Major Bibliographical References (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 Record #. Randall-Hale Homestead Name of Property 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property less than one acre UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet) 1.
19 Zone 292300 Easting 4697920 Northing 2. Zone Easting Northing Middlesex County, MA County and State 3. Zone 4. Zone Easting Easting _ See continuation sheet Northing Northing 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 name/title_Andrew Curtis on behalf of the Stow Historical Commission with Betsy Friedberg, NR Director, MHC organization Massachusetts Historical Commission dateJanuary 1996 street & number_220 Morrissey Boulevard telephone (617) 727-8470 city or town Boston _ stateMA _zip code_02125 Additional Documentation Submit the following items with the completed form: Continuation Sheets 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 the SHPO or FPO.) name Robert and Judith Zeitlin street & number_6 Sudbury Road telephone city or town Stow state MA _zip code_01775 Paperwork Reduction Act Statement:This information 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.).
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DESCRIPTION The Randall-Hale Homestead, Stow, is situated on hilly upland terrain in this rural community located in far western Middlesex County. The property is sited facing south on a low rise overlooking the Assabet River and the mills of Gleasondale Village to the southwest. The .68-acre lot is bounded by a low fieldstone wall, augmented by a stockade fence which provides some privacy from nearby Gleasondale Road. The primary open land area lies to the east, where the driveway and parking area are sited away from the homestead and in front of the gardens. A large fir tree marks the property's western edge, at the intersection of Gleasondale and Sudbury Roads. The homestead is set back approximately twenty-five feet from Sudbury Road and is reached by a crushed stone driveway. The west elevation lies within five feet of Gleasondale Street.
The homestead is oriented to the south, overlooking the Assabet River and mills to the southwest. The carriage barn and equipment shed are located thirty feet directly north of the homestead. The barn is located directly across Sudbury Road. The surrounding land is used for residential and agricultural purposes. The mill village of Gleasondale, formerly Randall Mills, lies 1/4 mile to the southwest. Fronting the house is a rapidly maturing stand of oak, maple, and other deciduous trees. Several large evergreens encroach both the front and west-side elevations. The most prominent manmade feature in the vicinity of the homestead is the road fork and grassy triangle formed at the intersection of Gleasondale Road and Sudbury Road.
Gleasondale Road has served as the main route for travel from the Marlboro-Hudson area through Gleasondale Village to Stow Center and the Concord-Acton area since the 18th century. Natural features of the surrounding landscape include large deciduous tree stands intermixed with orchard and pastureland. The existing main house was apparently begun ca. 1710. It is rectangular in plan with a small ell addition ca. 1760 that extends off the north elevation and runs flush with the west elevation wall to create the L-shaped first floor plan. The square-in-plan east wing of ca. 1820 is set back twelve feet from the south elevation of the main house. A single-story addition of ca. 1990 extends further from the 1820 wing.
The main house retains some evidence of previous construction, though most finishes, both inside and out, reflect the Georgian updating that the house received in the mid 18th century. Further analysis of the evidence of pre-existing rooflines must be completed before any definite conclusion can be drawn to First Period construction. The main house and east wing are 2 1/2 stories tall with full basement. The north ell additions are one story tall with no basement. The fieldstone foundation with walls two feet thick appears to be original. The exterior walls are clad with the original beveled wood clapboards with lapped ends 3-1/2 inches to the weather, except in a few minor areas where they were replaced during minor restoration work in the late 1970s. The present replacement clapboards are butt ended. (continued) NP8 Form 10-000a (8-88) OMB Approvel No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Natlonal Register of Historlc Places Continuation Sheet Sectlon number. Randall-Hale Homestead Stow (Middlesex County) Massachusetts Page The roof on all house parts is a simple gable, overlaid with cedar shingles. A centrally located six- opening fireplace rises through the main house ridge, while a two-opening fireplace located inside the east wing wall rises through the far eastern end of the ridge. The ell also has a centrally located fireplace. The homestead is trimmed with several fine examples of classic Georgian stone details translated into wood. Eave detail consists of a five-inch cornice molding above a three-inch fascia with soffit extending eight inches from the north and south elevations and returns two feet on the gabled ends.
Frieze board is continuous across the top of the north and south elevations with a four-inch bed molding applied to its top edge. The bottom four inches are notched around the projecting second floor window casings. Typical windows have double-hung wooden sash, most with 9/6 or 6/6 sash; for the most part, these are appropriate 1970s replacements of the late 19th century 2/2 windows. Sash are surrounded by molded casings that stand in relief from the plane of the facade in a symmetrical composition. The panelled front door within a heavy entablature dominates the southern, front elevation. It is an important defining element of the Georgian architectural style, and, in the Randall-Hale Homestead, is a particularly fine example.
