FORM B .

BUILDING Assessor's number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number

Massachusetts Historical Commission

80 Boylston Street
I 69-445 II Marlborough I I__ F__ I 177

Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Town MarlboroJl~h

,Place (neighborhood or village) _

FaimlOlJDt Hill
/

Address 39 Newton Street

, Historic Name Henry Eager House

Uses: Present Ullllt;-lmjt dwelling

Original dwelling

Date of Construction_~c~a~1~8~9~5 _

Source Maps; style

Style/Form Queen Anne

Ilnknown

Exterior Material:

Sketch Map foundation brick

Draw a map of the area indicating properties within
it. Number each property for which individual Wallrrrim wood shinole
o and SYnthetic
_
inventory forms have been completed. Label streets, siding
including route numbers, if any. Attach a separate Roof asphalt shingle
sheet if space is not sufficient here. Indicate north.
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures _
7.

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---- L/H.)/" .. 1 C G
~~ . , LVIJ· Major Alterations (with dates) _
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.~ V <> some window replacement! one facade
N door removed

Condition fair/goad

Moved [X] no ] yes Date N/A

,

Acreage less than one acre

Recorded by A nne Forbes Setting At corner of Granoer Blvd· first on

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Organization for Marlboro His! Cornm residential street of pri rna )"ilylate-19th-centllry

Date 4/30/94 hOllses Parkino to rear concrete front stajr

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BUILDING FORM

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION [1 see continuation sheet

Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings
within the community.

#39 Newton Street is one of the grandest of several Queen Anne houses on Newton Street, some
of which apparently replaced smaller, earlier houses. Today, since late-twentieth-century urban
renewal and the construction of Granger Boulevard cleared the area from here to Main Street, it
is also the first house on the street. Although it has undergone some alteration, it is still an
excellent example of the Queen Anne in its "Free Classic" interpretation. It is a large 2 1/2-story
building with a hipped roof, long wraparound porch, and a two-story central rear wing. Each end
of the roof is pierced by a large gable, and, its facade slope is broken by a massive central gable, !
a pair of hip-roofed dormers and a large brick chimney. On the south end of the house, a second
large chimney, exposed at the first story, rises through a projecting, shingled gable. The gable at
the north end has a typically Queen Anne recessed, double, angled window under a a peak of
undulating shingle. The facade gable, which projects forward over a shallow second-story pavilion,
has what appears to be the only extended hipped peak in Marlboro. Clearly the focal point of the
facade, below the gable the pavilion has a large, elaborate Palladian window with a colored, leaded-
glass fan, rising into an elaborate frieze embelished with foliate scrolls. In front of the pavilion is
a wide balcony with a lathe-turned balustrade. (Both this balustrade, and another of the same type
that lines the wide wraparound porch, are recent replacements.) The porch, which displays the
ubiquitous Queen Anne sunburst over the entry, is supported on turned posts with flared sawcut
brackets.

The windows, some of which have been replaced, are largely l-over-l-sash. The main entry, which
has a large glass-and-panel door, appears to be one of a former pair, as a large new window of
about the same width now stands beside it.

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE [ ] see continuation sheet.

Explain history oj the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the
building, and the rolets) the owners/occupants played within the community.

This house is one of the last and most elaborate of the many homes of prosperous Main Street
merchants to be built in the Fairmount Hill area in the latter part of the nineteenth century. It is
the residence built for longtime businessman Henry W. Eager in the 1890's. For several decades,
beginning sometime in the 1870's, he owned a jewelry business 0.0 Main Street witb his busness
partner, Loriman S. Brigham, who lived just down the street at #65 Newton Street (MHC #400).
Between 1875 and 1878 Brigham & Eager built both the three-story, Second-Empire business block
at 173 Main Street, which housed their jewelry store (see Form #108,) and the small mansard
cottage on the hill behind it, at 20 McEnelly Street (Form #109.)

BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [ ] see continuation sheet

Bigelow, Ella. Historical Reminiscences of the Early Times in Marlborough. 1910.
Hurd, D. Hamilton. History of Middlesex County, Mass. 1890..
Maps and Atlases: Sanborns.
Marlborough Directories.

[X] Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, a completed
National Register Criteria Statement [orm is attached.
Massachusetts Historical Commission Community Property Address
80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Marlborough 39 Newton Street

Area(s) Form No(s).

F __ 77__

National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form

Check all that apply:

[ ] Individually eligible [ ] Eligible only in a historic district

[xl 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

Statement of Significance by Forbes I Schuler

The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here.

