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t FORM B - BUILDING Assessor's number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number Massachusetts Historical Commission I 58-37 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116 I I Marlborough I AA 1 2_7 Town

1 t FORM B - BUILDING Assessor's number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number Massachusetts Historical Commission I Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts I I Marlborough I AA 1 2_7 Town Marlborough Place (neighborhood or village) _ te the hoto. :gative here Address 1 Hosmer Street Historic Name Uses: Present dwelling Original dwelling Date of Construction _c_a_1_84_0 _ Source Style/Form Architect/Builder maps; visual assessment Greek Revival nnknown Exterior Material: Foundation WaJlfTrim Roof granite synthehc sjdmg asphalt shingle Outbuildings/Secondary Structure.s _ shed; {omjer bamlgarage Major Alterations (with dates) window sash replaced, altered sidelights and early-20th-c N TIIscan hood at main entry Condition fair Moved [X] no [ ] yes Date _---.N._.I-A--- ~ecorded by Anne Forbes Acreage Setting Jess than one acre Above East Main at comer of Organization for Marlboro Hist Camm Date 6/21195 Hosmer with stone retaining wa1j at front Mixed area along Rte 20 of 18th- early-20th C residential and modern commercial

2 BUILDING FORM ARCHITECfURAL DESCRIPTION [] see continuation sheet Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. Although this house is not mentioned by either Ella or James Bigelow, it is certainly one of the older, and most stylish, buildings remaining along the east section of the old Boston Post Road (today's Route 20.) It is a good, and except for its synthetic siding and replacement windows, a wellpreserved representative of the group of "temple-front" Greek Revival residences that were built in ) Marlborough between 1830 and Like the Samuel Chipman and L.c. Whitney Houses on Stevens Street (see Forms 195 and 198,), its portico is tristyle, with fluted Doric columns. The main ) entry of this house is on the west side, facing Hosmer Street. Although its trim has been altered, it retains a 6-panel door with applied moldings, and the outline of what were apparently typically Greek Revival full-length sidelights. The roof cornice is molded and boxed. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE [ ] see continuation sheet Explain history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. Although a plaque on this house reads "1825", maps and architectural evidence point to a date for this ( / house of about Deed research will be necessary to determine the early owners of the property,, which in 1875 is shown under the name of J. Lynch. This is most likely to be Joseph Lynch, who was in the Navy during the Civil War. It was later the home of Lewis P. Curtis. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES l l see continuation sheet Maps and atlases: 1856/57, 1875, 1889, Bigelow, Ella. Historical Reminiscences of Marlborough, Mass Marlborough Vital Records. Marlborough Directories and Real Estate valuations. [] Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, a completed National Register Criteria Statement form is attached.

I FORM B - BUILDING Assessor's number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number Massachusetts Historical Commission I 7-53 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116 I I Marlborough I 631-633 Town

3 I FORM B - BUILDING Assessor's number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number Massachusetts Historical Commission I Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts I I Marlborough I Town Marlborough Place (neighborhood or village) _ Address Historic Narne 719 Hosmer Street Lewis Hapgood House Uses: Present dwelling Original Date of Construction dweljing mid-19th centul)' Source Bigelow; maps; visual assessment...-,;;,.',_a',..,."_. a- Style/Form Federal style on mid-19th-c. vernacular building Architect/Builder unknown Exterior Material: Sketch Map Draw a map of the area indicating properties within it. Number each property for which individual inventory forms have been completed. Label streets, including route numbers, if any. Attach a separate sheet if space is not sufficient here. Indicate north. 0\ ~?J\ ~ (p rt /;j "CJ - N Foundation Wallffrim Roof brick wood c1apboa rrj asphalt shingle Outbuildings/Secondary Structures cottage (#632), bam basement altered to garage (#633) Major Alterations (with dates) many period details added (see P 2); 2-stol)'.end porch--early 20th C Condition good Moved [X] no [ ] yes Date N/A Acreage 574 acres ~~corded by Anne Forbes Setting Off road amid antique gardens and Organization for Marlboro Hist Camm woods Granite steps lead from front lawn to Date 6/26/QS p j lower garden Circular drive at rear

BUILDING FORM ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION [X] see continuation sheet Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.

