Major Bibliographical References Books American Education: Its Men, Ideas and Institutions. The Alumnae Association of the State Normal School, Framingham, Massachusetts. Boston: Wright and Potter, 1926. Barry, William. A History of Framingham, Massachusetts. Boston: James Monroe and Company, 1847. Detwiller, Frederic R. "Estey (sic), Alexander R. 1826-1881." Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects. Vol. 2, 1982, p. 334. Dewar, Martha and M. Joan Gilbert, eds. Framingham: Historical Reflections. Framingham: Town of Framingham.
[X See continuation sheet Previous documentation on file (NPS): preliminary determination of individual listing (36CFR67) has been requested previously listed in the National Register previously determined eligible by the National Register designated a National Historic Landmark recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey # recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # Primary location of additional data: X State historic preservation office Other State agency Federal agency Local government University Other Specify repository: Massachusetts Historical Commission 10. Geographical Data Acreage ofproperty. Less than one acre (30,238 sq. ft.) Quad: Framingham, MA. Scale: UTM References A L1,9 Zone 29,89,3,0 Easting 14,685 4 6 0 Northing 1:25 000 Zono tasig Morring ut See continuation sheet Verbal Boundary Description St.
John's Episcopal Church occupies an irregular lot at the corner of Maynard Road and Church Street in the town of Framingham, Massachusetts. It is bounded on the east by Church Street, 120'; on the south by another lot, 75'; again on the east by the same lot, 70'; on the southwest by two other lots, 220'; on the northwest by another lot, 132'; on the northeast by Maynard Road, 52'; and on the north again by Maynard Road, 11l'. See continuation sheet Boundary Justification See continuation sheet 11. Form Prepared By name/title _ Minxie J. Fannin/Leslie Larson, Consultants w/Betsy Friedberg, NR Director organization Massachusetts Historical Commission date August 10, 1989 street & number_ 80 B oylston Street telephone (617)727-8470 city or town_ Boston state MA _ zip code 02116 10 om 102000 OMB ADDrOVI MO.
1034-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page 1 Saint John's Episcopal Church Framingham, MA extends from 1869-1871, when it was conceived and built, until 1934, the year the church doors were closed and members joined St. Andrews Church in South Framingham, St. Paul's Church in Natick, or St. Paul's Church in Hopkinton. Episcopal services were introduced to Framingham in the 1850s and were first held in the Hollis Evangelical Church on the Centre Common and later in the Town Hall. St. John's Episcopal Church was incorporated on November 28, 1860. In 1864, St. John's purchased the Centre Universalist Meeting House on the corner of Main and Granite Streets (no longer extant) and met there until 1869, when the building was sold to the Right Reverend John J. Williams and Mr.
James Fennessy for $8,000. The land for the new St. John's Church was donated by Dr. James W. Brown and the deed recorded on November 15, 1869. The site chosen was Bare Hill, occasionally called Bear Hill, and later referred to as Normal Hill after the arrival of the State Normal School, now Framingham State College, in 1853. This prominent Framingham Center topographical landmark was marked on the 1699 "Plan of Framingham Plantation, " compiled by Josiah H. Temple: Bare Hill is also described by Temple: "When the first explorers visited the spot, it was without trees, except a few stunted pines.. Height above tide level, 289 feet." (History of Framingham, Massachusetts, 1887, p. 27). Modern historian Stephen Herring also mentions Bare Hi1l: "A century and a half before [c.
1700], sentinels had stood on this hill watching for Indians while Sunday services were being held in the meetinghouse below." (South Middlesex: A New England Heritage, 1986, p. 65). Although it may not appear so today (1988), because of its wide separation from the Common by the deep moat of the enlarged and depressed Route 9 (1968), St. John's Episcopal Church was always considered part of Framingham Centre (see Reference to "Centre Village" in deed of James W. Brown to St. John's Church, November 5, 1869, 1102-224). One of the few areas in Framingham where historic buildings are clustered in a group, Framingham Centre achieves an architectural harmony of scale, size, and detailing.
This area became the nucleus of Framingham with the erection of the first meetinghouse in 1698, attaining additional importance in the first third of the nineteenth century with the construction of the Worcester Turnpike in 1806. As the Centre Village was the halfway point between Boston and Worcester on the new turnpike, it was here that horses were changed and repairs made to the coaches. Between 1806 and 1843 as many as seventeen coaches a day stopped at Framingham, and the Centre Village became the focus of the town's activities. The initial plan for the Boston-Worcester Railroad was to parallel the Boston and Worcester Turnpike through Framingham Centre.
