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 X Local government Register designated a National Historic Landmark _ University _ Other X recordedby Historic American Buildings Survey Name of repository: # Mass 432 (1935) Massachusetts Historical Commission _recorded by Historic American Engineering Dighton Historical Commission Record # Coram Shipyard Historic District Name of Property Bristol County, MA County and State 10.
Geographical Data Acreage of Property 2.1 acres UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet) 1. 19 324140 Zone Easting 4630960 Northing 3. Zone Easting Northing 2. Zone Easting Northing 4. Zone Easting _ See continuation sheet 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 Margo B. Webber, Preservation Consultant, with Betsy Friedberg, National Register Director, MHC organization Massachusetts Historical Commission date May, 1997 street & number220 Morrissey Boulevard telephone 617-727-8470 city or town_ Boston state_MA .
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1024-0018 8 1 Section number Page Coram Shipyard Historic District Dighton, (Bristol County) Massachusetts 8. SIGNIFICANCE The Coram Shipyard Historic District, Dighton, retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association, and it fulfills Criteria A and C of the National Register on the local level. Under Criterion A, the Coram Shipyard Historic District is significant for its role as the site of the town's earliest eighteenth century shipbuilding industry and for its continued role in Dighton's commerce and maritime industries throughout the eighteenth and into the mid- nineteenth centuries. It is a relatively intact example of two shipbuilders' homes overlooking the site of the shipyard and wharf which they developed in the 1690s, a precursor to the many shipyards and wharves which were built in the second half of the eighteenth century.
Although the Coram Shipyard closed in 1703, the area continued to be used for subsequent maritime- related enterprises during an era when the town's livelihood was almost entirely dependent on maritime activity and where prosperity among wharf owners and merchants was exhibited in their fine homes overlooking the waterfront. The district's geographic location along a navigable stretch of the Taunton River made it a desirable location both for business and residences initially as the area developed for shipbuilding and later as it also became an on/off loading point for Dighton's maritime trade. Under Criterion C, the district is representative of Dighton's eighteenth century residential architecture in that the two historic homes reflect the setting, proportions, massing, and details of the periods in which they were first built and later enlarged to their present Georgian character.
The properties are modest in size and maintain a consistent pattern of lot sizes, street setbacks, and minimal frontal landscaping which contributes to the visual continuity of the streetscape they create. The district's period of significance spans from 1698 to 1885. These dates commence with the period in which the two homes and the wharf were initially built. They include the entire period in which maritime trade was carried on in Dighton, as well as the later period of the 1870s - 1880s when the Thomas Coram House was remodeled to include an Italianate veranda, remnants of which are still evident. Development of the area within the Coram Shipyard Historic District began in the 1690s as part of the town's early transitional growth from a subsistence-level agricultural community towards a maritime center.
The location provided much acreage to the west for crops and animals, pleasant riverfront views and cool breezes for the early homesteads, (continued) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 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 8 Coram Shipyard Historic District Dighton, (Bristol County) Massachusetts Page - and most importantly, riverfront property prime for a shipyard site and ready access for shipping. Dighton's earliest settlement was by the Pocasset tribe, which was decimated by a number of pre- 1675 epidemics, leaving the area largely uninhabited. Its colonial settlement began in the late seventeenth century. The neighboring town of Taunton to the north was sold to the colonists by King Philip in 1663.
An additional precinct known as the South Purchase was acquired in 1672, including the present Dighton. With the onset of King Philip's War in 1675, development of the new tract was slow. Its first home was not built until 1680 by Jared Talbot, with others soon to follow. By 1684, the new precinct had been surveyed and seven east-west highways laid out with landing places at the river's edge, as river travel was still the easiest mode of transportation for access upriver to Taunton or downriver to Narragansett Bay. During its early colonial period (1680-1775), the settlers devoted the majority of their efforts to subsistence farming on abandoned native planting grounds adjacent to the Cedar Swamp and along the Taunton River. Subsistence fishing was also important, as fishing grounds for herring were abundant.
