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-L u- MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION EO BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 PHOTOGRAPHS: 63:29 Front and ieft facades 62:20 Undecorated summer beam into end girt in firnt-floor right room 62:22 Newel post in front vestibule FORM NO. 57 Exetch Hap MAIN STREE JAN 2 ÷ 1990 :- Town BOXFORD Address_ 6 Lawrence Road Historic Name John Boardman House Use: Present residence Original residence DESCRIPTION Date 1740 - 50 Source A. L. Cumnings Style First Feriod Architect unknown Exterior Wall Fabrie. clanboard Outbuildings none Major Alterations (with cates) rear leante 18th century: ell and saraze - 1956 Condition good FRINC TH REFERENCE :ES QUADFANGLE DRIVE AWRE Moved ves Date 1956 - Earle Neweo Brdox l0 Acreage 2.2 acres Setting rural residential. some newer 20th c.
construction on road - house set * FISH back giring secluded appea:ance 19/334-100/4725-440 Recorded by James !vorianos South Groveland (row Lawrence)Organization Boston lniversity - 1:25,000 Date Novembe: 1985 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Commmity: MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston BOXFORD Form No: 57 Jonn Boardman Property Name: House Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. SIGNIFICANCE The John Boardman House retains integrity of design, materials, workmanship and association. It has late examples of First Period framing and transitional decoration, which qualifies it under Criterion C. It has a direct association with the Boardman family of Saugus, and its First Period character is seen as directly related to the house of John's grandfather, William Boardman.
The building was restored by the wel1-known mid-20th-century restorer, Earl Newton, with the guidance of Abbott Lowell Cummings. In the process of restoration, the site yielded important information on the slow transition from First to Second Period architecture in rural Massachusetts, and its potential to yield still further information qualifies it under Criterion D. EXTERIOR DESCRIPTION The house is a classic 18th-century "saltbox", originally located in Saugus, Mass., near the 17th-century William Boardman House. It was moved in 1956, and a long one-story gable-roofed addition was built connecting to the right hand rear corner at that time. The brick central chimney, an exact copy of the original, is new. The clapboarded five-bay, two-story, .center-entrance facade has one window at both floors on the left side, a window over the front door, and two windows on the wider right side.
gable-ends have single windows at each story in the main rooms of the house, and asymmetrical fenestration in the leanto, which was added about 1800. There are three evenly spaced windows across MAJOR FIRST PERIOD FEATURES The John Boardman House is a transitional house with extensive First Period features, built in Saugus ca. 1740 in a style looking back to the home of William Boardman, John's grandfather. It began as a double-cell central-chimney house of lobby entrance plan without leanto.
The right (east) room has all its framing exposed, with no chamfering on the summer, but a flat chamfer on the chimney girt, a vertically-sheathed mid-18th-century fireplace wall of feather-edged boards, and a fireplace based on the original with square jambs and a beehive oven at the left corner, (like those of the 17th century, but of reduced width.) The staircase in the entry hall has a late First Period style original closed string, triple-run staircase without balusters, and a turned newel post. In the chamber above the east room the tie beam is exposed, and possibly reused, with a narrow flat chamfer ending in a lamb's tongue stop. left (west) chamber was originally unfinished; there is whitewash residue on the studs and wall fill; the room was built without a fireplace. roof was replaced before the building was moved.
Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Conmmity: BOXFORD Form No: 57 Jonn Boardman Property Name: House Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued belaw. SIGNIFICANT LATER FEATURES The lower room on the left (west) side is finished in Second Period style, with feather-edged sheathing like that in the east room. Finish in the leanto suggests a ca. 1800 date. REFERENCES Cummings, Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 207-9. 1625-1725, Pp. 169, 171, John Cole, "The John Boardman House," typescript structures report, May 19, 1977.
2 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 Boardman, John, House NAME: MUMETPLS First Period Bulldings of Eastern Massachusetts IR STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Essex DATE RECEIVED: 1/24/90 DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF PENDING LIST: DATE OF 45TH DAY: 3/10/90 DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REFERENCE NUMBER: 90000361 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: OPHERI NPOT PROBLEM: N CANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: COMMENT WAIVER: N Batered in the N National Register XACCEPT _RETURN REJECT 9 MuOL 1990 DATE 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 OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone presentation Signed Date Soha Borenna l oera Boxfoca, NA Ist Pored Buldings in Fe, Ma, TR 63:29 Boxtord John Boarid man Howe Hbazerexf gacades 1985 63:22 John Boasdmon Bokpre Bortand Tühn Beardimen to.
G Lawresce tld teuisl pest 1985 IstPerid Buldigs in F. Ma., TR 63:20 Jokn Bearenan Bearfand caligasemma Boxtard Sühn boardmas Hhe blgurence Road undecoratid sumaer beam 1985 Ist Perid Buldliess in E. Ma., TR Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000281