However, the Worcester Turnpike Corporation and residents of the Centre mounted such a stiff opposition that when the new railroad opened in 1834, it had been diverted to pass through South Framingham, the branch line to Framingham Centre not being (continued) rps tom 100000 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approvel Mo. 1024-0018 Section number - 8 Page . 2 Saint John's Episcopal Church Framingham, MA completed until 1850. This proved to be a seminal decision in the development Village Hall before the town functions were moved to South Framingham. On Easter Sunday of 1871, St. John's Church celebrated its first service. With much pomp and circumstance and favorable notice in the local press, it was consecrated in 1872.
Supported by a group of affluent and successful Framingham citizens, the first quarter century of St. John's went relatively smoothly. But by the 1890s, sufficient operating funds were a problem. Beginning in the early 1900s, there were sporadic talks about combining ministers with St. Andrew's Episcopal Church (began meetings in 1882, established as a Mission Church in 1888, new church built in 1898) in Framingham and St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hopkinton. Perhaps in a move to strengthen the church, women choir members were approved to sing in pews in front of the organ in 1912, and in 1921 women were welcomed as incorporators of the church. The unfortunate combination of the Depression, the continued success of St. Andrews in South Framingham, the passing of St. John's once powerful lay leadership, and St.
John's diminishing membership were too much and the Church sadly voted to close its doors on January 10, 1934. After eighteen years of remaining vacant, St. John's Church was sold in 1952 to the Southern New England Conference Association of Seventh-Day Adventists. In accordance with the original stipulation of the deed of Dr. James W. Brown in 1869, the $7,000 St. John's received was used for the purchase of land for a new edifice at Buckminster Square in Framingham Centre. In 1969, the Seventh-Day Adventists sold the Church to Framingham State College, and used the $111,000 proceeds to build a new church at 250 Edgel1 Road in Framingham. St. John's Episcopal Church has an important place in the social history of Framingham as so many of its early incorporators and lay leaders were distinguished Framingham citizens. The names Dr. James W. Brown, Charles R.
Train, Alexander Rice Esty, Theodore C. Hurd, Walter Frank Hurd, Walter Adams, and Frank Alexander Kendall stand out, although many more could be mentioned. Dr. James W. Brown (1813-1892), a graduate of Williams College and Framingham's first Superintendent of Schools, as well as representative to the General Court and selectman, gave the land for St. John's Church. The present pulpit in St. John's Church, the gift of his wife, Mary Jane Brown, and his son-in-law, Dr. Henry F. Moore, was installed in 1892 and bears the following inscription: "To the Glory of God and in Memory of James W. Brown, M.D. Senior - Warden of this Church from its Incorporation in 1860 until his death, July 7th, 1892." (continued)
102--0018 10000 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page - Saint John's Episcopal Church Framingham, MA Distinguished attorney Charles R. Train (1817-1885), son of the well-known Reverend Charles Train (1783-1849), was also an incorporator of St. John's Church. A Brown University graduate who made Framingham his home until 1863, irain was a V.S. representative, Middlesex County district attorney, Massachusetts attorney general, and honored as a "Former Distinguished Citizer of Framingham" in the 1900 Bi-Centennial. An Eagle lectern (no longer extant) was given in "Hon. C. R. Irain's" memory to St. John's Church in 1888, and there is a stained glass window in St. John's Church dedicated to Martha A. Irain, Charles R. Irain's widow.
Alexander Rice Esty (1826-1881), of the prominent Esty family (see below), gave not only of his talented architectural services for St. John's Church but also made a sizeable donation to the building fund, and supervised its construction. An Incorporator of St. John's Episcopal Church in 1860, and its first Junior Warden, he served in that capacity from 1861 until his death twenty year later. The brothers Theodore C. Hurd (1837-1911) and Walter Frank Hurd (1842-1900) were also associated with St. John's Church. Iheodore Hurd, an incorporator of the Church, had the honor of being the Orator of the Day at the 1900 Bi-Centennial. A Lieutenant In Co. F. 45th Reg. Inf. M.V.M. during the Civil War, he was a representative to the General Court as well as selectman. Architect Walter Frank Hurd, who trained in the office of Alexander Rice Esty and designed with William A.
Rice the Framingham Memorial Library (1873), was clerk of St. John's from 1864. The owner of land ad joining and nearby to the church, he too was honored in the 1900 Bi-Centennial. Harvard graduate Walter Adams (1848-1923), Ioastmaster of the 1900 Bi-Centennial Banquet, was for many years a vestryman and warden of St. John's Church. A lawyer, Adams was Associate Judge of the District Court of South Middlesex and representative to the General Court as well as a Selectman. He was described as "the leading citizen of his time foremost in every undertaking" in Sketches of Framingham, 1950, p. 123. Architect Frank Alexander Kendall (1865-1934), son-in-law of Alexander R. Esty, carried on the tradition of Esty's service to St. John's until he died. He was treasurer of St. John's from 1896 to 1912 and Junior Warden following 1914. He also owned the property at 5 Church Street adjoining St.