The Henry Eager House meets Criteria A and C of the National Register as part of the
Fairmount Hill district. The property is part of a mid to late nineteenth century subdivision
which was developed by Samuel Boyd who had purchased Calab Witherbee's estate in the
1850's and subsequently built his own house at the crest of the hill (no longer extant), laid out
streets and donated the southern slope of Fairmount Hill for a park. Newton Street was laid
out by the late 1860's. By the tum of the century most lots had been improved with large
comfortable houses for Marlborough's upper· middle class. This ca. 1895 dwelling is one of the
grandest of several Queen Anne houses on Newton Street. The property retains integrity of
location, design, setting, material, workmanship, feeling, and association.
FORM B - BUILDING Assessor's number USGS Quad Areafs) Form Number

Massachusetts Historical Commission

80 Boylston Street
I 70-85 II Marlborough I F 176

Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Town Marlborough

Place (neighborhood or village) _

Fairmount Hill

Address 74 Newton Street

Historic Name William H. On thank House

Uses: Present Dwe]Jjn<Yo

Original DwelljDO' C>

Date of Construction fa 1870

Source Maps: style

Style/Form Italianate vernacular

Architect/Builder llnknown

Exterior Material:

Sketch Map Foundation granite

Draw a map of the area indicating properties within
it. Number each property for which individual WalllTrim wood clapboard
inventory forms have been completed. Label streets,
including route numbers, if any. Attach a separate Roof asphalt shingle
sheet if space is not sufficient here. Indicate north.
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures _

small barnlshed

Major Alterations (with dates) .•... _

Done

N
Condition excellent

Moved [X] no [ ] yes Date N/A

,

Acreage less than one acre

Recorded by Anne Forbes Setting On small lot close to street in

J

Organization for Marlboro Hjst Comm neighborhood of Iate-nineteenth -ceotl! ry

Date 4/30194 wood-frame homes
BUILDING FORM

ARCH1TECTURAL DESCRIPTION [ ] see continuation sheet

Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings
within the community.

One of the most well-preserved of the late-nineteenth-century houses on Newton Street, the Onthank
House is also one of the neighborhood's best representatives of the Italianate vernacular style. It
is a tall, 2 ti2-story, gable-end house with a two-story perpendicular 'Wingabutting the north side.
The windows are 2-over-2-sash with molded surrounds; a one-story polygonal bay window occupies "i
the south half of the main facade. The building is unusual for Marlborough in that it retains several /

original doors. The main, side-hall entry in the gable-end is a double-leaf, glass-and-panel type with
large round-headed lights, sheltered by a typical Italianate hood and flanked by chamfered pilasters.
A second entry in the wing facade has a single door with two round-headed lights, and is reached
via a porch with square, chamfered posts and a lathe-turned balustrade. A third entry, located in
a small vestibule at the front of a lower northeast rear wing, has a pair of long rectangular glass
lights.

The architectural trim all this house is typical of the early-1870's Italianate in its narrow
cornerboards, sill board, and molded, boxed, and dentilated cornices. Under the cornice, the frieze
is adorned with large paired brackets. The carved rope detail at the building comers is found on
several Marlborough houses built during this period.

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.

Many of the houses all Fairmount Hill were built for people whose businesses were located in the
area just south of Main Street. Some of those enterprises depended on the proximity of the railroad
as a source of customers. One of the best examples is this house, the home of William H. Onthank,
who ran a large livery stable at the head of Florence Street, just south of the terminus of the "South
Branch" (Old Colony) Railroad, only a few steps from the depot. He had formerly lived on Lincoln
Street, and apparently had this bouse built closer to his stable in about 1870. For some years his
son, William A. Onthank, shared the house, before his own residence was built at 64 Fairmount
Street in the 1880's (see Form #168.)

BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [J see continuation sheet

Bigelow, Ella. Historical Reminiscences of Marlborough. 1910.
Maps and Atlases: Walling: 1871; Beers: 1875; Bailey & Hazen: 1878; Walker: 1889; Sanboms.
Marlborough Directories.

[ 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 Community Property Address
80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Marlborough 74 Newton Street

Areats) Form No(s).

F __ 76__

National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form

Check all that apply:

[ ] Individually eligible [ ] 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

Statement of Significance by Forbes I Schuler

The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here.

