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FOPM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 Pnotos 7:8 exterior 7:9 exterior 7:10 first floor, left-hand room fireplace 7:11 first floor, left-hand summer and joists IOOm 7:13 first floor, stair hall 7:14 Ind fl00I, staii hall FIRST PERIOD SURVEY WAN 2 4 1950 180 FORM NO. 113 Town Stow 017 Address 76 Treaty Elm Lane Historic Name Hapgood House Sketch lap: Use: Present Residence Original DESCRIPTION Residence Date _ca. 1726 marriage date of ColrCe visucl Source visual assessment; first owner Style First Period Architect None Exterior Kall FabricClaDboards Outbuildings _Barn - 19th c. - Major Alterations (with dates) In 196Ds: door, claphoards, roof, chimney and windows Iestored attached I-story wing, shed and chimney added.
Condition Good - restored by present owner GLEA: SONDAL IREA Elm Lare UTM REFERENCE USES QUADRANGLE SCALE Z E N 19 /293-520/ 4699-300 Hudson 1:25.000 Moved DateN/A Acreage 1.3 acres Setting Faces south on slicht rise at end o: Ione farested lane which branches eff a 70st=1794 razd Recorded by Nora Pat Small Organization Boston University Date Augus: 1985 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Conmunity : STOW Form No: 113 Property Name: Hapgood/Treaty Elm House Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. SIGNIFICANCE The Hapgood house retains integrity of location, design, materials, workmanship and setting as an excellent example of a transitional First Period house under criterion C. The intact balustrade in the front stairway represents a rare survival of a common late First Period feature.
The second floor longitudinal summer beam combined with a common-rafter roof is an unusual framing method worthy of further study which may yield information important to our understanding of early 18th century framing options under criterion D. EXTERIOR DESCRIPTION The Hapgood House is a 2 1/2 story clapboarded central chimney structure five bays wide with an added lean-to and a small one ell projecting from the right gable end. The roof deeply overhangs the front facade. The first floor windows have been 'restored' to paired casements by the present owner. MAJOR FIRST PERIOD FEATURES The house exhibits good transitional features, with beaded beams on the first floor, and unusual longitudinal summer beams on the second floor combined with a common rafter roof.
The first floor left room has exposed longitudinal summer beam, front, rear, and chimney girts with late First Period quirk beading. The exposed joists are 22" apart on center. The original fireplace, exposed by the present owner, measures 89" X 57" and has wide smoke panel in the rear wall and the remains of a beehive oven in the left side, which would have originally projected out of the rear wall of the house. beam and cttmey The right first floor room has exposed guirk-beaded longitudinal summer beam and chimney girt. The exposed joists are 22" apart and have slightly planed edges, resulting in a very narrow flat chamfer decoration. The lobby retains its original two-landing stairway. The original balustrade has a handrail molded on the outside only, and turned balusters with 1/2 balusters at the top and bottom of each section of the balustrade.
The square newels have holes in their tops. The second floor shows evidence that the balustrade originally continued up to the attic (it is now enclosed in vertical sheathing). The top newel post has a mortise hole in the top, and there is a cut off newel at the bottom of the attic stairs. At the point where the balustrade would have joined the wall on the side of the attic stairs, there is a mortise hole filled with a cut off tenon. 1 Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Canmumity: STOW Property Name: Form No: 113 Hapgood/Treaty Elm House Indicate each item on inventory forn which is being continued below. second floor right room has exposed but unfinished longitudinal summer beam and joists, indicating that the ceiling was probably originally plastered from the start.
(The chamber rooms were commonly the first to have plaster ceilings in transitional First Period houses.) In the second floor lean-to, the original exterior horizontal sheathing is visible. Each horizontal board is feathered on all eages to lap over or under the neighboring boards. The roof structure consists of common rafters with no purlin or ridge pole. The cellar has squared log steps between the stone chimney foundation and a stone wall on the south (not under the front sill). HISTORICAL INFORMATION The house has a two-hundred-year association with the same family in stow. It was probably built by Hezekiah Hapgood, who married in 1724 and settled on this property (the western part of his father's farm) in 1726. Hezekiah was a member of a "Standing Company" of State Militia from Stow. The Hapgoods remained a prominent farming family in Stow until the 20th century.
