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FIRST PERIOD SURVEY FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 Photos 24:33 left-hand Ioom, sunmer beam and joists 24:34 'molded brace, right-hand chamber 24:36 fireplace, right-hand room 25:2 fireplace, left-hand room 25:5 right-hand chamber, front wall 25:6 exterior Sketch Map WALKER ST, 2!7 FORM NO. 21 Town Gloucester 009 Address ll Lincoln Street Historic Name William Haskeil House Use: Present Residence Original Residence DESCRIPTION Date early 18th century Source A.L. Cummings Style First Period/Colonial Revival Architect None Exterior Wall Fabric Clapboards Outbuildings_ Shed Major Alterations (with dates) Lean-to added, probably 18th c.; shed moved up, remodelled and rear right-hand wing added, ca. 1930 Condition Good SUMMER LINCOLN AN ESSEX AVE. Moved Shed-yes Date ca.
1930 Acreage Setting 8.5 acres Rural context on quiet winding road with 19th c. residential surrounds - open fields and wooded lots. UTM REFERENCE USGS QUADRANGLE SCALE Z E N 19 / 357-450/ 4720-670 Gloucester (now Rockport) 1:25,000 Recorded by Organization Date Anne Grady Boston University January 1986 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Commmity: GLOUCESTER Form No: 21 MASSACHUSETTS HISTORI CAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Property Name: William Haskel1 House Indicate each item on inventory forn which is being continued below. SIGNIFICANCE The house retains integrity of location, design, materials, and workmanship in its intact First Period frame, chimney (although it is rebuilt from the attic floor) and interesting, apparently original finishes throughout, making it eligible under criterion C.
The house is one of the best preserved First Period buildings surveyed, unless Atkins was very skillful at enhancing what he found in 1927. The decoration of the right hand frame with cyma molding is very unusual (known, according to ALC in only 1 or 2 other examples) and is therefore highly significant. Most of the finishes in the house are modest but well executed with attempts at greater sophistication in the dentil moldings of the right first floor fireplace and the cyma-molded frame in the right-hand side of the house. If the house is a plank frame structure, it is among c. two dozen houses built this way in the North Shore area and among 6 in Gloucester. If the support of the first floor framing in the cellar does indeed provide evidence that there was an earth floor originally, the structure would become an even more interesting source of new information under criterion D.
The house retains a substantial amount of early hardware. These details all combine to give it great integrity of feeling; it preserves integrity of setting in its rural location. EXTERIOR DESCRIPTION The Haskell House is a two and one half story, four bay wide structure apparently of plank frame construction with an added 18th C partial lean-to and rear and side additions. The left gable has a overhang in the attic story. The clapboarded exterior is furnished with simple window surrounds and a plain doorway with slightly peaked lintel. The asymmetrical plan of the house is revealed by the off-center placement of the doorway and chimney, apparently the original stack, and by the presence of one window in the left-hand rooms as opposed to two on the right.
Disparities in he construction of the two halves of the house may indicate that the louse was originally a one-céll structure to the left , but there is no way to be certain. The house was well-known in the 1930's as an unspoiled First Period dwelling, and was extensively restored at that time. MAJOR FIRST PERIOD FEATURES The Haskell House exhibits an intact First Period chimney, frame, and unusual and simple interior finish. In the first-floor left hand room, which is only 11 feet wide, both joists and summer beam run longitudinally. The summer beam, c. 6 inches wide and deep, is only slightly larger than the joists. The summer beam is somewhat crudely finished with a flat chamfer.
Joists are spaced 18 to 19 inches on Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commamicy: GLOUCESTER Property Name: william House Form No: 21 HasKel1 Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued belo. centers. There is vertical feather edaed sheathina on the outer the fireplace. The overmantel trim is a single board 31 inches high which covers part of the lintel and fits around the joists. lower edge is beaded. The fireplace, 7 feet, 4 inches wide by 4 feet 11 inches high has two rear corner ovens and a smoke panel.
has other early finishes: doors and their haráware, and apparently original small cupboard on the rear sills here other side of the house may indicate an original dirt floor, especially as the cellar joists, unhewn logs, are not set into the sills but onto projections from stone foundation. There is a scarf joint in the front sill near the fireplace wall, in the left hand room. The stair hall exhibits an enclosed staircase sheathed with plain boards of early vintage. Comparison of the chimney posts visible in front hall reveals that the right hand post is "jowled" and has a small flat chamfer while the left-hand post is straight and has no chamfer.
Other posts in the right-hand portion of the house are also jowled and chamfered while those in the left hand part are indicate either stylistic variation within the same building, or that the right hand rooms were added to an originally single cell In the right-hand room, the lower portion of the summer beam has been cut off, so it is impossible to determine the beam's original decoration. Very likely, however, the beam was finished like other beams and braces in this side of the house with an unusual inch wide cyma molding. This molding, in place of a 'chamfer, is found at the botton edge of the vertical faces of the chimney, end, rear and front girts in the room. This molding only is painted orange.
