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FIRST PERIOD SURVEY FORM B - BUILDING JAN 2 41900 FORM NO. 254 MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 Photos 31:22 Town Rockport soutn and west facades 31:26 overhang at center of south facade Address 31:31 leit-hand (west) room, looking south Historic Name 28 009 188 Granite Street Old Garrison House 31:35 summer beam, left-hand Ioom, showing cyma molding 31:36 32:2 detail, left-hand Ioom: brace let into 1og wall dovetail joint, logs at northwest corner, outside view of original construction a s seen in current closet Use: Present Original DESCRIPTION Date ca. 1700 Residence Residence Source Visual assessment First Period, with Second and Third Style Period alterations and additions Sketch Map: Architect Unknown Exterior Wall Fabric Clapboards N PHILLIPS AUL HAVINANL Outbuildings _ Earr. - 19th C. twa sheds -ilate 10th s.
Major Alterations (with dates) E11 added Granita st. c. 1800; north and west extensions 19th_c. Condition Good Moved No Date N/A Acreage 14 acres Setting Se: back from road. 40 feet above nearhy Pigeon Cove Harbor: glacial nond Z E N directly west, woodlands bevond. Resicentia develormen: of mixed date along Granite St. UTM REFERENCE USGS QUADRANGLE SCALE 19 / 356-600 / 4726-440 Recorded by Anne Grady Rockport OrganizationBoston Universirv 1:25,000 Date Marah 1096 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commmity : ROCKPORT Form No: 28 Property Name: "Garrison House" Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. SIGNIFICANCE The Old Garrison House retains integrity of setting, location, design, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association.
It embodies distinctive characteristics of design and construction in its First Period "logg" structure, meeting criterion C. The Old Garrison House is the "principle remaining example" of squared log construction in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The technique, more frequently used in New Hampshire and Maine, had by definition some defensive capacity. It is unlikely, however, that the house was constructed of logs for purely defensive purposes. Rather, dwellings of 1og were commonly built in newly settled rural and timbering areas of northern colonies. Cape Ann's geographic proximity to New Hampshire suggests diffusion from that region occured here in the early 18th century. Its mixed use of log-framed overhang and ceiling with second story timber-framing ties and joists reflects similar early 18th century 1ese ana jolees practices in Maine and New Hampshire.
[3] On the basis of style and construction characteristics, the building would Features which place construction at the turn of the 18th century, are the delicate cyma moulding on the beams (similar to the c.1700 Haskell House in Gloucester), the use of conventional joist the three floors, and the use of hewn rather than sawn logs which were intended from the beginning to be plastered on the interior. EXTERIOR DESCRIPTION The Old Garrison House is an L-shaped structure 2 1/2 stories in height in its main part, comprised of the c. 1700 double cell log house facing south, and a c. 1780-1800 single cell addition forming the ell to the north. In the early to mid 19th century, the house was extended by a small wing to the west rear (possibly originally a shed), two stories in height where it abuts the house, one story in the outer part.
About 1850, a one story kitchen wing was appended to the north side of the ell. The original south facade has a framed 12 inch overhang. The ends of ten heavy transverse spanning girders project to support the second story log wall of the facade. The lowest 1og of the second story wall is cut to fit over the girders and lap the sides about one inch. Below the girder at the outer walls and chimney bay an additional support with rounded end has been pieced in, possibly as part of the restoration of the late 1920's. The south facade has by an early (but not original) four panel doorway. There is an overhang on the west end of the house. The original overhang on the north is now buried inside the house and its addition. north ell was built, the east facade became the major facade of the house and was updated accordingly.
The second story overhang of the east wall of the original house was removed and replaced by a flush stud wall. Five windows were placed symmetrically in . the new second story. 1 Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Commmity: ROCKPORT -JAN 2 A 1000 Form No: 28 MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Property Name: "Garrison House" Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. Above, the gable roof was rebuilt to form a hip at the junction of the old and new roofs. One story bay windows on either side of the east doorway reflect a further updating of the facade in the Victorian period. The central pedimented and pilastered frontispiece was originally part of a house in Essex and was installed on this house during the 1970's restoration. Chimneys fireplaces in the northern ell and western wing.
