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FIRST TERIOD DURVEY FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 VIII-17 VIII-13 Ist floor, right room VIII-15 Attic VIII-14 2nd floor, right room; summer beam & chimney girt Sket Map: CONCORD ROAI Od NORTH RD LOWE Cunur sri AN UTM REFERENCE USGS QUADRANGLE SCALE x NOCTHRD. -. Z E N 19 / 306-740 / 4714-130 Billerica 1:25,000 169 JAN 2 4 1990 100 FORM NO. Town Carlisle. 017 Address 1044 Lowell Road Historic Name Zeb Spaulding House Use: Present Residence Original Residence DESCRIPTION Date First quarter 18th c. w/later additio Source Visual analysis Style First Period None Architect Exterior Wall Fabric Clapboard Outbuildings Early 20th c. garage; mid 20t c. poolshed/cottage; 2 small 20th c. sheds. Major Alterations (with dates) Iwo 18th or 19th c.
25-story wings with shed roofs rear sides; right wing extended with 20th c 2-story addition; small l2-story: new addition to rear. Condition. Moved No Acreage Setting. Good Date N/A 4.5 acres Rural, surrounded by state conservation land. sufrounded by woods, fie and scattered houses and farmbuildings. Si granite fence posts remain in front - house situated with side to street. Recorded by _ Nora Pat Small Organization Boston University DateJoly 1985 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Conmmity : CARLISLE Form No: 100 Property Name: Zeb. Spaulding House Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. SIGNIFICANCE The Zebulon Spaulding House retains integrity of location, design, materials, and workmanship in its surviving late First Period frame and roof, making it eligible under Criterion C.
second floor longitudinal summer beams are examples of an infrequently used framing technique deserving further study. EXTERIOR DESCRIPTION The Zebulon Spaulding House is a very large, 2 1/2 story central chimney house 2 rooms deep with a five bay facade ornamented with a Greek Revival entry porch. Iwo full-height 18th or 19th century wings with unevenly-gabled roofs extend outward from the rear sides of the house. The right wing is further extended with a modern 2 story addition. A small 1 1/2 story addition projects from the center rear.
MAJOR FIRST PERIOD FEATURES The house exhibits transitional First Period workmanship in the exposed guirk-beaded framing members found on both floors, especially in the right-hand rooms, and in the remains of early roof construction in the The second floor longitudinal summer beams are an unusual The first floor right hand room has exposed and quirk-beaded and longitudinal summer beam. Ihe cornerposts, however, are covered with quirk-beaded boxes, and the fireplace wall exhibits raised-field paneling. The fireplace opening is large (47"x35"), but is surrounded by a Federal mantel. No First Period features are visible in the left front first floor room, nor in the rear first floor rooms. The joists in the rear right room have slightly beveled edges.
The second floor right hand front room has an exposed and quirk-beaded hard pine frame, including longitudinal summer beam similar to the room beneath it. Again, the flared posts are boxed. The left chamber has an longitudinal summer beam with very rough guirk beading; all other framing members are boxed. The attic reveals principal and common rafter construction with the top puklin forming the ridge pole. There are collar beams at each set of principal rafters. The lower portion of the front rafters and butt-cog purlins have been chopped away and been . replaced with unfinished tree limbs. LATER SIGNIFICANT FEATURES Most of the rooms contain some vertical board feather edged sheathing, and the fireplace walls in the first and second floor front right hand rooms are covered with field paneling.
The first floor right room fireplace is surrounded by a Federal The chimney stack extends into the rear first floor room, with a or Greek Revival mante-iarge fireplace with side oven on both sides of the stack. Staple to Inventory form at botton NPS Form 10-800 8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page OMo soprovel No. 1024-0018 :/24/80 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name_First Period Buildings of Eastern Massachusetts IR State Nomination/Type of Review pitran.. Jaquith, Abraham, House Date/Signature antered 1n tbe dational Begiefli keeper/ Xelouye 3/11/91 Attest 102. Mason, John, House Entered in the Hational Regiater Keeper delamBByui 3/4/90 Attest 103. Meet ing House of the santede daristhe in Woburn National Begister Keeper Aluuaßsyen 3/5450 Attest >N104.
