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FORM B - BUILD ING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 Photos 22:33 exterior facade 22:35 detail, summer beam, right-hand 22:36 detail, summer beam plate, left-hand room at front FIRST PERIOD SURVEY JAN 2 4 1990 209 FORM NO. 55 Sketch -Map: EAST MAIN Town Georgetown 009 Address 225 East Main Street Historic Name Hazen-Kimball-Aldrich House Use: Present Residence Oríginal DESCRIPTION ca. 1710 Residence Date Source _Inference from deed research Style -First Period Architect _Unknown Exterior Wall Fabric Clapboards OutbuildingsNone Major Alterations (with dates) Lean-to added soon after original construc- tion; barn moved up and converted to living space, 1906 Condition Fair to poor ST. TENNEY Moved Barn - yes Date 1906 Acreage 7.5 acres Setting Facing away from current stree!
toward meadow land, on residential street of widely spaced houses UTM REFERENCE USGS QUADRANGLE SCALE) Z E N 19 / 338-230 / 4731-000 Georgetown (now Ipswich) 1:25,000 Recorded by Organization Anne Grady Boston University Date June 1986 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Conmunity: GEORGETOWN Form No: Hazen-Kimball- Property Name: Aldrich House Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. The Hazen-Kimball-Aldrich house retains integrity of location, design, materials and workmanship in its surviving late First Period under Criterion C. The two-phase construction visible in the frame is a good example of the way in which initially one-cell dwellings were rapidly enlarged as the finances and needs of the owners dictated.
EXTERIOR DESCRIPTION The First Period portion of the Hazen-Kimball-Aldrich house is a 2 1/2 story 5 bay central chimney structure with an added lean-to. larger 2 1/2 story barn (15 bay) was drawn up to the left-hand end and converted to living space in 1906. A two-story enclosed porch projects from the left end of the barn addition. The right-hand rooms and chimney bay of the house comprise the original single cell 2 1/2 story dwelling. The left-hand rooms were added within a few years of the first construction and the lean-to followed probably by the mid 18th century. MAJOR FIRST PERIOD FEATURES The house's chamfered late First Period frame is exposed in two rooms, and there is clearly visible evidence of the stages in the building's growth. In the right-hand room, there is an exposed longitudinal summer beam, with flat chamfers and extremely long lamb's tongue stops.
Underneath 18th century plaster on the ceiling, white washed joists, spaced 19-20" on centers may be seen in certain places. The fireplace has apparently been altered and its trim partly removed, but if the original firebox occupied the entire recess, it would have been wider than usual. There is a small cubical compartment built into the front of the chimney, accessible from the closet under the stairs. In the left-hand room the longitudinal summer beam is boxed and other framing members are not exposed. In this room white washed joists, 18-19" on centers are visible through holes in the 18th century ceiling plaster, which is applied to split lath. In the right-hand chamber, the summer tie is boxed. The left hand chamber has an exposed summer tie beam with flat chamfers and lamb's tongue stops.
There is vertical feather edged sheathing on the fireplace wall and one large overmantel panel. rear wall the plate is visibly framed, with a mortise, into the chimney post and girt, and so it is possible to verify that the left hand part of the frame was added to the right-hand portion. Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Conmumisy : CEORGETOWI Form No: 55 MASSACHUSETTS HISTORI CAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Hazen-nimbali- Property Name: Aldrich House Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued belor. In the lean-to attic, the rafters are clearly butted up against the plate of of the house; hence the lean-to was added, not integral.
Along the rear plate, up under the lean-to rafter, there is still nailed a single row of original clapboard almost the whole way across, with nail holes on the studs showing where other rear clapboard of the two-cell house were. The position of the top clapboard is evidence that clapboards in this period come right up to junction of roof and wall. Tne attic reveals a purlin roof. rafters are slightly larger in the earlier (right-hand portion) of LATER SIGNIFICANT FEATURES An interesting assemblage of mid 18th c. raised field paneling survives on the fireplace wall of the left-hand first floor room and includes the only example known to the surveyor of the set of moldings usually found on door frames incorporated as an enframement for the chimney breast and mitered at the upper corners. In the lean-to, there is a fireplace with smoke panel and rear oven.
The current owner had to rebuild the firebox above the shelf of the smoke panel but the rest of the chimney is apparently original. The house has have been carried out. however, to repair the interior of the house. O 1500 recently been jacked up, and major structural repairs Considerable rehabilitation is still needed, Staple to Inventory form at botiom 1 (PS Fom 10800a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page OMB Approvai No. 1024-0018 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name_ First Period Buildings of Eastern Massachusetts IR State Nomination/Type of Review J 41- Hast ings-Morse House Date/Signatuze intered in the Watlonal Boglater xomdeloui/8yan s/14/91 Attest 42- Hazen--Kimball--Aldrich Housitered in the freeper uenaBgu 319/90 National Begister Attest 43.
Hazen--Spiller House Entered in the National Begister Keeper_ Xlouayas 3/4/90 Attest 44. Henfield House Bubotantive Harlad Keeper ject. Attest 45. Herrick, Ella Proctor, House Intered 1n the TReeper_ National Registér AtelarByau 3/9/90 Attest 46. Hopkinson, George, House Entered in the Hatord Inostaton MReeper Stelmußyen 3/2/28 Attest Entered in the 47. House at 922 Dale Street Hational Register Keeper XelosesByun 3/9/44 Attest 5C6L 48. House on Labor-in-Vain Road dabstanaere Beriey Sorreeper Bettoy Sarage 3/9/90 Entered 1n the 49. Howe Barn National Registes Aelmupyen 3/9/50 Attest 50.
Humphreys, Sir John, House Entored In the Aelarnyye 319240 Hational Reeiater Attest UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Hazen--Kimball--Aldrich House NAME: MULTIPLE First Period Buildings of Eastern Massachusetts TR NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Essex DATE RECEIVED: 1/24/90 DATE OF 16TH DAY: 2/23/90 DATEOF PRDS090 3/10/90 DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REFERENCE NUMBER: 90000209 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: N PDIL: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: COMMENT WAIVER: N VACCEPT _RETURN ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: N SLR DRAFT: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: NATIONAL: N _REJECT 3/9/4V 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 DESCRIPTION current 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 OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone _presentation Signed Date 225 E.
Main St., A Geagetrun. NA Hazen-Kimball-Aldrich 225 East Man St. Extrior fecade 1985 Ist Poicd Buldluys o/ E. Ma., TR Geargetrn, TA Hazen-Kimball-Aldrerc 225 East Maun Sheet detael sumner becem 1985 Ist Percel Buldiss of En Ma., TR Gearetrun. TA Hazen- Kimball- Adaic 225 East Main Steet detal, sumserbeam 1985 Ist Pered Buddins a/ E. Ma., TR Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000281