4 BUILDING FORM ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION [X] see continuation sheet Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. Because of many renovations involving the highly-skilled installation of period or reproduction details, an architectural assessment of this house is difficult to make. Although its appearance is largely that of an enlarged 5-bay, 2 1I2-story, side-gabled house of the Federal period, records show that it was actually built closer to the middle of the nineteenth century. The windows are 6-over-6- sash, with flat surrounds. The architectural trim includes a wide sillboard, comerboards, and a prominent molding under the front edge of the roof, with no roof overhang at the gable ends. One tall chimney rises from the rear center plane of the main roof, and an exterior chimney abuts the east end of a southeast rear extension. (A historic sketch shows that the house may originally have had twin ridge chimneys [Bigelow, 236]). Perpendicular to the rear of the main house is a large wing-three stories high at the rear, because the ground slopes sharply downward toward the back of the house. Abutting the east end of the main house is a two-story porch, enclosed at the second story, and open and screened at the first. An open deck is situated behind it. (Cont.) I \ I" HISTORICAL NARRATIVE [X] see continuation sheet Explain history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. ( This house is significant for its association with members of two important Marlborough families, the Hapgoods and the Curtises. It is located just east of the site of the old Maynard family saw mill on Fort Meadow Brook, and its property, which was once 130 acres, may have belonged to the Maynards at one time. It is not known when the sawmill stopped operating, or whether the man who is credited with building the house, Lewis Hapgood, was ever associated with it. (It was still standing in 1856, the first year this house is shown.) Lewis Hapgood was a descendent of Shadrach Hapgood, who was slain in an Indian ambush during King Philip's War, and his son, Thomas Hapgood, who in 1695 purchased considerable land in what was then the northeast part of Marlborough, now largely within the borders of Hudson. Lewis Hapgood was also connected with the Maynards by marriage through his mother, Elizabeth (Priest) who was a relation of the wife of Simon Maynard, who had run the sawmill. He served in the Civil War with the 19th Company of the Unattached Heavy Artillery. The property was inherited by Lewis's son, Lyman Hapgood, who with his wife, Sarah, raised eleven children here. He owned the house through the early part of this century. It was then acquired by members of the Curtis family, who also owned 616 Hosmer Street and used it as a summer residence. (See Form #52). The Curtises laid out the grounds with gardens, landscaped woodland walks, stone stairs, and terraces, much of which, including many of the 200 mountain laurel bushes, remain today. (Cont.) BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [] see continuation sheet Maps and atlases: 1856/57, 1875, 1889, Bigelow, Ella. Historical Reminiscences of Marlborough. Mass Marlborough Vital Records. Marlborough Directories and Real Estate valuations. Interview with owner, 5/95. [] Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, a completed National Register Criteria Statement form is attached.

INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Community Marlborough Area(s) Property Lewis Hapgood House Form No.

5 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts Community Marlborough Area(s) Property Lewis Hapgood House Form No ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION, cont. The main center entry of the house, a Federal type with an elliptical, louvered fanlight over fluted pilasters, divided sidelights and a 6-panel door, was moved here from elsewhere late in this century. The elliptical arch is repeated in a recent rear, recessed entry, which also has a 6-panel door and divided sidelights. Beside it is a second door, also 6-panel. A fourth entry, on the west end, has a 6- panel door with 5-pane divided sidelights and recessed-panel pilasters under an entablature with molded frieze and projecting, molded lintel. Behind the house are two relatively early outbuildings. One is a small gable-end gardener's cottage; the other is the flat-roofed fieldstone foundation/first story of a large barn, which was burned early in this century and at that time converted to a six-car garage. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cont. After a brief period of ownership under another family in the 1930's, the property was sold to the Hightman family. Mr. Hightman was one of the directors of the Christian Science Church in Marlborough, and during their occupancy the property was used as a retreat for members of the church. Late in this century the house and surrounding 130 acres were bought for both occupancy and development by the Standish family. The property around the house was reduced to the present 5.7 acres, and several new residential streets were developed to the east and southeast of the house.