The generously proportioned surround is composed of battered or receding pilasters on plinths supporting a developed entablature, which is in turn topped by a projecting crown molding. The south elevation of the east side wing of ca. 1820 has a different eave crown molding profile, 9/6 windows placed symmetrically, and a panelled door at the far east corner. Corner pilasters exist on all elevations. Both east and west elevations have gable end eave returns, with a square attic vent to the east and a 6/6 wood sash attic window to the west. The narrow "funeral door" on the building's western side dates to the ca. 1820 remodelling of the house. The north elevation has similar continuous eave and frieze detail with evidence of a change in the moulding profiles between the ca. 1820 wing and the main house.
The windows are grouped in pairs across the second floor in an asymmetrical arrangement. Two 9/6 wood sash windows are found on the north sides of the rear, wing addition and on the east elevation of the ell. A single 6/6 wood sash window is located on the first floor of the wing addition. Doors at the north side of the main block and eastern side of the ell include a 20th century twelve-light door on the building's main body; both doors presently provide access to a brick patio. The newest addition to the property, a two-bay gable-end structure extending the ca. 1820 wing, echoes the molded cornice with returns of the building's older sections. Fenestration includes 6/9 and 6/6 sash as well as fixed multipaned lights, all set in molded surrounds, arrayed singly and in pairs. A pair of multipaned doors provides access to a picket fence-enclosed patio.
Structure and Plan The existing 2 1/2-story main house of ca. 1710 is rectangular in plan with a centrally located six-opening fireplace. (See attached floor plan.) The square-in-plan 2 1/2-story east wing of ca. 1820 is set back twelve feet from the south elevation of the main house with a two-opening fireplace located inside the east (continued) NPS Form 10-000 (8-66) OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Natlonal Register of Historlc Places Continuation Sheet Section number . Randall-Hale Homestead Stow (Middlesex County) Massachusetts Page - wall. Both sections are supported on two-foot-thick rubblestone foundation basement walls. The ca. 1760 ell, supported on a low rubblestone foundation, extends off the north elevation and runs flush with the west elevation wall to create the L-shaped first floor plan.
It also has a centrally located fireplace. The first floor structure is supported on 8"x10" handhewn chestnut sills with vertically sawn 2"x10" joists running north/south. The first floor wall construction is post and beam divided into three east/west bays by 8"x8" posts and 8"x10" beam. Upper stories are constructed in similar fashion, while the 4"x6" roof rafters and 4"x4" purlins support 1"x8" sheathing and a wood shingle roof. A single six-raised-panel door opens to the central 8'x10' Stair Hall. To the east through a four-raised- panel door, the 15'x18' Parlor (presently a Study with adjoining 1/2 Bathroom) has a full-height raised panel west wall, part of the ca. 1760 updating of the original structure, and a small fireplace opening.
At the west end, also through a four-raised-panel door, the 15'x18' Hall (presently a Living Room) retain a corner cupboard and fireplace opening in the east wall. Doors in the north wall of the Hall and Parlor lead to a long 40'x10' Keeping Room containing a large fireplace with rear beehive oven at the center of the south wall. In the northwest corner, a stairway leads down to the Basement and up to the Servants Quarters and small north Bed Chambers. Entry to this room from the outside is gained through the "funeral door" on the north facade. A Summer Kitchen ell of ca. 1760 forms the vertical leg of the L- shaped plan; it is entered through a four-raised-panel door in the Keeping Room. A fireplace with side oven is centrally located in this ell addition.
Door openings in the east Keeping Room wall lead to the Buttery (now a Laundry) at the northwest and a Contemporary Kitchen at the southeast corner with a fireplace projecting from the interior of the east wall. A stairway leading up to the second floor is located on the Kitchen side of the Keeping Room east wall. Access to the Basement on this stairway is gained through the Buttery. The structure of this Kitchen and Laundry Room wing is dated ca. 1820. The central stairway rises from east to west turning at two separate landings and ending at the Stair Hall landing over the first floor entry. Doors at each end of the Stair Hall lead to two large Bed Chambers that occupy the spaces directly above the Hall and Parlor at the first floor level. Each large Bed Chamber has a fireplace opening off the centrally located main fireplace chimney.