The William H. Onthank House meets Criteria A and C of the National Register as part of a
Fairmount Hill district. The property is part of a mid to late nineteenth century subdivision
which was developed by Samuel Boyd, who had purchased much of Caleb Witherbee's estate in
the 1850's and subsequently built his own house at the crest of the hill (no longer extant), laid
out streets and donated the southern slope of Fairmount Hill for a park. Newton Street was
laid out by 1870. By the turn of the century most lots had been improved with large
comfortable houses for Marlborough's upper-middle class, many of whose businesses were just
south of Main Street. This ca. 1870 dwelling is a well preserved example of Italianate Style on
Newton Street. The property retains integrity of location, design, setting, material,
workmanship, feeling, and association.
FORM B - BUILDING Assessor's number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number

Massachusetts Historical Commission I 70-87 II Marlborough I _F__ 17_5 ]

80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116

To\\.'TI MarlborOllobD
,. ! ,~.
Place (neighborhood or village) _
\ FairmOllnt Hjl1
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, '\~\{~
" ,,~'},'Address 85 Newton Street

G.H. Whitney House

Present Dwellin<Yo

Original Dwelling

ate of Construction ca 1860's

Maps; style

Mansard cottage

unknown

Exterior Material:

Sketch Map Foundation brick and concrete black

Draw a map of the area indicating properties within
it. Number each property for which individual \Vallrrrim synthetic siding
inventory forms have been completed. Label streets,
including route numbers, if any. Attach a separate Roof asphalt shjngle
sheet if space is not sufficient here. Indicate north.
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures _

none

Major Alterations (with dates)_------

I
rJ
some trim removed--late

Condition fajr/<Yood
o
20th century

Moved [X] no [ ] yes Date __ N_/_A _

Acreage less th a n one acre

Recorded by Anne Forbes Setting 00 InDoo toan<YBlar

~ lot at carner of

Organization for Marlboro His! Comm Park Street, in neighborhood of late 19tb-

Date 4,1'30/94 cent])))' woad-frame hOJlses

BUILDING FORM

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION [ ] see continuation sheet

Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other
buildings within the community.

Except for its synthetic siding, this house is an authentic and well-preserved example of a concave-
flared-roof mansard cottage. As is the case with three other similar houses on Fairmount Hill
(#101 Newton, 51 Park, and 38 Fairmount Streets, here the graceful curve of the roof is
emphasized by a center mansard wall dormer over a three-bay facade. The center entry has a
vestibule with a double-leaf door with large round-headed lights. On the south part of the facade /

is a polygonal bay window. The windows, typical of the era, are 2-over-2-sash, with molded j
surrounds and high, molded crowns. The roof dormers are recessed, 'With shed roofs and decorative
sawcut surrounds. The cornice of this house is one of the most elaborate on Marlborough's
Second-Empire/mansard houses-vir is molded and boxed, with small modillion-like brackets applied
to a sawcut, scalloped frieze.

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE [] see continuation sheet

Explain history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history, Include uses of .j

the building, and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community.

This stylish little house, one of the earliest on the lower section of Newton Street, was probably
built around the time of the Civil War. Its first known owner was George W. Whitney, who was
a highly-skilled upper-leather "click" in one of the local shoe factories, (probably the factory of
Russell & Howe, later Russell & Alley, at the corner of Winthrop and Lincoln Streets). He and
his family lived here until at least the end of the 1890's.

[Link] and/or REFERENCES [] see continuation sheet

Bigelow, Ella. Historical Reminiscences of Marlborough. 1910.
Maps and Atlases: Walling: 1871; Beers: 1875; Bailey & Hazen: 1878; Walker: 1889; Sanborns.
Marlborough Directories and tax valuations.

[ 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 Community Property Address
80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Marlborough 85 Newton Street

Area(s) Form No(s).

F 75

National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form

Check all that apply:

[ ] 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: [] A [] B [] C [] D [] E [] F [] G

Statement of Significance by Forbes! Schuler

The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be ju:.••
tified here.

