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Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Community Marlborough Area(s) portions of AC, AE

Property Address Farm Road Form No(s). 13, 46, 47, 58, 59, 639-641, 1111-1113, 1119-1122

National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form
Check all that apply: [ ] Individually eligible [ ] Eligible only in a historic district [ ] Contributing to a potential historic district [x] Potential historic district Criteria:

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Criteria Considerations:

Statement of Significance by _An_ ne_F_o_r_be_s _ The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here.

A strip of Farm Road, extending from 29 to 580 Farm Road and incorporating parts of Areas AC and AE as well as five individually-documented resources, is likely to be eligible under Criteria A and C of the National Register as a rural, linear district dating from the late seventeenth- through the nineteenth centuries. As the heart of "the Farm(s)", a distinct rural area that was independent from Marlborough until 1717, such a district, with its well-preserved farmhouses and outbuildings from all periods and its surviving landscape setting, vividly illustrates aspects of the social, economic, and agricultural development of this unique part of the community. Although there is considerable modern residential development interspersed among the historic resources, the district maintains integrity of location, design, materials, setting, workmanship, feeling, and association. Eligible resources for such a district include: Individual forms: 47 407 Cook Lane 58 180 Farm Road 13 218 Farm Road 46 327 Farm Road 639, 386 Farm Road
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Silas Temple House Daniel and John Harrington House Francis Barnard House John/Gershom Bigelow House Morse/Arnold House and barn Joseph Morse House William Morse House

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418 Farm Road 458 Farm Road

Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Community Marlborough Area(s) portions of AC, AE

Property Address Farm Road Form No(s). 13, 46, 47, 58, 59, 639-641, 1111-1113, 1119, 1120, 1122

National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form, cont.
Eligible resources, cont. in Area AC: 1113 523 Farm Road 1112 540 Farm Road 1111 580 Farm Road in Area AE: 1122 29 Farm Road 1120 92 Farm Road 1119 104 Farm Road

Williams House Adonijah Newton House Joseph Arnold House

Horn House Temple House Temple(?) House

INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET

Community Marlborough

Property Francis Barnard House Form No. 13

Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Area(s)

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ARCHITEcruRAL DESCRIPTION. This little house is the only known example in Marlborough of an eighteenth-century Cape Cod cottage. Typical of its type, it has a center chimney, and is two rooms deep and five bays wide across the low facade wall. A small ell with a modem bay window bisects the southwest rear comer, and a recently-built garage abuts the ell. The windows are 8-over-12-sash, with flat, molded surrounds. The center entry has a six-panel door with glass in the top two panels, and a surround of narrow, flat pilasters and projecting lintel. There is little other decoration, and the roof does not overhang the gable ends. The house is presently clad in synthetic siding. The setting of the house, opposite fields and woods, is largely true to the historical character of Farm Road, although modern houses stand to the east and rear. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cont. Francis Barnard, (1768-1858), who may not have been the first owner of this house, married Martha Howe (daughter of Thaddeus and Levinah), in 1796. He was descended from Robert Barnard of Andover, who in 1723 bought about 350 acres in the north part of Marlborough (later Feltonville), and started the Barnard line here in Marlborough and Hudson. The owner shown on the map of 1803 is Moses Freeman Howe. By 1830 the property was owned by D. Parmenter, who owned it jointly with "Mrs. Arnold" in 1856. The fact that the house is not shown on the maps of 1875 and 1889 is apparently an error.

ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. Maps and atlases: 1803, 1830, 1835, 1856-7, 1875, 1889. Marlboro vital records Marlboro directories and tax valuations.

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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

Community Marlborough

Property Francis Barnard House Form No. 13

Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Area(s)

Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Community

Property Address 218 Farm Road

Area(s)

Form No(s). 13

National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form
Check all that apply: [ ] Individually eligible [x] Eligible only in a historic district [x] Contributing to a potential historic district [] Potential historic district

Criteria:

[x] A

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Criteria Considerations:

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.

