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FORM R = BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 AREA JAN 0 2 1990 FORM NO. 42 EIEI THE 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 USES QUADRANGLE SCALE 19 317350 4625080 Somerset, MA 1985 1:25000 Swansea, Mass. MRA SWANSEA ESS 306 Hortonville Road pric Name Hooper House Present residential Original residential/farmstead RIPTION ce ca. 1790 previous owner, visual analysis e Federal itect unknown Exterior Wall Fabric - clapboard garage (ca. 1920), well Outbuildings house (ca.
1920), barn (late 19th cent.) Major Alterations (with dates) window sash, chimney (mid to late 19th cent Condition excellent Moved no Date --- Acreage approximately two acres Setting Rural, residential setting; well-traveled primary route through town Recorded by K. Flynn, K. Valente/K.Broome Organization Swansea Historical Cormission Date April 1986/November 1989 JAN 2 1990 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Hooper House, 306 Hortonville Road, retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association and is significant on the local level. The house meets Criterion A as a representation of Swansea's late 18th-century settlement pattern and Criterion C as an intact gambrel cape in the Federal style. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.
This 1½-story gambrel cape is a good example of typical late 18th-century farmhouse construction in Swansea. The original center chimney was replaced at an unknown date. The symmetrical five-bay facade features a recessed center entry with sidelights contained in a surround of pilasters carrying a plain entablature. Windows contain later 6/6 sash, and a secondary recessed entry on the east (street) elevation may also be a later modification. Outbuildings include a frame, gabled, two-car garage (ca. 1920), a frame 1½-story barn with attached silo-like projection (ca. 1890), and a stone well structure on the south lawn (ca. All buildings and structures are located close to Hortonville Road, near the intersection of Wood Avenue.
The extent of the property being nominated is approximately two acres of partially planted area defined by a picket fence to the south, mature trees to the west, and the roads to the east and north. The balance of the acreage is primarily woodlot. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners piayed in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. Known as the Hooper House during much of its history, 306 Hortonville Road is one of the dispersed farmsteads that dotted the Swansea landscape in the late 18th century. The house is situated on the primary north-south road connecting period settlement at Gardner's Neck on Mt. Hope Bay to Hortonville and on to the town of Rehoboth.
The use of the property in the late 19th and early 20th centuries reflects a common pattern in Swansea, whereby many of the town's older working farms were given over to use as "gentleman's farms" and summer or weekend residences. The owner of this house after World War I lived in Providence, visiting Swansea on the weekends. This decrease in the number of Swansea's working farms has contributed to the town's primarily residential character. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ca. 1849 map of Swansea, 1871 and 1895 atlases of Bristol County Mrs. Helen Pierce, Swansea Historical Society, interview, 11/89.
8/85 - UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE VATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Hooper House NAME: MULTIPLE Swansea MRA NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Bristol DATE RECEIVED: 1/02/90 DATE OF 16TH DAY: 2/02/90 DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REFERENCE NUMBER: 90000074 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE OF PENDING LIST: 1/1$/90 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 2/16/90 REQUEST: N SAMPLE: COMMENT WAIVER: N _ACCEPT XRETURN ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N SLR DRAFT: Y NATIONAL: _REJECT 7//6/90 DATE N N N see reverse. RECOM.
/CRITERIA Leteun REVIEWER DISCTLINE Lrceutertural Hastory 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 Plase specijy quiod of siguificence in lisht. Period Areas of Significance--Check and justify below o comsecoa Specific dates Builder/Architect ftatoment of signizicance (in one paragrah infor maeaeryotre larch.
oufburdinge seema in summary paragraph _completeness Xrelating significance to the resource GEOGRAPHICAL DATA acreage UTMS verbal boundary description boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION Kease claujy lease clasy as lresoua Ctnc - presentation sketch maps USGS maps photographs OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone (202) 343-9540 Signed faro Serge Date 2/16/90 FOEN E - BUT-UIA0 MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTOK, MA 02116 AREA JAN 0 2 1990 FORM NO. 42 Town Address Historic Kame Swansea, Mass. MRA SWANSEA 306 Hortonville Road Hooper 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 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 residential/farmstead DESCRIPTION Date ca. 1790 Source previous owner, visual analysis Style Federal Architect unknown Exterior Wall Fabric clapboard Outbuildings garaae (ca. 1920), well house (ca. 1920), barn (late 19th cent.) (see attached map) UTM REFERENCE 19 317350 4625080 USES QJADRANGLE Somerset, MA 1985 SCALE 1:25000 Valene Taemage shpo 6/19120 window sash, chimney (mid to late 19th cent) Condition excellent Moved no Date Acreage approximatelv two acres Setting Rural, residential setting: well-traveled primarv route through town Recorded byK. Flynn, K.
