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59 FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 JAN 0 2 1990 AREA F FORM NO. 149 Photo (3"x3" or 3"x5", black and white) Indicate address of property on back of photo. Staple to left side of 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 Town SWANSEA - Swansea, Mass. MRA Address 98 Bay Point Avenue Historic Name David M.
Anthony House "Bay Point" Use: Present_residence Original Summer residence, farm DESCRIPTION Date 1895 Source Style Town Report/Visual Analysis Oueen Anne Architect William Beattie Exterior Wall Fabric Wood shingles Outbuildings 2-stall detached garage (see attached map) Major Alterations (with dates) Enclosed portion of porch (date unknown) Condition Basic original fabric in excellent condition Moved No Date Acreage Over one acre - 8.57 acres Setting Graciously sited on relatively large property on Mt. Hope Bay. Well established trees accentuate the property. UTM REFERENCE 19 316110 4619770 USGS QUADRANGLE Fall River, Mass.-R.I. 1967-79 SCALE 1:25,000 Recorded by Kay Flynn/L. Fayan, Jr.
March 197: Organization Swansea Historical Commission Date January 1986 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) An example of Swansea's late 19th-century resort construction with a house in the Queen Anne style, the property at 98 Bay Point Ave. retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association, and meets Criteria A and C of the National Register on the local level. ARCHITECIURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community. A two-story and three-story asymmetrical Queen Anne house in the free classic tradition. The identifying features are the hipped roof with two crossed gables, corner towers, one- story wrap porch (on water side) and curved gable end with porte-cochere.
The dynamics in the wall surface is due to the roof forms, towers, overhangs and porches. Variety is also achieved through the juxtaposition of wood shingles and stone in the base of the corner tower and the porte-cochere facing the road to the east. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. In 1883, David M. Anthony, a wealthy Fall River businessman, was one of the founders of the Swift Meat Packing Company. The house he built at Bay Point was one of the earliest summer estates on Gardners Neck. The house is typical Victorian. Anthony and other wealthy Fall River businessmen changed Gardners Neck from an agricultural to a residential area. In 1942, the Anthony heirs sold 11.83 acres of land and Bay Point to Margaret M. Foley of Somerset. As of 1978, Mrs.
Foley's family still used the property as a summer residence. Approximately three acres of the original property were sold at an unknown date. William Beattie may have been the granite dealer of the same name listed in the 1895 Fall River directory. That directory also lists the firm of David Beattie and Arthur Wilcox, masons, contractors, and builders. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Real Estate records, Swansea Town Report -- 1895, 1896, 1897 Stone monument in front of property dated 1896 Fall River directory, 1895. Nps Fom 100002 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number - Page. Swansea MRA Bristol County, MASSACHUSETTS Subiftsnlliva Sevier Cover 1. Anthony, Davud M., House OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 Date Listed Entered in the accept Betay Souase 02-16-st atlonal Ragletekéeper AenmDyen 2/16/90 Entered 1a tha Attest 2. Anthony, Harold H., House Hational Hegleter HReeper AelouAjun 2/0150 3. Bark Street School intered in the datlonal Hegleter Attest HKéeper Aelume Syun 8/16/90 Attest 4. Barneyville Historic District Botered 1n tbe Nat1onal Begleter eeper Aelmgu 2/10/50 Attest 5. Bend of the Lane intured 1a tha Hationad Regietes tkeeperAelunByu 2/16190 Attest 6. Brown, John, IV, House antered in tnt National Registes Reeper delmeBgun 2/16/50 Attest 7. Buffington, DEacon, John, Housatered 1n the Hatlonai Regleter Lxoopor Selura Bqu 3/k0 Attest 8. Church of Christ, Swansea antered in the National Register /Keeper AelansByu 2/16/50 9.
Cole, Benjamin, House Attest Akeeper Entered in the National Register NelauaBBgan 2/1610 Attest 10/ Col.ony Historic District Anbetsolta Rarior jnkepare Botl Sruge e2-16-50 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Anthony, David M., 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: 90000059 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: PDIL: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: COMMENT WAIVER: N VACCEPT _RETURN ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: N SLR DRAFT: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: NATIONAL: REJECT 2/16/8 COATE Entered in the Nat1onal Begister 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 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 David Anthony House (MHC+F149) 9B Bay Point swausea, Mass.
MRA 1986 View S 98 Bay Point Rdl. MHC# F149 98 BAY FOINT AV. -4Y MT HOPE BAY 180 POINT - 659 G AVENUE 1689) KEY D= HOUSE D=GALAGE II = STONE POST 22938 5C ,8152 .9.. PROPERTY MAP TOWN OF SWANSEA BRISTOL COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS AMES W. JEWALL COMPANY SCALE 1 INCH - 100 = FEET OLD TOWN. MAINE -r.m.. .- P.MIOMAINO 1961 REVISED 10/82 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000296