FORM B .
BUILDING Assessor's number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
Massachusetts Historical Commission
80 Bovlston Street
I 70-389 I Marlborough I K 204
Boston, Massachusetts 02116
Town Marlborough
Place (neighborhood or village) _
Address 4 Corey Road
Historic Name..... _
Uses: Present dwelJin~
Original dwelling
Date of Construction __ 1.•....
8~9~O~'s~ _
Source Map"; style
Style/Form Shingle Style
Architect/Builder __ ~lI~nk~n~(~)wn~ _
Exterior Material:
Sketch Map Foundation fieldstone and mbble
Draw a map of the area indicating properties within
it. Number each property for whicb individual Wallffrim wood shingle
inventory forms have been completed. Label streets,
including route numbers, if any. Attach a separate Roof asphalt shinvle
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sheet If space is not sufficient here. Indicate north.
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures _
shingled. hip-roofed. 2-car garage
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Major Alterations (with dates)_------
1 enclosed porch or room on wbhle base at
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north end of facade
Condition excellent
Moved [Xl no ] yes Date N/A
Acreage less than one acre
Recorded by Anne Forbes Settinzb In 19th-C residential area ; on shOJi
Organization for Marlboro Hist Comm side street Modem hOllse opposite
Date 911)/94
BUILDING FORM
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION [ ] see continuation sheet
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other
buildings within the community.
This house is the best-preserved of the few rare examples of Shingle Style architectur- ;~!.he Church
Street Area. (See also 14/16 Warren Avenue, MHC #611.) Althouv its _"..iare, angular
proportions are somewhat more Queen Anne in nature, it has the contir.ccus shingled surfaces,
steeply-pitched gabled roofs, and, most notably in the facade gable window, the multiple-unit
window, here a triple, with diagonal-paned upper sashes, that characterize the Shingle Style.
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This is a 2 1/2-story cross-gabled building with a two-story rear wing. Abutting the north side of the I
main house is a flat-roofed sleeping porch. In front of it is what appears to be an added flat-roofed ""
room or enclosed porch. The main facade is two bays wide, 'With a pedimented porch on short
paired Tuscan columns on shingled pedestals. Most of the windows are 6-over-l-sash, with molded
surrounds and high friezes and dentilated cornices. A single French window appears in the facade
of the sleeping porch.
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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 roleis) the owners/occupants played within the community.
In the 1890's, when both the nearby shoe factories and the local economy were prospering, and the
recent streetcar line down Maple Street promised accessible transportation nearby, the Church
Street area, which had been developing slowly as a residential neighborhood since the early 1850's,
experienced a period of accelerated growth. New houses rapidly filled most of the empty spaces
on the established streets, and short side roads were opened across the few remaining large pieces
of land. The choicest parcel still open near the Maple Street side of the neighborhood was the
large estate owned by the heirs of Thomas Corey, whose mansion still stood just west of this house,
overlooking the center of the city. During the 1880's the west.ern section of Warren Avenue had
been laid out through its southern edge, and in the 1890's this short road was built connecting
Warren and Hildreth Street. This house, t.he only historic building to be built on Corey Road, was
constructed shortly afterward ..
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [] see continuation sheet
Sanborn maps.
[] Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, a completed
National Register Criteria Statement form is attached.
