Moor's End, 19 Pleasant Street, Nantucket

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A large, elegant brick house built for a ship- owner in the prosperous days of the whaling industry on Nantucket. PART I. HISTORICAL INFORMATION A. Physical History: m 1. Original and subsequent owners: and Jared Coffin bought land. to The house was built for Coffin. Reuben Hallet bought property. Lloyd Minturn purchased from heirs of Reuben Hallet. Jared Gardner.bought property at auction for -- Henry B. Williams bought from heirs of Jared Gardner. Williams bought additional land, the homestead of Prince Gardner on corner of Pleasant Street and Angora Way (where the gardens are now situated). William Flanagan bought property. Edward F. Sanderson owned and Land Courted the property , which he then sold to Colonel Robert W. Stewart. to date Louise Anderson Melhado, owner.

(Abstract, Records Registry Deeds, Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2. Date of erection: Jared Coffin bought three parcels of adjoining land on Pleasant Street between September, and July It has been fairly well established that he was living in the house,in so the date of erection msut have been between and (Abstract, Records Registry Deeds, Nantucket.) MOOR'S END (JARED COFFIN HOUSE) HABS No. MASS-917 (Page 2) Note: Worth in Nantucket Lands and Land Owners dis- agrees with other local historians by claiming that the house was built between and 3. Architect : None 4. Original plans, construction, etc.: No plans known. 5. Alterations and additions : During various ownerships the house acquired many additions as well as the large walled garden. Edward F. Sanderson, in consultation with R. T.

Haines Halsey, creator of the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum, and Fiske Kimball, architect, with Erling H. Pedersen in direct architectural supervision, restored the house between and B. Historical Events Connected with the Structure: Jared Coffin, a mariner and ship-builder, made a fortune in whale-oil, owning the majority of shares in the whale- ships, Mont a no, Daniel Webster and Catherine. He was Representative in the General Court and one of the Trustees of Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin's Lancasterian School in Nantucket. Jared Coffin built a second brick house at Center and Broad Streets. He moved away from Nantucket in A later owner of Moor's End, Jared Gardner, was responsible for saving Nantucket's now famous Old Mill.

The property was called "Moor's End" because it was on the outskirts of the town at the time it was built. C. Sources of Information: 1. Old views : a. The Architectural Record, Sept., (exterior and interior views and details of restoration) b. Champion Monographs, April 26, (side view) c. Eberman, Edwin. Nantucket Sketchbook. Nantucket : S. F. Baker, (drawing) 2. Restoration plans: There are eight sheets of drawings by Fiske Kimball at the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Boston, Copies are in the possession of the Nantucket Historical Association. 3.

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Fowlkes, George Allen. A Mirror of Nantucket, an architectural history of the Island, New Jersey, HOOK'S END (JARED COFFIN HOUSE) HABS No. HASS-917 (Page 3) Hamblin, Talbot, Greek Revival Architecture In America. New York: Oxford University Press, Kimball, Fiske. The Architectural Record. September, (detailed description of restoration) Worth, Henry Barnard. Nantucket Land and Landowners. Nantucket : Nantucket Historical Association Bulletin, Vol. 2, Bull. 1 & 7. Prepared by Marie M, Coffin Nantucket, Massachusetts February, PART II. PROJECT INFORMATION These records were prepared as part of the Historic American Buildings Survey project on Nantucket, Massachusetts.

This is part of a continuing HABS comprehensive survey of the early architecture and urban design of Nantucket financed by a grant from the Nantucket Historical Trust. The project was under the general supervision of James C. Massey, Chief of the Historic American Buildings Survey. Historical information was provided by Marie M. Coffin of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Photographs are by Cortlandt V. D. Hubbard of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The material was edited for deposit in the Library of Congress by Constance Werner Ramirez, July