Closets for each large Bed Chamber and a small Bed Chamber to the north occupy the space between the main chimney block and north wall of the large Bed Chambers. The stairway leading from the Contemporary Kitchen wing ca. 1820 rises to a Stair Hall that connects two smaller Bed Chambers over the Keeping Room, a full Bathroom, and Dressing Room in the ca. 1820 wing above the Contemporary Kitchen. The northwest corner Stair Hall probably served as a "back-stair" for servants and connected the large southwest Bed Chamber, Bathroom, small north Bed Chambers, and attic stair. The attic space, except for a 12'x10' finished "Servants Room" centered under the west end of the gabled roof, is unfinished. An attic stairway leads to another "shuttle door" that protrudes through the roof ridge directly to the north of the main chimney. (continued) NPS Form 10-000-e (8-66) OMBApprorel No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number. 4 Randall-Hale Homestead Stow (Middlesex County) Massachusetts Page Most finish work is intact in remaining original walls and ceilings of the ca. 1760 Georgian remodeling Walls are wood lath and plaster, generally in good condition. Early wallpaper remains in several rooms. A fresco ca. 1950 occupies the top half of the north wall and half of the west wall in the Hall (Living Room). The scenes depicted include a view of the Randall-Hale Homestead west elevation, a Revolutionary Period battle scene, and a view of the Gleason Houses off Gleasondale Street looking north. Panelling added ca. 1760 remains in the Parlor, Hall, and southeast Bed Chamber. The Keeping Room has horizontal wide-board wainscoting, 27" high.
Sash, doors, casings, baseboards, and other wood trim of the Keeping Room are hardwood with a natural finish. The Parlor panelling and trim is painted, while the Hall trim has a grained finish. Chestnut corner posts and ceiling beams are exposed in the Keeping Room. Typical doors have four raised panels. Door and window trim is 4 inches wide with a 3/8" beading along the inside edge of the head and jamb casings. Typical baseboards are 6" high. Typical flooring is face-nailed wide pine, 10"-14" wide. The trim around the Keeping Room fireplace has a natural finish and features 7" side trim and a 10" architrave below a 1"x8" thick mantel with 4" bed molding below. Wing and ell addition fireplaces are brick faced. The Central stairway remains as originally built ca. 1710.
It is possible that the stairway trim was updated during the Federal period as indicated by the use of the 1" square balusters. The treads, risers, baseboard, skirting, molded rail, balusters, and newel posts are hardwood with a white paint finish. Typical newels are 3 1/4" square. A similar proportioned railing is found in the Stair Hall of the wing addition. The attic room has wood lath and plaster walls with no wood detailing. Legend has it that this room was used to hide slaves in the "underground railroad." The house retains original hardware, including iron door latches and strap hinges. Modern plumbing is restricted to the wing additions. Outbuildings The carriage barn and equipment shed are located directly to the north of the homestead. The L-shaped building group consists of a 1 1/2-story carriage house with gable roof and a one-story equipment building with shed roof.
Both buildings have wide board and batten siding, while the carriage house gable end has wavy-edged rough-cut horizontal siding. The massive 2 1/2-story New England barn, with entrance through its gable end facing north onto Sudbury Road, probably dates to the ca. 1820 improvements of the property. It is clapboard-sheathed, and its central door is topped by a fifteen-light transom. A smaller door also provides access into the barn. (continued) NPS Form 10-000-a (8-66) OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interlor National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page 5, 1 Randall-Hale Homestead Stow (Middlesex County) Massachusetts Archaeological Description While no prehistoric sites are currently recorded on the property, it is possible that sites are present. Two sites are recorded in the general area (within one mile).
The physical characteristics of the property also indicate locational criteria favorable for prehistoric sites. The Randall-Hale Homestead lies on well drained, level to moderately sloping terrain in close proximity (within 1,000 feet) to the Assabet River. Given the above factors, site densities in the area, the size of the parcel (.68 acres) and historic land use on the property, a moderate to high potential exists for locating significant prehistoric survivals. A high potential exists for locating historic archaeological resources on the property. Construction features and/or structural remains may survive from building alterations which occurred at several times, particularly ca. 1710, ca. 1760, and ca. 1820. Structural remains may also survive from outbuildings no longer extant on the property.
Occupational related features (trash pits, privies, wells) may also survive on the property buthave yet to be identified (end) 8. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The Randall-Hale Homestead, Stow, retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials, and workmanship, as well as associations with the development of a locally important industrial village from the 18th through the 19th century. The property, the earliest in the village of Gleasondale and among the earliest in Stow, was begun ca. 1710 and retains some evidence of its First Period construction. Its additions and updating ca. 1760 and ca. 1820 demonstrate the evolution many early properties underwent as their owners' needs and economic circumstances changed over time. It remains one of the finest colonial-period residences surviving in Stow.