John's. Educated at Harvard University, Kendall donated his services for the design of the choir room which was installed in 1925. At the time St. John's Episcopal Church was built in 1869-1871, the shifting focus of the town from Framingham to South Framingham was just becoming clear. Most of the buildings at the Centre Common were constructed between 1830 and 1890, with Framingham Centre gradually becoming the wealthier residential district of the Town. This realization was certainly in the minds (continued) 100000 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Appronel Ma. 103-0018 Saint John's Episcopal Church Framingham, MA Section number - 8 Page. I the Town fathers in welcoming the State Normal School in 1853 to Bare Hil ind in the minds of the St.
John's Committee appointed to evaluate differen lots for the new church. natural place for St. of the donors of the land for the State Normal School on Bare Hill (deed of December 30, 1852) and Alexander R. Esty had designed and supervised its first structure, the State Normal School, in 1853 (later replaced by May Hall in 1889). When Framingham State College purchased St. John's Church in 1969, the two institutions shared similarities in history and had already been neighbors for 100 years. Framingham State College's importance to the town of Framingham is symbolized by the prominence accorded the College on the Town Seal. Previous locations of the first State Normal School, established when Horace Mann headed the State Department of Education with Cyrus Pierce the first principal, had been in Lexington in 1839 and West Newton in 1844.
Framingham was so anxious to have the State Normal School that private,citizens donated the necessary land, and both the Boston and Worcester Railroad and the town of Framingham contributed toward the erection of its first building in 1853. A year later, the State Normal School started its well-known teacher training program for the children of Framingham Centre. First located at the campus, the practice or laboratory school was later moved to the Jonathan Maynard Training School, on Vernon Street (Charles M. Baker, 1916). Both the School and Maynard Road, which forms the northern boundary of St. John's Church, honor the distinguished Jonathan Maynard (1752-1835), cited as a "Noted Citizen" in the 1900 Bi-Centennial.
A Harvard University graduate, Maynard fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill, became a justice of the peace, selectman, representative to the General Court, a State Senator, first master of the Middlesex Lodge of Masons, Framingham's first postmaster in 1810, all the while maintaining a lively interest in education as a trustee of the Framingham Academy. With the purchase of St. John's Church, Framingham State College became the first State College in Massachusetts to own an interdenominational facility. Renamed the Ecumenical Center, the building was greeted with heartfelt enthusiasm by the College administration, faculty and alumni. Almost every class since 1969 has made a gift to the Ecumenical Center or contributed to the Chapel Restoration Fund; the meditation room and seven stained glass windows have been among the many class presentations.
In continual use as an interdenominational religious center as well as for seminar classes, St. John's was a vibrant part of the Framingham State College campus until it was closed for deterioration reasons in 1985. (continued) sarom 100000 Oude saproned Ma. 10210018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Saint John's Episcopal Church Framingham, MA Section number 8 Page 5 St. John's Episcopal Church is a distinctive and highly personal work of an Important Massachusetts architect with a national reputation.
As a founder of the parish and its Junior Warden for 20 years, Alexander Esty doubtless took particular care in producing a design, rooted in the tradition of the English country church, which would provide both inspiration and a sense of intimacy for the congregation, grouping the elements informally, he developed a lavish profile that successfully weds itself to its sloping site. The unusual rustic-appearing tower is the most dominant and original element in the ensemble. Esty's sensitive use of Gothic forms is enriched by the warm color and texture of the Framingham stone in counterpoint with the cool gray roof slate.
While the structure is an inheritor of the earlier Gothic Revival tradition in its overall design and use of stone, it also anticipates the soon-to-emerge High Victorian Gothic mode, in the narrow and wide bands of its light and dark gray roof slate and in its picturesque tower. Alexander Rice Esty was the son of carpenter/builder Dexter Esty (1791-1860), who settled in Framingham in 1814 and married Mary E. Rice in 1819. Alexander was early in the company of architects, as his father had built the 1834 2228 Village Hall on the Common according to the design of the well-known architect Solomon Willard (1783-1861). Alexander attended common school and the Framingham Academy, where he began sketching local Colonial and Greek Revival buildings. After graduation, young Esty apprenticed for several years to Boston architect Richard Bond, boarding at Bond's house in Roxbury during this period.