MAJOR FIRST PERIOD FEATURES First Period features are visible in all parts of the original double cell structure except in the east chamber. The most features may be seen in the first floor west room where plaster has been stripped and the log walls exposed in the 1920's restoration. Tamarack logs, carefully hewn square, eight inches thick and varying from nine to nineteen and one half inch high are precisely fitted together and dovetail jointed at the corners (the northwest corner is visible in a rear closet). On the west wall, two diagonal braces are set into the logs. These braces, 4" wide by 3" deep, are nailed into rectangular rabbits sawn and chiseled out of successive logs beginning at the next to the bottom log and extending to the ceiling.
At the west ining atreng nax end of the south wall, the carpenter did not complete the rabbet, leaving the central portion sawn, but not chiselled. Short pieces of brace are nailed into the finished parts of the rabbet. The log walls, carefully hewn as they are, are not nearly as smoothly finished as the three hard pine 15" wide respectively and c. 6 inches deep and 17", 17", and apart, which span the room from front to The beams are finished along the lower surface at both edges with a delicate inch-wide cyma molding. Boards which are laid across the spanning beams as flooring for the second floor are saw mill sawn and heavily whitewashed. A cut out in the logs of the south wall provides evidence of an original window opening (43 3/4 inches from the floor and 26 1/4 inches in height).
The fireplace wall, damaged at some point by a fire which caused the firebox to fall in, was rebuilt in the 1920's using the lintel from another house, and First Period shadow molding sheathing and dours from several houses (the First Period material was located by Roger Bacon who helped with the restoration). The outside of the original north was/is exposed in a rear passageway. The logs were as carefully hewn on the outer surface as the inner one, and were only briefly, if at all, exposed to the weather before being clapboarded. In the original east room, only the three spanning beams are exposed. These are finished with cyma chamfers like those in the west room and are 15, 18 1/2, and 13 1/2 inches wide.
2 Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Cammmity: ROCKPORT Form No: 28 MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Property Name: "Garrison House" Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. In the west chamber, there is a single summer tie beam, 12 inches wide and finished with an inch wide flat chamfer and simple triangular stops, except at one terminus, where there is no stop. The second floor ceilings are conventionally framed. In the west room, joists are spaced 30 inches on centers; in the east room, 15-16 inches on centers. Information from the owner, whose husband, Thomas Williams, restored the house, indicates that the logs of the second story walls are not nearly so carefully fitted together--"Chinks between individual units are quite wide in places".
In the attic, a principal rafter and purlin roof system of moderate slope is visible. There are three purlins per slope. In the cellar, only under the west room of the original house, an earlier summer beam with three inch wide flat chamfers and taper stops has been reused. Butt cog joists are spaced 19 1/2 inches on centers in the beam. LATER SIGNIFICANT FEATURES The east room retains a fine Second Period fireplace wall assemblage of raised-field panelled doors and simple mantelpiece. The ell to the north combines late Second Period trim in the chamber (a paneled chimney breast with crosseted moldings) with simple trim of the Federal Period elsewhere. The straight run staircase has scrolled, cut out step ends and balusters square in section set diagonally.
is embellished with a design of alternating parallel gouges and radiating Darnad the stanatire da1t In the dining room, the chimney breast gouges, perhaps the signature of a local carpenter, for it is found elsewhere in Rockport on a doorway frieze. The restoration of the late 1920's, in which later finishes were removed, original features carefully preserved, and some material from other buildings brought in, is an example of early 20th century private restoration at its best. A barn and two outbuildings built in the 19th century south of the house contribute to the historic character of the property. The remains of a terraced garden with granite retaining walls and posts surmounted with o rocaian a maite mei poze surounted bon turned balusters are preserved south of the house. HISTORICAL INFORMATION Iwo local legends place the construction date earlier, however.
One asserts that this was the garrison house on the tip of Cape Ann identified in a 1675 inventory of garrison buildings in the Commonwealth. A second tradition states that Elizabeth Procter, convicted as witch in the Salem witch trials, but released on the condition that she leave Salem and live away from any settled community, was brought to Pigeon Cove by her eldest sons. The sons either built the house for her or installed her in the 3 Staple to Inventory form at bottom JAN < 4 1990 -INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Cammunity : ROCKPORT Form No: 28 Property Name: O1d Garrison House Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. already existing house. Inere was no permanent settlement in the area at the time although lumber men were regularly harvesting timber.