As such, the Randall-Hale Homestead fulfils Criteria A and C of the National Register of Historic Places on the local level. The 2 1/2-story Randall-Hale Homestead is situated on the northernmost ridge above the Assabet River overlooking Gleasondale Mills village (established 1898), which was previously known as Rock Bottom (1815-1898) and still earlier as Randall Mills (1776-1815). While the house holds evidence of having begun as a 1 1/2-story saltbox ca. 1700-1710, (again, further analysis of pre-existing roof structure should be explored to document such evidence) it was extensively remodelled ca. 1760 in the popular Georgian style.
The house retains relatively intact elements of the newer Georgian, or Second Period, style, including its 2 1/2-story form, gable-ended roof with cornice moldings projecting from the plane of the facade, prominent center entry and central entrance plan, and intact period Parlor panelling. The Randall-Hale Homestead holds association with the early industrial development of the village of Gleasondale. Both the Randall and Hale families contributed significantly to the industrial development of the area through direct ownership of mill buildings. Abraham Randall (1741-1815) and his family (continued) NPS Form 10-000-e (8-66) OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of theInterior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number - Randall-Hale Homestead Stow (Middlesex County) Massachusetts Page owned the Randall Mills from 1776 to 1815. Much of the area, which is still referred to as Gleasondale, survives, including the mill, owners' housing, and worker housing, and the village appears to meet the criteria for listing on the National Register. The area around Gleasondale village had been a Native American settlement in the plantation called Pompositticutt. Matthew Boon and John Kettle bought land from the Native Americans and settled in the area from ca. 1660 to 1675. Hostilities during King Philips War brought an end to many of the region's settlements in 1676, including those of the Boon and Kettle families.
On May 16, 1683, the township of Stow was established by petition to the Great and General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Two village centers developed: Stow Center (where the third meetinghouse was built, 1754) and Lower Village (where the cemetery was located). A third village emerged on the Assabet River, currently called Gleasondale. The town economy centered around agricultural activities: grazing, dairying, orchards, and some tanning. The area along the Assabet River quickly became a milling district. Ebenezer Graves built the first dam, saw, and grist mill in what would eventually become Gleasondale on land he purchased in September 1716. Several saw and grist mills had been established on the east side of the river by 1735; by 1770, Timothy Gibson had purchased Graves' land, together with his saw and grist mill.
The twelve original Proprietors who received property in the 1683 establishment of Stow included Stephen Randall, the builder of the nominated property. After having been assigned a lot near the Assabet River in 1686, he built a 1 1/2-story saltbox situated at the northernmost ridge overlooking the river. Local records suggest the house was in place by ca. 1700-1710. The house continues to show evidence of having been initially a simple, one-room-deep hall and parlor, as was common in the first years of settlement in Middlesex County. The main block's present appearance was probably achieved in the mid 18th century by Abraham Randall, likely the grandson of Stephen. Abraham is believed to have been born in the Randall-Hale Homestead in September of 1741, and he resided there until his death in 1815.
He bought the mill property (sixty acres with corn and a saw mill) from the above-mentioned Timothy Gibson in 1776, for $462. The area where Abraham Randall maintained his industrial activities would be known as Randall Mills for the next 45 years. This same Abraham was active in the Revolutionary War as a private in Captain William Whitcomb's Company, Colonel James Prescott's Regiment, taking part in the Concord Fight during the alarm of April 19, 1775. He was commissioned a First Lieutenant of the Sixth Company, 4th Middlesex Regiment, on December 16, 1776. He is known to have participated in events leading up to the surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York, on October 17, 1777. As chairman of the board of selectmen in Stow, he was very active in obtaining recruits during the war.
He died on March 1, 1815, "as the result of exposure incident to his duties in receiving the returning soldiers of the War of 1812." (P. R. Crowell, History of Stow) (continued) NPS Form 10-000-4 (8-86) OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 United States Departmentofthe Interior National Park Service Natlonal Register of Historlc Places Continuation Sheet Section number Randall-Hale Homestead Stow (Middlesex County) Massachusetts Page - Abraham and his wife, Mary, had six sons: Phineus, Abraham Jr., Jonas, Paul, Edwin, and Luke. Two years prior to his death, Abraham granted his house to his second son, Abraham Jr. The corn and saw mills became the property of Abraham Jr. and Paul, who in turn sold them off between 1819 and 1822 to several enterprising merchants from Marlboro, now Hudson: Joel Cranston, Silas Felton, and Elijah Hale.