The Francis Barnard House is highly significant as the only known example in Marlborough of a true eighteenth-century Cape Cod cottage, and thus, in spite of the present synthetic siding and a few minor alterations, would be eligible under Criterion C for the National Register as part of a linear district of late-seventeenth- through nineteenth-century houses along Farm Road. More than any other property in the area, its setting, overlooking fields and woods, retains the rural character of this outlying district. It would also contribute under Criterion A for its association with the Barnards, Parmenters, and Arnolds, three of the major families to inhabit the "Farm" district for generations. With the exception of its siding, the property retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association.

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John Bigelow was born May 9, 1675, and married Jerusha Garfield on June 12, 1696, and along with the Morses and John Bemis bought and settled on the ItFannstt in 1695. In 1705 being in Lancaster, at the ga.rrison house of Thomas Sawyer, was, along with Mr. Sawyer and his son Elias taken by the Indians and conveyed to Canada. They were both ingenious mechanics, Sawyer a blacksmith, and Bigelow a carpenter, obtained their release while at Montreal, proposing to the French Governor, that if he would procure their ransom they would erect for him a sawmill on the River Chamblay, there being none at that time in Canada. The offer was accepted and they filled their engagement, and after some delays they were pennitted to return to their friends. He had two daughters born after his return to Marlboro8gh which he named Comfort and Freedom ••• after over two years of captivity. This house also represents the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th development of colonial architecture, two room plan, added leantoe, and fUlly developed center chimney •. However the 1 story rear leantoe posts still remain visible 2,feet from the 2 story posts erected to provide full headroom in the previously useless lean toe attic. At this time the ridge was moved well to the rear of the chimney, thus creating unsymetrical gable ends. Th~ leantoe fireplace has a separate flue built into, or rather added on to the chimney servicing the two room plan.

10. Bibliography and/or references(suchas localhistories, eeds, assessor'srecords. d ear ly maps, etc.j

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This is the fir~t BigelQw homestead in Marlborough. Among the ten children of Samuel Bige10w and his ~fe Mary Flagg was Mercy who married Lieut. Thomas Garfield, and ~hus a direct decendant of President Garfield. When John ~oved to Marlbor~ugh, it was a frontier to~vn and no one felt .safe from King Philip and.hf.s. arriors. At the time Lancaster was burned w (1675) Captain Wadsworth, with'his company from Marlborough rescued the ~arrisons there. John-Bigelow was one who had been called to the garrison hOuse of Thomas S~wyer of,Lancaste~ and along with Tom and foms' son Elias were surrounded and captured.,' TheY,were then taken to Canada and held .prisoners by the French Governor. 'Thomas Sawyer was a Blacksmith and John , Bigelow a Carpenter and ~hrough ·these skills restrictions were Slackened. -r-, Their freedem was grant~d, on1.y"when they agreed to build a saw mill on the llier Chamb'Lay , v ,... . , .: A,letter to John from "his ,wife Jerushy is dated August 22, 1706 dur.ing~his captivity. 31 y~ar~:after his capture.

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FORM B - STRUCTURE SURVEY MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary. State House. Boston 1. Is ~ure ~ historically significant to: Commonwealth Nation

2. TownMarlborough, Street Farm Road

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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET

Community Marlborough

Property John/Gershom Bigelow House Form No. 46

Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Area(s)

Additional infonnation by Anne Forbes, consultant to Marlborough Historical Commission,
6/8/95:

ASSESSOR'S #84-53

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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. One of the largest and most well-preserved of Marlborough's early colonial farmhouses, this building actually grew in several stages during the 1700's from a small building that may date to as early as the late 1690's. An interior inspection would be necessary to determine exactly how it expanded. It is obvious from the position of the chimney in front of the roof ridge, however, that the rear of the house was raised to two stories, in this case over a rear leanto which, itself, was probably an early addition. The resulting building is a large, center-chimney "double-pile" Colonial house, five- by two-bays, with a two-story "saltbox" east wing and a one-story ell extending to the rear. It stands on a granite foundation, and is sheathed with synthetic siding. The windows are 6-over-6-sash, and the main center entry, updated about 1800, has a solid, elliptical fanlight over a surround of 2/3-length divided sidelights. Alterations to the property include a tripartite "picture" window on the first story facade, and a screened porch at the northwest rear. There are two outbuildings on the property--a shingled bam, and a large wood shed.

