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FORM B BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLS TON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 130 JAN 0 2 1990 Town Address Historic Name AREA FORM NO. F 143 Swansea, Mass. MRA SWANSEA 1205 Gardner's Neck Road Joseph Gardner House Photo (3"x3" or 3"x5", black and mite) Indicate address of property on back of photo. Staple to left side of form. Use: Present residence Original DESCRIPTION residence/farmhouse Date ca. 1795 Source will of Peleg Gardner (1789) et al. Style Federal Architect unknown Exterior Wall Fabric wood clapboard Outbuildings 2-stall wood barn Sketch Map: Draw map showing property's Tocation 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) Major Alterations (with dates) Facade extended 17' tosouth (ca.
1877) Condition good Moved no Date Acreage 1.25 acres Setting primarily late 19th-century and 20th-century suburban houses surrounding; trees at property line UTM REFERENCE 19 316640 4620660 USGS QUADRANGLE Fall River, MA-RI 1967/1979 SCALE 1:25000 Recorded by R. Waring/K. F1ynn/K. Broomer Organization - Swansea Historical Commission Date April 1978/January 1986/October 1989 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Joseph Gardner House, 1205 Gardner's Neck Road, retains integrity of location, design, materials, workmanship, and association. The house meets Criterion A for its association with the 18th-century settlement of Gardner's Neck in South Swansea, and Criterion Cas an intact cape with expansions associated with its late 19th-century use as a summer home. The house is significant on the local level.
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community. A 1½-story, five-bay, center-entry cape with central brick chimney, the original Gardner House at 1205 Gardner's Neck Road is typical of 18th-century farmhouse construction in Swansea. The original chimney has three fireplaces on the ground floor and one in the upstairs north room. Certain features date to a ca. 1877 remodeling, at which time the house was expanded to accommodate a second family. A, 17', 3-bay, double-pile addition was made to the south end of the facade, providing a secondary front door, a one-story porch with columns spanning the south side of the house, and a side door on the south elevation. The 6/6 window sash and round-arched glazing in the original front entry also likely date to the later period.
The house illustrates the adaptation of the 18th-century farmhouses on Gardner's Neck to serve late 19th-century summer home uses. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. John and Joseph Gardner, brothers, were the sons of Col. Peleg Gardner (1719-1789), whose father, Samuel, with Ralph Chapman, bought Gardner's Neck from the Brentons of Newport in 1693. King Philip of the Wampanoags had sold this portion of the Indian territory to the Brentons. - Col. Gardner in his will left adjoining 35-acre parcels of farmland to his sons John and Joseph. The latter purchased his brother's parcel, on which the present house stands, when John moved to Somerset. John married Betsey Slade of Somerset, and Joseph married her sister, Hannah.
This house is one of the few survivals of the Gardner family settlement of the Neck in the 18th century. The Gardners maintained the property as a farm until 1854. In 1874, the house and 50 acres were acquired by Andrew J. Borden and his business partner, William Almy, both of Fall River. Mr. and Mrs. Borden and their daughters, Lizzie and Emma, used the house as a summer residence for a number of years. The house was enlarged with a 17-foot south addition with porch and secondary front door to accommodate the Almy family. The house served as a summer home for several families until the Hudner family made it a year-round residence in 1946. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Will, Col. Peleg Gardner (1789), Taunton Probate Court. Gardner, Borden and Almy, and Hudner deeds, Bristol County Registry of Deeds, Fall Riv Pierce, Helen, ed. Swansea Tercentenary 1667-1967. Swansea, MA, 1967.
8/85 ps om 10900g 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's& Corner Date Listed Entered in the Akeeper Alaußyan 2116180 Hational Registes Attest Entered in the National Begister Entered in the Matlarai Rogiates Fraoper Aulanusfyuafate Attest /Keeper Aeluusganofakkt Attest Entered in the National Register Reeper AlauAyua 2108 Attest Antered in the Natlonad Ragister fKeeper Alvrupyunspatii Attest Absdactxa Berior Bauze 1/90 Attest Intered in the Mational Register freoperAuluuByust/10/50 Attest Ta BevieT frKeeper Sange440 Attest subatantéva havzon Steoper Betl Sange/1o Attést Entered in tle Hational Registes fukeeper SelouAyenttuke Attest UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Gardner, Joseph, House NAME: MULTIPLE Swansea MRA NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Bristol DATE RECEIVED: 1/02/90 DATE OF 16TH DAY: 2/01/90 DATE OF PENDING LIST: DATE OF 45TH DAY: 1/1p/90 2/16/90 DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REFERENCE NUMBER: 90000076 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: OPHERI N PDTA PROBIEM: PERSCAPE N PROA ADRD NRU PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: N N COMMENT WAIVER: N VACCEPT _RETURN REJECT 2/16/90 DARE Entered in the Matlonad Rogiater 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 relationship of integrity to significance _justification of exception other BIBLIOGRAPHY GEOGRAPHICAL DATA acreage UTMS verbal boundary description boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION sketch maps OTHER COMMENTS USGS maps -photographs presentation Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date TT Joseph Garduer House (MHC= F143) 1205 Garduer's Neck Road swausea, Mass.
MRA 1388 ViRW SW 1205 Gardner's Weck Road SCANSEA, MA 1988 MHCN F143 1205 Gardners Neck 100 KEY - = HOUSE XX = 2 STALL BARN/ GARAGE 155 155 4 5 4 8 BAY SIDE 30° 75- 10 MAPLEWOOD 150' 90° 4s° *5 47 60- 46 4 5 44 43 90 1"/60 155 Co 00 296 41' AVENUE 60' É.C - 102.40 AVENUE 60- 60° 42 41 100 "16.6' 14.95 "7 5° 40 HC' 150' 148.3' ROAD 135 LAWRENCE 100 125 ' GARDNERS NECK '34.10' 25.4 64.5 155' 15 HO 109 134.10 115/ '48.99' 13 182 135' 175' 12778 - 180' 137 107' NORWOOL 590 1961 Reviseo 10/82 PROPERTY MAP TOWN OF SWANSEA BRISTOL COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS 109 75 OLD TOWN, MAINE AMES W.SEWALL COMPANY INCH =100 AFEET Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000296