Major Bibliographical References Bibilography (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Previous documentation on file (NPS): Primary location of additional data: - preliminary determination of individual listing (36 X State Historic Preservation Office CFR 67) has been requested Other State agency previously listed in the National Register Federal agency previously determined eligible by the National Local government Register University designated a National Historic Landmark Other recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Name of repository: # Massachusetts Historical Commission recorded by Historic American Engineering Assessors Office; Office of the Inspector of Record # Buildings A. C. Smith & Co. Gas Station Name of Property 10.
Geographical Data Norfolk County, MA County and State Acreage of Property 15,137 sq. ft. =.35 A UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) 11,9 Zone 2L1 3|3,3|3,1,9 Easting 4 6|8,09 6, Northing 4 See continuation sheet Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Prepared By Minxie name/title Fannin & Monique B. Lehner, Fannin-Lehner Preservation Consultants, with Betsy Friedberg, NR Director, MHC organization Massachusetts Historical Commission date January 1994 street & number 80 Boylston Street telephone (617) 727-8470 cityor town.
Boston Additional Documentation Submit the following items with the completed form: state MA - zip code 02116 Continuation Sheets Maps A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. Photographs Representative black and white photographs of the property. Additional items (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) Property Owner (Complete this item at the request of SHPO or FPO.) Diane and James Abdon/Abdon Service Station name 117 Beale Street (617) 472-9446 street & number city or town.
Quincy telephone MA state 02170 zip code PaperworkReduction Act Statement: Thisinformation is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings. Response to this request is required to obtain a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). Estimated Burden Statement: Public reportingburden forthis form is estimated to average 18.1 hours per response including time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of this form to the Chief, Administrative Services Division, National Park Service, P.O.
Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127;and the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Projects (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503. NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number _7, 8 Page 3, 1 A.C. Smith & Co. Gas Station Quincy (Norfolk County) Massachusetts three recessed panels set off by three rows of stepped bricks; the east elevation is similarly treated, with a panelled stepped brick design whose recessed areas are filled from south to north by a large office window, a small window, a door and a fourth bay, all delineated by a row of stretchers.
The red brick rear elevation is fenestrated with large industrial type multipaned windows (25 lights, and 20 lights) lighting the back of the service area (top floor); the floor below is used for storage. Plain doors, bays and windows are used The most impressive section of the interior is the garage service area, efficiently lit by the original three large hipped skylights (photograph #6) set atop metal curbs on the tar and gravel flat roof. The ceiling is made of wood boards and the walls are brick. In the cement floor are three service pits. Adjacent to the service area is a small office and one restroom. This plan and building program (an office contiguous to a service area made up of one or more bays) contained within a plain rectangular structure was just coming into favor and continued to be used for the next half century for gasoline stations throughout the country.
The overhead doors are not original but date back to the 1950s, the vintage of the gasoline pump at the southeast corner. The 1926 version of the bay doors had four openings with small lights with a solid panel below. Archaeological Description While no prehistoric sties are currently recorded on the property, it is possible that sites are present. One prehistoric site is recorded in the general area (within one mile). In general, however, the potential for significant archaeological survivals, both prehistoric and historic is low because of extensive urban development in the area, the small lot size (15,137 sq. ft.) and because the present structure, which has a basement covers most of the lot. (end) 8. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The A. C.
Smith & Company gas station at 117 Beale Street possesses integrity of location, design, materials, setting, workmanship, feeling and association and meets National Register Criteria A and C. Under Criterion A, the station was built in a period of intense population growth and automobile acquisition in Quincy. In 1924, there were 7,778 cars registered in Quincy. This amount had doubled by 1929. It was during this period, in 1926, that the A. C. Smith & Co. gas station was erected. This architect designed brick station meets Criterion C (continued) NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number - Page -2 A.C. Smith & Co.
Gas Station Quincy (Norfolk County) Massachusetts as a fine existing unaltered example of an early 20th century gas station whose traditional commercial facade, replete with symbols of the automotive age, was meant to enhance and relate to the neighboring structures. This is one of the few remaining period gas stations in Quincy. An enduring historic resource from the flowering of the auto age in Quincy, the A. C. Smith & Co. gas station is an important component in Quincy's commercial road-related transportation history. Although Louis Badger, of the old Quincy granite firm of Badger Bros., had actually built a functioning "horseless truck" in 1861, there were still only a few "horse-less carriages" traveling the Quincy roads in the early 1900s.