As early as 1698, the Coram Shipyard is reported to have been in operation within the district, where it functioned as the town's first shipyard until 1703 under Thomas Coram and John Hathaway. Thomas Coram was born in Lyme Regis, England in 1668 and had become a master shipbuilder by the time he was twenty-five. He arrived in New England ca. 1692, married a Boston girl, Eunice Wait, and moved to Taunton (as Dighton was still called) ca.1693 to start his shipbuilding venture in an area of plentiful timber. He brought with him shipwrights from England which apparently caused resentment among Taunton's native shipbuilders who would have preferred that Coram hire local labor. Coram joined in partnership with John Hathaway ca. 1700. Hathaway built his own house adjacent to Coram's. Their shipyard apparently met with only mixed success, as it closed in 1703.
At that time, Coram returned to England before venturing across the Atlantic again to settle the colony of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Later returning to England, Coram became reknowned for his involvement in the founding of the London Foundling Hospital, where he is buried. Dighton was established as a separate town in 1712. It was named for Frances Dighton, wife of Richard Williams who was among the first families to settle there. Its boundaries changed over (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 8 Page 3 Coram Shipyard Historic District Dighton, (Bristol County) Massachusetts the next 150 years, expanding and receding in various outlying parts, but the subject area, close to the town center, remained continually a part of Dighton.
The town's population increased to 1174 by the 1760s and to 1420 by 1776, and three major nodes of settlement took hold. The first extended from the mouth of the Segregansett River to the Old Town Landing, including the Coram Shipyard as well as the more southerly area now referred to as the Dighton Wharves area. A second area grew in present North Dighton, where an iron forge and sawmill, a gristmill, cider mill and blacksmith shop were established on the Three Mile River. The third settlement area took hold on the Segregansett River near Williams Street, where a gristmill, sawmill, and fulling mill were built ca.1740. During this period, Dighton served as the commercial distribution point for southern and central New England since it was impossible for the standard merchant vessels of the era to sail up the Taunton River past Dighton due to the river's shallow bed.
Ships arrived with rum, molasses, salt, and general merchandise from the West Indies, South America, and Europe, while local vessels shipped out with Dighton goods such as fish, lumber, grain, barrel staves and hoops. The Coram Wharf continued to provide anchorage for the ships coming in and out of the busy port. It became home to the Bowen & Hathaway shipyard. On this wharf, as on others in the town, probably stood small frame buildings which housed chandleries and sold supplies to the outbound ships. In addition to the Englishmen Thomas Coram and John Hathaway, other local residents became shipbuilders, merchants, and sea captains for the ships being produced here. Additional stone wharves were built, including the Andrews and Perry Wharves further southward along the river.
Most of the boats being built were sloops or brigantines of less than 70 tons, two-masted, with a single deck and less than ten feet of draft. Designed for coastal trade with the West Indies, they were not "slave ships," as has sometimes been suggested. About 1772, the first wooden bridge was built across Muddy Cove under a contract let by Captain Elkanah Andrews to John Reed, a shipyard owner on the cove. Andrews turned the bridge over to the town on the conditions that he be permitted to run a grist mill near Muddy Cove and that the town would extend a road from Main Street south to Hart Street, the present Pleasant Street. For the first time, this provided direct highway access between the southern wharves and the center village. Andrews also established a ferry landing at his wharf for trade and transportation to the river's eastern shore, then a part of Dighton.
The ferry continued to (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 8 Coram Shipyard Historic District Dighton, (Bristol County) Massachusetts Page operate even after 1801 when the first bridge was built a bit upriver (at the site of the present Dighton-Berkley bridge). The large number of substantial two-story Georgian homes in Dighton indicates the town's prosperity during the Colonial era, whereas most other communities in the area showed a prevalence of small cottages instead. Within the district, it is most likely that the two historic houses were expanded to their present size during this period. During the 1770s, the John Hathaway House was occupied by Jeremiah Jones, (b.1739 in Dighton).