6 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community Property Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts Marlborough Area(s) Lewis Hapgood House Form No. 631~633

INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community Property Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Marlborough Uriah/Ephraim Maynard House Area(s) Form No.

7 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community Property Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts Marlborough Uriah/Ephraim Maynard House Area(s) Form No. 52 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION, cont. The house retains its wood clapboard siding. Many of the clapboards on the southwest end wall are as short as four feet in length, indicating that they may be original to the building. The foundation is largely fieldstone, much of it parged with concrete. A period sketch in Ella Bigelow's Historical Reminiscences... shows that in 1910 the house had a roof balustrade, and an open, balustraded terrace across the facade. Two early-twentieth-century sleeping porches--one on the north end and one over the front balcony, have been removed since HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cont. By 1856 the property belonged to Ephraim Ill's son, John H. Maynard, ( ). Like many residents of Marlborough's farming districts, he married a neighbor, Catherine Stow(e), daughter of Rufus and Thankful Stow(e) of Spoonhill Avenue. By the late 1880's the farm, with its scenic views overlooking Fort Meadow, was purchased by shoe-manufacturer John E. Curtis for his summer home. (See Form # Main Street.) John Curtis, who was probably responsible for some of the renovations to the house, died in 1896, and the property was owned by his heirs for a number of years, who called it "Lake Farm," and ran a large apple orchard, Curtis Orchards, here. For much of this century the house was the summer home of his son, Charles W. Curtis, also one of Marlborough's most successful shoe-manufacturers. (See Form 182). ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. Maps and atlases: 1803, 1830, 1835, 1856/57, 1875, 1889, Marlboro vital records. Marlboro directories and tax valuations. Marlboro Historical Society: Moineau Photo File. [X] Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, a completed National Register Criteria Statement form is attached.

8 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community Property Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts Marlborough Area(s) Uriah/Ephraim Maynard House Form No. 52 Additional information by Anne Forbes, consultant to Marlborough Historical Commission, 6/26/95: ASSESSOR'S # acres PHOTO #95-17: 30 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. Just how this building grew, if it did, is difficult to tell without a structural inspection. Its popularly quoted date of 1773 is almost certainly too early, as its lines, proportions, and much of its detail are more characteristic of a house of the Federal Period. It is possible, however, that the twostory, hip-roofed Federal mansion conceals an earlier building inside. This is suggested at least partly by the asymmetrical facade, which is seven bays long, and the assortment of three types of chimneys--one in the southwest end wall, one at the center rear, and a narrower one on the northeast hip of the roof. Most of the windows are 6-over-6-sash. A paired, multi-light casement "French door" occupies the third bay from the west on the second story, and a triple 6-over-6 appears on the first floor facade--both probably represent alterations ofthe early twentieth century. The windows of the northeast end are all paired, again implying a date early in this century. The front plane of the roof has a pair of symmetrically-placed narrow, gable-roofed dormers with roundheaded, multi-light sash. The main entry appears to be a combination of Federal and Federal Revival elements: its door has six raised panels, and is flanked by a wide surround with narrow, 3-pane sidelights and very narrow tapered pilasters with high capitals. (The presence of a second pair of capitals beside the door implies that there was once another pair of pilasters). The entry is sheltered by a turn-of-the-century balconied, Tuscan portico, its columns and dentilated cornice matching that in an open porch abutting the northeast end of the house. A second entry in the southwest end has a 4-panel door, 2/3-length divided sidelights, and a plain surround. Other architectural detail consists of a molded, boxed cornice, and narrow cornerboards. (Cont.) HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cent. The architectural style and form of this house contradict a pre-revolutionary construction date. Ella Bigelow's statement that it was built in 1773 is probably based on the marriage date of Ephraim Maynard II ( ) and Eunice Jewell. It is much more likely that they built the house, if they did at all, closer to Ephraim Maynard paid a real estate tax in 1798, but it may have been on his father's house, located to the northeast of this one, next to the family grist mill on Fort Meadow Brook in what is now Hudson. Although Ephraim lived through the first quarter of the nineteenth century, the map of 1803 shows that in that year the owner was Uriah Maynard. As records are sparse for the Maynard family in that generatiion, the only Uriah Maynard who appears in the town histories and vital records does not have a clear familial connection to Ephraim. Deed research, however, may clarify the relationship between him, Ephraim II, and Ephraim II's son, Ephraim Maynard III, (b. 1778), whom both maps and histories indicate was the next owner. He was a highly respected citizen of his time, and served on the Board of Selectmen for five terms, in 1814, 1815, and He was not, however, as Ella Bigelow states, the grandfather of Amory Maynard, founder of the town of Maynard. That distinction goes to his great-uncle, Simon. (Cont.)