[4] Documents place Joshua Norwood and his wife in residence in the house by 1702. Francis Norwood, a prosperous ship owner in Annisguam, was deeded the lot on which the house stands in 1688, as an apportionment of the common woodlots on Cape Ann. Norwood eventually amassed sixty acres of land there, and settled his younger son, Joshua, on the property soon after several families homesteaded adjacent lots in the early years of the eighteenth century. The house is also important for its growth and transformation in the late 18th century. The addition of a stairhall and a file of rooms to the north during the ownership of the house by Moses Wheeler between 1778 and 1824 and the attendant reorientation of the major facade to the east illustrates one means of adapting a First Period building to achieve a Second Period through-hall plan.
The house is representative of the early 20th century preservation/ restoration movement. Oliver E. Williams, a Boston banker, purchased the property in 1925. Together with his son Thomas, he undertook to restore the building for his summer house. Thomas Williams, an architect and student of colonial architecture who wrote about Cape Ann houses for Pencil Points, directed the careful removal of later finishes, the sensitive preservation of early features, and the introduction of sympathetic remnants from other houses. NOTES AND REFERENCES 1. Abbott Lowel1 Cummings. The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay: 1625-1725. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1979, p. 94. 2. Ibid, p. 93. Massachusetts and Its First Period Houses. Boston, The Colonial Society in Massachusetts, 1979. pp. 169-170. 3. Richard M. Candee, Wooden Building in Early Maine and New Hampshire (Ph.D. Thesis, Univ.
of PA, 1976), chapter 4. 4. Thomas Williams. "Some Old Houses of Pigeon Cove, Massachusetts" Pencil Points Monograph Series. Vol. XIX, No. 4, Pp. 49-60. Allen Chamberlain, Pigeon Cove, Its Early Settlers and Their Farms, 1940. Staple to Inventory form at botton INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commnity : ROCKPORT Property Name : Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. JA 241000- Forn No: 28 Old Garrison BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION The Old Garrison House is set back from the road by approximately 200'. The house and its immediate setting of approximately 4 acres includes the frontageon Granite Street and a line of convenience from the road to the pond behind the house.
The barns and terraced gardens on the east side of the house are included in the approximacely 4 acres within the line of convenience. All of these features are connected visually and are an integral pari of the Old Garrison's setting. Staple to Inventory form at bottom UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Old Garrison 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: ATE OF 45TH DAY: 2/07/90 3/10/9( DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REFERENCE NUMBER: 90000254 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: N PDIL: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: COMMENT WAIVER: N LRETURN PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N SLR DRAFT: Y NATIONAL: N N ACCEPT REJECT 3/9/80.
ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: Acreage is undicated as bota and as"14". however, neither appeare correct. Please claugy. Is discessed with AmnTait byteleplione. RECOM.
/CRITERIA rESea REVIEWER < JualEtistory 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 sketch maps USGS maps photographs -presentation OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone 202) 343-9540 Signed BetaX.
Savage Date 3/9/90 FORM B - BUILDING FIRST FERIOD JURVEY 1E ?41909 FORM NO. MASSACHUSETTS KISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 Photos 31:22 south and west facades 31:26 overhang at center of south facade 28 Town Rockport 009 Address 188 Granite Street 31:31 leit-hand (west) Ioom, looking south Historic Name Old Garrison House 31:35 summer beam, left-hand rooI, showing cyma molding 31:36 detail, left-hand Ioom: brace let into log wall 32:2 dovetail joint, logs at northwest coIneI, outside view of original construction as seen in current closet Sketch Map: N pilllips nus x HAUZAIANL Granite st. UTM REFERENCE USSS QUADRANGLE SCALE E N 19 / 366-600 / 4726-40 Rocknort ::25,000 Use: Present Residence Original DESCRIPTION Residence Date ca.