At age 21 he joined the office of Gridley J.F. Bryant, remaining until 1849 when he established his own practice. Boston City Directories list Esty's architectural office at 2 Change Avenue from 1850 to 1874, and at 35 Congress Street until 1881, with his residence in Framingham. Through all of his adult years Esty was active in the civic, religious, and business life of Framingham. He was Chairman of the Board of Selectmen during the Civil War, a representative to the General Court in 1866, and a trustee of the Edgel1 Grove Cemetery. Alexander Esty was involved in many real estate transactions, including a number with his older brother, Constantine Canaris Esty (1824-1912), the prominent Yale-educated lawyer, representative to the General Court, Congressman, local judge, and selectman as well as historian for the Town of Framingham's 1900 Bi-Centennial.
Constantine's son, barrister Frederick M. Esty (1852-1931), was chairman of the Transportation Committee for the 1900 Bi-Contennial, and his grandson, Charles Alexander Esty (1883-1947) the talented president of the Framingham Historical Society. The brothers Constantine and Alexander were influential in the residential expansion of Natick and South Framingham, laying out subdivisions including the expansion of house lots in South Framingham, recorded at the Middlesex County Registry of Deeds, November 18, 1872. One of the properties they owned in Framingham Centre was the Esty Block (before 1830), 931 Worcester Road. (continued) NPS Form 10-000-- (8-86) OM8 Appromel No. 1084-0018 United States Department of the Interlor National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Sectlon number 8 Page.
6 Saint John's Episcopal Church Framingham, MA Alexander apparently remodeled this two-story frame commercial building into its present Italianate form in the 1870s and the annual meetings of St. John's Episcopal Church were frequently held in its "Guild Room." Alexander Esty was married three times and fathered six children. He died of stomach cancer on July 2, 1881. Among those attending Esty's funeral were Boston architects Gridley Bryant, Nathaniel J. Bradlee and Samuel J.F. Thayer, as well as William A. Rice, W. Frank Hurd, and Ernest Boyden, who trained in Esty's office. The architectural practice of A.R. Esty encompassed a variety of building types designed in several of the revival styles popular during his 33-year career. Esty was the master of these styles, following to some degree the changing tastes of the time, but more often selecting the style to fit the building type.
Churches were Romanesque or Gothic, residences Italianate, education, public and commercial buildings ranged from Renaissance Revival to High Victorian Gothic. Hammatt Billings' Gothic First Parish church in Framingham of 1847 doubtless influenced Esty's decision to add a spire and Gothic detail to that town's Hollis Evangelical Meeting House the following year. From then on, Esty's churches alternated between Gothic and Romanesque modes. Examples of the former include Emmanuel Church in Boston (1861-1862), Church of Our Savior in Brookline (1866-1868), St. John's Church in Framingham (1869-1871), and the Union Congregational (now Union United Methodist) Church in Boston's South End (1872). Romanesque examples include th Prospect Congregational Church in Cambridge (1851), Methodist Episcopal Church in Burlington, Vermont (1861) and the Baptist Church in North Billerica (1870).
While his churches raised their spires as far west as Illinois, Esty's residential work was concentrated in Framinghan. Although the David Fisk men tene nate ecatia, proportioned, consistent with the taste of the time. Esty's educational structures ranged from modest schoolhouses at Framingham and Clinton to the principal buildings on such campuses as the University of Rochester, Colby University, Newton Theological Institution, University of Vermont, and Shurtleff College in Upper Alton, Illinois. His first college commission was for the State Normal School in Framingham in 1853, an elegant Romanesque/Renaissance Revival structure with a two-story columned portico. Normal schools at Worcester and Westfield, Massachusetts subsequently acquired Esty-designed buildings as well.
Anderson Hall, the University of Rochester's first major building, was probably Esty's most sophisticated educational design. The three-story, stone Renaissance Revival structure, sporting a French mansard roof, was designed in 1859 and completed in 1861. In a letter to Dr. M. B. Anderson, dated August 24, 1959, Esty referred to the building, (continued) NP8 Form 10-900-L (8-80) United States Dopartment of the Interlor National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuatlon Sheet Section number 8 Page 7 OMa Approvel No. 1024-0018 Saint John's Episcopal Church Framingham, MA from my office architect an honorary M.A. degree in 1866. Anderson Hall was followed by two more impressive stone structures: the Library Building at Newton Theological Institution in 1863-1864, and Memorial Hall at Colby University in Maine, in 1867-1869.