He ran a store adjacent to or within the house, (possibly in an ell to the south) and sold a range of goods from household items to rum. The store served as a gathering place for the town, (possibly as a tavern as well). Jones also maintained a role in the local fishing industry and served in the Massachusetts General Court in 1816. The Federal period (1775-1830) saw an increase in maritime activity in Dighton. Although its population did not increase much in this period, shipbuilding and maritime trade became more central to the local economy. Much of the shipbuilding was in the form of coasting sloops, with most yards near the town landing and in Segregansett, slightly further north. Among the major yards were those of John Reed, Bowen and Hathaway, Smith and Wardwell, Matthew Briggs, Col. Darius Perry, and David Standish.
In the period between 1795 and 1833, at least 22 ships were produced in local yards. Both the Bowen & Hathaway and Smith & Wardwell yards were situated on the Coram Shipyard site, with the former using the north side of Coram Wharf and the latter using its southern side. In 1789, Dighton became a customs port for incoming ships from the West Indies and Europe. Major Hodigah Baylies was appointed as collector as a reward for his service to George Washington during the Revolutionary War and during his term as President. He held the post for twenty years. By 1809, a customs office was established in the home located at 2298 Pleasant Street, hence its name, the Old Customs House. Customs continued to be collected here until 1834, when Fall River usurped the role because of its larger harbor and better transportation route access.
The John Hathaway House continued to house a store during this era, after the home's ownership had passed to Major Charles W. Whitmarsh (b.1793 in Dighton). Major Whitmarsh also had a (continued) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet 8 5 Coram Shipyard Historic District Dighton, (Bristol County) Massachusetts Section number Page tailor shop in the house, and operated a shipyard on the old Coram site. He owned several sailing scows, a schooner, and a sloop with which he carried on an active maritime trade in lumber during the period from ca. 1820 - ca.1860. The Coram Wharf was referred to locally as Whitmarsh's Wharf.
Shipbuilding and marine commerce were greatly slowed by Thomas Jefferson's Embargo Act of 1800 which virtually froze the shipbuilding industry from that time until after the War of 1812. Shipbuilding resumed after the war, but by 1825 had waned again due to the new capabilities of overland railroads. Only two large ships were built after that, the "Elizabeth Hall" of 1840 and the "William Cobb" of 1874. Major Whitmarsh was one of the builders of the "Elizabeth Hall." The launching of the "William Cobb" marked the end to over 175 years of shipbuilding in Dighton. Several small cotton mills were established in 1810 and 1812, the start of a fledgling textile industry that would take better hold in the 1830s, the start of Dighton's Early Industrial Period (1830-1870).
Two cotton mills on the Three Mile River and an 1862 woolen mill started by William Cobb were soon the town's largest industries. The Mount Hope Finishing Company, a bleaching facility, was founded in 1901 in North Dighton, and soon became a stronghold of the local economy. Its success was directly related to the burgeoning textile industry in nearby Fall River, which flourished from the 1840s onward. Another key industry was a paper mill at North Dighton, started in 1850 and a major employer into the early twentieth century. Strawberry farming also took root in the 1850s and 1860s, eventually leading to a sizable truck-farming industry which continues to the present day. During this era, the Thomas Coram House was occupied by George Shove, who added the front porch and lyre fence ca. 1880. Shove was an attorney and historian who wrote the Dighton History for D.
Hamilton Hurd's History of Bristol County, 1909. With the town accessible from Taunton and adjoining areas by roads, trolley lines, and railroad service, a small tourism industry started. It was introduced on a modest scale in the 1870s with the opening of the Eddy House as a year-round guest house offering boating, horseback riding and other recreational activities. The Taunton Yacht Club was organized in 1895 and purchased (continued) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 NPS Form10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet 8 6 Coram Shipyard Historic District Dighton, (Bristol County) Massachusetts Section number Page the Coram Shipyard site and Coram Wharf as home for its recreational yachting program. A grand two-story clubhouse was built on pilings over the river.