Articles written about the house in the 1930's state that evicence was found that this molding had been painted vermillion at an earlier The fireplace in the right hand room is built with curved jambs. It is 5' 10" wide by 4' 5" high. There is vertical feather edged sheathing to the left of the fireplace and above it. Over the fireplace the boarding angles out toward the ceiling to be toe-nailed to the chimney girt. The fireplace is slightly recessed. A dentil molding spans the fireplace lintel below the boarding. A chisel was used to fashion the molding so that dentils which are thicker at the alternate with those thicker at the bottom (see photograph). The outer walls are plastered. In the left hand chamber there is no fireplace. The inner wall is covered with vertical feather edged sheathing.
The outer walls of the room ,are plastered and there are exposed rising braces at the corners, indicating plank frame construction. An unusual feature of the room is the way in which the door to the stairnall is at the end of the run of the stairs, so that one steps up directly into the Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORI CAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Cormunity: GLOUCESTER Property Name: Form No: 21 William HasKeLL House Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. lefthand chamber, or steps up into the stair hall. This feature might mean that stairs were built originally to service a single cell house with just one upstairs room. In the right hand chamber, there is a fireplace of ample size, with straight jambs. The finish of the fireplace wall is plain boarding.
A plain, wide horizontal board covers the space over the slightly recessed fireplace. The summer beam, front and rear plates and all the rising braces in this room are finished with on the frame in the room below. Walls between the frame retain early plaster. In the lean-to and the lean-to garret, wide horizontal sheathing boaras, possible the original outer wall covering, with edges top and botton, cover the wall between the lean-to and front lean-to rafters butt against the rear plate, additional evidence that the lean-to was added, not integral. attic a purlin roof with 5 sets of principal rafters is There are no obvious differences between the left and right portions of the roof, the set of rafters over the left-hand chimney for a lapped collar LATER SIGNIFICANT FEATURES There was once long rear ell on the building.
It was removed and reiocated, across onto the old barn foundation before the 20th century. In 1927 the house was purchased by Boston Sculptor, The house was apparently in something of an unspoiled state, but how much Atkins actually dia to restore uncertain. The building was the subject of several articles in the 1920's and 1930's and of measured drawings by Frank Chouteau Brown as a well preserved example of First Period architecture. Atkins finished off a shed which had been moved up to the left rear of the to create a living room with bedroom above. He replicated fireplace rear of the new livino room. Atkins also removed a small addition to the right-hand side and built a laraer there containing kitchén, dining room and bedrooms. architect of these additions was Thomas Williams of Rockport, Mass.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION widespread 1930's published interest in the house and its restoration makes it one of the most significant structures associated with the broad pattern cf revived interest in restoring and copying colonial buildings during the early 20th century. Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Community: GLOUCESTER Form No: 21 Property Name : William Haskell House Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued beloi. house is closely associated after 1927 with the important local Boston sculptor, A.H. Atkins, who restored the house and encouraged published interest in it. The structure was briefly owned by the Cape Ann Historical Society, which operated it as a house museum.
Further historical research, especially into the 1930's literature, would yield more accurate information on the extent of Atkin's restorations. REFERENCES Brochure on Haskell House, Cape Ann Historical Association, no date The House Beautiful, February 1927 The Monograph Series, Vol. XXV, No. 1, February 1939 Abbott Lowell Cummings, Ihe Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725, 1979, pp. 158, 194. -4- Staple to Inventory form at bottom NPS Form 10-900- (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number. Page OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 1/24/90 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Nomination/Type of Review Date/Signature 1.431. Giddings, Lient., Samuel House Hobsest Woe Sukeeper Liss Saage Determine 5180/90 00E/OMNER OBJECTION Sc 132. Goodale, Isaac, House 33.
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Haskett, William, House Attest Intered in the fatorod 1e etcosfhroper AelouaBzen 3/9/20 Attest UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Haskell, William, 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 DATE OF PENDING LIST: 2/07/9 ATE OF 45TH DAY: 3/10/90 DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REFERENCE NUMBER: 90000217 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: COMMENT WAIVER: N ACCEPT _RETURN REJECT 3/9/20 DATE Fatoron iesiortor 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 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 sloucester, MA Wuillian Haskell Hese Il Lncdn Street fereplace 1985 Ist Pord Beloiss / E, May " Lincoln Street, s Okucestor. TA Cexllcen Haskell House I1 Lincdn Stree exteMor 1985 Ist Deried Burldins a Is, Ma, T. Beucesr, : TA uillam Haskell teuse Illincdn Steet freplace 1985 Ist Perid Buldlus ef E. Ma,To Glouceszr, TA willcm Haskell House 11 Lincoln Street chamber 1985 porid Buildies ! E Ma, T. Gloucestrn. TA Gloucesen. Th Willlam Haskell House I/ Lincon Street molded brace 1985 Ist Peridl Buldivo o Es Ma,T Gloucesten. TA Cullcen Haskell House I1 Uencdn Street left-hand reom-sumne Iot Perid Buldup / Te. Ma, TR Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000281