Together with another local merchant, Silas Jewell, these individuals were largely responsible for the early development of the cotton manufacturing enterprise at the location of Randall Mills, which came to be known as the Rock Bottom Cotton & Woolen Company. The village took on the name of Rock Bottom. It was renamed Gleasondale in 1898 after the mid 19th century owners of the mill, B. W. Gleason and Samuel Dale. Abraham Randall Jr.'s elder daughter, Hannah, married Calvin Hale, and they purchased the property from her father. Members of the Hale family had also been prominent in Stow's industrial development. Colonel Elijah Hale was a partner in the Rock Bottom woolen mills. Calvin and Hannah Hale's two sons, A.R.G. Hale (b.1834) and Joseph (birth date unknown), owned the Randall-Hale Homestead in 1875.
By 1889 Calvin was occupying the Hale family homestead at 194 Maple Street while Joseph was residing at the Randall-Hale Homestead. The Haleetonian of 1889 records that the distance between Stow and Rock Bottom was marked every half-mile by an elm tree, the first being in front of the Randall-Hale Homestead; the house was referred to, cryptically, in that document as "Minister" Randall's, then owned and occupied by Joseph Hale. Hales lived in the house until the death of Francis W. Hale, Calvin's grandson, in 1947. The Randall-Hale Homestead is architecturally significant as one of Stow's finest and best preserved 18th century houses. The main house retains its massive central chimney and rectangular plan with center entrance. The main house also retains signs of its ca. 1710 First Period construction.
Evidence of a saltbox roof that was five feet lower than the present roof is found on the east face of the chimney in the attic space and in the chestnut rafters and bracing, which also show evidence of having been reused or altered. These factors suggest that the original ca. 1710 house was 1 1/2 to 2 stories in height, one room deep, and built around a large central brick chimney with a half room under the lean-to side of the saltbox roof. The low rubble wall foundation below wide sills, the wide roof overhang, and the rear beehive oven of the central fireplace also suggest an early construction date. Other features in the main building demonstrate the ca. 1760 remodelling in the Georgian style, a change reflected in the improved living conditions which the economically prospering mills brought to the area.
Major alterations included raising the main roof five feet, obliterating the saltbox form, and the application of cornice molding and corner pilasters, as well as adding a generously proportioned central door surround with battered pilasters and a complete entablature topped by a deep projecting cornice. In addition, windows moldings that project from the plane of the facade and Parlor panelling were installed. The Summer Kitchen ell with central fireplace is also believed to date to ca. 1760. (continued) (OPSForm 100000 United States Department of the Interlor National Park Service Natlonal Register of Historlc Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 Randall-Hale Homestead Stow (Middlesex County) Massachusetts Section number Page The ca. 1820s wing addition coincides with the deeding of the Randall Mills by Abraham Randall Jr.
and Paul Randall to the RockBottom Cotton and Woolen Company inAugust 1819 and February 1822 for a total of $1,671.50. (The "funeral door" of the main house also appears to date to ca. 1820.) A 1960s photograph shows the existence of a Gothic-style porch on the 1820s wing's south elevation, a product of the Romantic Movement in architecture that had begun to appear after Alexander Jackson Downing's Cottage Residences was published in 1842. A shed addition off the Buttery (laundry) is also seen in a 1960s photograph. Both had been removed by the time of the purchase of the property by its present owners in the mid 1970s. The present windows, for the most part 12/8 wooden sash, were installed in place of late 19th century 2/2 sash in the course of a restoration of the property in 1977.
Three Stow properties dating from the early 18th century have been listed in the National Register as First Period buildings. These include the Brown-Stow House, 172 Harvard Road (ca. 1699-1711, with Federal updating); the Tenney Homestead, 156 Taylor Road (ca. 1700-1725, with Federal updating); and the Hapgood House, 76 Treaty Elm Lane (ca. 1726). All three displayed First Period timber-framing construction techniques and/or typical decorative detailing applied to structural members. Further research would be necessary into the framing and detail of the Randall-Hale Homestead in order to confirm its First Period origins.
In its present condition and appearance, therefore, the Randall-Hale Homestead is a particularly fine example of 18th century, English-inspired Georgian-style architecture, in a form less ornate than found in the more cosmopolitan seaport towns of Salem and New Bedford, but which nevertheless evinces the style's interest in classical elements and proportions. The style in Stow is translated from masonry into wood and is applied most conspicuously to the central door surround. The emphasis, as in other Georgian buildings in Stow, is clearly on the development of architectural elements standing in high relief from the plane of the facade in a symmetrical, classically inspired composition. The rectangular main house part ca.