The G. H. Whitney House meets Criteria A and C of the National Register as part of a
Fairmount Hill district. TIle property is part of a mid to late nineteenth century subdivision
which was laid out by Samuel Boyd who had purchased Caleb Witherbee's estate in the 1850's
and subsequently built his own house at the crest of the hill (no longer extant), laid out streets
and donated the southern slope of Fairmount Hill for a park. Newton Street was laid out by
1870. By the turn of the century most lots had been improved with large comfortable houses
for Marlborough's upper-middle class, many of whose businesses were just south of Main Street.
This ca. 1860s mansard cottage with elaborated cornice is one of the earlier houses on
Fairmount Hill. The property retains integrity of location, design, setting, material,
workmanship, feeling, and association.
FORM B * BUILDING Assessor's number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number

Massachusetts Historical Commission _7_0_-8_9 __ 1 I Marlborough I F 174

80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Town Marlborollgh

Place (neighborhood or village) _

FaionoJlnt Hill

Address 97 Newton Street

Historic Name S.S. Howe/E.E. Bond House

Uses: Present DwelJinoo

Original Dwellju(Jo

Date of Construction ca 1860

Source Maps: style

Style/Form Italianate

Architect/Builder __ l_!D_k_n_o~w_n~ _

Exterior Material:

Sketch Map Foundation granite

Draw a map of the area indicating properties within
it. Number each property for which individual Wallffrim synthetic sieling
inventory forms have been completed. Label streets]
including route numbers, if any. Attach a separate Roof asphalt shingle
sheet if space is not sufficient here. Indicate north.
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures _

none

Major Alterations (with dates}_-- _

some trim lost; porch posts and balustrade

~I
replaced with modern iron
i
~
Condition f~a~ir~ _

Moved [X] no ] yes Date NJA

Acreage less than one acre

Recorded by Anne Forbes Setting 00 west side of Newton Street in

Organization for Marlboro Hist Comm neiohborhood

o of late-19th- and early-
• ?Oth-

Date 8,15/94 wood-frame houses Modern house to north

Massachusetts Historical Commission Community Property Address
80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Marlborough 97 Newton Street

Area(s) Form No(s).

F 74

National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form

Check all that apply:

[ ] Individually eligible [x] Eligible only in a historic district

[xl 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

Statement of Significance by Forbes I Schuler

The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here.

The Howe/Bond House meets Criteria A and C of the National Register as part of the
Fairmount Hill district. The property is part of a mid to late nineteenth century subdivision
which was laid out by Samuel Boyd who had purchased Caleb Witherbee's estate in the 1850's
and subsequently built his own house at the crest of the hill (no longer extant), laid out streets
and donated the southern slope of Fairmount Hill for a park. Newton Street was laid out by
1870. By the tum of the century most lots had been improved with large comfortable houses
for Marlborough's upper-middle class, many of whose businesses were just south of Main Street.
This ca. 1860s Italianate is one of the earlier houses on Fairmount Hill. The property retains
integrity of location, design, setting, feeling, and association.
BUILDING FORM

ARCHITECfURAL DESCRIPTION [ ] see continuation sheer

Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other
buildings within the community.

Although this house has lost some trim elements, it is still a handsome illustration of a three-bay,
probably early Italianate house, with a shallow-hipped roof and a three-bay facade. It is 1\.\'0 stories
high, with a two-story rear wing, one-story polygonal bay windows on the facade and south side,
~,
and a large, later two-story polygonal wing on the north side. The windows are 2-over-2-sash, and i

the main entry has an eight-panel door with divided sidelights and a rectangular panel over the I

door. 10e full-width facade porch was probably added at the end of the nineteenth century. '"

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.

Further research will be necessary to trace the early history of this house. One of the first to be
constructed on Newton Street, its style indicates that it was probably built about 1860. It stands
on Lot #34 of the 46+ houselots that Samuel Boyd laid out on Fairmount, Adams, Park, and
Newton Streets in his development of the residential neighborhood on Fairmount Hill. Maps show
it first under the ownership of "5. Howe," although it is not known which member of the Howe
family this indicates. By 1889 it was the property of E.E. Bond. As Edwin E. Bond was killed
during the Civil War, this may indicate that the owner was a son of the same name. In the early
part of this century, after her husband's death, it became the home of Mrs. Mary Walker, widow
of carriage- and then automobile-manufacturer O.P. Walker. (See Form #199, 3/5 Stevens Street.)

BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [] see continuation sheet

Maps and Atlases: 1871, 1875, 1878 birdseye, 1889, Sanboms.
Marlborough Directories.