Its Shingle Style design featured 12-foot wide piazzas at two levels along the river side. The clubhouse was damaged by the Hurricane of'38 and relocated/rebuilt onshore. Following the Hurricane of '54, the present building was erected by the club. The Early Modern Period (1915-1946) saw little new industry or population growth. The town had by now become a quiet rural community with a number of market farms and dairy farms, and a few pockets of light industrial activity. Without major industry locating in the area due to its relative remoteness from established urban centers, there has not been a housing boom or major subdivision of large agricultural tracts. The agricultural landscape of this period continues to dominate the town's visual character.
The early development of the Coram Shipyard Historic District in the 1693-1703 era was a critical first step in the eventual growth of the town's shipping industry. The entrepreneurial spirit of its first property owners saw an opportunity to capitalize on the riverfront location by building a large wharf and shipyard. Their interest was adopted by many of the subsequent seventeenth century shipbuilders, who also recognized that the area's navigable waters made it an ideal distribution point for trade inland to Taunton and all of southeast Massachusetts. The district's gradual evolution away from maritime commerce was due to shifts in economic conditions, transportation patterns, and political considerations. By the 1830s, Dighton's shipbuilding industry had faltered considerably.
Merchants were contracting for ever larger, deeper-draft ships in order to extend their sea-going capabilities and carry larger cargoes to faraway ports. The shallow-draft coastal sloops being built here were no longer profitable for shipowners, and the Taunton River's shallow bed did not permit building of larger ships the way larger, deeper harbors like Fall River, New Bedford, and Newport did. Fall River also gained an advantage over Dighton because of its more rapid urban growth and transportation facilities. While Dighton remained a small country town with its main ties to Taunton to the north, Fall River was expanding in its own right as a new textile industry took hold in the 1840s. Large stone mills lined the harbor, and distribution of goods by ship from the (continued) OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet 8 Section number Page. 7 Coram Shipyard Historic District Dighton, (Bristol County) Massachusetts deep-water port was more direct and cost-effective than going by way of Dighton. Politically, it can be assumed that the wealthy textile mill owners of Fall River, which was quickly becoming a substantial urban center, had considerably more political clout than the gentleman farmers/sea captains of rural Dighton. Not surprisingly, Fall River became the customs collection point from 1834 onward, based on its political status as well as its higher volume of imports and exports. Despite the demise of Dighton's maritime trade, the district retained its identity as a peaceful residential enclave.
Land behind the homes continued in agricultural and orchard use. Some small homes were built to the north and south along Water Street, convenient to the waterfront as well as to the small town center to the north. Each of the two houses experienced almost no expansion after 1800, except for a small rear ell on each house. Interiors were updated gradually. It was particularly desirable to replace the small, eighteenth century keeping room/hearths which had become antiquated with larger kitchens and more updated stoves and storage spaces. The district's two houses have continued in residential use throughout their later years. The district is one of Dighton's best examples of a cluster of two eighteenth century residential designs. In their present appearances, the homes are important architecturally as examples of Georgian period design.
The Coram House also reflects changes in nineteenth century tastes and fashion, with preferences for more decorative woodwork and porch styles. Each resource exhibits the proportions, materials, and modest artistic elements of its style. The shipyard site primarily retains its open visual character. The historic wharf, which embodies typical construction methods of its day and survives intact, visually reinforces the district's historical significance. The John Hathaway House (MAP #1; Photograph #1) exemplifies a graciously-proportioned Georgian, five-bay, center entrance house, which has been updated to its present size ca. 1770. The rectangular massing, central chimney, and shingled exterior reflect the original Georgian design. The splayed wooden lintels may be of later Federal date, and the entrance door/sidelight design appear to be of later Colonial Revival origin.