Both continued the Renaissance Revival mode of Anderson Hall, but with towers added to slate mansard roofs. All three structures were built of rugged-looking stone laid in rubble pattern (of which Esty was particularly fond), trimmed with dressed stone, in the case of Newton being Cumberland Bay sandstone from Nova Scotia. Colby subsequently acquired two more Esty buildings: Champlain Hall (a remodeling of an 1837 Thomas U. Walter design) in 1870, and Coburn Hall in 1872. Among Esty's few known commercial buildings, the 1873 Monks Building at E Street and West Broadway in South Boston stands out as a spectacular example of High Victorian Gothic commercial architecture, contrasting vividly with his more chaste Gothic Revival churches of the previous decades. In 1867 Gridley Bryant and Alexander Esty were invited by a committee appointed by Governor Alexander H.
Bullock to prepare plans and estimates for enlarging or replacing the Massachusetts State House. Three schemes were developed, but the project was abandoned for financial reasons. Nine years later, Esty was appointed superintendent of construction for a major addition to the U.S. Post Office and Sub-Treasury Building in Boston. In 1877, his duties were extended to include all federal government construction in Boston, plus the Marine Hospital in Chelsea. Continuing his federal association, Esty, along with architects Edward Clark and J. I. Smithmeyer, was appointed by a senatorial committee to consider extending the U.S. Capitol, reconmending instead a separate building. The three men subsequently submitted designs, along with H. H. Richardson, Thomas U. Walter, and others; Smithmeyer's plans, including Esty's interior, were those selected.
Esty's final project was the Boston and Albany Depot on Kneeland Street in Boston, an elaborate Renaissance Revival structure of pressed brick and heavy granite trim with sizeable iron porticos. It opened in September of 1881, two months after his death. There are five memorial stained glass windows that relate to people prominent in the church. These include windows dedicated to Alice Ellesmere (installed after 1877), Frances Fox, Mary Ann and William Nicholson (installed 1929), Ellen Louise and Charles Richardson (installed after 1877), and Martha A. Train. It is not known who designed the windows. (continued) Nº& Form 10-800e (8-96) OMB Approrel No.
1084-0018 United States Department of the Interlor Natlonal Park Service Natlonal Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Saint John's Episcopal Church Framingham, MA Section number 8 Page 8 There are seven stained glass windows which were gifts of the Classes of 1920, 1921, 1928, 1940, 1941, 1948, and 1949 of Framingham State college. These were installed between 1970 and 1984. The four vestibule windows, which are devoted to a choir of musical angels, were made by Charles J. Connick Associates of Boston in 1971 and 1973, the gifts of the Classes of 1946 and 1928, respectively. Another window, a colorful symbol of the Virtue of Truth, the gift of the Class of 1921, was designed by Orin E. Skinner, the president of Connick Studio, and installed in 1971. fourth bay of the south side of the church. St.
John's Episcopal Church, now Framingham State College's Ecumenical Center, is presently in poor condition, and will soon be rehabilitated according to the Secretary of Interior's Standards For Preservation Projects. The Ecumenical Center is expected to retain its original exterior appearance as is its interior configuration and detail. It appears that Framingham State College is the first four-year state college in Massachusetts to attempt a major restoration of a National Register building. In summary, St. John's Episcopal Church is a significant element in the development of the town of Framingham and a distinctive work of a noted architect. Due to the great success of Framinghan State college, many new buildings have been added to the campus. Therefore, an individual National Register listing for St.
John's Episcopal Church is more appropriate at the present time than a National Register District for the entire Framingham State College campus. (end) (UPa Porm 10900-a Approvel No. 1084-0010 United States Department of the Interlor National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number - 9 Page . 1 Saint John's Episcopal Church Framingham, MA Government Documents: State Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Historical Commission files. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Southern Middlesex Court and Registry of Deeds July 31, 1852 (Recorded Aug. 11, 1852): Rufus Brewer to Jas. W. Brown. (635-367) April 12, 1864 (Recorded April 20, 1864): Jas. W. Brown to Alex R. Esty - St. John's Church. (923-367). Oct. 12, 1869 (Recorded Oct. 19, 1869): John J. Williams to St. John's Church. (1098-103). Nov. 5, 1869 (Recorded Nov. 15, 1869): James W.
Brown to St. John's Church. (1102-224). Jan. 15, 1878: Plan of Land - Geo. W. Homer & others. (1463-End). Nov. 4, 1871 (Recorded Oct. 4, 1889): Jas. W. Brown to Corp. of St. John's Church ($1 purchase). (1934-201). March 29, 1927: Laying out of Church Street. April 10, 1952 (Recorded April 15, 1952): St. John's Church of Framingham, Massachusetts to the Southern New England Conference Association of Seventh-Day Adventists. (7888- 523). Nov. 17, 1969: Southern New England Conference Association of Seventh-Day Adventists to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, eS ched through the Board of Trustees of the State Colleges. (11766-604). Government Documents: Local City of Boston, Board of Education. Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board. c.1873. Town of Framingham, Assessors records. Town of Framingham, Historic District Study Committee. Report, November 1977.