1700 Source Visual assessment First Period, with Second and Third Style Feriod alterations and additions Architect Unknown Exterior Wall Fabric Clapboards Outbuildings Earn - 19:i c. ue cheis -late 10t c Major Alterations (with dates) E11 added c. 1800; north and wes: extensions 19:h c. Condition Good Moved Acreage No Date K/A part of a 14.12 acre parcel Setting Se: back from road. 40 feet above neari" Pigeor Cove Harher: glacia] nond directiy west, wrodlands bevond: Resicentia develcomen: of mixed date alone Granite S: Recorded by Anne Grady Organization - Roston Üniversirv Date 1'a-in 1096 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Commmity: ROCKPORT Form No: 28 MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Property Name: "Garrison House" Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below.
SIGNIFICANCE The Old Garrison House retains integrity of setting, location, design, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association. It embodies distinctive characteristics of design and construction in its First Period "logg" structure, meeting criterion C. The Old Garrison House is the "principle remaining example" of squared log construction in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The technique, more frequently used in New Hampshire and Maine, had by definition some defensive capacity. It is unlikely, however, that the house was constructed of logs for purely defensive purposes. Rather, dwellings of log were commonly built in newly settled rural and timbering areas of northern colonies. Cape Ann's geographic proximity to New Hampshire suggests diffusion from that region occured here in the early 18th century.
Its mixed use of log-framed overhang and ceiling with second story timber-framing ties and joists reflects similar early 18th century practices in Maine and New Hampshire. [3] On the basis of style and construction characteristics, the building would seem to date from c. 1700. Features which place construction at the turn of the 18th century, are the delicate cyma moulding on the beams (similar to the c.1700 Haskell House in Gloucester), the use of conventional joist and beam framing of two of the three floors, and the use of hewn rather than sawn logs which were intended from the beginning to be plastered on the interior. EXTERIOR DESCRIPTION The Old Garrison House is an L-shaped structure 2 1/2 stories in height in its main part, comprised of the c. 1700 double cell log house facing south, and a c. 1780-1800 single cell addition forming the ell to the north.
In the early to mid 19th century, the house was extended by a small wing to the west rear (possibly originally a shed), two stories in height where it abuts the house, one story in the outer part. About 1850, a one story kitchen wing was appended to the north side of the ell. The original south facade has a framed 12 inch overhang. The ends of ten heavy transverse spanning girders project to support the second story log wall of the facade. The lowest log of the second story wall is cut to fit over the girders and lap the sides about one inch. Below the girder at the outer walls and chimney bay an additional support with rounded end has been pieced in, possibly as part of the restoration of the late 1920's. The south facade has by an early (but not original) four panel doorway. There is an overhang on the west end of the house.
The original overhang on the north is now buried inside the house and its addition. When the north ell was built, the east facade became the major facade of the house and was updated accordingly. The second story overhang of the east wall of the original house was removed and replaced by a flush stud wall. Five windows were placed symmetrically in the new second story. 1 Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commmity : ROCKPORT JAN 2A 1090 Form No: 28 Property Name: "Garrison House" Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. Above, the gable roof was rebuilt to form a hip at the junction of the old and new roofs. One story bay windows on either side of the east doorway reflect a further updating of the facade in the Victorian period.
The central pedimented and pilastered frontispiece was originally part of a house in Essex and was installed on this house during the 1970's restoration. Trim throughout the clapboarded exterior is simple. Fenestration is of several kinds of double hung sash windows. Chimneys include the original central one greatly rebuilt, and those serving fireplaces in the northern ell and western wing. MAJOR FIRST PERIOD FEATURES First Period features are visible in all parts of the original double cell structure except in the east chamber. The most features may be seen in the first floor west room where plaster has been stripped and the log walls exposed in the 1920's restoration.
Tamarack logs, carefully hewn square, eight inches thick and varying from nine to nineteen and one half inch high are precisely fitted together and dovetail jointed at the corners (the northwest corner is visible in a rear closet). On the west wall, two diagonal braces are set into the logs. These braces, 4" wide by 3" deep, are nailed into rectangular rabbits sawn and chiseled out of successive logs beginning at the next to the bottom log and extending to the ceiling. At the west end of the south wall, the carpenter did not complete the rabbet, leaving the central portion sawn, but not chiselled. Short pieces of brace are nailed into the finished parts of the rabbet. The log walls, carefully hewn as they are, are not nearly as smoothly finished as the three hard pine girders 6 inches deep and 17", 17", and 15" wide respectively and c. 30" apart, which span the room from front to back.