[ X] Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, a

completed National Register Criteria Statement form is attached.
FORM B - BUILDING Assessor's number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number

Massachusetts Historical Commission I I Marlborough I F 173

80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Town Mar1borol!~h

Place (neighborhood or village) _

FairmouDt Hill

Address 98 Newton Street

Historic Name Daniel F. O'Connell House

Uses: Present DwelJjno o

Orizinal
e Dwelling

Date of Construction fa 1885-89

Source Maps; style

Style/Form Queen Anne

Architect/Builder unknown

Exterior Material:

Sketch Map Foundation brick

Draw a map of the area indicating properties within
it. Number each property for which individual WalIrrrim wood clapboard and shingle
inventory forms have been completed. Label streets,
including route numbers, If any. Attach a separate Roof asphalt shingle
sheet if space is not sufficient here. Indicate north.
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures _

none

Major Alterations (with dates) _

none

Condition excellent

Moved [X] no [ ] yes Date __ N_I_A _

Acreage less than one acre

Recorded by Anne Forbes Setting On small Jot close to street in

;

Organization for Marlboro His! Carom neiO"hborbood

o of late-nineteenth-centlll)'

Date 4/30/94 wood-frame houses 1-$tory hOllse to north

BUILDING FOR~1

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 one of several well-preserved stylish Queen Anne houses that enrich the streetscape
of Newton Street. It is a 2 112-story gable-end building of cruciform plan, with the elaborate detail
and variety of surface treatment that is the hallmark of the Queen Anne. The walls are clapboarded
at the first story; the second story has a skirt of rectangular shingles, and siding of fish-scale shingles,
broken at the roof line by a band of pierced vertical-boarding and a wide dado of vertical-boarding
with an applied X-design. The three main gables are filled with patterned or rectangular shingles, ,
and each of their peaks is faced with an elaborate saw-cut gable screen (front gable), or a V-truss .'
(north and south gables.) All the gables have incised verge boards. The main entry, a double-leaf
door with clear and colored-glass panes, is located in a vestibule tucked into the angle of the front
and north wings. Sheltering it is a corner porch on lathe-turned posts and pilasters, with a lattice-
work and keyhole frieze screen, a bracketed cornice, and an elaborate spindle balustrade. On the
south side is a two-story porch with the same detailing. The windows are 2-over-1-sash, with their
original shutters. The front and north elevations each have a bracketed, one-story polygonal bay
window. That on the north is an oriel; the one on the facade has a large single-pane "picture"
window.

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE l l 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 bouse was built in the late 1880's as the residence for a manufacturer associated with one of
the nearby shoe factories, Daniel F. O'Connell (1857-1941). He was the third son of one of
Marlborough's major shoe manufacturers, John O'Connell. (See Form #92, Farwell/O'Connell
House.) He and his three brothers, William, John A. and David O'Connell, are representative of
t

the second generation of the industry, in which some sons, like Charles Curtis and Louis P. Howe
(see Form #122: 235 Pleasant Street) followed their fathers into the business, often eventually taking
over the company, and others left the shoe industry for other careers. Daniel O'Connell (1857-1941)
falls into the second category. Although with the entrance of John A. into the company in 1873,
Daniel in 1880, and William (date unknown) the O'Connell company had officially become John
O'Connell & Sons, Daniel and William left the business after a number of years, and soon afterward
the finn discontinued shoe manufacturing altogether, leasing its Howe Street factory building to Rice
& Hutchins. One of Daniel O'Connell's main business interests in the 1890's was a hotel, the Eagle
House, on West Main Street.

This house would have become Daniel O'Connell's residence during the years that he was associated
with the O'Connell company. The property passed to Mr. O'Connell's daughter, Delia O'Connell,
who lived here into the 1970's.

BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [] see continuation sheet

Bigelow, Ella. Historical Reminiscences of Marlborough. 1910.
Hurd, D. Hamilton. History of Middlesex County, Mass. 1890.
Maps and Atlases: Walker: 1889; Sanboms.
Marlborough Directories.

[ 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 Community Property Address
80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Marlborough 98 Newton Street

Area(s) Form No(s).

F 73

National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form

Check all that apply:

[ ] Individually eligible [ ] Eligible only in a historic district

[x] Contributing to a potential historic district [] Potential historic district

Criteria: [x] A [] B [x] C Il D

Criteria Considerations: [] A [] B [] C [] D [] E [] F [1 G

Statement of Significance by Forbes / Schuler

The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here.