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cant. The source of the 1695 construction date on the 1978 inventory form is not known, although it may be based on the year that, in late December, John Bigelow's father and three other men from Watertown purchased 350 acres of land here from the heirs of Dr. John Alcock(e). Not part of the original Marlborough plantation of 1656, the former Alcock "farm", soon called simply "the farm(s)" did not officially become part of the town of Marlborough until 1717-18. By that time, however, after nearly a generation of independence under the stalwart farmers who owned land here, it had developed an identity of its own which was to last until modem times. It is most likely, especially since John Bigelow did not marry Jerusha Garfield until 1696, that if, as is generally believed, part of this building was built by him, it would probably date closer to 1700. According to Ella Bigelow, John's brother, Samuel, and possibly their brother, Thomas, also lived in this house for a time. By late 1706 John Bigelow was home from his ordeal in Montreal, and had returned to farming and working as a carpenter. He lived to be 94, and died in 1769. At some point, possibly well before his death, the property passed into the hands of his son, Gershom Bigelow (b. 1714). He lived even longer than his father, and died in 1812 at the age of 97. He was one of many men from Marlborough to fight in the French and Indian War, and was a member of Capt. Abraham Williams' company in 1757. He served as a Selectman in 1763 and 1764. Toward the end of his life, as was especially the case with many outlying farm housholds, Gershom Bigelow apparently owned the house jointly with at least one other family member. (Cont.)

INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET

Community Marlborough

Property John/Gershom Bigelow House Form No.

Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116

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HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cont. In 1803 the other owner was his grandson, Ephraim Bigelow (1768-1843). Ephraim was the son of Gershom's son, Timothy (1738-1817). He was married twice, both times to girls who lived on neighboring farms. His first wife was Molly Arnold; the second was Elizabeth Harrington. The farm descended to Ephraim and Molly's son, Willard Bigelow (1805-1848). His widow, Parmela, (Smith) survived him, and it was apparently during her ownership that the house was used as a stop on the "underground railroad", as a chamber for hiding runaway slaves is located in the house. After her death in 1874, the property was sold out of the family, to Eliphalet L. Fay. He and his wife had come to Marlborough when they were married in 1872. Mr. Fay, (1843-1930) was one of the longest owners of the property, which was still being farmed by his descendants in the 1960's.

ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. Maps and atlases: 1803, 1830, 1835, 1856-7, 1875, 1889. Marlboro vital records Marlboro directories and tax valuations. Bigelow, James. "Photographs and Descriptions of Some Old Houses in Marlbrough, Mass." 1927. The Worcester Evening Gazette. 6/2/1966.

[)(J Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, a completed
National Register Criteria Statement form is attached.

Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Community Marlborough Area(s)

Property Address 327 Farm Road Form No(s).
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National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form
Check all that apply: [ ] Individually eligible [x] Eligible only in a historic district [x] Contributing to a potential historic district [] Potential historic district

Criteria:

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Criteria Considerations:

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Statement of Significance by _A_nn_e_F_o_rb_e_s The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here.

The John/Gershom Bigelow House, although it has been altered by the installation of synthetic siding and a picture window, is eligible for the National Register under Criterion A as part of a Farm Road linear district of late-seventeenth- through nineteenth-century houses. It may, in fact, contain the oldest building in the area, a First Period structure built before 1700 by John Bigelow, son of one of the four original purchasers of the former Alcock "farm" in 1695. The expanded, center-chimney eighteenth-century house is also significant for its association with John Bigelow, one of several Marlborough citizens who were kidnapped by Indians at the turn of the eighteenth century and taken to Canada, and for four more generations of this major Farm district family, as well. With the exception of its siding and window change, the property retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association.