1710 is typical of the early New England homestead that evolved from a one-room- deep Hall and Parlor plan to a saltbox plan and then on to the more formal Georgian form that reflected the prosperous economy of this region into the 19th century. Archaeological Significance Since patterns of prehistoric occupation in Stow are poorly understood, any surviving sites would be significant. While numerous sites have been identified along the Concord, Sudbury, and Assabet River drainages, many fewer sites have been systematically investigated, making surviving sites potentially significant. Prehistoric sites in the Stow area can help document the regional and local importance of the Assabet River ecosystem to Native American subsistence and settlement systems.
Information may also survive which indicates the importance of Native American land use along the Assabet River relative to the larger Merrimack River drainage. This information can be used to test the overall importance of riverine drainage basin in areas including trade, raw material use and procurement, and socio/political boundaries. (continued) (UP8 Fom 10.000a United States Department of the Interlor National Park Service Natlonal Register of Historlc Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 Section number 8, 9 Page 5, 1 Randall-Hale Homestead Stow (Middlesex County) Massachusetts Historic archaeological remains described above have the potential to contribute strongly to the homestead's significance, though much of it remains to be demonstrated.
These remains have the potential for providing detailed information on the social, cultural, and economic patterns that characterized one of the earlier residences in Stow and some of the more important mill owners in the Gleasondale District. Archaeological survey and testing can help document the chronology of exterior alterations to the building by locating structural and construction features not longer extant including chimney remains, foundations, footings, builder's trenches, and other structural features. The location of outbuildings no longer extant can also be helpful in documenting the layout of the property and activities carried out on the property. Detailed analysis of occupational related features can also be helpful in documenting the activities and lives of inhabitants of the house. (end) 9.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES A Narrative Architectural History of Stow: Including a Proposal for National Register Nominations. Architectural Preservation Associates, March 1982. Childs, Ethel, B. History of Stow: Tercentenary 1683 "Edition" 1983. Stow: Stow Historical Society Publishing Company, 1983. Crowell, Reverand., and Mrs. Preston R. Stow Massachusetts 1683-1933. Maynard: Murphy and Murphy and Synder Press. 1933. Massachusetts Historical Commission. Reconnaissance Survey Report. March 1980. Middlesex County Courthouse, deeds book 201. p.536 (1813), Cambridge, Massachusetts. Visit by John O. Curits. Curator, Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts. INTERVIEWS Stow Historical Commission, November 18, 1987. John Head, November 19, 1987. Dr. Robert Zeitlin (present owner), November 23, 1987.
(apS Fom 10000a United States Department of the Interlor National Park Service National Register of Historlc Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 Sectlon number 9, 10 2,1 Page. Randall-Hale Homestead Stow (Middlesex County) Massachusetts MAPS Tower, Augustus. Plan of the Town of Stow, 1830. Massachusetts State Archives, #2041, no. 12. Tuttle, Horace F. Plan #1324. August 15, 1947. U.S.G.S Hudson Quadrangle. United States Department of the Interior, Geologic Survey, 1966. (end) 10. Geographical Data Verbal Boundary Description See attached assessors map. Verbal Boundary Justification The nominated property includes the house, carriage house, shed, and barn associated with the Randall- Hale Homestead.
The barn, part of the original property, had been in separate ownership for much of the 20th century but was returned to ownership together with the Randall-Hale House itself ca. 1990. While the land associated with the Randall and Hale families at this location once totalled some sixty acres, much of that land has been subdivided and the present nomination includes only that land held by the present owners/applicants. (end) Gleason Perkins 205.23-528 Hearsey Est. 71°4S'E. LoT 3. 6.93 ACRES To Stow Center STOW MASS Surveyed by Horace F. Tuttle August 15 1947 Scalg 100 feet=1inch (Original on file.) (Scale, of this plan: 1in.=200ff.) ROAD 14 OW Emily Gleason Perkins Colleton Francis Formerly B.W Gleason IdsonSTOW Emily Glcason Perkins N 10°57 LOT 2. 3.64 ACRES We". RO 1. 29710 yFT DEU:Y: SUDSURY S.71-25E. 19a 87°5't. *Francis L. Colleton ROAD To Lake 1.B-S UIJON LoT 4.
22.30 ACRES N69°20'W .Thompson Harold C. Thompson Clifford J. Fuller Jr. Randall-Hale Homestead co,Suialoury Road Stow (middieroyCount.) Massachusetts Harold Middlesex Registry of Deeds, So. Dist. CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Plan Number 1324 . of 19.47 Recd. Sept.12, 1947at12h10 mP.M with.. Recorded, Book 7186 .... Page.End...