The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles first registered cars in 1903 and 38 motor vehicles were registered from the Quincy-Wollaston area for that year. Of that number, eight were Stanleys, a popular steam propelled Freelan O. Stanley since 1898. (Flinck, p. 6-7) By 1914, summer automobile traffic was so heavy that an official vehicular count take on a July Sunday between 9:30 am and 7:00 pm tallied was 3,525 motor vehicles to 90 horse-drawn conveyances. The Quincy Planning Board, in 1923, was sufficiently alarmed about meager automobile parking and growing congestion to report to Mayor Gustave B. Bates and the City Council: "It is indisputable that municipalities must plan for handing the tremendous traffic ..." (Edwards, p. 305). The 83% increase of Quincy automobile ownership between 1924 and 1929, the period in which the A. C. Smith & Co.
station was built, meantthere was an automobile for almost every home in Quincy (Edwards, p. 307). The Quincy experience mirrored what was taking place nationally: there were 8 million cars registered in the United States in 1920, this reached "an astonishing 23 million by 1930" (Liebs, p. 17, 20). Accommodation to Quincy's burgeoning automobile population and traffic during the 1900 to 1930 period was reflected in the construction of three new Quincy parkways: the Furnace Brook Parkway, Quincy Shore Drive and the Pilgrim Highway (now called Southern Artery). The A. C. Smith & Co. Gas Station is one of five gasoline stations listed in the 1986 Comprehensive Survey and Inventory of the City of Quincy's Cultural Resources. All five gasoline stations are considered worthy survivors of a type of structure which is only now (1993) beginning to be appreciated and recognized. Professor John A.
Jackie, who spoke on gasoline stations ("Place Product Packaging") as Roadside Architecture at the Historic Preservation Colloquium Session at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians in Albuquerque, NM, April 1, 1992, mentioned that he is planning to publish a book on gasoline stations in 1993 with Keith Sculle of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Future research could draw upon Professor Jackle's and Mr. Sculle's work. (continued) NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Section number - Page - A.C. Smith & Co.
Gas Station Quincy (Norfolk County) Massachusetts One of the other four gas stations in Quincy is a 1926 concrete structure in the shape of a lighthouse (a copy of the 1716 Boston Light), which serves as an integral part of the Quincy Oil Filling Station located at 728 Southern Artery (MHC #915) by housing the compressor for the air hose. The other three stations postdate the A. C. Smith & Co. Gas Station. The oldestis the ca. 1929Cape Cod Revival station located at 507 Furnace Brook Parkway (MHC #480), which blends well with its residential neighbors.
The next in age is the brick 1931 Colonial Revival station at 346 Sea Street (MHC #2), considered one of the fine small commercial structures of Quincy, and the youngest is the brick 1947 station at 10 Independence Avenue (MHC #349) which was designed in a late commercial Colonial Revival style torelateto the historic birthplaces of John Adams and John Quincy Adams across the street. All four gas stations have architectural integrity. What sets the A. C. Smith & Co. gas station apart is its forward-looking modernistic 1926 facade design, the clean "oblong box" which was to become popular in the 1930s, and the use of automobile iconography as decorative details.
Built when other stations were partially hidden behind residential-like facade, this station proudly and unequivocally announced its function, a place to sell gasoline and service motor cars in a modern, well designed, and functional atmosphere. To serve the needs of the growing numbers of automobiles, various types of gas stations appeared across the United States between 1905 and 1913. The first drive-in filling station in New England opened 1915 in Medford, MA (Sculle, "The Jenny Manufacturing Company: A Proper Appeal," p. 1). By the 1920s "the car had become a powerful technological, social, and cultural force in America" (Folke T. Kihlsted , "A Bridge between Engineering and Architecture," in Roadside Architecture, p. 5) and gas stations consequently proliferated. The A. C. Smith & Co. station is located in the Montclair neighborhood of North Quincy.
Montclair is bordered by the Neponset River to the north, Beale Street to the south, newport Avenue to the west and Town of Milton to the east. It was once part of Dorchester and became part of the Town of Quincy in 1792. Like its neighbors, Atlantic and Wollaston, most of the community of Montclair was built in the first third of the 20th century. From earliest colonial times until the Civil War, North Quincy was referred to as "The Farms" and it was to the farmlands of Montclair that real estate entrepreneurs beckoned the nearby inhabitants of Boston and its suburbs. The Micaih Pope farm was one of the largest to be. subdivided; in 1883 Arthur D. McCellen cut it into street and house lots calling it "Montclair." Other active real estate developers were Maurice E. Kilpatrick, Edward L. Parlee and Henry J. Grass.
