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Phineas Upham House, 253 Upham Street, Melrose

Phineas Upham House, 253 Upham Street, Melrose, Middlesex County, MA. Surveyed as HABS MASS,9-MELRO,2-, with 1 photograph, 1 measured drawing and a 300-word written history.

From the record

“Phineas Upham House, 253 Upham Street, Melrose, Middlesex County, MA”

Survey record header. Machine-read text.

surveyed by the federal HABS program as HABS MASS,9-MELRO,2- · the record runs 300 words · one of 333 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Phineas Upham House, 253 Upham Street, Melrose, Middlesex County, MA, photograph filed with the federal survey
Phineas Upham House, 253 Upham Street, Melrose, Middlesex County, MA, measured drawing filed with the federal survey

1 photograph and 1 measured drawing from the federal survey record, Library of Congress.

Written history

166 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HABS MASS,9-MELRO,2-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

This project was an early survey began by the Historic American Buildings Survey during the The project was never completed. In HABS made the decision to transmit the unfinished materials from the to the Library of Congress due to the information potential of the documentation, and the fact that many of the unfinished drawings from this period document important historic properties, many of which are no longer extant. The saltbox house was built by Phineas Upham in Upham served in the King William s War. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Due to the incomplete nature of the documentation and the lack of field measurements to verify the drawings, the drawings may not meet HABS standards and have been marked as such.

Most of these drawings are still in pencil, that combined with the age of the drawings, presented challenges when digitizing them, so the scanned images are not as clear as most of the drawings within the HABS collection.

In context

Melrose, Massachusetts The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Middlesex County, Massachusetts 449 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record The original filed report, and the sheets the survey produced. Those published here appear above.

Also surveyed in Melrose

2 records

The federal surveyors worked through Melrose building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.

SheetStructure SurveyReport
Ensign Thomas Lynde House, photograph filed with the federal surveyEnsign Thomas Lynde HouseHABS MASS,9-MELRO,1-37 words
Milestone, photograph filed with the federal surveyMilestoneHABS MASS,9-MELRO,3-32 words

Provenance

  • Written history. Quoted verbatim from HABS MASS,9-MELRO,2-. United States federal work, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Text capture. Machine-read from the scanned typescript filed with the survey, so spelling and spacing follow the original page.
  • How this page is made. Documentary passages are quoted from linked records; page labels and counts are clearly marked as presentation or calculations.