The Daniel F. O'Connell House meets Criteria A and C of the National Register as part of the
Fairmount Hill district. The property is part of a mid to late nineteenth century subdivision
which was laid out by Samuel Boyd who had purchased Calab Witherbee's estate in the 1850's
and subsequently built his own house at the crest of the hill (no longer extant), laid out streets
and donated the southern slope of Fairmount Hill for a park. Newton Street was laid out by
1870. By the turn of the century most lots had been improved with large comfortable houses
for Marlborough's upper-middle class, many of whose businesses were just south of Main Street.
This imposing ca. 1880s dwelling is a well preserved example of the substantial and stylish
Queen Anne houses on Fairmount Hill. The property retains integrity of location, design,
setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association.
FOR}..! B - B0ILDI\G Assessor's number LSGS Quad Area(s) Form Number

\lassachusetts
80 Bovlston
Historical
Street
Commission 82-2 I :\1arlborough I I - __
F
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1-:'}
1-

....J

Boston, Mass achusetts 02116

TO\\l1 Marlhorol),::b

Place (neighborhood or village) _

FairrnOJlIlt Hill

Address 101 Ne\v1on Street

Historic Name Derbvj\V.\V. \Vitherbee House

Uses: Present Ihvelliua;:)

Original Dwellioa ;:)

Date of Construction 1860's

Source 1\/1ap$:style

Style/Form Mansard cottage

Architect/Builder __ ~ll~u~k~n~o~w,~'n _

Exterior Material:

Sketch Map Foundation brick

Draw a map of the area indicating properties within
if. Number each properlY for which individual Wall/Trim wood shakes
inventory forms have been completed. Label streets,
including route numbers, If ally. Attach a separate Roof asphalt shinale
o
sheet if space is not sufficient here. Indicate north.
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures _

nonr

Major AJterations (with [Link] 1900 facade

porch- modern door and sidelights

Condition fa_i_r _

Moved (X] no 1 yes Date N/A

Acreage less than one acre

Recorded by A ODe Forbes Setting Sits above banhd front yard io

Organization for Marlboro Hist Comm neiahborhood

J
of hte-19th- anel earlv-?Oth-
J

Oak 81] /94 ....[Link]- ITa m e b amp s

BCILDI:\G FOR0i

ARCHITECTURA.L DESCRIPTI00.'" [ see continuation sheet

Describe architectural features. Evaluate th characteristics of this building in terms of other (Jilf!dings
within the community.

101 Newton Street is the largest of the four three-bay mansard cottages with center-facade wall
dormers that were built on Fairmount Hill in the 1560's. (See 85 Newton Street, 51 Park, and 38
Fairmount Streets [MHC #s 175, 386, 165].) It has a two-story rear wing, which extends west into
one story, and two full-height, one-bay extensions on either end, that were probably added several
years after the house was built. Typical of the times and of the mansard cottage house-type, the
windows are 2-over-2-sash; the dormer window surround is slightly peaked. The architectural trim
includes small modillions at the molded and boxed cornice, and bracketed shed-roofed canopies and
decorative trim boards flanking the dormer windows. .1
\

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE [] see continuation sheet

Explain history of the building. Explain its association) will! local (or state) history. Include uses of the
building, and the rolets) the owners/occupants played within the community.

Although this bouse first appears on maps as belonging to "A. Derby" in 1871, it is best known as the
home of William Wallace Witherbee and his family, who moved bere sometime in the early 1870's.
Wallace Witherbee (1821-1888) was the youngest son of Caleb Witherbee, who had acquired most
of Fairmount Hill for his farm by about 1840. (See Form -#164,37 Fairmount Street). When Caleb
Witherbee died in 1853, his many children inherited property on the hill. Some apparently sold their
land to the hill's major developer, shoe-manufacturer Samuel Boyd; others, like Wallace Witherbee
and his brother Nahum, who built a house at 47 Newton Street (MHC #405), apparently kept
possession of at least some of their father's property. There is even evidence that Wallace
Witherbee had a house (demolished) farther up the hill on the Witherbee farm between his father's
and Samuel Boyd's mansion at the top of the hill at the end of the 1850's.

Wallace Witherbee was Samuel Boyd's brother-in-law. He married Elizabeth Brigham, daughter of
Winslow and Elizabeth Larkin Brigham, in 1845, the same year that Samuel Boyd married her sister,
Anne. He was closely associated with Samuel Boyd's shoe-manufacturing businesses, and may have
been involved in laying out the streets and houselots on Fairmount Hill in the 1860's, as well. After
his death, his widow and daughters, Anne and Sarah, lived here through the turn of the century.

BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [] see continuation sheet

Bigelow, Ella. HistOlical Reminiscences of Marlborough. 1910.
Maps and Atlases: 1871, 1875, 1878, 1889; Sanboms.
Marlborough Directories.

