoir 11, is 1ocated between Framingham Reservoirs #2 asd #3 ahd is situated at the confluence of the two branches of the Sudbury River in the crowded suburban town oi Framingham. The Massachusetts Iurnpike crosses Reservoir #3. The 1½ story granite gatehouse has a square main block with a smaller rectangular wing. have steep hipped roois. The building is constructed in three shades of rough and ashlar granite on a granite rubble stone fourdation. The structure is topped with a peaked cupola and has a disk notif and a pedimented doorway. Windows are narrow, vertical rectangles. The structure was designed by the office of Georse 1. Clourh, Boston City Architect from 1873 to 1883.
The granite gate chamber contains the head of the conduit from Farm Pond which is controlled by 4' x is gates; a 43" pige wnich connects to Reservoirs #2 and *3; two 4i x 4' gates which channel water either into the Farm Pond Conduit or into the Sudbury Piver; three 5' x 6' flo0d ates: gauges; and a hydraulic ram for moving flashboards. ha dam is 7931 long and has carthern embaniments with a centered 169' masonry overfall. At the ovenfall is the gatehouse and chamber. The 20' wide dam embankments(con ISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain hfstorical importance of structure and how the structure relates o 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 gominated 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 provide a 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-plan ned 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 oston ater 30ard Annual Renort, 1876-1877 Internal Rerort vy Desmond Fitzgerald to Frederic Stearns on the Sudbury River Works, 15 June 189 Boston Water Torlis, Additional Sunnly from Sudbury River Descriotion of the Works, 1882. 8/85 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Commmity : Framingham Form No: 3-2 MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Property Name: Framingham Reservoir F1 Dam and Gatenouse Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. NATIONAL REGISTEP CRITERIA SATEMENT: of the Framinghan Reservoir #1 Dam and Gatehouse which are being nominated is only the gatehouse and the dam and does not include any land around these structures. The boundary is shown on the attached map, Framingham Reservoir No. 1, Metropolitan Waterworks, Land Plans, January 1913. Scale: 100' = 1".
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE: have core walls of cranite rubble masonry laid in cement mortar. The core wall foundation is on a mix of sand, cemented gravel, hardpan, and bedrock. The overfall itself is granite rubble laid in cement mortar. Above ground the rubble is faced with cut granite and topped with cut granite copints. The upstream side has an earthen embankment protected by sheet piling; the apron is heavy stones laid dry. The overfall has two sots of flashboards held in place with iron pins; these have been removed. Wing walls are rubble faced with cut granite and are 20' wide on top. Tge dam wasconstructed by J.V. Quackenbush, Mohawk, NY and Clinton Beclorith, Herlcimer, Ilew 5For additional information, please refer to Overview, Section 7: Reservoirs, Dams.
iplarge passive reservoirs of this type have not been included for nomination due to their large size and lack of readily perceivable man-made features. Staple to Inventory form at bottom NPS Form 10-000-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Section number - Page- Water Supply System of Metropolitan Boston MPS Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk and Worcester Counties, MASSACHUSETTS Sabatantive Herter COVER 1. Ashland Dam and Spillway L 52/L\2. Framingham Reservoir No. 3 Dam an 59848 Terton 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 [ SLR1 8. Middlesex Fells Reservoirs Historic District Subatanlve leyten 9. Mystic Dam - S41k, 10.
Mystic Gatehouse Jubstasbére Norien 11. Mystic Pumping Station 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 18. Chestnut Hill Reservoir Historic District LSLM) 19. Marlborough Brook Filter Beds substantiva Rerie, DATE LISTED Bats & Sezge or -18-30 AelaeDee01-18-80
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1 Dam and Gatehouse NAME: MULTIPLE Water Supply System of Metropolitan Boston MPS NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Middlesex DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: 12/05/89 1/04/90 DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATE OF PENDING LIST: 12/19/89 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 1/19/90 REFERENCE NUMBER: 89002291 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 ACCEPT RETURN ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: REJECT /15/90 DATE watered in the #atdonal Register RECOM./CRITERIA REVIEWER DISCIPLINE DATE DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR ./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 MDC - TRA, MASS.
FrAMiNghOM ResLVOii DAMAC Jane Carolan /Martha Bourrs 19 Louis Berzer d Htss. Wato supply Systen lc(rgp Framingham Reservoir #1, Gatehouse :and Dam #3-2 Framingham Reservoir No.1, Metropolitan Water Works, Land Plans, January 1913. Scale: 100' = 1". ,MDC - TRA, MASS. 25.52 EDAME NO. Pe Drai cres 0.08Acre, W.D. Commonwealth Winter Street Mas Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64500254