Noyes--Parris Houscunstantirs Barzen far Keeper_ Beteh Seoge 3/2/10 Attest 105. Page, Christopher, Hougatered 1n the National Hegister Jateper AlelaraByun 319/80 Attest 106. Putnam, Rev. Daniel, Housintered 1n the freeper AlelousByen 34/40 Natlonal Register Attest SUM107. Robbins, George, House aubstantine Bentey Axeoper Pathf Sauoge 3/9/20 sul108. 109. Tenney Homestead Spaulding, Zeb, House mrostanorm Merx -Entered in the National Registe: Jor Kapor Betfo Susze 3/9/20 fteeper AelunsAgus 319150 Attest 110. Upham, Phineas, House Eutered in the Hational Register OKeeper Afelwubyua 3/9/90 Attest P8 Unlted States Department of the Interlor National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Aproval No.
1024-0010 Section number _ Page- SUPPLEMENTARY LISTING RECORD NRIS Reference Number: 90000169 Date Listed: 03/09/90 Spaulding, zeb House Essex Property Name County First Period Buildings of Eastern Massachusetts TR Multiple Name MA State This property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places in accordance with the attached nomination documentatioendmentst notwithstanding the National Park Service certification included in the nomination documentation. for BethtSavage of the Keeper 03/09/90 Date of Action E============== Amended Items in Nomination: Geographical Data: VBD The handwritten scale on the sketch map supersedes the typed or printed one: the handwritten scale is the appropriate scale for the reduced map. This information has been confirmed with Ann Tait, MASHPO, by telephone.
DISTRIBUTION: National Register property file Nominating Authority (without attachment) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Spaulding, Zeb, House NAME: MULTIPLE First Period Buildings of Eastern Massachusetts TR NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Middlesex DATE RECEIVED: 1/24/90 DATE OF 16TH DAY: 2/23/90 DATE OF PENDING LIST: 2/07/90 ATE OF 45TH DAY: 3/10/90 DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REFERENCE NUMBER: 90000169 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: COMMENT WAIVER: N LACCEPT _RETURN ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N SLR DRAFT: Y NATIONAL: REJECT 3/9/90 DATE N RECOM./CRITERIA ACCept C REVIEWER DrECELNB Aeuf teal Sistory DOCUMENTATION see attached comments ysee attached SIRD/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 _verbal boundary description _UTMS _boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION _sketch maps USGS maps photographs OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone _presentation Signed Date 1044 cowell st., , Carlisle, Zebklon paulding touse MA Ist Perid Buldigs o Ma., TR 1985 08:17 Carliola, Wst 1o Lowell ST.
Zetula paulding Honse Ist Periid Buldlius of E. May -TR 1985 08:/3 Caliel m4 3+. Zebulon Spaulding House Ist Perid Buldigso E. Ma., TR 1985 08:/5 Carliale, MA 1044 Lowellf. Zebulon Spaulding trnse Ist pored/ Buldings of E, Ma., TR 1985 08:14 2.2AC C METHOOB BY ISSOCIATES S01S 1OB.8 AC (C); 62.5 AC (C) 2.03K 31 CARUSLO, MA- 2. SpAUZDiNG HOUSÚ 1044 LOWELL RD- Timadleraxco.pit 1'=450' NORTH 33 LEGENO ADJACENT SHEET NO. COMMON OWNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT LOT NO. CALCULATED AREA SCALED DIMENSION 12 OR (c) (3) PROPERTY MAP CARLISLE MIDOLESEX COUNTY, MASS. SCALE IN FEET Q REVISEO TO JANUART 1,1999 ROAR 400 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000281