FORM

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Daniel Harrington w~s born in Watertown in February 24, 1.684, and married Elizabeth Warren in 1705 whenhe built this house, after moving to Marlborough. The Marlborough Plantation was gr~nted in 1660 with one stipUlation, that being that it c:liid not infringe on earlier Grants. There were two other plantations however, the Indian Plantation which contained 6,000 .acres to the North East, and Mr~John Alcocket s grant which contained 1,042 acres"tto the South East. In 1695 350 acres was purchased from the heirs of Mr. Alcocke by four men from Watertown, of which three houses still exist. S~uel Bigelow, Joseph ~d SamuelMorse and that of Daniel Harrington, they are described ~8 being husbandmenof Watertown and therefore the Harrington they describe is Daniel Harrington t B father ~lso J;lame.d Daniel. D~iel Harrington, whobuilt this house died February 3 1724; and the land which these £am~lies built on, and plays such an ~portant, role in the History of M~rlboroughhas been knownas the "Fannsll to this day.

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, Passing down the Farms we come to the above home, adjoining the Sherman Farm, of Captain William Harrington. He was a tall good looking man living on a good farm, surrounded by an interesting family.' But with all his ability a cloud of debts came hanging over him and he gave up his farm and moved to the village, where he supported his family by laboring at his trade as a carpenter and joiner. Mr. william Walker of Sudbury purchased the farm, to where he moved and lived to the time of his death.

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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET

Community Marlborough

Property Daniel/J ohn Harrington House Form No. 58

Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Area(s)

Additional information by Anne Forbes, consultant to Marlborough Historical Commission, 6/8/95: ASSESSOR'S #94-27 3.5 acres. PHOTO #95-16: 22

ARCffiTECfURAL DESCRIPTION. The Harrington House, set back from the road overlooking fields, wetlands and woods, is one of Marlborough's most picturesque examples of an eighteenth-century 2 1I2-story center-chimney house. The fact that the chimney sits in front of the roof ridge suggests that the house may have formerly been only one room deep, possibly with a rear leanto, (i.e. the roof may have been raised and extended to the rear when the leanto was raised to two stories.) The building today has two wings-one extends to the rear, and a one-story ell abuts the northeast rear comer of the main house. The windows of the main house, arranged five- by two-bays, are 6-over-6-sash, with flat surrounds. (The east ell has floor-length, multi-light windows of the sliding-door type.) The center entry, which appears to have been updated in the early part of the nineteenth century, has a door with six recessed panels, full-length divided sidelights, and a surround of flat pilasters with capitals, a plain, high frieze, and a molded, projecting lintel. The architectural trim includes a dentilated, molded, boxed cornice. Typical of its era, the roof does not overhang the gable ends. A photograph of ca. 1927 shows that at that time the house had a wide, shed-roofed vestibule over the main entry, and a hip-roofed hood on bracketed, turned posts at the entry in the southwest gable end. The house has retained its wood clapboard siding, and has an asphalt shingle roof. Also standing on the property are two barns and two sheds. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cont. As Daniel and Elizabeth Harrington moved to Marlborough from Watertown at, or soon after their marriage in 1705, and Daniel died at the age of forty in 1724, it is likely that at least part of this house is a true First Period structure. This Daniel Harrington was the son of the Daniel Harrington who was one of the earliest purchasers of the 350-acre tract of land on the "Farm" that four men from Watertown bought from the heirs of Dr. John Alcock(e) in 1695. Not part of the original Marlborough plantation of 1656, the former Alcock "farm", soon called simply "the farm(s)" did not officially become part of the town of Marlborough until 1717-18. (It is not clear whether some part of this house may actually be a a small dwelling constructed by the first Daniel, or whether he remained in Watertown after buying the property.) The Daniel Harrington who moved here ca. 1705 was, like his father, a farmer or "husbandman", His wife, Elizabeth, is notable as the only woman among the 40 proprietors of Hassanamisco (later the town of Grafton). In 1728, as had been the case with Marlborough three generations earlier, land there was apportioned into houselots and farmland that helped meet the need of families in the older towns who were seeking land for their sons or dowries for their daughters. At least one of Daniel and Elizabeth's children, Isaac (b. 1709), did, in fact, become one of the first settlers of Grafton. (Cont.)

