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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOS TON, MA 02116 AREA FORM NO. 116 JAN 0.2 1990 Town Address Swansea, Mass. MRA SWANSEA 361 Pearse Road Historic Name "Smuggler's House" Photo (3"x3" or 3"x5", black and wnite) 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 (see attached map) UTM REFERENCE 19 315060 4622510 USGS QUADRANGLE Fall River MA-RI 1967/1979 SCALE 1:25000 Use: Present residence Origina1 residence/farmstead DESCRIPTION Date ca.
1800 Source secondary documentation to 1820 Style Federal Architect unknown Exterior Wall Fabric_clapboard Outbuildings milk house (mid-19th cent.), garage (early 20th cent.) Major Alterations (with dates) east (kitchen) wing and dormers (1938) Condition good Moved no Date Acreage Setting less than one acre House has deep setback from road and is reached via a dirt drive; surrounding residential area largely early 20th century Recorded by M.S.Gendron/K. F1ynn/K. Broomer Organization Swansea Historical Cormission Date 1978/February 1986/November 1989 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Smuggler's House, 361 Pearse Road, is an intact Federal period farmhouse associated with Swansea's maritime activity in the 19th century. Retaining integriy of location, design, materials, workmanship, and association, the house meets Criteria A and C on the local level.
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community. Typical of the late 18th/early 19th-century farmhouses scattered throughout Swansea, 361 Pearse Road is a 1'½-story, five-bay, gabled dwelling with a double-pile plan and single brick chimney set slightly right of center. Pilasters frame the center entry, which consists of a six-panel door topped with a five-pane transom. Cornerboards and a molded cornice finish the clapboarded exterior. Windows contain 12/12 sash. The house fell into disrepair in the early 20th century, and additions made during a 1938 restoration and remodeling project include the two gabled dormers with 6/6 sash on the facade, and the one-story, two-bay kitchen wing with secondary entrance in the rear pile on the east elevation. The kitchen wing does not visually detract.
from the appearance of the historic main block. North of the house are a frame garage (early 20th cent.) and a milk house (mid-19th cent.), a one-story, gabled and shingled building used by recent owners as a detached outdoor livingroom. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. The Smuggler's House is so-called for its associations with the sea-faring aspect of Swansea life and its reported use as a hideaway for goods such as tea that were smuggled into Swansea during the War of 1812. Pearse Road connects the house to the old Pearse's Wharf on the Cole's River to the south. William and Anna Gardner owned the house--originally part of a 50-acre farm--in 1820. Capt. Gardner was master of a Somerset- based cargo ship. Another early resident of the house was Aaron H.
Wood, who went to sea as a young boy in 1854. Wood later became captain of the merchant ship, "Monarch of the Sea. " Much of the surrounding area in this section of Swansea (known as Touisset) was subdivided for suburban construction beginning at the turn of the 20th century. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Registry of Deeds, Fall River. Bk. 22, p.563. Swansea Tercentenary 1667-1967. Maps of Swansea: ca. 1849, 1871, 1895. Swansea Public Library. Assessors records, Swansea Town Hall. 8/85 (ipg Porm 10.000a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page. OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 1/2/90 Swansea MRA Bwistol County, MASSACHUSETTS 21.
Luther, William, House Entered in the Natlonal Regiater 221 Norton House Entered in the Natlonal Regletes Date Listed Ikaoper AebuesBayu 2/16/90 Attest Kkeeper Aelmußgun 2/10/50 Attest 23. Short's Tavern Entered in the National Registes /eeper Ailaugun 2/10/50 124. Simcock House Entered in tbe National Regiates Attest Reeper SelmuByen 2/16k0 25. Smuggler's House, Attest Reeper Entered in the Matlonal Register Aulrr Bgen 2/16/56 26. South Swansea Union Church Attest Entered in the Nat1onal ReglsteyKeeper Attest Lelumßayar 316k0 27. Swansea Willage Historic Distfifdred 1n the Hationad Regiater AeluuBjus 2/10/50 28. Walkden Farm Entered in the National Registar Attest fusceper AelauByar3/10k50 Attest 29.
Mason, William P., House shstinteee Homle frKeeper_ PithDavage 1/90 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Smuggler's House NAME: MULTIPLE Swansea MRA NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Bristol DATE RECEIVED: 1/02/90 DATE OF 16TH DAY: 2/01/90 DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REFERENCE NUMBER: 90000065 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE OF PENDING LIST: DATE OF 45TH DAY: 1/18/90 2/16/90 COMMENT WAIVER: N LACCEPT _RETURN ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: N REJECT Entered in the 2/16/90 onre Mistoad Do ocor 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 361 Pearce Rd Swensea, mA.
"smuggler's House" (MHC#116) 361 Fearse Road Swausea, Mass. MRA 1986 View NW MHC#116 361 PEARSE ROAD PROPERTY" TOWN OF SWANS. A BRISTOL COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS 1961/REVISED r0182 JAMES W. SEWALL COMPANY SCALE 1 INCH = 100 + FEET OLD TOWN. MAINE POR ARSEBGING PURPOSES ONLY 51 8 PAPER) 25 69 236 5' 9 232 STREET 229 2 -93.6" BOAD 6 -1C' 5 108 T. (PAPER. 90 12 0 3 A 200' (PAPER) 10623 106.Z3 4 A 4 B 16 0 -_L 10283 WILBUR 100 16153 88.7 04 1 200' ) ST. TALLAWANDA 34 4 190 91.0- 6O'! 112 6o° un 60° 60' ROAD 90' 345 23 B4 5' PEARSE 145.9 7 74 7p 6 KEY: B-MILKHOUSE D= GARAGE D= HOUSE ==== PRIVATE DRIVE =' 5= ORCHARD AREA 120° ,06 120° ROAD .07 15C .09 09 160° 130.6° ..001 605 1014 72 AVENUE 73 2 103 100 , 2 001 ,02. TOAM .09 .092 ,2 00' 06 qUoY DELLAWANDA 95.6' , 20' ....
Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000296