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FORM B - BUILDING L1N01 1ERIUU NURVEI JAN24 1990 257 MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 Photos 35:2 attic looking east. toward older section, showing junction with newer roof 35:4 detail, attic, original section 35:7 right-hand front room, fireplace wall 35:12 right-hand rear room, Iear wall 35:19 right-hand front chamber, summel tie into front (south) wall 35:22 south facade Sketch Map: - FORM NO. JAN 24 1990 63 Town Topsfielà 009 Address 129 Washington Street Historic Name Capt. Joseph Gould House Use: Present Residence Original DESCRIPTION Residence Date _ Source Style ca. 1710 A. I. Cummings/visual analvsis First Period core/Second Perio vernacular extericr Architect _ Unknown Exterior Wall Fabric Clapboards Outbuildings late 10sh c. barn. 20th c. she new late 20th c. livestock barn Major Alterations (with dates)_ 3 bavs added to west.
early 18:h c. Condition Good Boxfürd St + Washingten Washine tor Meadowviet UTM REFERENCE USGS QUADRANGLE SCALE Z 19 E N L338-710 / 4722-600 Georgetown 1:25,000 Moved No Acreage Date. N/ A 2.03 acres Setting Suburban residential street, amid houses of mixed construction date - nezriania intersectior sf Washington and Boxford Streets. Recorded by Anne Grady Organization Boston Universitv Date Mav 1986 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Cammmity: TOPSFIELD Form No: 63 Property Name: Capt. Joseph Gould House Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. SIGNIFICANCE The Gould house retains integrity of location, design, materials and workmanship in its two First Period frames, which embody distinctive characteristics of design and construction under Criterion C.
The building is apparently the unique example among structures surveyed of a two room deep, two story plan house dating from the First Period. Although First Period buildings were frequently altered in the Second Period to achieve this by then common plan, the Gould house is the only known First Period building in the survey area to be built on this plan from the start. EXTERIOR DESCRIPTION The Capt. Joseph Gould house is six bays long, two rooms deep, and two and one half stories high. The original, pre-1700 house consisted of the three easternmost bays and was from the beginning 2 rooms deep and 2 1/2 stories in height, the unique example in the study of this plan type built in the First Period. With the addition of the three western most bays in the early 18th century, the clapboarded house achieved its present extent except for the mid 20th century screened porch on the west rear.
Exterior trim is simple; windows are irregularly spaced, though for the most part vertically aligned. Two chimneys pierce the ridge of the roof. The eave on the facade is boarded on a diagonal, supposedly to protect a plaster cove underneath. MAJOR FIRST PERIOD FEATURES Framing with First Period characteristics is visible in the rear rooms and stairhalls of the older and newer portions of the house, and in the chambers of the older part. Framing is doubled at the junction between the pre and post 1700 portions of the house. Summer beams are transverse throughout the house. In plan, the rear rooms of the house are two thirds as deep as the front rooms. In the rear room the the older (east) part of the house, the exposed transverse beams exhibit flat chamfers, 1 1/4 inches wide, and lamb's tongue or triangular stops.
The chamfer on the central west beam stops 6' 8" from the rear wall, perhaps indicating the site of an earlier feature such as a partition wall. Story posts at the rear wall are elaborately molded with a deep quarter round and two fillets. In the stair hall, which is fitted into half of the middle bay of the older part of the house, the post has a flat chamfer and supports a beam with flat chamfer and lamb's tongue stop. Upstairs in the earlier part of the house, summer tie beams have flat chamfers and lamb's tongue stops at the outer walls and on either side of the partition wall. Joist spacing in the floor of the east chamber is 25" on centers. 1 Staple to Inventory form at botton INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Cammnity: TOPSFIELD Form No: 63 capt.
Josepn Property Name: Gould House Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. Downstairs in the newer part of the house posts and beams in the lobby and rear room have very narrow flat chamfers and triangular or taper stops. Upstairs in the newer part of the house beams are unchamfered. Roof construction in both parts of the house is similar. The symmetrical gable roof is framed with principal rafters, 5 purlins per slope and collar beams. The collar beams in the pre 1700 side of the house are finished with a narrow flat chamfer. Several original clapboards remain at peak of the roof between the older and newer sections of the roof. LATER SIGNIFICANT FEATURES In the newer, west part of the house, there is an interesting staircase. A single lower run divides into two upper runs to provide access to the front and rear of the house.
The lower run is furnished with balustrade of turned balusters, late Second Period style in profile. The older, east portion retains simple Federal style trim on the staircase and in the front, east room. A nineteenth century barn adds to the setting. HISTORICAL INFORMATION A c. 1700 barn formerly on the property was dismantled and stored by the Topsfield Historical Society in 1983. The existence in storage of part of the barn built at approximately the same date as the oldest part of the house may yield important information if a comparative study of the two structures is undertaken. The barn was originally nine bays long, although only four bays, measuring in all 28 by 40 feet, survived at the time the structure was dismantled. The frame was of red oak.[2] REFERENCES 1. Topsfield Tercentenary 1650-1950. Topsfield Tercentenary Committee, Topsfield, Mass: 1950, 15. 2.
"Historic barn to be saved from wrecking crews." Transcript. 24 (July 27, 1983): 1-2. Tri-Town 2 Staple to Inventory form at bottom NPS Form 10-000-e (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 1/21190 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Nomination/Type of Review Date/Signature J.431. Giddings, Lient., Samuel House pwt tii@gokeeper LisbeSave 34790 DOE/OWNER OBJFCTION Attest Sc 132. Goodale, Isaac, House duostenadva doriua Sa/Keeper_ BotlotSarze 3/9/9 33. Gott House Entered in the Hational Raglates / Keeper_ AelamBgun 3/9/50 34. Gould, Capt. Joseph, House 35. Gould, Zaccheus, House 36. Hardy, Joseph, House 37. Harraden, Edward, House ScH 38.
Harris Farm Attest Entered in the Hat20na1 Baslotokeeper AeluuByen 3/2/50 Attest Entered in the Mat1onal Register /Keeper steluuAque 3/2/90 Attest Entered 10 tbe Pataona1 Baelotos Vxeeper AlelumByen 3/9/50 Attest Entered in the Rataoaad RoglotegtKeoper AelmsSgan 3/9/50 Attest Se Isubstantiva Revien Srcopor Bethof Saurge 3/9/90 39. Hart House Entered 1n the Mational Register AelunByun 3/2/50 40. Haskett, William, House Attest Intered in the fatool et cosfkroper AeloueBgun 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 Gould, Capt.
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: 90000259 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: OPHERE M PDTA PROBLEM CAN ECAPE C SS TRAN S0 VEARS N PDIL: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: N COMMENT WAIVER: N VACCEPT RETURN REJECT 3/2/40 DATE ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: Entered in the Mational Registes 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 OTHER COMMENTS USGS maps photographs Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone presentation Signed Date 129 Washingtor St lopsfe Cap' Joseph gould t soit facad 1985 Ist Porid Buldlins fE.
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