The development process, which largely took place in the last decade of the 19th century and in the first two decades of the twentieth, was in response to a huge increase in Quincy's population from 16,726 persons in 1890 to 40,674 in 1915 and 71,983 in 1930. This process was greatly accelerated by the Old Colony Railroad which (continued) NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Section number. Page - A.C. Smith & Co. Gas Station Quincy (Norfolk County) Massachusetts began operation in 1845 as well as by the advent of Quincy's extensive street railway system (1896). Surges of commercial activity, including gas stations to service the increasingly mobile suburbanite, accompanied the multiplying residential expansion. The location chosen by Albert C.
Smith for his service station in the flourishing Montclair neighborhood was particularly felicitous and no doubt the key to its survival. First, the siting of the station at the corner of Beale and Arlington Streets was classically correct: all literature on the placement of gasoline stations recommend a corner lot which can accommodate necessarydriveways, afford access fromtwo streets and offer extensive parking. Second, downtown Wollaston as well the stop of the Old Colony Railroad (now the MBTA Station) was a mere block or two away, convenient for commuters to leave their cars for servicing while they traveled to Boston. Third, the station was and still is in the heart of a large and relatively affluent residential area.
Fourth, Beale Street is a highly trafficked thoroughfare, connecting Hancock Street both to Willard Street in West Quincy and to Granite Street, which provides access to Boston via the Southeast Expressway. During its 67 years of existence, the A. C. Smith & Co. gas station has had only had three proprietors, an extraordinarily stable pattern of ownership. The first owner, Albert Carleton Smith, acquired the 117 Beale Street plot by 1923 and built the $16,000 station in 1926, engaging Batty & Gallagher as architects and Clark (Charles S. Clark) & Smith Inc. as contractors. The land had been owned in 1907 by George A. Richard, a jeweler. By 1932, Albert Smith, who lived at 179 Norfolk Street, Quincy, also owned a 10,068 sq.ft. lot at 244- 252 Arlington Street, diagonally across from his 117 Beale Street property; his 1932 advertisement also listed the 2348 Arlington Street address.
Smith owned the gas station for 41 years, from 1924 to 1965, offering a variety of services. His initial ad in the 1927 Quincy City Directory read: "A. C. Smith & Co./Alemite Greasing Service/Gasoline, Accessories, Tires." Five years later he was providing his roadside customers with gas, automobile garaging, storage, repairing, and tires, as well as oils and lubricants, retail and wholesale. Harold E. Robbins, who renamed the station "Robbins Village Service, Inc.," was the next owner of the station. Acquiring the property in 1965, he retained it 12 years until 1977. The present owners, the George F. Abdon family, bought the station in 1977 and have kept it in the family until the present day (1993). The property was inherited by Diane and James Abdon, upon the death of their father, George F., in 1991. The daughter and son continue to personally manage the station.
(continued) NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Section number - Page - A.C. Smith & Co. Gas Station Quincy (Norfolk County) Massachusetts Local architects, Batty & Gallagher, located at 13 Temple Street, Quincy, were the designers of the A. C. Smith & Co. gas station. The firm was well-known, having been selected to design the Quincy Police Station (442 Southern Artery, 1925, MHC #128) and would receive the commission for the Colonial Apartments (57 Spear Street, MHC #265) in 1927. The principals of the firm were Ernest J. Batty (d. 1978) and John J. Gallagher; their ad in the 1927 Quincy Directory read: "Batty & Gallagher/Engineers and Architects/Plans and Specifications made for all types of construction/Years of Experience." The A. C. Smith & Co.
station is one of the few remaining unaltered gasoline stations of the 1920s which is still functioning as a neighborhood service station, a commercial roadside structure which first began to evolve in the 1920s. (Liebs, American Roadside Architecture, (p. 102) The Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register Division, was contacted in May 1992 to obtain copies of previously listed gas stations and five were received. (see Section 9: Major Bibliographic References) Of these, none were of the A. C. Smith & Co. station type, a 1920s traditional gasoline station with modernistic overtones, none retained their original function, and none had the automobile iconographic stylistic details which adorn the brick facade of this station.