9 \RM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTSHISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston 1. TOWTI Marlborough In Area no. Form no. 52 / / Address 616 Hosmer Street Name Uriah Maynard House Present use Residence Present owner Doris M. Leblanc 3. Description: 2t story hipped roof Date 1773 Source Pub. local histories Style Georgian 4. Map. Draw sketch of building location in relation to nearest cross streets and. other buildings. Indicate north. MR.! Mo.APOV Architect Exterior wall fabric Clap board outbuildings (describe) None Other features End chimney, 2 dormers I beautiful front portico 1] H 0 p S Altered Date JI1 e. 0 0 Moved 0 5. Lot size: 0 (over) Date One acre or less X Over one acre Approximate frontage 150 feet Approximate distance of building from street 70 feet 6. Recorded by Ernest Ginnetti Organization Marlborough Historicl:. Conunission Date 12/29/76

10 Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts Community Marlborough Area(s) Property Address 616 Hosmer Street Form No(s). 52 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: [xl Individually eligible [ ] Eligible only in a historic district [ ] Contributing to a potential historic district [] Potential historic district Criteria: [x] A [] B [x] C [] D Criteria Considerations: [] A [J B [] C [J D [] E [J F [] G Statement of Significance by _An_n_e_F_o_rb_e_s _ The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. This house qualifies for Criteria C and A of the National Register for both its early and later significance. It fulfills Criterion C as a high-style, hip-roofed Federal house, updated to a Federal Revival summer "gentleman's estate" at the end of the nineteenth century, and Criterion A as the home of members of the Maynard family, millers and farmers at Fort Meadow from the late eighteenth through early nineteenth centuries, and in the late nineteenth and early twentieth, as the summer home, called "Lake Farm", of the family of shoe-manufacturer John E. Curtis. The property retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association.

11 Ephraim Maynard Residence ) ) x x Conservation Education Exploration/ settlement Industry Military Political x Recreation Religion Science/ invention Social/ humanitarian Transportation 9. Hi~torical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) f ". ~. 'to 1..' ".!{,\",~.-'TheM3ynards were among the first settlers of Marlborough. Jolin 'Ma~rd was one of the petitioners for the grant of Marlborough, in Sudbury in 1638, and one of the forty. seven who shared in the division of the Sudbury meadows in Ephram Maynard married Eunice Jewell in 1773 for whom this house was built. Their. son also named Ephraim was the grandfather of Amory for whom the town of ~ynard was named. 10: Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etcv) Historical Reminiscences of Marlborough, Ella Bigelow, map of Marlborough, Silas Holmam Surveyor History of M~rlborough Mass. Charles Hudson, Boston, 1862

12 ." " FORM B - STRUCTURE SURVEY MASSACHUSETTSHISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston 1. Is ~cture historically significant to: ~ Commonwealth Nation Structure has historical connection with the following themes: (See also reverse side) Street Hosmer St. Name Uriah Maynard Home Original Use~H:.:.o::;.;m=e ~",...,..,-,;;-_ Present Use_H=o..::.r1:.;:e~ --,---,,- Agriculture ' Present Owner_..::;c..:.u==r...;t;..;:i::.;s~===~ _ Date 1790 Source of DateElla 4. DESCRIPTION High Regula@:> Material:,StO>:1e CHIMNEYS: Brick Stone Other.. -'_:,( ~;..~.:-'r,~t -I.""'-. Center End Cluster Elaborate Irregular Reces'sed Simple/Complex...s :':-- For Mqrl~orough Hi~torical soc.~ I~c. Photo Id7-/17,) - / -d t'1/ S~d/v' I'h'~ MAR /'-f, \a 10 '2. 7 "; _. flv'l;;. I v J.Recorder should obtain written permission from Commission or sponsoring 'or-ganf- ' -. fnr.e...usinkjhis form. (See Reverse Sid~