[ 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 Community Property Address
80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Marlborough 101 Newton Street

Area(s) Form No(s).

F 72

National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form

Check all that apply:

[ ] Individually eligible [ ] Eligible only in a historic district

[x] Contributing to a potential historic district [] Potential historic district

Criteria: [xl A [] B [x] C [] D

Criteria Considerations: [] A [] B [] C [] D [] E [] F [] G

Statement of Significance by Forbes I Schuler

The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here.

The Derby/Witherbee House meets Criteria A and C of the National Register as part of the
Fairmount Hill district. The property is part of a mid to late nineteenth century subdivision
which was laid out by Samuel Boyd who had purchased Calab Witherbee's estate in the 1850's
and subsequently built his own house at the crest of the hill (no longer extant), laid out streets
and donated the southern slope of Fairmount Hill for a park. Newton Street was laid out by
1870. By the turn of the century most lots had been improved with large comfortable houses
for Marlborough's upper-middle class, many of whose businesses were just south of Main Street.
One of four ca. 1860s mansard cottages on Fairmount HilI it was the home of one of Caleb
Witherbee's sons. The property retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials,
workmanship, feeling, and association.
 FORM B - BUILDING Assessor's number USGS Quad Areajs) Form Number

Massachusetts Historical Commission _8_2_._3__ 1 I Marlborough I F 171

80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Town MarlboIOJl~b

Place (neighborhood or village) _

Fairmount Hm
Address 105 Newton Street
\
• Historic N arne Davenport/Boynton House

Present Dwellinu o

Original Dwelling

Date of Construction ca 1888

Source Maps: style

Style/Form Queen Anne

[Link]/Builder __ .unknoszn _

Exterior Material:

Sketch Map Foundation brick

Draw a map of the area indicating properties within
it. Number each property for which individual Wallrrrim wood clapboard and shingle
inventory forms have been completed. Label streets,
including route numbers, if any. Attach a separate Roof slate
sheet if space is not sufficient here. Indicate north.
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures _

ca 1889 carriage hOllse (see P 3)

Major Alterations (with dates) .•.. _

none

Condition excellent

Moved [X] no [ ] yes Date _~N_/_A _

Acreage less than one acre

Recorded by Anne Forbes Setting Opposite Garfield Street in neigb--

Organization for Marlboro Hjst Comm borhood of late-19th. and early-20th-century

Date 4130/94 wood-frame hOllses Companion bOllse to S

BUILDING FOR~1

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION [ ] see continuation sheet

Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings
within the community.

This house, along with its neighbor to the south at #111 Newton Street (MHC #170), is one of
Marlborough's best representatives of the high-style Queen Anne of the late 1880's-early '90's. It is
a complex, two-story building with a high, hipped slate roof intersected by a north cross gable. A two-
story wing extends to the rear. Abutting the south side of the house is a rectangular bay, larger at
the first story than at the second, which is crowned with a pedimented gable. An exterior chimney
embellished with decorative brick or terracotta panels is also located on the south side. The focal
point of the facade is a prominent southeast corner bay with an overhanging pediment topped with
a projecting, conical hood. The northeast facade corner is occupied by what appears to be an early-
twentieth-century wraparound porch with a wide shingled pediment, short paired and tripled Tuscan ~'
columns, and a shingled balustrade.

As is typical of the early Queen Anne, this house displays a variety of surface textures. The first story
is clapboarded; the second is clad in patterned shingles, and has a flared, shingled skirt. The windows
are as varied as the siding, and include l-over-l-sash, 2-over-l 's, and 2-over-2's with a decorative top
sash. A lunette occupies a small gable at the front roof peak, and a paired 8-over-1 is located in the
projecting corner bay of the north gable. TIle architectural trim here includes a molded, boxed
cornice, sill board, and, at the main facade gable, a stickwork fireze and overhanging brackets with
drops.

Behind the house is a Queen Anne carriage house with a front wall gable with a conical hood and
decorative shingles. It is altered by the addition of a pair of 20th-century garage doors.
I
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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 stylish house, at the time of its construction the southernmost on the west side of Newton Street,
was built for William Nathaniel Davenport, one of several lawyers to reside on Fairmount Hill, and
Marlborough's fourth mayor. Born in Boylston in 1856, he was also one of the many self-made men
to make his fortune in Marlborough in the latter part of the nineteenth century. He left school at the
age of eleven to work in the Boylston cotton mills, and subsequently found work in W.F. Trowbridge's
shoe factory in Hudson. He came to Marlborough in 1872, and worked in the Clapp & Billings shoe
factory for nine years before deciding to study law. His first year as a lawyer was spent in the
Marlborough office of another Newton Street resident, E.F. Johnson. Mr. Davenport was admitted
to the Middlesex County bar in 1883, at which time he opened his own practice. He later went into
partnership with Edgar Weeks to form the firm of Davenport & Weeks, with offices in the Warren
Block at 155 Main Street. (See Form #129.)

