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FORM B - BUILDING FIRST PERIOD DURVEY JAN 2 4 1990 MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 17 Town Hamilton Photos 21:32 left-hand room 222 FORM NO. 009 21:33 Address 1028 Bay Road Historic Name Austin Brown House rear plate and corner post, right- hand rear chamber 21:36 facade and west side Sketch Map: EIpswlch Linee GARDUER MOULTON 8 UTM REFERENCE USGS QUADRANGLE SCALE - 19 / 348-440 / 4722-330 Ipswich 1:25,000 Use: Present Residence Original Residence . DESCRIPTION Date ca.
1725 Source Stylistic analysis Style lst Period core: colonial re- vival exterior Architect _ Unknown Exterior Wall Fabric Stucco Outbuildings_ none Major Alterations (with dates) Wing to right before 1907; remodelied, stored, extended to left, roof *1915 Condition Good re- raiser Moved No Date N/A Acreage 5.5 acres Setting Country estate set back from road with spacious lawn and planting: new driveway with evidence of subdivision of estate Recordedby Anne Grady Organization Boston University Date May 1986 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORI CAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commmity: HAMILTON Form No: 17 Property Name:House Austin Brown Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below.
SIGNIFICANCE The Austin Brown House retains integrity of location, design, materials and workmanship in its late First Period frame, which embodies distinctive characteristics of form and construction eligible under Criterion C. The structure, representative of a larger group of late First Period buildings, adds to our knowledge of framing practices among Hamilton joiners. EXTERIOR DESCRIPTION The Austin Brown House is a 5 bay wide two room deep house, 2 1/2 stories in height with wings to the right and left. The house began as a double cell house. A lean-to was added in the 18th century. A photograph taken in 1898 shows the house clapboarded, with a two story lean-to and ell to the left. The ell to the right was added by 1907. In 1915, the house was again enlarged and stuccoed to create a Colonial Revival style country estate.
At that time a new higher roof with ridge on the central axis and three dormer windows was built and porches were added to the left wings. There is a one story porch across the facade. MAJOR FIRST PERIOD FEATURES First Period features, in the form of an exposed decorated oak frame, are visible in the left-hand room and in the right-hand and left-hand chambers. In the left-hand room, the 12 inch wide longitudinal the in exposed, decor and summer beam has flat chamfers and tapered stops. In the right-hand and left-hand chambers, the 9 inch wide summer tie beams have flat chamfers and taper stops. Posts are deeply jowled, but unchamfered. LATER SIGNIFICANT FEATURES The left-hand room is decorated with a fireplace wall of Second 'eriod raised-field paneling in which there is an oven door to the .eft of the firebox, an elaborately molded mantel shelf and a long ivermantel panel.
ISTORICAL INFORMATION - the late 19th century the house was occupied by Austin Brown. amilton Historical Society has a nearly complete set of diaries Austin Brown kept between 1858 and c. 1900 while living in the In the early 20th century, the house, having followed -1- Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORI CAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Conmumity: HAMILION Form No: 17 Property Name :House Austin Brown Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. pattern of growth typical of First Period buildings with the addition of a second file of rooms to the rear estate. Thus, it now embodies the distinctive features of early 20th authentic colonial core. Olonial nev el arde eheuge whiie tn arporatao and the building of a new, REFERENCES Austin Brown Diaries. Hamilton Historical Society.
-2- Staple to Inventory form at bottom NepsFom :00000 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page. OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 1/21/40 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State First Period Buildings of Eastern Massachusetts TR Nomination/Type of Review Cover s'I. Abbot--Stinson House 2. Adams, Abraham, House s.13. Adams--Clarke House 4. 4. Beverly Grammar School Seng. Blanchard--Upton House 6. Brown House 5'7. Brown, Austin, House 5118. Burnham, James, House sM9. Carlton--Frie--Tucker House 10.
Chase, Samue1, House bubstantive icvidd Date/Signature Sxeeper Betlin Sauze 319/90 fovKeeper Betty Savye 3/9/9 Attest Entered in the National Register AtelureaByu 3/9/90 Attest substantive iuVisu fer Keeper fitho Saze 3/9/90 Attest Entered 1n tbe Eataosea Raetnta Keeper t AelunaByun 3/2/50 Attest Substantiva Hovísa lKeeper _ Betbo. Sauze 3/919 Attest Entered in the Mational Register Aelam Syur 3/9/2 Attest Buistant ive RersogfKeeper Bothf. Sauage 31919 Attest Bubstantive Reríadf Keeper Attest Betlt. Sage 3/9/9 ptteh. Saunge 3/9/90 &Keeper Mebatantive Beriea Attest Entered in the National Register ftetper Attest ZelorBye 3/2k6 (oe8 Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approvel No.
1024-0018 Section number Page _ SUPPLEMENTARY LISTING RECORD NRIS Reference Number: 90000222 rown, Austin, Hous roperty Nam Date Listed: 03/09/90 Essex 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 documentation subject following exceptions, notwithstanding the National Park Service certification included in the nomination documentation. BokY. Sauge S''signatuge of the Reeper 03/09/90 Date of Action =======: 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 Brown, Austin, 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: 2/07/90 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 3/10/90 DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REFERENCE NUMBER: 90000222 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: OPPERI NPATA PROBLEM: N TANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: N REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SIR DRAFT: Y NATIONAL: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N COMMENT WAIVER: N LACCEPT _RETURN REJECT 3/419VDAnE ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: RECOM.
/CRITERIA Aceet C DICTEINE Ohclieitenel History 3/9/90 DOCUVEMEATION see attached conments y/y see attached SIR Du 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 938 Bay Road.
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Aestin, Bran Wise Hamilton. MA 1028 Bay Roac Map 24-K Scale: l'= 200' Essut Conent 36 12.3+AC. #/I.92*517 2011 1336 182' 744.34 10,00° 351 16 doo0. 520* .880 30,080 235.49 STREET 36,336 132.03 33 74,772 -222.88 325.00 HAMILTON A73" 200 SCALE I INCH 1800 FEET 15 17 23 24 25 31 32 33 596.600 24 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000281