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ASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION O BOYLSTON STREET OSTON, MA 02116 Photos 38:2 S facade and east wall 38:3 fireplace wall kitchen chamber 38:4 kitchen chamber summer beam 39:13 Exterior S facade and west wall and ell etch Map: IJAN 2 4 1990 FORM NO. 244 73 Town Middleton - Address 009 161 Essex Street Historic Name Joseph Fuller House (a/k/a Beech Brook Farm) Use: Present Residence Original DESCRIPTION Residence Date ca. 1714-1722 Deeds; Watkins' Middleton Histoi Sourcevisual analysis Style First Period/Transitional Architect Unknown Exterior Wall Fabric Clapboards Outbuildings five 20th c. sheds, animal shelters - early to late 20th c. Major Alterations (with dates) entry porch ca. 1800; rear lean-to, 19th c.
Condition Good REFERENCE QUADRANGLE ESSEX Bcock Z E N 19/ 332-990 / 4720-150 Reading 1:25,000 Moved No Date N/ A Acreage -part of a 24 acre parcel Setting Rural site, occupying the crest of a hill opposite a pond house faces southeast with gable end to road Recorded by _Richard Candes Organization Bostor University DateMay 1986 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Conmumity: MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston MIDDLETON Form No: 73 Property Name: Hoseph Fuller House Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. SIGNIFICANCE The Joseph Fuller has integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association. It meets Criterion C for its late continuation of one-room designed to have an exposed and modestly decorated frame, marking the house as part of the transition from the First to Second Period.
With its continuation of the transverse first floor binding beam as the summer, it illustrates the unusual concentration of this unusual pattern in Middleton well into the second decade or later of the eighteenth century. EXTERIOR DESCRIPTION Built as a one room deep, central chimney, two and one half story high, two room plan house before 1720, the Joseph Fuller House later a rear leanto with "Beverly jog" off its eastern end front wall is an evenly spaced five part facade with added one-story gabled entry (c.1800); the end walls contain paired windows at story, with irregular fenestration on the later leanto, including a door on the southern face of the shed-roofed two story jog. The gable roof is pierced by a brick stack at and in front of the ridge. MAJOR FIRST PERIOD FEATURES Three of the four original rooms are Second Period in construction with later c.1800 trim.
The transverse binding summer in the east kitchen has been exposed but was clearly designed to be boxed from the start. Only the frame in kitchen chamber, where the transverse tie is exposed, was apparently intended to be exposed, for the beam is decorated with a plain narrow bevel with runout taper stop. The front and second story with simple bevel chamfers and taper stops. That the house was originally of two room plan can be seen in the evidence that the roof was not originally cantilevered for an integral leanto. Evidence for a side oven on the front jamb of the eastern room or kitchen on the first floor can be seen in the bulge behind the later (c. 1800) staircase in the front hall. The cellar contains a massive stone chimney base and employs large sleepers to support the first floor.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION Joseph Fuller was the son of Thomas Fuller (whose 1684 house also survives in Middleton) born in 1679. This house is first recorded in deeds in 1722, although Joseph married in 1711 and again in 1713 and owned this land since 1699. A member of one of the most prominent early families to settle Middleton, Joseph died in 1748. (1) Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Conmumity: MIDDLETON Form No: 73 Property Name: Hosepn Fuller House Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. REFERENCES 1. Lsaiemo dssde Institute, 19709 OP: 163-167.
Middleton, Massachusetts- A Cultural History BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION The Joseph Fuller House is located neat the northwest corner of the 41 acre Although there sheds on the property,aall are set away from The building is situated at an angle to and close to the street. The line of convenience of 60' borders Essex Street on the south side of the house and runs in a northerly direction for 100' on the est and west sides of the house.. The northern border of the line of convenience connects the east and west border. Staple to Inventory form at bottom NPS Form 10-900-4 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page OMB Approvel No. 10240018 1/24/90 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State First Period Buildings of Eastern Massachusetts TR Nomination/Type of Review 21.
Foster, Stephen, House 5122. Foster, William, House 23. Fowler, Rea Putnam, House Date/Signature Entered in the entonad 1netator fäeeper eluBzu 3t4150 Attest Subatant1va derlar føkeeper Attest Beth2. Saurge 71/a Entered is the Hationad Regiater Keeper deluseBgen 3/4k0 Attest Entered in the 24. French--Andrews House Hetional Begister. Reéper AelareaSgen 3/9/20 Attest 3u'25. Friend, James, House Subatantiva Beries S Keeper 7919. Antered in the Attest 26. Frye, Samuel, House Satlorad Bgiator Akbeper TlanBgu 3/1/90 Attest jN27. Fuller, Joseph, House Antataaleys Sursea fokeeper Attest Beth ff- Saurse 3/4e 28. Fuller, Lieut. Thomas, House Entered in tne satond 1 BetstorJkeeper AeloretSyen319/2 Attest 29.Giddings, George, House and Barn Entered in the Akeeper deluresBga 3/9/20 Nat1onal Register 30.Giddings--Burnham House Subatantiva Sevtas Jkeeper, Attest fithg.
Sevase 3/400 (Nps Form 108500a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approvel No. 10240018 Section number Page _ SUPPLEMENTARY LISTING RECORD NRIS Reference Number: 90000244 uller, Joseph, House roperty Name 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 documentat inn suentot following exceptions, notwithstanding the National Park : Service certification included in the nomination documentation. Biths. Savage Signatujé of the Keeper ============================= Amended Items in Nomination: 03/09/90 Date of Action Geographical Data: Acreage The correct acreage is <1.
This information has been confirmed with Ann Tait, MASHPO, by telephone.
DISTRIBUTION: National Register property file Nominating Authority (without attachment) UNITED STATE ONA PAESORTE TERIOR NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Fuller, Joseph, 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: 90000244 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: COMMENT WAIVER: N LACCEPT _RETURN ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N SLR DRAFT: Y NATIONAL: REJECT 3/9/90 DATE N N N RECOM./CRITERIA accest ( REVIEWER DASCIPLINE Urclitectenal Histary DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/) see attached SIRZN 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 OTHER COMMENTS USGS maps photographs presentation Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date dosech Fulle midlecton, MA Rall 39 1lel Essex strees Exterior 1985 38.2 Middleton.
TA Jossph Fullertouse Ilal Essex Sheet 5. facade- sash wa 1985 38:3 Middleton. MA Oossph Fulle House Nel Essex Street fireplace wall 1985 Ist lo 1985 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000281