Town of Framingham, Planning Department. "Preserving Framingham's History." October 1981. Town of Framingham, Planning Department Files. Maps 1699: "Plan of Franingham Plantation." Compiled by Josiah H. Temple from surveys made by J. Gore & J. Sherman. 1794: "Plan of the Town of Framingham taken in the months of Nov. and Dec. 1794." Lawfore Buckminster and John Gleason, Jr., surveyors. 1831: "Plan of the Town of Framingham." Jonas Clayes and Warren Nixon, sur veyors. 1832: "Map of Framingham." Jonas Clayes and Warren Nixon, surveyors. (continued) NPD Form 10-800-1 OMB Approvel No. 1081-0018 Unlted States Department of the Interlor National Park Service Natlonal Reglster of Historlc Places Continuatlon Sheet Sectlon number 9 Saint John's Episcopal Church Framingham, MA Page _ 2 1850: "Map of Framingham Centre." Boston: Gustavus A. Hyde, 1850.
1872: "Town of Framingham, Middlesex County, Mass." H.F. Walling, surveyor. 1875: Plate 134. County Atlas of Middlesex, Massachusetts. New York: F.W. Beers, 1875. 1889: Plates 242-243. Atlas of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Boston: George I. Walker & Co., 1889. 1895: Plate 5. Atlas of the Town of Framingham, Massachusetts. Barnes & Jenks and Jas. P. Beirne, surveyors. "Framingham Center: Part of the Iown of Framingham." Atlas of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, vol. III. George H. Walker & Co., 1908. 1935: "Map of Framingham, Mass." Llewellyn I. Schofield, C.E. Holliston, "Town of Framingham, Massachusetts." Fred W. Sergeant, Iown Engineer. 1981: Assessors Plan, Sheet 217, Block 32-33. Town of Framingham. Letters Mrs. Margaret B. Andrews, Asst. Librarian, Special Collections, University of Rochester Library, to Leslie Larson, Feb. 13, 1967. Alexander Rice Esty to Dr.
Anderson, University of Rochester, Aug. 21 and Sept. 3, 1859. Misc. "Around the Station: The Iown and the Irain." Exhibit Catalog, Danforth Museum. May 14-Dec.31, 1978. Boston Architectural File, Boston Public Library. Boston Directories: 1850-1881. Boston Preservation Alliance. "The Splendor of Boston's Churches." Oct. 4, 1987. "Colby University, Review of the Year." Colby Oracle, 1988. "Commemorating the Centennial Anniversary of the First State Normal School in America." Framingham: Alumnae Association of the State Teachers College at Framingham, Mass., 1939. "First State Nornal School in America: The State Ieachers College at Framingham, Massachusetts." Framingham: The Alumnae Association of the State Ieachers College at Framingham, Massachusetts, June 1959.
"First Iwenty-Five Years of the Second Century of the First State Normal School in America: The State College at Framingham, Massachusetts, 1939-1964." Framingham: The Alumnae Association of The State College at Framingham, Massachusetts, June 1964. (continued) (ae0) om 10-800-0 OM8 Approvel No. 1084-0018 United States Department of the Interlor National Park Service Natlonal Register of Historlc Places Contlnuation Sheet Saint John's Episcopal Church Framingham, MA Section number Page 3 Framingham State College Archives, including some account books. Framingham State College, Alumnae House files. "Framingham State College: Comprehensive Facilities Plan." A. Anthony Tappe and Associates, Inc. Nov. 20, 1987. "In Memoriam Henry Whittemore (1844-1931)." Framingham: Alumnae Association of The State Normal School. June 1932. Hemenway, Vera and Elizabeth Patch. "Notes on J. H.
Iemple's History of Framingham, Massachusetts." Framingham: Local History Committee, 1976. McCartney, Abbie Bowlby. "Historical Resume of the Alumnae Association of First State Normal School in America, State Teachers College at Framingham, State College at Framingham, Massachusetts." Framingham: The Alumnae Association of the State College at Framingham, Massachusetts, June 1964. Retrospect, Shurtleff College, Upper Alton, IL. 1912, 1919, 1922. St. John's Episcopal church. Vestry Records, April 8, 1861 to Jan. 24, 1895. Framingham State College Archives. St. John's Episcopal Church, Vestry Records, April 6, 1895 to Jan. 30, 1933. Framingham State College Archives. St. John's Episcopal Church, Treasurer's Records, Jan. 1901 to 1909. Framingham State College Archives. "275 Anniversary of the Town of Franingham, Massachusetts, 1975." Unpublished Manuscripts Kendal1, Frank A.