The beams are finished along the lower surface at both edges with a delicate inch-wide cyma Boards which are laid across the spanning beams as flooring for the second floor are saw mill sawn and heavily whitewashed. A cut out in the logs of the south wall provides evidence of an original window opening (43 3/4 inches from the floor and 26 1/4 inches in height). The fireplace wall, damaged at some point by a fire which caused the firebox to fall in, was rebuilt in the 1920's using the lintel, from another house, and First Period shadow molding sheathing and dours from several houses (the First Period material was located by Roger Bacon who helped with the restoration). The outside of the original north was/is exposed in a rear passageway.
The logs were as carefully hewn on the outer surface as the inner one, and were only briefly, if at all, exposed to the weather before being clapboarded. In the original east room, only the three spanning beams are exposed. These are finished with cyma chamfers like those in the west room and are 15, 18 1/2, and 13 1/2 inches wide. 2 Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Commmity : ROCKPORI Form No: 28 MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Property Name: "Garrison House" Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. In the west chamber, there is a single summer tie beam, 12 inches wide and finished with an inch wide flat chamfer and simple triangular stops, except at one terminus, where there is no stop. The second floor ceilings are conventionally framed.
In the west room, joists are spaced 30 inches on centers; in the east room, 15-16 inches on centers. Information from the owner, whose husband, Thomas Williams, restored the house, indicates that the logs of the second story walls are not nearly so carefully fitted together--"Chinks between individual units are quite wide in places". In the attic, a principal rafter and purlin roof system of moderate slope is visible. There are three purlins per slope. In the cellar, only under the west room of the original house, an earlier summer beam with three inch wide flat chamfers and taper stops has been reused. Butt cog joists are spaced 19 1/2 inches on centers in the beam. LATER SIGNIFICANT FEATURES The east room retains a fine Second Period fireplace wall assemblage of raised-field panelled doors and simple mantelpiece.
The ell to the north combines late Second Period trim in the chamber (a paneled chimney breast with crosseted moldings) with simple trim of the Federal Period elsewhere. The straight run staircase has scrolled, cut out step ends and balusters square in section set diagonally. In the dining room, the chimney breast is embellished with a design of alternating parallel gouges and radiating gouges, perhaps the signature of a local carpenter, for it is found elsewhere in Rockport on a doorway frieze. The restoration of the late 1920's, in which later finishes were removed, original features carefully preserved, and some material from other buildings brought in, is an example of early 20th century private restoration at its best. A barn and two outbuildings built in the 19th century south of the house contribute to the historic character of the property.
The remains of a terraced garden with granite retaining walls and posts surmounted with turned balusters are preserved south of the house. HISTORICAL INFORMATION Iwo local legends place the construction date earlier, however. One asserts that this was the garrison house on the tip of Cape Ann identified in a 1675 inventory of garrison buildings in the Commonwealth. A second nt hat ellzabeth Proctet tradition states that Elizabeth Procter, convicted as witch in the Salem witch trials, but released on the condition that she leave Salem and live away from any settled community, was brought to Pigeon Cove by her eldest sons.
The sons either built the house for her or installed her in the 3 Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commmity : ROCKPORT JHIY C4 I990 Form No: 28 Property Name: Old Garrison House Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. already existing house. There was no permanent settlement in the area at the time although lumber men were regularly harvesting timber. [4] Documents place Joshua Norwood and his wife in residence in the house by 1702. Francis Norwood, a prosperous ship owner in Annisguam, was deeded the lot on which the house stands in 1688, as an apportionment of the common woodlots on Cape Ann.
Norwood eventually amassed sixty acres of land there, and settled his younger son, Joshua, on the property soon after several families homesteaded adjacent lots in the early years of the eighteenth century. The house is also important for its growth and transformation in the late 18th century. The addition of a stairhall and a file of rooms to the north during the ownership of the house by Moses Wheeler between 1778 and 1824 and the attendant reorientation of the major facade to the east illustrates one means of adapting a First Period building to achieve Second Period through-hall plan. The house is representative of the early 20th century preservation/ restoration movement. Oliver E. Williams, a Boston banker, purchased the property in 1925.