Valente/K.Broomer Organization Swansea Historical Commission Date April 1986/November 1989 JAN 2 1990 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Hooper House, 306 Hortonville Road, retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association and is significant on the local level. The house meets Criterion A as an example of early twentieth century adaptive reuse of a farmstead into a "gentleman's farm" and Criterion C as an intact gambrel cape in the Federal style. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community. This 1½-story gambrel cape is a good example of typical late 18th-century farmhouse construction in Swansea. The original center chimney was replaced at an unkmown date.
The syrmetrical five-bay facade features a recessed center entry with sidelights contained in a surround of pilasters carrying a plain entablature. Windows contain later 6/6 sash, and a secondary recessed entry on the east (street) elevation may also be a later modification. Outbuildings include a frame, gabied, two-car garage (ca. 1920), a frame 1½-story barn with attached silo-iika projection (ca. 1890), and a stone well structure on the south lawn (ca. ] Al1 buildings and structures are located close to Hortonville Road, near the intersection of Nood Avenue. The extent of the property being nominated is approximately two acres of partially planted area defined by a picket fence to the south, mature trees to the west, and the roads to the east and north. The balance of the acreage is primarily woodlot.
HISTORICAL SIGHIFICANCE Explain the role owners piayed in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. Known as the Hooper House during much of its history, 306 Hortonville Road is one of the dispersed farmsteads that dotted the Swansea landscape in the late 18th century. The house is situated on the primary north-south road connecting period settlement at Gardner's Neck on Mt. Hope Bay to Hortonville and on to the town of Rehoboth. The use of the property in the late 19th and early 20th centuries reflects a common pattern in Swansea, whereby many of the town's older working farms were given over to use as "gentleman's farms" and summer or weekend residences. The owner of this house after World War I lived in Providence, visiting Swansea on the weekends.
This decrease in the number of Swansea's working farms has contributed to the town's primarily residential character. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ca. 1849 map of Swansea, 1871 and 1895 atlases of Bristol County Mrs. Helen Pierce, Swansea Historical Society, interview, 11/89. 8/85 10-0002 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 L., 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.
Corner Date Listed Entered in the AKeeper Hatlonal Bagiates Alapzyan2/16140 Entered in the National Register Entered 1n the Matlerai Rogtatez Attest freoper Aulausfyen sfal9e Attest -Reeper / Delmufzan 2/10162 Attest Batered in the National Register fReeper AelauDjun 2/10k Attest Entered in the Nationad Regiater fseéper Alorupyanspotse Attest Aabssandixa Larsor frKeeper/ Jauze 9/90 Attest Intered in the satared 1netstos fober Aelumpyuat10k50 Attest Rebslntiva Leviar for Reeper 940 Attest Substantiva ferion Stoopor Bettnk Sanze?11o Attest uintered in tue Matlonal Reglatox fukeeper KeluurAyenttote Attest UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: RESUBMISSION PROPERTY NAME : Hooper House MULTIPLE NAME: Swansea MRA STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Bristol DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: 6/25/90 DATE OF PENDING LIST: DATE OF 45TH DAY: REFERENCE NUMBER: 90000074 NOMINATOR: STATE DETAILED EVALUATION: Y LACCEPT _RETURN _REJECT 5/0/90 mro ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS : 8/09/90 RECOM.
/CRITERIA Accept AxC REVIEWER S DISCIPLINE DATE_ actectmal History 8/8/90 DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y(V) see attached SIR X/] 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 EIEI 306 Horterwille Rd, SwanseGiMA.
Hooper House (MHC#42) 306 Hortonville koad Swausea, Mass. MRA 1986 view NW - MHC#42 306 HORTONVILLE Rd. 150 150' 60 150 150 6Z-5 8 6z -63 2-4 200 6Z-3 150' 91 3% 150 50 150. WOOD 1080 Key 1310 ,a02 6 230 105 105 2:20 00 105 ToF 130 105 230 (14259 122 74 309.30 7 280 2683 200 142.23 2771 STREET 2 xXXxx425x x 510° ROA là 154' 1 142' = House E = garage /B= barn E = weilhouse sxxx = Stone wtall I!1 = picketfince 920' PROPERTY MAP 305- HORTONVILLE 180' TOWN OF SWANSEA1961 BRISTOL COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS Revised AMES W. SEWALL COMPANY SCALE 1 INCH =200 + FEET OLD TOWN, MAINE FTSP0E28 CFLY 16 ,072 105' 7 JAN 902 166- - - LOS i 100 16 306' 361- 17 20g. HAILES pinh 32 33 396 2 1990 490' 36 476° 500.5° Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000296