"Alexander Rice Esty, Architect (1826-1881), his early surroundings, his professional Associates, his Friends and his Architectural Works." Draft copy, heavily annotated, by Kendall. Framingham Historical Society. Kendall, Frank A. "Alexander Rice Esty, Architect (1826-1881), his early surroundings, his professional Associates, his Friends and his Architectural Works." date: before 1934. (Finished copy). Framingham Public Library. Kushner, Suzette E. "Alexander Rice Esty." May 1978. Framingham Historical Society. McCarthy, Kathryn F. "History of the Interdenominational Chapel at the State College at Framingham." Nov. 3, 1971. Framingham State College Archives. Shettleworth, Early E.G. Jr. "A Preliminary List of the Work of Alexander Esty.: No date.
Location of primary materials (cont.) Boston Athenaeum (continued) (NPS Fom 100000 Unlted States Department of the Interior National Park Service Natlonal Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Sectlon number _9 Page4 Boston Public Library Tm Er adeao an Ang bepartaonte OMo Approvel Na. 1080018 Saint John's Episcopal Church Framingham, MA (end) NORIH NARTHEX NAVE ,CHANCEL VESTRY TRANSEPT FOOR PLAN ST. JOHIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, FRAMINGHAM, MA NORTH MAYNARD ROAD STREET CHURCH SITE PLAN SCALE: 1"= 40' ST.
JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, FRAMINGHAM, MA UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Saint John's Episcopal Church NAME: MULTIPLE NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Middlesex DATE RECEIVED: 12/11/89 DATE OF 16TH DAY: 1/12/90 DATE OF PENDING LIST: 12/27/89 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 1/25/90 DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REFERENCE NUMBER: 89002300 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: COMMENT WAIVER: N VACCEPT _RETURN ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N SIR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: N _REJECT 1/12/1990 Entered in the DATENat1onal Register 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 relationship of integrity to significance justification of exception BIBLIOGRAPHY GEOGRAPHICAL DATA acreage verbal boundary description UTMs boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION sketch maps _USGS maps photographs OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone _presentation Signed Date PROPARTY: ST.JOHN'S EPIECOPAL CHURCH ADOREDS: MAYMARO ROND AT CHURCHETREUT, PRAMINGHAM, MA PHOTOERAPHER: LESLIE LARSON DATE: 2-20-68 NECATIVE: LEBLIE LANRGOM, 6JOY ST., BOSTOM, MA OLIOE PHOTO NO: O VIELV: CHUTECH IN CONTEXT, MAYHAVRD ROAD; FROM NOVTHUEST PROPORTY: 8T.JOHN'S ERSCOPAL CHURCH ADDRETG: MALMARD ROAD AT CHURCH STREOT, PRAMINGHAM, MA PHOTOGRAPHER: LEELIE LATRZON DATE: 2-20-88 NEGATVE: LESLIE LALRGOH, COJOY ST., BOSTOM, MA OZIO8 PHOTONO: E VIEW: CHANCEL, NAVE, TOWER, MATMARO ROND, FREM NORTHWEST PROPERTY: ST.JOHN'S EVISCOPAL CHURCH ADDRESS: MAYHARD ROAD AT CHUVECH ET., FRAMIMGHAM, MA PHOTOGRAPHER: LESLIE LARGON DATE: 1-22-88 NEGATIVE: LESLIE LAVeSON, G JOY ST., BOSTON, MA OZIO8 PHOTO NO: 3 VIEW: TOWERAND NAVE; FROMNORTHIEST PROPERTY: ST.JOHN'S EASCOPAL CHURCH ADDREES: MAYHARO ROAD AT CHURCH ST., FRAMINGHAM, MA PHOTOBRAPHOR: LEGLIE LARGON DATE: 1-22-88 NEGATIVE: LESLIE LARGONM, G JOYST., BOSTON, MA OZIOS PHOTO NO: 4 VIEIY: DETARL OFTONER; FROM