Together with his son Thomas, he undertook to restore the building for Thomas Williams, an architect and student of colonial architecture who wrote about Cape Ann houses for Pencil Points, directed the careful removal of later finishes, the sensitive preservation of early features, and the introduction of sympathetic remnants from other houses. NOTES AND REFERENCES 1. Abbott Lowell Cummings. The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay: 1625-1725. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1979, p. 94. 2. Ibid, p. 93. Massachusetts and Its First Period Houses. Boston, The Colonial Society in Massachusetts, 1979. pp. 169-170. 3. Richard M. Candee, Wooden Building in Early Maine and New Hampshire (Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. of PA, 1976), chapter 4. 4. Thomas Williams. "Some Old Houses of Pigeon Cove, Massachusetts". Pencil Points Monograph Series. Vol. XIX, No. 4, Pp. 49-60.
Allen Chamberlain, Pigeon Cove, Its Early Settlers and Their Farms, 1940. Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commnity : ROCKPORT Property Name: O1d Garrison Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. Form No: 28 BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION The Old Garrison House is set back from the road by approximately 200'. The house and its immediate setting of approximately 1.25 acres which includes frontage on Granite Street and a line of convenience from the road to the pond behind the house. The barns and terraced gardens on the east side of the house are included in the approximately 1.25 acres within the line of convenience. It is part of a larger parcel of 14.12 acres. However, it is the 1.25 acres with house, barns, and immediate setting that is included in the nomination.
These features are connected visually and are an integral part of the Old Garrison's setting. Staple to Inventory form at bottom (PS fom 10800 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page. OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 /y1a0 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group StateEirst Period Buildings of Eastern Massachusetts TR Nomination/Type of Review SM61. Newman--Fiske--Dädge House Date/Signature Sorkeeper/ BiteDauge 3/9/90 (abadeava 409-ue 62. Abyes, James, House Entered in the National Register 5/63. Old Farm Babsteritive Bevito Attest TReeper AloseByun 3/9/90 Attest Jnkeeper Bittaf. Savase $9/90 Attest 64. Old Garrison House aoostentive Sorio Keeper 12Lt R Attest 65. Osborne, Prince, House Entered in the Nat1onal Register , XeleBgun 319/90 Attest 66. Osgood, col.
John, Houseenitiva dosda for Keeper BatX. Sarge 3/9/90 Attest SUN67. Paine--Dodge House Eubstantive Beriar Keeper Bitty Swage 319/90 Attest 68. Patch, Emeline, House Entered 1n the Natlonal Register Aulaußyun 3/9/96 69. Perkins, John, House Entered 1n the Hational Register Attest Reeper Aulousbyuw Attest 3/9/90 70.
Proctor, John, House Entered in the Hatianad Register / Keeper_ Aeloußgen 3/9/90 Attest UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: RESUBMISSION PROPERTY Old Garrison House NAME MULTIPLE NAME: First Period Buildings of Eastern Massachusetts TR STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Essex DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: 1/19/91 DATE OF PENDING LIST: DATE OF 45TH DAY: REFERENCE NUMBER: 90000254 NOMINATOR: STATE DETAILED EVALUATION: Y LACCEPT __RETURN _REJECT 3/4/9/ ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: 3/05/91 The residence is arclutecturally fignificant as the principle suvriing exemple of squared log construction in the tassachusetts sufficneeg aobfen has heen RECOM.
/CRITERIA Uccept C REVIEWER ( DASGIPLINEACeu yral sistory DOCUMENTATION I see attached comments yIN) see attached SIR Xy 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 Rockpond, T1 Old Garruson 188 Gronite Strew Mae facade 1985 Ist Pored Buldegse E.
Ma, TR Old GArrISON 188 GrANITE St. Rockport 1985 S ¿W fACADE Ist porel Buldins of TE. Ma., TR 31 : 22 OLd GArrison 188 GranitE St. Reckport, na 985 overhang Ist Poiad Buleluas of TE Ma, TR 31:26 Old garrison 188 GrAnitESt. Kackpat, Ma 1985 W. (left-hand) facung South Ist Peried Buldliys of Es Ma, T. 31'3| Old farrison 188granita st. Rockpot, MA 1985 cyma along Ist Porcl Buldiys df E. Ma, TR 31 : 35 Left room: brade let uto loquace 31:36 1985 lop doustals at Nw corner Ist Porcil Beldiys of F. Ma., TR 32:2 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000281