REFERENCES Architecture in Colonial Massachusetts, Colonial Society of Mass.i 1979, p. 186. Stow, Massachusetts, 1683-1933, by Rev. and Mrs. Crowell. 2 Staple to Inventory form at botton NPS Form 10-000 e 8-66) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page s Aspronay 1024-0011 1/24/90 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name_ First Period Buildings of Eastern Massachusetts TR State Nomination/Type of Review 91. Bullard, Isaac, House Date/Signature Entered in thatest Keeper AlelweNyen 3/9k0 National Register Attest §'92. Foster, Samuel, House dutstentixa dorina Onkeeper- Pitff. Sevase 3/9/90 Attest 93. Gardner, Addington, Housiatered in tnt - Keeper i AuloreByes 3/9/50 dational Registes Entered in the Attest 94. Green House Nationad Begister l Reeper_ Sulorye 319/90 Attest 5u195.
Hammond House putetantimn Morteit JKeeper_ Baxey Sevage 3/2/10 Entered in the Attest Hational Begistes 96. Hapgood House keeper AuleeSyen 319/86 intered in tne Attest 97. Hill, Abraham, House Haticnal Registes rReeper Ahemebyen 315150 Attest 98. Hill, Deacon Samuel, House tatlona1 Roglotdkeeper Aelmergun 3/9150 Entered in the Attest 99. Hopestill Bent Tavern .tonte Borso Keeper Attest Betay Savage %/10 Eatared 2o tbe 100.
Hosmer, Joseph, House Pati al Jieiator/ Keeper AllaeSgun: 3/9150 Attest JNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOI NATIONAL PARK SERVICI NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Hapgood House NAME: MULTIPLE First Period Buildings of Eastern Massachusetts TR NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Middlesex DATE RECEIVED: 1/24/90 DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: 2/23/90 DATE OF PENDING LIST: 2/07/90 DATE OF 45TH DAY: REFERENCE NUMBER: 90000180 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: COMMENT WAIVER: N _RETURN ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: REJECT 3/9/4C DATE PatarOE 1nMO Mat1o0al Regtater 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 _photographs sketch maps USGS maps -presentation OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date Stoo, ma 16 Treatz Gun Lane Hapgood House Ist porad Bulllings of E Ma, TR 7:8 1985 76 Jreay ElmLanes stow ma Hapgood House Ist perid Buldigsal E.
Ma, TR 1985 7:9 Stoo, MA 76 Treatatolmla- Hapgood House Iot Perid Buldigse/ E Ma. TR 1985 Stow, mA 76 treatz (m lare Htap grod tose Ist Perid Buileies af E. Mar TR 7:13 1985 Stow, MA 76 Treaty ElmGane Htapgoad Hovce Iot pored Bullrys of Te, Ma, TR 7:13 1985 - Stoo, Ma 76 Treatz Cmlane Hapgred House Ist Porid Buldilssdf B. Ma, TR 1985 7:10 Stoo, mA 76 Treaty Gtm lane Hapgrod touse Ist Posed Buldinss d/ E, Mai, TR 1985 672.74 75 A AC LIMIT 751.16' FLOOD 55 54 685.41 NlV7d SLN 53 zi" 10 115 190 MIDDLEN 138 82 246 231 139 81 - 133 85 126.21 114 1013 LIMIT EASEMENT 119A 119 FLOOD STOWO, MA HAPGOOD HOUSE 76 TRGATY LELMLA. ("= 230' + -34 14 AC 127 A 716 47 5.942 AC 127 LIMIT =2 B 94.99 330 51-9 57 56 C 304 01 3B1. 304.95 19114 (85 61-85 160 61-86 294.37 61-91 61-879 190.53 5. 1030 197. 61-88 188.92 61-8 268 CONST.
ZASEMENT 39 61-89 166.42 150.75' 52 5l 191.22 .61-84 160 208.45 61-92 300 329.48 23.3 50 07 284 61-83 185 61-93 46 49 292,- 48 53 AC 160 61-82 160' 61-81 ISO- 233.6 61-94 108.3 61-95 248.47' L20'EASEMENT- P. 61-96 61-90 . 61-97 61-98 160° 224.08 ROAD 151.83 HILL 100.72 61-80 19 0.61-79 301.47 61-78 345 510'EASEMENT - 95.82 J ICC 0007 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000281