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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 30 JAN 0 2 1990 AREA FORM NO. WN-0116 NEWION, MA MRA Town_Newton (West Newton) Address 271 Chestnut Street Historic Name Charles W. Noves House Photo (3"x3" or 3"x5, black and white) Indicate address of SEaptetto Teft side ot 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 ( same DESCRIPTION Date _1914 Source Building Dept. Records Style_Craftsman Architect Hubert G. Ripler Exterior Wall Fabricstucco Outbuildings garage-C Major Alterations (with dates) none Condition good see attached map UTM REFERENCE 19.3167604689700 USGS QUADRANGLE NEWTON SCALE 1:25000 Moved Date /a Acreage 30,000 sq.ft.
[ .69A Setting located on a busv north-south thoroughfare in a residential neigh- borhood of mixed 19th and 20th cen- tury date. Recorded by Candace Jenkins/Susan Abele Organization Newton Historical Comm. Date 6/1987; rev. 3/88 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) ": The Charles Noyes House possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association. It is significant as an unusual ezample of the English Craftsman style by Boston architect and local resident Hubert G. Ripley. Is is also representative of Newton's early 20th century suburban growth which resulted in infill of established areas as well as in development of new subdivisions. It meets criteria A & Cof the NRHP. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.
The Charles Noyes House is an unusual ezample of the Craitsman style with strong similarities to 47 Windsor Road in Waban and to 72 Dalton Road in Newton Centre. It is a 1 and 1/2 story stucco clad house enclosed by a broad clipped gable roof. The gable end facing the street features banke of small paned windows at both the first and second story. The entry is located on the lett side beneath a porte-cochere. The driveway leads to a garage at the rear of the property. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. The house at 271 Chestnut Street, West Newton, was built in 1914for lawyer, Charles W. Noyes about whom little is known. It was designed by architect Hubert G. Ripley (1869-1942), who was born in Melrose and studied architecture at M.I.T., receiving his degree in 1890.
Ripley worked first in the offices of Daniel Burnham on the Columbian Exposition and later as a draitsman for Peabody & Stearns before opening his own ottices in 1906. He entered into a partnership with Addison LeBoutillier in 1917 and practiced with him until 1942. Besides the Chestnut Street house, Ripley also designed his own house at 36 Birch Hill Road (1914; Newtonville H.D. (expanded)), and the Parish House for St. John's Church at 297 Lowell Avenue. The firm of Ripley & LeBoutillier was known for this design of a number of schools, one of which was the Warren Junior High School at 1600 Washington Street in West Newton (1926-7; WN-0134).
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Building Department Records: 271 Chestnut Street City Directories and Atlases, Biographica/ Dictionary, Withy 8/85 INPS Form 109000 United States Department of the Interlor National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page. - OMB Approvel No. 1021-0018 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Newton MRA Middlesex County, MA Nomination/Type of Review 51. Luke, Arthur F., Housetered ational Begister ADDITIANAL 152. ReDON ThORE E0CUmOINTATAN lubstantive Review TO: UUR LADYHPELP OF CHRISTIAISA,D. 153. Newton Centre Branch Library Bubstantive Revieu Date/Signature Jukeeper AelmuBau 2/1040 Attest_ ferxeeper Betfo Savege 02-16-90 Attest/ for Keeper Betay Sauge 0216-9 * 154. Newton City Hall and War Memorial Bubstantive Reviau Attest Jarkeoper BethL. Saurge o2-6-9 Attest 155.
Noves, Charles W., House Entered in the National Registes fKeeper Aelursqu 2/16/50 Attest 156. Pierce, F. Lincoln, Houfefered 1n the Hatiored Hogiater Gkeeper Alelinepgun 3/0160 Attest 157. Plummer Memorial Library cnterea in tre National Registex Akeeper Aeloußyen 3/14/90 Attest 158. Riverside Concrete Company--Lamont's Market Entered 1a the Ixeoper HelamSyan 2/10/50 Nationad Begiaten Attest 159. Sawyer, C. A., House (Second) Entered in the National Regiater Hacoper dlelma Byun 3110/90 Attest 160.
Schraft, George F., Houserera 800:0 Keeper Attest_ UNITED STATETIDEPRPAETEETNTERIOR NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Noves, Charles W., House NAME: MULTIPLE Newton MRA NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Middlesex DATE RECEIVED: 1/02/90 DATE OF 16TH DAY: 2/01/90 DATE OF PENDING LIST: 1/1$/90 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 2/16/90 DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REFERENCE NUMBER: 90000030 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: COMMENT WAIVER: N LACCEPT RETURN ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: REJECT 2/10/90 DATE N N Entered in the Natloral 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 context relationship of integrity to significance _justification of exception other BIBLIOGRAPHY GEOGRAPHICAL DATA acreage verbal boundary description tTMS boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION sketch maps USGS maps _photographs _presentation OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed - Date Charles Co.
Noyse House 271 Chestnut St- Necton, MA c.Jenkmns 4/87 reg. e Jackson Homeslead hen - west WN-O116 Newton, MA-MRA <7/8 - z 58584 5443 SECTION 32 BLOCK 32 30000 2787 18815 1754 CO 29991 2786 16306 1522 22035 PRINCE SECTION 32 BLOCK 33 195 19961 1855 = 30226 2808 15250 CHESTNUT STREET 18457 1715 SECTION BLOCK W L0 Newion, MA-MRA 2090} 1942 37019 3491} 3244 133Y1S 10105 SECTION 32 BLOCK 36 271 Chestnut Street SBL: 32-32-4 ROAD Assessors Map - Verified 1985 Page: 55 SW Scale: 1"=40' Reduced 50% 16266 BARNSTABLE HOWLAND