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Property

Marlborough Daniel/lohn Harrington House Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Area(s) Form No. 58

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cont. As was the custom of the times, this property passed to Daniel and Elizabeth's eldest son, also Daniel Harrington (b. 1707). During the Revolution, in spite of being past the age when most men are soldiers, he was Marlborough's "six-months men". Both this Daniel and his wife, Mary, died at an advanced age -he at 88 in 1795, and she in 1793 at 89. Their eldest son, also named Daniel (b. 1734), was one of many men from Marlborough to fight in the French and Indian War in the middle of the eighteenth century; he died at Fort Edward in 1758. The property thus descended to Daniel and Mary's second son, John Harrington (1743-1824). He married Lydia Mixer in 1768, which would have been a likely time for one of the updates or enlargements to the architecture of the house. John, like his father, served in the Revolution, and was a member of Capt. Barnes' Company, which marched to Cambridge on April 19, 1775, at the beginning of the war. John and Lydia had at least eight children, of which two sons, John and William, apparently each owned the property for a time. John Harrington, Jr. (b. 1782) is shown as the owner on the map of 1803. His younger brother, Capt. William Harrington, (b. 1784), was the next owner of the property, and is shown here in 1830 and 1835. He was Captain of one of the early local military companies, the Troopers, which was composed of men from Marlborough and the surrounding towns. He was a carpenter and joiner as well as a farmer, and, according to Ella Bigelow, sold the farm and moved to the center to practice carpentry when he ran into debt. The farm's purchaser was William Walker, who bought it some time between 1835 and 1856. A member of the large Walker family of Sudbury, he lived here until his death at the end of the nineteenth century. His widow remained here until her death, (sometime after 1910), and the property passed to their daughter, Cora M. Howes. The house enjoyed some local fame just after World War II, when, in 1945, it was purchased by actress Bette Davis, and occupied by her uncle, Myron Davis, and his wife.

ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. Maps and atlases: 1803, 1830, 1835, 1856-7, 1875, 1889. Marlboro vital records Marlboro directories and tax valuations. Bigelow, James. "Photographs and Descriptions of Some Old Houses in Marlbrough, Mass." 1927.

[X] Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, a completed
National Register Criteria Statement form is attached.

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SHEET

Community Marlborough

Property Daniel/John Harrington House Form No. 58

Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Area(s)

Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Community Marlborough Area(s)

Property Address 180 Farm Road Form No(s). 58

National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form
Check all that apply: [x] Individually eligible [ ] Eligible only in a historic district [ ] Contributing to a potential historic district [] Potential historic district

Criteria:

[x] A

[] B

[x] C []A

[] D

Criteria Considerations:

[]B

[]C

[]D

[]E

[]F

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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.

The Daniel and John Harrington House meets Criterion C of the National Register as one of Marlborough's best and most intact examples of an eighteenth-century 2 1I2-sto1)', center-chimney house, updated with Federal-period details, and apparently incorporating a First Period structure of the first decade of the century. It also qualifies under Criterion A for its association with the Harrington family, who were among the earliest occupants of the "Farm" section of Marlborough. The property retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association.

FORM

B - BUILDING

In Area no.

Form no. 59

MASSACHUSETTSHISTORICAL COMMISSION )ffice of the Secretary, State House, Boston 1. Town Address Name Present 2.

Marlborough
418 Farm Road

Joseph Morse Homestead
use

Residence

Present

owner Joseph Day

3. Description: Date 1695

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Joseph Morse was born in Groton, Nov. 11, 1667, and married Grace Warren of Watertown. Joseph and Samuel Morse, Samuel Bigelow and John Bemis, bough1 Dec. 25, 1695, off the heirs of John Alcocke, 350 acres bodering upon Marlborough ·known ,,-s the "Farms". Joseph settled in the house said to have beQ"" built by"Alcocke; Samuel built southerly, and Jonathan bought and built u~ a tract of.1and adjoining, so that one garrison would protect all the fami~.E . ·Wil1iam Morse was born in 1738 and married Phoebe Stevens in 1765. He was a Lieutenant in Captain Barnes Co. which marched in persuit of the Briish on the 19th of April 1775. The house· is unique for its authenticity of its interior, for it was not remodeledrin the 19th century, and retains original floors, doors hardware, fireplaces, paneling and exposed frame.

10.

Bibliographyand/or references(suchas localhistories, deeds, assessor'srecords, early maps, etc ) .. History of Marlborough Reminiscences Engineering Ma.ss. Charles Hudson, Boston, 1862. M4rl. 1910.

