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FORM-B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 68 AREA FORM NO. 141 JAN 0 2 1990 Swansea, Mass. MRA Town SWANSEA Address 1035 Gardner's Neck Road Historic Name . _Samue1 Gardner House 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 iocation 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 DESCRIPTION Farmhouse, residence Date ca.
1768 Source_Bristol County Registry of Deeds Georgian Style Architect unknown Exterior Wall Fabric_wood shingles Outbuildings none (see attached map) UTM REFERENCE 19 316820 4621140 USES QUADRANGLE Fall River, MA-RI 1967/1979 SCALE 1:25000 Major Alterations (with dates) 1-story north wing (early 19th century?) Condition good Moved no Date Acreage less than one acre Setting Located behind a property sited on Gardner's Neck Road off a private drive. Oriqinal farmstead on Neck now surrounded _by new (most 20th-cent.) homes. Recorded by_L. Fayan Jr./K. F1ynn/k. Broomer Organization Swansea Historical Commission Date May 1978/January 1986/October 1989 - NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Samuel Gardner House, 1035 Gardner's Neck Road, is significant as a wel1- preserved late 18th-century cape associated with the early settlement of Gardner's Neck in South Swansea.
The house retains integrity of location, design, materials, workmanship, and association and 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. This 1½-story cape with gambrel roof, central brick chimney, and double-pile plan is a good example of typical 18th-century farmhouse construction in Swansea. The heavy gabled hoods of the three facade dormers and the one-story north wing are 19th-century additions; these and the 6/6 sash illustrate the repairs and upgrading the farmhouse sustained with continual use. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community.
This section of Swansea, or Mattapoiset, was wilderness when Samuel Gardner of Newport (and later Freetown) and his partner Ralph Chapman bought the land for L1700 from the Rev. Ebenezer Brenton in 1693. Rev. Brenton was the son of the first English land-owner who had purchased Mattapoiset from the Indians in 1664. Gardner and Chapman divided the land between them, with Gardner settling the southern half of the neck located between the Cole and Lee's Rivers. Gardner deeded parts of his farm to his sons when they came of age. Samuel Gardner (the son) received the northerly portion of his father's farm and built this house after marrying Elizabeth Anthony in 1767. The couple had 13 children. The younger Samuel was later known as "Upper Sam" after his nephew, also Samuel (son of Peleg Gardner), received farmland inmediately south from his own father.
"Lower Sam" built a house at the present 1443 G. N. Road. The Gardner family was responsible for much of the 18th and early 19th-century development of Gardner's Neck, including construction of at least five houses along Gardner's Neck Road, the spine. The area remained largely farmland until 1865, when the Fall River & Warren Railroad constructed a station on the Neck, precipitating the construction first of summer houses and then of suburban homes by the early 20th century. The cape at 1035 Gardner's Neck Road is a survival of the limited 18th-century settlement. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Bristol County Registry of Deeds, Fall River District. Pierce, Helen. ed. Swansea Tercentenary 1667-1967. Swansea, MA, 1967. 8/85 Mepes rom 10000 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page.
Swansea MRA Bristol County, MASSACHUSETTS 11. First Baptist Church and Society OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 12. Gardner, Francis I., House 13. Gardner, Joseph, House 14. Gardner, Preserved, House 15. Gardner, "Samuel, House 16. Hooper House 17. Hortonville Historic District 18. Johnson, J. V., House 19. Luther House 20.
Luther'se, Corner Date Listed Entered in the Skeeper AlaByan2/16/50 Hational Begistes Attest Entered in the National Register Enterei 1n the Natierai Rogistes fKeeper _ Akelampfyu 8/0196 Attest /Reeper selunezunz/10141 Attest Patered in the National Register fKeeper HelauDjun 2/1019 Attest lntered in tae National Register fKeéper Aulvupyanopaßs Attest Asbstaccra Kerior Or Keeper Banze Y8/90 Attest Intered in the Nat1onal Reglster Aeeper 6 Aeloupyaz/10/50 Attest forKeeper Attest Subatantiva larrzon Skeoper bera Sange/ho Attest intered in tut National Begister JuReoper SelouAzettoke Attest UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACE VALUATION/RETURN SHEE' REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Gardner, Samuel, 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: 90000068 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE OF PENDING LIST: 1/1$/90 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 2/16/90 PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N N REQUEST: N SAMPLE: COMMENT WAIVER: N ACCEPT _RETURN ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: N SLR DRAFT: N REJEOS 2/16/90 DATE Entered in the National 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 UTMS verbal boundary description boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION _sketch maps USGS maps photographs OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to - Phone _presentation Signed Date Samvel Gardner House 1035 Gardner's Neck Road Swanses, mA MRA <2 21 THURCH 24 20 7o- 191.79 60,.
19 STREET 18 136.2° 16g- 10s X; 174- ICOTTON COURT 16 102./' '3. 4OJ 119 120 '5o- - 180. ° JO4 108 1708° 402 (PRIVATE) 150- 140 4o. 22.a- J0J 107 130.2° '00' 158.4 204 103 502 106 15 203 RAYMOND ALLARD >5 >5 104 14 15 so, 6 4 101.4 NECK 115.4' 105 101.4' 95 25 1035 GARDNERS NECK ROAD 954/ 15 g. ROAD 202 '5o: PAPERRD. PUBLIC) 160 94 '5o: 102 300 171 15 'o, 101.4° _1432' PROPERTY MAP GARDNERS cJc.C TOWN OF SWANSEA 70.9 JAMES W. SEWALL COMPANY BRISTOL COUNTY. MASSACHUSETTS REVISED 10/8Z OLD TOWN, MAINE SCALE 1 INCH = 100 + FEET FOR AR9EASING PURPORES ONIY 31 25 60.6 ROAD 15< 166.4 30 176.5' 250.9' 26 '90- 8 15625 29+ SURREY LANE: '3. 4 29T: '3, 298 l's '5, (8) PLEASANT <9. RANDALL SHS 108 Po 115' DRIVE 1<0 29K (5) 294 294 REDWING 's>= 100 () 2921 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000296