Arrest QlbeaiIuttocin Regiotor UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Randall--Hale Homestead NAME : MULTIPLE NAME : STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Middlesex DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: 2/16/96 3/14/96 DATE OF PENDING LIST: 2/27/96 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 4/01/96 REFERENCE NUMBER: 96000277 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N OTHER: X REQUEST:N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: PDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: SAMPLE : N SLR DRAFT:Y NATIONAL: N N N COMMENT WAIVER: N ACCEPT RETURN REJECT ABSTRACT/ SUMMARY COMMENTS: 3/2 Histoueally è architectmallu siqnifiont Zinot Peuód house. RECOM.
/ CRITERIA Accept AjC REVIEWER Patride Andues DISCIPLINE Nistorian TELEPHONE - DATE_ 3/22/20 DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N 1. PROPERTY NAME: RANDACC-HALE HOMESTEAD DI STREET ADDRESS: 6 SUDBURT ROAD. 3. Commienity : STOc0,MA, (Modlerx Cousti) 4. PHOTE GRAPIER AND DATE: ANDRELO R. CURHIE 1/2L/SS 5. LOCATION OF NEGATIVE: A. CURAIS 6. Aoto No.i /of15 1. DescripTieN: CEokING NORTH. 1. PRUPERTY NAME: RANDALL- HALE HOmESICAD 2. STREET ASDRESS: 6 SUDBURY ROAiS 3. CommuniT/: 570W, MA. (inddleser Caunly) 4. PHOTOGRAPHER AND DATE: ANDRENUR. CURTIS N/2/'88 5. LOCATION OF NEGATIVE : A. CURTIS 6. PHoTo No. : 2 of15 1. DeSCRIPTION: LOOtING NORTIAWEST 1. PROPERTY NAMEI RANDACC-HALE HOMESTEAA 2. STRZET ASDRESS: 6 SUDBURY RO1D 3. Community: Stow; MA. (midllese Caunti). 4. PHOTO GRAPHER AND DATE: ANDREL R. CURTIS 11/21/5 5. LOCATION OF NEGATIVE: A. CURMS 6. PeloTo No.
: 3 o1 15 1. DESCRIPTION : FrONT DOOr ADICULA 1. PROPERTY NAME: RANDALL-HALE HOMESTEAD 2. STREET ADDRESS: 6 SUDBURY ROAT 3. COmmUNITY: STOW, MA, (Middlesex Cariti) 4. PHOTO GRAPHER AND DITE: ANDREW RICURTIS 11/21/88 5. LOCATION OF WEGATIVE: A.CURTIS 6. PHoTo No,: 40fIs 7. Description: Looking S.E. 1. PROPERTY NAmE! RANDALC- HALE HOMESTEAA 2. STREET ADDRESS: 6 SUDBURY ROAÀ 3, Community: Stow, mA. (matlerex Count) 4. PHOTO GRAPHER ANS DATE: ANDRENO R. CURTIS 12Y58 5. LOCATON OE NEGATVE: A. CURTIS 6. PtoTo No.: 5 of1s 1 DESCRIPTION: ECORINE WEST 1. PROPERTY NAME: RANDALL-HALE HOMESTEAL 2. STRECT ADDRESS: 6 SUDBURY ROAD 3. CommuNiTy: STOW, MA, (midorex Cannli) 4. PAICIOGRAPHER AND AATE: ANDREW R 1/a1 18715 5. LOCATION OF JUEGATIVE: A. CURTIS 6. PHOTO. No. : 6 of15 1. Descripzion: Lookino S.u. 1. PRORERTY NAME: RANDALL-NALE LOmESTEA) 2. STREET ADDRESS: 6 SUDBURY ROAD 3. Community: s1ow md.
(Modlesex Counti) 4. PHOTOGRAPHER ANS DATE: ANDREW R.CURTIS 1PA 5. LOCATIEN OF NEGATIUE: ACORTIS 6. Pioro No. 7of/s 7. DESCRIPTION: COOKING NE. AT CENTER STMRUNL FRST ILOOR *A WARD'S 1. PROPERTY NAME: RÄNDACL-HALE HOMESTEAD 2, STREET ADDRESS: 6 SUDBURY RUAA 3. Community: stou, mt. (mddlesey County) 4. PHOTO GRAPHER AND DATE: ANDREW RICURMS 88 3. LOCATION OF NEGATVE! A.GURTIS 6. PHOT0 No: 8 of1s 1. Descripilon: LockiNE Na do PARCOR PANELLINNG 1. PROPERTY NAME: RANDALL-HALE LOWESTENA 2. STREET ADDRESS: 6 SUDBURY ROMD - Communit: stow, MA, (Middlesey Ceunty) 4. PHOTO GRAPRER ANA DATE: ANDEEL R. CURTIS 11/01/88 5. LOCAHON OF NEGATIVES: A. CURTIS 6. PHoro. No. : 9 of1s 1. DESCRIPTON: LOOKNUE NE. In LallChumGReon) 1. PROPERTY NANE: RANDALL- HALE HOMESTEAS 2 STREET ADDEESS: 6 SUDBURY RUAD 3. Community: Stow, MA. ( Middlesex County) 4 PIOTO GRADIER ANDDATE: ANDREN CURTIS 11/21/SE 5.