NORTHUEST PROPORTY: ST.JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH ADDRESS: MAYNARD ROAD AT CHURCH STROET, FRAMINGHAM, MA PHOTOGRAPHER: LEGLIELARGON DATE: 2-20-88 NEGATIVE: LESLE LARGON, GJOY ST., BOSTOM, MA OZIO8 PHOTONO: S VIEW: CHURCH IN CONTEXT, MAYMARO ROAD AND CHURCH STREET; PROM NORTHERST PROPORTY: ST-JOHAIS EPIGCOPAL CHURCH ADDRESS: MAYMARO ROAD AT CHURCHSTREET, FRAMINOHAM, MA PAOTOGRAPHER: LETLIE LARGON PATE: 2-20-88 NEGATIVE: LETLIE LARSON, GJOYST., BOSTOM, MA OZ108 PHOTO NO: O VIew: CHANCEL, NAVE, TOWER, CHURCH ST., FROM NORTHEAST PROPERTY: ST.JOHH'S EAGCOPAL CHURCH ADDRERE: MAYMARO ROAD AT CHURCH STREET, FRAMINGHAM, MA PHOTOGRAPHER: LESLELARSON DATE: 2-20-88 NEGATIVE: LESLIE LARGOM, 6JOK ST., BOSTON, MAOZIOE PHOTO NO:O VIEW: NAVE, TRANGEPT, VESTRY, CHANCEL, CHURCH ST.; FROM SOUTHEAST PROPERTY:ST-JOHN'S EPIECOPAL CHURCH ADDREDS: MAXNARD ROAD AT CHORCH STREET, FRAMINGHAM, MA POTOGRAPHER: LESLE LARGON DATE: 2-20-88 VEGATIVE: LEGLIE LAGOM, 6 JOL ST., BOSTON, MA ORIO8 PHOTO NO: (3 VIEW: DETAIL OF VESTRY AMD CHANCEL; FUROM SOUTHEAST + PROPERTY: ST.JOHN'S EPIGCOPAL CHURCH ADDREGS: MAYNARD ROAD AT CHURCH ST., FRAMUNGHAM, MI PHOTOGRAPMER:LESLIE LARGON DATE: 1-27-88 NEGATIVE: LESLIE LARGON, G JOY ST., BOSTON, MA OZIOB PHOTONO: VIEW: INTERIOR: CHANCEL FROM REAR OPNAVE PROPERTY: ST.JOHN'S ERSCOPAL CHURCH ADDREUS: MAKNARO ROAD AT CHURCHETREET, FRAMINGHAM, MA PHOTOGRAPHER: LESUELARGON DATE: 1-27-88 NEGATIVE: LESLIE LARGON, G JO4 ST., BOSTON, MAOZID8 PHOTO NO:T VIEW: INTORIOR: NAVE, TOVARD REAR; FROM CHANCEL PROPERTY: ST-JONN'S EASCOPAL CHURCH ADDRETE: MAUNARO ROAO AT CHURCH STREET, FRAMINGTAM, MA PHOTOGRAPHER:LESLLE LARSON DATE: 2-20-88 NEGATIVE: LESLIELARGON, G JOYST., BOBTOM, MA OZI08 PHOTO NO : VIELY: INTERIOR: DETAIL OF CEILING TRUSSES, TOWARD REMROFNAVE TO THE Glory of Goà and in memory of ALEXANDER RICE ESTY.
WARDEN AND ARCHITECT of this Charch. Born in Tramingbam. De1. 18,1826 Died Jnly 2.1881 PROPERTY: ST.JOHN'S ERISCOPAL CHURCH ADDROTE: MAYNARO RORD AT CHURCH ST., FRAMINGHAM, MA PHOTOGRAPHER: LESLIE LAVSON DATE: 1-22-88 NEZATiVE: LEGCIE LARGON, 6 JOY ST., BOSTOM, MAOZIOB PHOTO NO: 12 VIEIY: INTERIOR: 5STY MEMORIAL TABLET AT EAST UND OP NAVE DEC 1 1 1989 * M * COMMISSIONT GR BTT CTLACHANT * December 1, 1989 Carol Shull National Register of Historic Places Department of the Interior National Park Service P.O. Box 37127 Washington, DC 20013-7127 Dear Ms. Shull: Enclosed please find the following nomination: Saint John's Episcopal Church, Maynard Road and Church Street, Framingham (Middlesex County), Massachusetts, 01701 There has been no owner objections for the above mentioned property.
The nomination has been voted eligible by the State Review Board and has been signed by the State Historic Preservation Officer. Owners were notified of pending State Review Board consideration 30-75 days before the meeting and were afforded the opportunity to comment. Comments received to date are attached to the nomination form. Un' Lit Acting National Register Director Massachusetts Historical Commission Enclosure: Massachusetts Historical Commission, Valerie A. Talmage, Executive Director, State Historic Preservation Officer 80 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 (617) 727-8470 Office of the Secretary of State, Michael J. Connolly, Secretary
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