The six-over-six lights and small rear ell indicate that "improvements" continued well on into the nineteenth century. (continued) OMB ApprovalNo. 1024-0018 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 8 Page 8 Coram Shipyard Historic District Dighton, (Bristol County) Massachusetts The Thomas Coram House (MAP #4; Photograph #2) was, before its ca. 1950s modernization, the district's most pretentious design. Its present mass and central chimney also date from mid-eighteenth century and the facade's proportions and window alignment retain the historic Georgian facade's design. The two-over-two window designs indicate that the home was upgraded throughout its history, as does the flat-roofed porch/enclosed entry, even if it remains only a remnant of its original ca.
1880 design. Aluminum siding and a new wooden entry porch detract from the historic character of the design. The streetscape formed by these two homes whose similarities in scale, massing, design, and setting form a visually cohesive entity, as well as the open shipyard site and surviving wharf continues to project a discernible image of an area steeped in historical associations with Dighton's earliest residential and maritime development in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Archeological Significance Historic archeological remains have the potential to provide documentation for the town's agricultural beginnings which have largely been lost by later non-agrarian uses of the land.
Remains of outbuilding foundations as well as structural survivals of previous agrarian outbuildings could document construction techniques and farming habits of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Information may also be present which would give a detailed view of the social, cultural and economic characteristics of eighteenth century life. In particular, the wharf and portions of the shipyard site have undergone very little physical disturbance and could contain significant artifacts and structural evidence of former buildings, materials, and merchandise associated with shipbuilding and the maritime trade carried on here. (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. 9 Coram Shipyard Historic District Dighton, (Bristol County) Massachusetts Page - 9.
MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Chace, C. W. "Dighton's Old Houses" Taunton Daily Gazette, 1900-1910. Coram, Captain. Correspondence to Dr. Colman of Boston, Davis Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston. Dighton Bicentennial Celebration. Dighton Library, 1912. Dighton Town Maps. Dighton Town Hall, 1850, 1887, 1895. Dighton: MHC Reconnaissance Report. Massachusetts Historical Commission, 1981. Emery, Samuel Hopkins. History of Taunton, MA from its Settlement to the Present Time, Syracuse: D. Mason, ca. 1880s. Historic Photograph and Postcard Collection. Dighton Library, ca.1900. Hurd, D. Hamilton. History of Bristol County, 1909. Lane, Helen H. History of Dighton, Taunton: C. A. Hack & Son., 1962. Reed, Charles. Collections of the Old Colony Historical Society, Taunton, MA. (end) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet 10 1 Coram Shipyard Historic District Dighton, (Bristol County) Massachusetts Section number Page 10. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA Verbal Boundary Description Beginning at the district's northwest corner at the northwest corner of parcel 20-127, (2120 Water Street), the boundary proceeds eastward along the north property line of said parcel and continues eastward across Water Street where it runs further eastward along the north property line of parcel 20-6, (2125 Water Street), until reaching the west bank of the Taunton River. It then turns southward along the east edge of said parcel, including the stone structure known as the Coram Wharf, as it proceeds southward along the easterly edge of parcels 20-6 and 20-8-01.
It then turns westward along the southerly edge of parcel 20-8-01,then northward along said parcel's westerly edge to a point opposite the southeast corner of parcel 20-5, where it turns westward across Water Street. The boundary continues westward along the south edge of parcel 20-5, then turns north along the rear property lines of parcels 20-5 and 20-127 to the point of origin. See attached Dighton Assessor's Map #20. Boundary Justification This boundary definition includes the two historic homes and the historic shipyard site and wharf which collectively give significance to the Coram Shipyard Historic District. The western boundary follows the rear property lines of the two historic homes, separating them from several later homes and a large town-owned open space to the west.
The northern boundary abuts several small homes not specifically related to the shipyard's development, one of which is quite altered. The eastern boundary along the Taunton River shoreline includes the historic wharf and the open parcel abutting it, both of which were historically associated with the Coram Shipyard. The southerly boundary separates the district from additional shoreline and several small homes of various dates, again not specifically associated with the shipyard's development. (continued) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 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 10 Coram Shipyard Historic District Dighton, (Bristol County) Massachusetts Page- The district's boundaries define the three major elements associated with the Coram Shipyard.