LOCATION OF NEGATIVE: A. CURMS 6. PHoTo. No.: 10 of Is . DESCRIPTION: LOOKinG NIWI IN HALL CLIVINGROOM) AT FRESE MURALS DE THE GLEASONN AND RANDALC HOUSES 1. PROPERTY NAME: RANDALC-HALE HOMESTEAD 2. STREET ADDRESS: 6 SUDBURN ROAD 3. Community: stow, mA. (Middlosex County) 4. PHOTOGRAPHER ANDDATE: ANDRECU CURTS "/21/88 5. LOCATION OE NEGATIVE: A. CURTIS 6. PHoIo No. : N ofis 7 DESCRIPMON: CoOkin M.E, In KEEPING ROOM 1. PROPERTY NAME: RANDALC-HALE HOmESTEND 2. SIREET ADDRESS: 6 SUDBURY ROAD 3. Communizy: StocymA. (Midlesex Cauntio) 4. PHOTO GRAPHER AND DATE: ANDREW CURTIS "/21/58 5. LOCATON OF NEGATIVE: A.CURTIS 6. PHDTO GRAPI NOMBER 12 0F15 7 DESCRIPMON: COOKING SIWU, AT KEEPING ROOM FREPURE. 1. PROPERTY NAMER RANDALL-HALE HOMESTEAD 2. STREET ADDRESS: 6 SUDBURL ROAD 3. CommUNITy: STOW, MA. (Mdllepy Connli) 4. PHOTO GRAPHER AND DATE: ANDREW CURTIS "/21/De S.
COCATION OF NEGATIUE: A, CURTIS 6. PHOIO NO. : B OF 15. 7. DESCRIPTION: LOOKING SIW, AT KEEPINGROOM FIREPLACE MANTE MOULDING DETAILI 1. PROPERTY NAME: RANDALL-MALE HOMESTEAD 2. STREET ADDRESS, 6 SUDBURY ROAD 3. Commonity: STow MA. (Middlesox Ceunti)) 4. POTO GRAPHER AND DATE: ANDRCCO CURTiS 1/5:8E 5. LOCATION OA NEGATIVE: A. CURTIS 6. PHOTO GRAPA NO. : 14/ of/s 7. DESCRIPTION: VIELU lOOKiNG SIUU, AT CENTRAL FIRERLACE ChimNCy IN ATTIC SPACE (SHOWING EUIDENCE F FORMER LEAN-TO ROOF.) 1. PROPERTY NAME: RANDALL-HALE HOMESTEAD 2. STREET ADDRESS : 6 SUDBURY ROAD 3. Community: Stow, MA. (Middlesor Canti) 4. PHOTUGRAPHER AND DATE: ANDREW CURTIS 11/21 88 5. LOCATION OF NEGATIVE: A. CURTISA4 6. PHoTo No.: 15 of15 7.
DESCRIPIION: SERUANTS ROOm LooLIng WEST (ATTIL) GL ETICRACN LSVE LIRERTA The Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Massachusetts Historical Commission February 8, 1996 Carol Shull Keeper National Register of Historic Places Department of the Interior National Park Service P. O. Box 37127 Washington, D. C. 20013-7127 RECEIVED 2280 FEB | 6 1996 NAT. REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Dear Ms. Shull: Enclosed please find the following nomination form: Randall-Hale Homestead, 6 Sudbury Road, Stow (Middlesex County), Massachusetts, 01775 The nomination has been voted eligible by the State Review Board and has been signed by the State Historic Preservation Officer. Owners were notified of pending State Review Board consideration 30-75 days before the meeting and were afforded the opportunity to comment.
Sincerely, Betey Fredhery Betsy Friedberg National Register Director Massachusetts Historical Commission enclosure cc: Robert N. & Judith Frances Zeitlin John Makey, Chairperson, Stow Historical Commission Wayne E. Erkkinen, Chairperson, Stow Board of Selectmen Susan Wysk, Head Librarian, Randall Library 220 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125 - (617) 727-8470 Fax: (617) 727-5128 TDD: 1-800-392-6090
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