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in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings. Indicate north.

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9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) Here on the "F[;irms" was kept a neighborhood grocery store by Willard Morse, who was also a custom boot and shoe maker and owner of this farm, which though small, was a good one. Willard Morse and his wife Mary Eager, were.surrounde4 by an i~teresting group- Qf children, amon~ whom was Freeman who marr1ed Georg1anna Morse, ana George, our respected eX-Alderman: Freeman Morse started manufacturing shoes on the "Farms" ~contiriuing'until 1856, when he and his brother George formed partner, ,ship and purchased the old Boyd brick shop on Maple street where they continued business for many years. In later davs the above house became the home of one whom at the time of his death was the oldest member of Post 43, G. A. R. When ~resident Lincoln called for troops to put , down the Rebellion, Nevinson Stone enlisted in Co. C, 25th Mass. Regt., 'and for three years'served under Gen. Foster. He married Lucy Ames, daughter of Lewis, and coming home from the 'tolar inJ.18~4, he returned to ~', his home and engaged in farming , living to be 92 years of age.
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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET

Community Marlborough

Property Joseph Morse House Form No. 59

Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Area(s)

Additional information by Anne Forbes, consultant to Marlborough Historical Commission,
6/12/95:

ASSESSOR'S #84-33

8 acres.

PHOTO

#95-16: 16

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. This little house is the best-preserved, and probably the earliest, of Marlborough's late-seventeenthand eighteenth-century colonial "half-houses". Possibly built as early as the 1690's (see below), it retains, on the interior, some of the exposed frame that is the hallmark of houses constructed during the "First Period" of colonial architecture. The main house is two stories, with a one-story side ell that dates to the 1780's. As at the Keyes/Weeks House at 1126 Concord Road (see Form #55), the chimney is not in the usual position in line with the doorway, but rather pierces the roof near the opposite end of the ridge. Some updating occurred during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The windows, some of which on the second story were 12-over-12 sash as late as 1927, are now 6-over-6-sash, with flat surrounds. (One 12-over-12-sash remains under the south gable). The main entry, apparently changed in about 1830, has a wide surround of echinus-molded pilasters, 2/3-length divided sidelights, and a high frieze with deep, molded lintel; the paneled door with applied moldings is later still. A second entry in the ell facade has a 4-panel door with applied moldings, and very narrow, recessed-paneled pilasters with high capitals in the frieze. Other architectural detail includes wide cornerboards, a molded, boxed cornice with large bed molding, and no roof overhang at the gable-ends. The ell has a sill board (water table) above the foundation. The house is clapboarded, and stands on a fieldstone foundation. A large clapboarded, gable-roofed barn stands behind the house. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cont. It is not altogether clear whether this house might incorporate any of the house occupied in the late seventeenth century by Dr. John Alcocke and his family. According to Hudson, Joseph Morse, after he, his brother Samuel, and John Bemis and Samuel Bigelow bought 350 acres from the Alcocke estate in December, 1695, settled in Dr. Alcock's house. Ella Bigelow appears to agree (p. 210), but elsewhere says that the Alcock house stood for 150 years, and that Stephen Morse built his Greek Revival house (located on the Boston Post Road) on its site (p. 209). In any case, architectural evidence reveals that this is certainly a First Period (pre-1725) building, and sources indicate it was standing by 1711, when it was designated "garrison #26" in case of Indian attack during the unsettled years of "Queen Anne's War". Joseph Morse (1667-1733) came to Marlborough with his wife and children soon after the purchase from the Alcock heirs. Of his two sons, Joseph (1691-1756) and Jonas (1703-1779), it appears that Jonas, the younger son, was the next owner of the house. He married Lydia Eager, who died at the age of 95 in 1802. It was one of their sons, Lt. William Morse (1738-1802), who marched to Cambridge with Capt. Barnes' company on April 19, 1775. Their eldest son, Jonas Morse II (17361799), acquired or inherited the property. It is his second wife, Nanne (Nancy) Howe Morse, who died in 1814, who is shown as part owner of the property in 1803. The other owner at that time was her brother-in-law, Francis Barnard, of 218 Farm Road (see Form #13.) (Cont.)

INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET

Community Marlborough

Property Joseph Morse House

Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Area(s)

Form No.
59

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cant. By 1830, possibly after a period of ownership their son, Winsor Morse, the house was the property of Jonas and Nanne's youngest son, Willard Morse (b. 1789). For many years in the middle of the nineteenth century he ran a general store here, which supplied his neighbors on the "farm(s)". He, like many farmers, also carried on a vocation as a custom shoe- and bootmaker, and it was here that his son, Freeman, in 1846 became one of the "first generation" of Marlborough's true midnineteenth-century shoe-manufacturers. In 1856 Freeman Morse formed a partnership with his brother George, moved the growing business into the original "brick shop" of the Boyd brothers on Maple Street, and subsequently manufactured there until the end of the century. Evidence conflicts as to how long George Morse owned the property. Although maps show him as the owner of the house from at least 1875 through 1889, he did not live here for most of that time, and the house was occupied by Civil War veteran Nevinson Stone. Mr. Stone is listed as owning a property of this type as early as 1860. In the first half of this century, the property was owned by William M.E. Whitelock. ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. Maps and atlases: 1803, 1830, 1835, 1856/7, 1875, 1889. Marlboro vital records Marlboro directories and tax valuations. Bigelow, James. "Photographs and Descriptions of Some Old Houses in Marlbrough, Mass." 1927. Hurd. HistoI)' of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. 1890. Marlborough Historical Society: house files.

[X] Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, a completed National Register Criteria Statement form is attached.

Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Community Marlborough Area(s)

Property Address 418 Farm Road Form No(s). 59

National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form
Check all that apply: [x] Individually eligible [ ] Eligible only in a historic district [x] Contributing to a potential historic district [] Potential historic district

Criteria:

[x] A

[] B

[xl C

[] D

Criteria Considerations:

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A

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B

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C

[J D

[] E

[1

F

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Statement of Significance by An.......-.-_ne_F_o_f_be_s The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here.

The Joseph Morse House is individually eligible for the National Register under Criteria A and C. Under Criterion A, it is the only surviving house known for certain to have been the home of one of the four original purchasers of the 350 acres of the Alcock farm that formed the distinct rural district, independent from Marlborough for its first twenty-three years, known as "the Farm(s)". Under four more generations of the Morse family, the building played an influential role as the home of a Revolutionary soldier, a general store for the district, and the site of one of Marlborough's first small shoe factories in the 1840's. Under Criterion c., the house is eligible as the best-preserved, and probably the earliest, of Marlborough's small, scattered group of Colonial "half-houses." The house is also eligible as part of a linear district of late-seventeenth- through nineteenth-century houses along Farm Road. The property retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association.

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FORM B . BUILDING Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street B s husetrs 02116

Assessor's number

USGS Quad [Marlborough

Area(s)

Form Number

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84-50

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386 Farm Road Morse/Arnold Present Original ",Date of Construction
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(not visible) Wallffrim
wood clapboard

Roof
Outbuildings/Secondary

asphalt shingle
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large ham

Major Alterations (with dates)

l-story eH, Some

sleeping porch w 2-story wing behind

\\dudmv change Condition Moved [X] no Acreage Recorded
good

] yes 4 acres

Date

N/A

.

by

Anne Forbes

Setting

On large lot at comer of Cook I ane~

Organization Date __ ,

for Marlboro

Hisf Corom

retaining wall across front

6/12/25

Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Community Marlborough Area(s)

Property Address 386 Farm Road Form No(s). 639,640

National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form
Check all that apply: [ ] Individually eligible [x] Eligible only in a historic district [x] Contributing to a potential historic district [] Potential historic district

Criteria:

[x] A

[] B

[x] C

[] D

Criteria Considerations:

[]A

[]B

[]C

[]D

[]E

[]F

[]G
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Statement of Significance by _A_nn_e_F_o_r_be_s The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here.