$Local Histories,;\.~-..;<:-.~. ~~::,.f.~:~;4:::~ap. I", ' Draw sketch of building location,,'. _:}-'':'In relation to nearest cross streets and :'\.'V"~::,,,:, other buildings. Indicate north. ~~~':'.$

13 616 Hosmer Street"f.: '. 'Name Uriah Maynard Homestead Present use Residence Present owner Hrs. Doris M. Leblan.c 3. Description: 2t story Central Hall Date 4th Qtr 18th Century 1773 Source Pub. Local Histories,;\.~-..;<:-.~. ~~::,.f.~:~;4:::~ap. I", ' Draw sketch of building location,,'. _:}-'':'In relation to nearest cross streets and :'\.'V"~::,,,:, other buildings. Indicate north. ~~~':'. J{ - 1~"'~, -~;.: Style Co lonial (ia te ) Architect Exterior wall fabric '..-rood C1.apboard Outbuildings (describe) None left Other features House has Georgian influence much of it has been.removed from time to time, all that remains outside are the 2 dormers and hipded roof. Altered Date _ Moved Date Lot size: One acre or less X Over one acre Approximate frontage 100 ft. -., DO NOT WRITE IN THIS SPACE U GS Quadrant -- Approximate distance of building from street 40 ft. 6. Recorded by Ernest Ginnetti f", t,..0

14 , ~7.Original"Owner(if known) ;"~.: Ephraim Maynard,...~~':/~. Original use Residence. :,l~"'.~:.:~~ -,", :~~c:subsequentuses (if any) and dates ~~jf;~~.?c:r -;, Themes (check as many as applicable) '~i:t t~).~. J.Abortgtnal Conservation '. '~":Agricultural Education ~~t-architectural -x-- Exploration/ $~~yv The Arts settlement );ii, ',Commerce -X-- Industry "Zl?h::', Communication Military );i'~, Communitydevelopment Political Recreation Religion Science/ invention Social! humanitarian Transportation ";-i ;,, --- /:hf. Historical significance (include explanationof themes checked above) <;',':' The Maynards were among the first settlers of Marlborough. John -;-:;;;:.Maynard'O<16S one of the petitioners for the grant of Marlborough, in :;#ft:sudbury in 1638, and was one of the forty seven who shared in the div- ~-'?\>ision of the Sudbury meadows in This house was built near Fort <"Meadow by Ephraim Maynard who married in 1773, Eunice Jewell. Their ~on Ephraim who married M&ry Stowe, Eliza Smith and Sarah Mills, had ~~~by his three wives, fifteen children in all (he was the grandfather of ~:!f:amory Maynard, in his memory the town of Maynard "vas named). Ephraim " '/jr. inherited this homestead, now the summer home of Mr. Charles '.-1. ;<!,~f;~,ctn:tis, son of the late Deacon Curtis and general manager of the marrun- 'f.~t~;:othrice & Hutchins shoe factory. Charles W. Curtis is one of our most ~~~~:. influential. citizens, and in the political life of Mar~borough is rec- :~'~~'ogniz~d as a prime factor.:j' If Marlborough had any special block house or.fort, it was probably <at rtfort Meadow" from which the place toor its name; but all special :places assigned to various families for resort in time of danger dur- ing the exposed condition of this frontier place, were called forts or :.ga!'risons. _ ~'.~ ~?~:._:.-'~ ~:;:":.:f~...~- ~;../?~_. _~'.J.';',.~~~.. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.j _ Homestead names are taken from Oct. 24, 1803 map of Marlborough by Silas Holman Surveyor. Which includes the trown of Hudson. Histories taken from Historical Reminisces of Marlborough by Ella Bigelow.l910.

MASSACHUSETTSHISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston. 1. Town Marlborough. Name Josiah Stow Homestead.

FORM B - BUILDING In Area no. Form no. MASSACHUSETTSHISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston / ;;L. 1. Town Address Spoonhill Ave. Name Josiah Stow Homestead 2. Present use Residence