Visually, the two homes, wharf, and shipyard site are unified by their close proximity to one another as they each face eastward towards the river from which their occupants earned their livelihood. The open, windswept character of this stretch of Water Street also accentuates its ties to the river, in contrast to more tree-lined streetscapes where clusters of residential development have evolved further to the north and south. (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 _Photos Page - OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Coram Shipyard Historic Distriet Dighton, (Bristol County) Massachusetts Photographs The identification information listed below pertains to all photographs: Photograph by: Date: Original negative at: Taunton Historical Commission 1992 c/o Mr. Charles W.
Harris, Chairman Dighton Historical Commission Dighton, MA 02715 Photo 1: Photo 2: Looking southeastward towards north (end) and east (facade) elevations of the John Hathaway House, 2120 Water Street, with the Thomas Coram House, 2130 Water Street, beyond Looking westward towards east (facade) elevation of the Thomas Coram House, 2130 Water Street.
MAP# ASSESSOR'S MHC# HISTORIC NAME Map 1 2 20-127 167 Shen Hathaway House Storage Shed 20-6, 20-8-01 Coram Shipyard Site Taunton Yacht Club TYC Boathouse (shed) Historic Marker 3 20-6 4 20-5 102 Coram Shipyard Wharf Thomas Coram House Garage/Shed KEY: B: Building Str: Structure NC: Noncontributing Resource Total Resources: 10 6 Contributing Resources 3 Buildings 1 Structure 1 Object 1 Site 4 Noncontributing Resources 4 Buildings O Structures 0 Objects 0 Sites CORAM SHIPYARD HISTORIC DISTRICT DIGHTON (BRISTOL COUNTY), MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT DATA SHEET STREET ADDRESS DATE STYLE 2120 Water Street 2125 Water Street clubhouse 2125 Water Street 2130 Water Street ca.1700 19th c. 1960+ Georgian Utilitarian Utilitarian ca.1693-1703n/a ca.1950 Colonial Revival ca.1960 Utilitarian 20th c. ca.1699 - Utilitarian ca. 1699 B B B S B B Str. 19th c Georgian B (altered ca.
1870s, 1960s) Utilitarian B O: Object S: Site C: Contributing Resource RESOURCE STATUS C NC C NC NC C C C NC Bt- UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET RECEIVED AUG 1 5 1997 MASS. HIST. COMM.
REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY NAME : Coram Shipyard Historic District MULTIPLE NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Bristol 5/30/97 DATE RECEIVED: DATE : OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATE OF PENDING LIST: DATE OF 45TH DAY: 7/14/97 REFERENCE NUMBER: 97000625 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: N OTHER: Y PDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: Y NATIONAL: N COMMENT WAIVER: N _ACCEPT RETURN REJECT7/11/97 DATE ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: This nomination is being retuned because we can not evaluate the integuity of the distiel with the documentation included. The majer protlem is the presence of the yacht chub building, which is located on the of the shipyard. There are no photo graphs of this intuusion.
Please de Photos of the Yacht club, taken fran several vantage pornts, Do that its inpact on this small distint can be evaluated RECOM. /CRITERIA Returi REVIEWER iateiti Anleus DISCIPLINE 7/11/9) TELEPHONE - DATE DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: RESUBMISSION PROPERTY Coram Shipyard Historic District NAME : MULTIPLE NAME : STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Bristol DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: 11/26/97 DATE OF PENDING LIST: DATE OF 45TH DAY: REFERENCE NUMBER: 97000625 NOMINATOR: STATE DETAILED EVALUATION: ACCEPT RETURN REJECT DATE ABSTRACT/ SUMMARY COMMENTS : On resubriuaion the State has puovided photos 1 The yacht club bailding.