Its rectangular plan, severe modern commercial facade enlivened with rondels and its efficient floor plan were architectural harbingers to the "porcelain-enameled metal-clad box" gasoline stations of the 1950s. As the A. C. Smith & Co. station goes into its 16th year of Abdon family ownership, the young proprietors, Diane and Jim Abdon, are cognizant of their significant architectural structure and plan to continue maintaining their neighborhood gasoline service station, respecting it as did their father, George F. Abdon. Daniel I. Vieyra, at the end of his article in Built in the U.S.A. concludes: "The gas station, itself the premier drive-in building, has a history and rich design heritage of its own and is a significant part of the built environment." The A. C. Smith & Co.
gas station makes an important architectural and historical contribution to its Montclair neighborhood as well as to the City of Quincy. (end) NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Section number - Page A.C. Smith & Co. Gas Station Quincy (Norfolk County) Massachusetts 9. MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Blumenson, John J.-G. Identifying American Architecture. Nashville, Tennessess: American Association for State and Local History, 1971. Edwards, William Churchill. Historic Quincy, Massachusetts. Quincy: City of Quincy, 1945, 1954, 1957. Fleming, John and Hugh Honour. The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books Itd., 1966. Flink, James J. The Automobile Age. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1988. Holly, H.
Hobart, Quincy: 350 Years. Quincy,Mass.: Quincy Heritage, Inc., 1974. Jennings, Jan, ed. Roadside America: The Automobile in Design and Culture. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1990. Jordy, William H. American Buildings and Their Architects: Progressive and Academic Ideals at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday & Co., 1976. Liebs, Chester H. Main Street to Miracle Mile: American Roadside Architecture Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1985. Lyons, Paul Robert. Quincy: A Pictorial History. Norfolk, Virginia: The Donning co., 1983. Privately printed by the Quincy Savings Bank. Maddex, Diane, ed. Built in the U.S.A.: American Buildings From Airports to Zoos. Washington, D. C.: The Preservation Press, 1985. Fifkind, Carole. Main Street: The Face of Urban America. New York: Harper & Row, 1977. Roth, Leland M.
A Concise History of American Architecture. New York: Harper & Row, 1979. (continued) NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Section number - Page - A.C. Smith & Co. Gas Station Quincy (Norfolk County) Massachusetts Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge. Report One: East Cambridge. Cambridge Historical Commission, 1963 Report Two: Mid Cambridge. CHC 1967. Report Three: Cambridgeport. CHC 1971. Report Four: Old Cambridge. CHC 1977. Report Five: Northwest Cambridge. CHC 1977. Report One printed by Acme Printing Co., Inc. Reports Two to Five distributed by the M. I. T. Press. Vieyra, Daniel Il. "Fill'er Up": An Architectural History of America's Gas Stations. New York: Macmillan Pub. Co., Inc., 1979. Warner, Sam B., Jr.
Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston 1870-1900 New York: Athenaeum, 1970. Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The M.I.T. Press, 1969. PERIODICALS Holtwijk, Theo. "Pumping Architects for Ideas." Competitions, Vol. I, Winter 1991, p. 17-48. "Home-Made Auto the First in Quincy." Patriot Ledger, May 20, 1930. Jakle, John A. "The American Gas Station." Journal of American Culture, vol. 1, no. 3, Fall 1978, p. 520-542. National Petroleum News. Patton, Phil. "A quick Way from Here to There was also a Frolic." Smithsonian, October 1990, p. 96-108. Sculle, Keith A. "The Enduring Best: Beacon Oil Company's'Watertown' Filling Stations." Pioneer America Society Transactions, vol. IX, 1986, p. 1-7. Sculle, Keith A. "The Jenney Manufacturing Company: A Proper Appeal." Journal, vol. 2, no. 4, September 1984, p. 1-2.
SCA News (continued) NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Section number - Page - A.C. Smith & Co. Gas Station Quincy (Norfolk County) Massachusetts Sculle, Keith A. "The Pure Sign."Journal of American Culture, vol. 5, no. 1, Spring 1982, p. 84-92. "Skylights," Old-House Journal, vol. XX, no. 4, July/August 1992, p. 42-46. PUBLIC DOCUMENTS U.S. Government Documents U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. National Register Nomination Forms: "Drumright Gasoline Plant No. 2," R.R. #1, Box 250, Drumright, Oklahoma. (1980) "Freitag's Pure Oil Service Station," 1323 Ninth Street, Monroe, Wisconsin. (1978) "Hy-Red Gasoline Station," 203 E. Main Street, Greentown, Indiana. (1983) "Spur Gasoline Station," 201 East Bridge Street, Cynthiana, Kentucky.