The Morse/Arnold House, as the home of later generations of the Morse family of 418 Farm Road, standing on property divided out from the older farm, as well as for its connection with the Arnolds and Shermans, two other long-time families of the "Farm" district, is eligible for the National Register under Criterion A for its contribution to the development of a rural, linear National Register district along Farm Road. As a well-preserved example of Greek Revival architecture in a rural setting, complete with later gable-end barn, it also qualifies under Criterion C. The property retains integrity of location, design, materials, setting, workmanship, feeling, and association.

Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Community Marlborough Area(s)

Property Address 458 Farm Road Form No(s). 641

National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form
Check all that apply: [ ] Individually eligible [x] Eligible only in a historic district [x] Contributing to a potential historic district [] Potential historic district

Criteria:

[x] A

[] B

[x] C [] A

[] D [] B [] C [] D [] E [] F [] G _

Criteria Considerations:

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.

The William Morse House, as the home of later generations of the Morse family of 418 Farm Road, standing on property divided out from the older farm, as well as for its ownership by prominent nineteenth-century farmer Philip Mowry, is eligible for the National Register under Criterion A for its contribution to the development of a rural, linear National Register district along Farm Road. As a well-preserved example of Greek Revival architecture in a rural setting, it also qualifies under Criterion C. The property retains integrity of location, design, materials, setting, workmanship, feeling, and association.

BUILDING

FORM

ARCHITECfURAL DESCRIPTION [ ] see continuation sheet Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. From the outside, there is nothing that indicates that any section of this house predates the 1830's, but the presence of a house shown on maps at this location as early as 1803 suggests that it either incorporates or replaces an eighteenth-century building. Today, it presents one of Marlborough's most intact examples of a mid-nineteenth-century Greek Revival 2 1/2-story, three-bay gable-end house with a large side wing. The windows, which would post-date 1850, are 2-over-2-sash, with molded surrounds. The main, side-hall entry has a double-leaf door with what appear to be boardedover glass lights. A turn-of-the-century wraparound porch extends from the door to the side wing. At the roofline is a deep, molded boxed cornice; at the house corners are one of Marlborough's few examples of t!/e Greek Revival recessed-paneled pilasters. Southwest of the house is one of Marlborough's largest and most well-preserved late-nineteenthcentury barns. (MHC #640) Standing with its long side to the street, it is a huge, high, clapboarded bam ofthe "New England" type, with the main wagon door, (a diagonal-board, rolling type, with long transom above), in the northeast gable end, and a leanto at the southwest end. A louvered octagonal cupola crowns the center of the roof ridge. The cornice is boxed and molded, and the windows include a variety of 6-over-6-sash, and there are several more doors on the street side, some apparently dating to the early twentieth century.

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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. This property is significant as the home of members of two of the primary families that settled on Farm Road in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Morses and the Arnolds. A house belonging to Winsor (Windsor) Morse, eldest son of Jonas Morse II of 418 Farm Road, next east (see Form #59), was standing here by 1803. He was born in 1765, and married Lucy Stratton in 1792. By 1830 the property was owned by Winslow Arnold, Jr., who was here through at least 1860. and was renowned as one of Marlborough's more progressive farmers. The next owner was his son-in-law, George E. Sherman, who owned half the property while his father-in-law was alive, and later owned the entire 23+ acre farm into the 1890's. George Sherman was a "jovial and genial" man (E. Bigelow), remembered well into this century for his vegetables and the cider he produced here at his cider mill.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [] see continuation sheet Maps and atlases: 1803, 1830, 1835, 1856/57, 1875, 1889, 1900. Bigelow, Ella. Historical Reminiscences of Marlborough. Mass. 1910. Hudson. Marlborough Vital Records. Marlborough Directories and Real Estate valuations.

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Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, a completed National Register Criteria Statement form is attached.

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FORM B . BUILDING

Assessor's number

USGS Quad

Areais)

Form Number
641 ]

Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116

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84-103

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lace (neighborhood or village)
Farm Boad district

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458 Farm Road William Morse House
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maps; visual assessment

Greek Revivalllate Colonial
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Sketch Map Draw a map of the area indicating properties within it. Number each property for whicn 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.

Foundation
Wallrrlim Roof

granite
wood clapboard

asphalt shingle

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none visjble

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Setting

Close to road, between Mowry Brook
Mature trees at front

and Phelps Street

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