It is a amall bilding and does not destray the overall integiety of the distul 1/10/98 REVIEWER RECOM. /CRITERIA acptAçC atuich Ardus DISCIPLINE Historian TELEPHONE - DATE 1/5/97 DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N CORAM SHIPYARD HISTORIC DISTRICT DIGHTON (BRISTOL CO) MA PHOTO / 2120 WATER ST, DIGHTON JoHN HaTHAway House ASSESSORS #127 Sohn Yathaway 2120 Water rightor Ma ssescois Map CORAM SHIPUARD DIGHTON (BRISTOL CO) HISTORIC DISTRICT PHOTO 2 2130 WATER ST. DIGHTON THOMAS CORAM HOUSE -ASSESSORS #127 Thomas Cor 3130 Nater. ighton, N exxersois m AUNTON YACHT CLUB Coran Shipyard HD Digatou (Bristal Co.), MA Tauntru Yackt Cub fou sincs side Cookiny west. P.
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AMERICA 7,03A UNKNOWA 302A GOULART, LANE 0.5A HANSON co 0.6A GANMON 0.7A MÉDEIROS O.7A LASSEN ACHUSETTS COSTA 1.OA DEMLIN 68 3WI9A PARKER L 0.6A ALL DEPT TRANSPORTATIONI 4.48A 85120T 107+ SSIDY MCKEON,JR.1.5A MARINO 8W0.2A RIENDEAL 1782069/201z2COUNTY 2001 177+ 49/7A HAMILTON N3.JA KUCHENBAUR LMARINO 3.8A KUCHENBAUR 5w15A ENOS 4A KUCHENBAUR |GRANT 1.0 A 2394 360+ 102A PASQuiLL ST BROOK 87WH1.0A PAPAGi: nuLOS 1.55A PACHECO 8W3.8A CONSTANTINE 7.7A HANS LE AI EESE PETIY PLACIDAA The Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Massachusetts Historical Commission May 14, 1997 Ms. Carol Shull Vational Register of Historic Place Department of the Interio National Park Service P. O. Box 37127 Washington, D. C. 20013-7127 Dear Ms.
Shull: Enclosed please find the following nomination form: Coram Shipyard Historic District, 2120, 2125, 2130 Water Street, Dighton (Bristol County), MA The nomination has been voted eligible by the State Review Board and has been signed by the State Historic Preservation Officer. The owners of the property within the district were notified of pending State Review Board consideration 30 to 75 days before the meeting and were afforded the opportunity to comment. Sincerely, Betsy Fruedker Betsy Friedberg National Register Director Massachusetts Historical Commission CC: Charles W. Harris, Chair, Dighton Historical Commission Gene E. Nelson, Chair, Dighton Board of Selectmen Diane Duprey, P.O. Box 771, Marion, MA 02738 Margo B.
Webber, Preservation Consultant Enclosure 220 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125 - (617) 727-8470 Fax: (617) 727-5128 TDD: 1-800-392-6090 Website: www.magnet.state.ma.us/sec/mhc CDETETIHHIA RECEIVED 2280 NOV 26 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Massachusetts Historical Commission MAT FERTEA PA RAET MOES October 31, 1997 Ms. Carol Shull National Register of Historic Places Department of the Interior National Park Service Mail Stop 2280, Suite 400 1849 C Street Washington, D. C. 20240 Dear Ms. Shull: Enclosed please find additional documentation for the following National Register nomination as requested by Patrick Andrus (see attached letter of July 11, 1997). Requested photographs are inlcuded.
Coram Shipyard Historic District, Dighton (Bristol Co.), MA Reference number 97000625 Please let me know if I can be of further service. Sincerely, hisp Buyen Philip Bergen National Register Assistant Massachusetts Historical Commission enclosures 220 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125 - (617) 727-8470 Fax: (617) 727-5128 TDD: 1-800-392-6090 Website: www.magnet.state.ma.us/sec/mhc
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