(1986) "Standard Oil Gasoline Station," 600 Lockport Street, Plainfield, Illinois. (1984) Commonwealth Government Documents Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Historical Commission. "Historical and Architectural Survey of Quincy, MA, "Fannin/Lehner, 1986. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles. Gene A. Baril, historian. n.d Local Government Documents City of Boston, Boston Landmarks Commission reference files. City of Quincy, Assessors Records. City of Quincy, Office of the Inspector of Buildings: Original plans by Batty & Gallagher; Building Permits: #20661 (1926), #27213 (1929), #109518 (1991) City of Quincy, Annual Reports. (continued) NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet 9, 10 4,1 Section number Page A.C. Smith & Co.
Gas Station Quincy (Norfolk County) Massachusetts OTHER SOURCES Quincy Business and Residential Directories Quincy Historical Society Files. Thomas Crane Public Library Reference Files. Unpublished Manuscripts Ramsdell, John. "Historic North Quincy." ("Written about 1934"). Typed manuscript. Quincy Historical Society. Received in 1968. (end) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 10. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA Verbal Boundary Description Lots 9,10, 11, City of Quincy Assessor's Map #5114-5115 (see attached). Verbal Boundary Justification The nominated property includes the entire parcel historically associated with the A. C. Smith & Co. gas station. (end) NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number _N/A Page _N/A - 0098 GI-Hd38 -- - 100 -P7.15 P/-19 bL F21 20 ZZI 100 2/ Plat!
16860 Muiccn siodigue cr.ux.,2ubinq 11. x.551 911 GRAND 182.16 21 " PIl AVE. 1236 801 Plot 15 E5984 sos 921 121 2070/ = 1S OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 A. C. Smith & Co. Gas Station Quincy (Norfolk County) Massachusetts Quincy Assessors Map# 5114-5115 Lots #9, 10, 11 Scale: 1" = 40' Date 1990 Edward T. Cochranc 326324 116.02 6 Plot 14 5093 8 Plot 16 5618 James Marris tulk Budget V. 108.7 Han-Lieh chic Doris J. chiu FAyEtteRL TrSTESS The Ash 51.08 V38 Jo 9 Plot é 5252 T.G104887 Plor 3 5000 - T.C.104887 10 P/or1 +885 T.C104887 Gearge F. Abdon 91.04 269 267 265 141.04 263 50.0 261 259 ARLINGTON ST.
270 268 -266 264 262 260 139.0 6 Plor/ 770 Hose House B01 LOI Ciry of Quincy S.M 7 Plot /4 6+24 ÇOI 125.96 100.96 25.0 NPS Form10-000-e (8-88) United States Department of the Interior NationalPark Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page OMBApproval No. 1024-0018 AUG i 7 1989 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Quincy MRA Norfolk County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review 71. White, Charles E., House intered 1n the National Register 72. Winfield House Entered in the National Registar 73. Wollaston Branch, Thomas Crane Public Library aatered in the National Register 74. Wollaston Fire Station Entered iathe wational Begistaz 75. Wollaston Theatre Entered in the National Register 76. Wollaston Unitarian Church 77. Baxter--King House Entered in the Nationa. Reg Stthe Entered National Registar Mascnéc demmle 78.
Masonic Temple Entered in the Nat1owl Register 79. Pettengill, C.F., House 80. Woodward Institute Date/Signature fokcopor elmBgen zpales Attest fokeeper AeloreBagun 2/0/69 Attest keeper / AelrurBgun 9/20/69 Attest feeper 04/19 Attest fakeeper SenBzu 9/20/69 Attest fokeeper MlmuBye 220/49 Attest Keeper AhlunaByun 122/5 Attest keeper 012/04 Attest Reeper AuemeBgu «112/04 Attest Keeper SherreBgun 110/09 Attest 81. Smita, AC., dCo, nas statin Jubst Ruitu 2/23/44 NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Section number - Page - - SUPPLEMENTARY LISTING RECORD NRIS Reference Number: 94000036 Date Listed: 2/23/94 A.C. Smith & Co.
