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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 JAN 0 2 1990 AREA FORM NO. 150 Swansea, Mass. MRA Town SWANSEA Address 132 Bay Point Avenue Historic Name Harold H. Anthony House 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 Residence Original Residence DESCRIPTION Date 1922 Source Assessor's records Style Georgian Revival Architect R. Clipston Sturgis Exterior Wall Fabric brick Outbuildings 2-car brick garage (see attached map) Major Alterations (with dates) south porch enclosed (1930) Condition excellent Moved no Date Acreage Setting approximately 1.7 acres one of the larger properties in the area overlooking Mt.
Hope Bay: simple landscaping, circular driveway UTM REFERENCE 19 315970 4619820 USES QUADRANGLE Fall River, MA-RI| 1967/1979 SCALE 1:25000 Recorded by R. A. Waring/K. F1ynn/K. Broomer Organization Swansea Historical Commission Date April 1978/January 1986/October 1989 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Harold Anthony House, 132 Bay Point Avenue, retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, and association and is significant on the local level. The house meets Criterion A for its association with the suburbanization of Gardner's Neck in South Swansea in the early decades of the 20th century, and Criterion C as a prominent architect-designed house of brick, an unusual building material in residential construction in Swansea.
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community. This elegant two-story brick house in the Georgian Revival style was designed by Boston architect R. Clipston Sturgis in 1922. The gabled structure consists of a rectangular main block with two four-bay wings extending south toward Mt. Hope Bay. The main entry is marked by a full-height portico with Doric columns flanked by gabled wall dormers. On the south elevation, a center-entry porch facing the bay is distinguished by exposed rafters and paired columns; the porch was enclosed with multi-pane sash ca. 1930. All window sash on the brick elevations are contained in brick segmental-arch or rectangular surrounds. As a brick house, 132 Bay Point Avenue is unusual in Swansea, where both year-round and summer homes are generally clad in wood.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners piayed in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. This house was built on land at the end of Gardner's Neck and bought by Harold Anthony's father, David M. Anthony, in 1883 (see Form F149). The land had been in the Gardner family from 1694 to 1867, and had been used for farming. Mr. David Anthony continued to operate a farm on the property until 1895, when he built a summer residence facing Mt. Hope Bay. He sold some of his land along Lee's River and the Bay to Fall River families who followed his example and built summer homes. In 1922, his son, Harold, built this brick residence as a permanent home. The younger Anthony was at the forefront of the movement to make Swansea a suburban, rather than simply a summer resort, town.
The next fifty years brought winterization of summer homes throughout Gardner's Neck. R. Clipston Sturgis (b. 1860) of Boston had a varied career that focused on residential and institutional design. With William Chapman and Robert D. Andrews, Sturgis was involved in the addition of white marble wings to the Massachusetts State House in 1914-1917. He began his architectural career in the office of John H. Sturgis, and in 1888 succeeded to partnership with William R. Cabot. Among his other commissions are the Arlington (Mass.) Town Hall, Whitinsville (Mass.) Library (1925), and a house in Lancaster, Mass. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Assessor's records, Swansea, Mass. (1922). Boston Public Library, Fine Arts Dept., Boston architects file.
8/85 pa Fa 1000 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page Swansea MRA Bristol County, MASSACHUSETTS Subafaellliva Jevier Cover 1. Anthony, Davúd M., House OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Date Listed Entered in the aaccept Betay Sauage 02-16-9 Nat1onal RoglstegKteper MenuDyen 2/16/90 Attest intered 1n tha 2. Anthony, Harold H., House Hational Hegletex HRéeper AeloueAjun 2/6150 Attest 3. Bark Street Sckool Entered in tbe datioral Hogleter Heeper duluneSyun 8/6/90 Attest 4. Barneyville Historic District Entered in tae Aat.oba2 Begieter Keeper AelmuRgu 2/10/50 Attest 5. Bend of the Lane intured 1n tha Hationad Rogietes JKeeperAlnBgun 2/16/90 Attest 6. Brown, John, IV, House antered in tao National Registes Keeper Aelamßyun 2/16/50 Attest 7.
Buffington, DEacon, John, Housetered in the Hationad Reglater LKeeper Selvieyer 316490 8. Church of Christ, Swansea cntered in the National Register 9.
Cole, Benjamin, House Attest /Reeper Attest tkeeper AelansByu 2/16/50 Entered in the National Register AelauBBgan 2/10150 Attest 10/ Colony Historic District Abbobentta Rarler Jakeepert - Seta Seuge 02=16-50 Attest UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Anthony, Harold H., House NAME: MULTIPLE Swansea MRA NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Bristol DATE RECEIVED: 1/02/90 DATE OF 16TH DAY: 2/02/90 DATE OF PENDING LIST: 1/18/90 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 2/16/90 DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REFERENCE NUMBER: 90000058 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: OPPER : N DATA PROBIEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: N PDIL: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: COMMENT WAIVER: N VACCEPT _RETURN REJECT 2/16/90 DATE Entered in the Hatlonad Ragleter 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 presentation OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date Harold Anthony House (MHC = F150) 132 Bay Point swansea, Mass.
MRA 1986 vieco S 132 Bayfoint Rd ossss POIN1 # F150 132 Bay Point Ave. .." 50 BAY 180 88{ '8/20 201.50 ZS/S 2564 i(6E- 180 L 174.55 - / MT. HOPE BAY 02 E6E TO DEADEND KEY -= HOUsE 51 = CIRCULAR DRIVE @=GARAGE 1961/REVISED 10/82 PROPERTY MAP TOWN OF SWANSEA BRISTOL COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS JAMES W. SEWALL COMPANY SCALE 1 INCH = 100 + FEET OLD TOWN, MAINE FOR AAZSSING PIHPOSES ONI) 40 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000296