Gas Station Norfolk MA Property Name: County: State: Multiple Name This property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places in accordance with the attached nomination documentation subject to the following exceptions, exclusions, or amendments, notwithstanding the National Park Service certification included in the nomination documentation. tuck W.Ar duus fnfignature of the keeper 2/23/94 Date of Action Amended Items in Nomination: A technical correction is made to this form. The form is officially amended to indicate that the acreage of the nominated area is less than one acre. DISTRIBUTION: National Register property file Nominating Authority (withoutnomination attachment) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Smith, A. C., & Co.
Gas Station NAME: MULTIPLE Quincy MRA NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Norfolk DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: 1/10/94 2/11/94 DATE OF PENDING LIST: 1/26/94 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 2/24/94 REFERENCE NUMBER: 94000036 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: OTHER: N PDIL: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N N PERIOD: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: SLR DRAFT: Y NATIONAL: N N N COMMENT WAIVER: N VACCEPT RETURN REJECT 2/23/94 DATE ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: e tirty alymaetei aauelt sinoiats il so% qreat period of groth in auto use in Qiuny. RECOM.
ALLEPT AEC REVIEWER auer anaues DISCIPLINE Histovian DATE 2/23/94 DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N seeattached SLR YN 33 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 1.
Gas Station, 117 Beale Street Quincy 2. Norfolk County, MA 3. Monique B. Lehner 4. March 1992 5. Negatives with photographer 72 South Pleasant Street Hingham, mA 6. South facade and east side elevation. Wollaston Fire Station to east. Intersection of Beale and Arlington Streets, losking n 7.#1 of 6 -sdid- TUNE - UP BRAKES 1. Gas Station, 117 Beale Street Quincy 2. Norfolk County, ma 3. Monique B. Lehner 4. March 1992 5. Negatives with photographer 72 South Pleasant Street Hingham, mA 6. South facade, looking north 7#2a 6 1. Gas Station, 117 Beale Street Quincy 2. Norfolk County, mA 3. Monique B. Lehner 4. March 1992 5. Negatives with photographer 72 South Pleasant Street Hingham, mA 6. Southwest corner, looking northeast. Detail: Rondel with relief of car. Recessed brick panel, west eleretion. 7.#30f6 1. Gas Station, 117 Beale Street Quincy 2. Norfolk County, mA 3. Monique B. Lehner 4.
March 1992 5. Negatives with photographer South Pleasant Street Hingham, ma 6. South facade, rondel with winged wheel in center gable. 7#4 o6 1. Gas Station, 17 Beale Street Quincy 2. Norfolk County, ma 3. Monique B. Lehner 4. March 1992 5. Negatives with photographer 72 South Pleasant Street Hingham, mA 6. Rear (north) eleration, looking south. 7.#5o6 OOAOAL j003t 1. Gas Station, 117 Beale Street Quincy 2. Norfolk County, ma 3. Monique B. Lehner 4. March 1992 5. Negatives with photographer 12 South Tleasant Street Hingham, mA 6. Interior 7.#6of6 * * COMMISSIONA VILe LREAAS 1 Cornmnikalit o ke) January 5, 1994 RECEIVED Carol Shull National Register of Historic Places Department of the Interior National Park Service P.O. Box 37127 Washington, DC 20013-7127 Dear Ms. Shull: JAN 1 01994 NATIONAL REGISTER Enclosed please find the following nomination form: A. C. Smith & Co.
Gas Station, 117 Beale Street, Quincy (Norfo1k County), Massachusetts, 02170. The nomination has been voted eligible by the State Review Board and has been signed by the State Historic Preservation Officer. Because the city of Quincy is a participant in the Certified Local Government program, ot pusney e the owners were notified of pending State Review Board consideration 60-120 days before the meeting and were afforded the opportunity to comment. Sincerely, Betey Freedheg Friedberg National Register Director Massachusetts Historical Commission enclosure CC: Diane and James Abdon, Abdon Service Station Fannin-Lehner Preservation Consultants Mayor James A. Sheets, City of Quincy Charles J. Phelan, Jr., Chairman, City Council Roberta Fitzgerald, Dept. of Planning & Community Dev.
Richard Lockhead, Chairman, Quincy Historical Commission Warren Watson, Director, Thomas Crane Public Library Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 (617) 727-8470 Office of the Secretary of State, Michael J. Connolly, Secretary
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