Along with practicing law here for many years, Mr. Davenport held several public offices. He was
clerk of the Marlborough Police Court in 1883-1884, a position he resigned in order to serve as State
Representative, an office to which he was elected for two consecutive terms. (Cont.)

BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [] see continuation sheet

Bigelow, Ella. Historical Reminiscences of Marlborough. 1910.
Hurd, D. Hamilton. History of Middlesex County, Mass. 1890.
Maps and Atlases: Walker: 1889; Sanborns.
Marlborough Directories.

[ 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 Community Property Address
80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Marlborough 105 Newton Street

Area(s) Form No(s).

F 71

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 [x] C [] D

Criteria Considerations: [] A [] B [] C [] D [] E ll F ll G

Statement of Significance by Forbes / Schuler

The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here.

The William N. Davenport House meets Criteria A and C of the National Register individually
and as part of the Fairmount Hill district. The property is part of a mid to late nineteenth
century subdivision which was laid out by Samuel Boyd who had purchased Caleb Witherbee's
estate in the 1850's and subsequently built his own house at the crest of the hill (no longer
extant), laid out streets and donated the southern slope of Fairmount Hill for a park. Newton
Street was laid out by 1870. By the turn of the century most lots had been improved with large
comfortable houses for Marlborough's upper-middle class, many of whose businesses were just
south of Main Street. The ca. 1888 elaborate high-style Queen Anne was the home of
Marlborough's fourth mayor. The property retains integrity of location, design, setting,
materials, workmanship, feeling, and association.
INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community Property

Marlborough Davenport/Boynton
Massachusetts Historical Commission House
80 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116 Area Form Nots'
F 171

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cont.

He was subsequently elected to the State Senate in 1888, serving two consecutive terms. In 1894-95
he was Mayor of the city of Marlborough. Among his other public positions were membership on the
State Board of Publication from 1902-1908, Secretary of the Metropolitan Water Board from 1895 to
1901, and Secretary of the Metropolitan Water and Sewarage Board from 1901 to at least 1910.

The Davenport family lived here until the late 1890's, and subsequently moved to Witherbee Street.
By 1897 the house belonged to J. Farley Boynton, who had a dry-goods store on Main Street. At the
beginning of this century his company became Boynton & Allen, and later Allen's Department Store.
 FORM B . BUILDING Assessor's number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number

Massachusetts Historical Commission II fvIarlborough I F 170

80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Town Marlborough

,
'\ Place (neighborhood or village) _

FairmouDt HjlJ

Address 111 Newton Street

;,)ace the Historic Name Michael J. McCarthy House

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U«~egative here Uses: Present Dwe]]jl1g
~"'i'<:~....;
Original Dwelling.

Date of Construction _~1~8.....

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Source Marlborough Enterprise

Style/Form Queen Anne

Arch itect/Buil der lIDknoYv'D

Exterior Material:

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Foundation

WallfTrim
brick

wood clapboard
inventory forms have been completed. Label streets,
including route numbers, if any. Attach a separate Roof asphalt shingle
sheet if space it; not sufficient here. Indicate north.
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures _

Done

Major Alterations (with dates) •.. _

none (some windows replaced?)

Condition excellent

Moved [X] no [ ] yes Date __ N_/A~__

Acreage less than one acre

Recorded by Anne Forbes Setting Opposite Garfield Street in neigbn

Organization for Marlboro Hist Camm borbood of Iate-19th- and early-20tb-C

Date 4/30/94 houses Similar house and garage to north

BUILDING FOR!v1

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION [ 1 see continuation sheet

Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings
within the community.

Along with its neighbor at #105 Newton Street (MHC#171), the McCarthy House is one of
Marlborough's best high-style representatives of the first decade of the Queen Anne. It is a large,
square, 2 1I2-story house with a 2-stolY rear wing. The main section has a high pyramid roof, with
a prominent gable on the north side and the tall four-sided pyramidal roof of a projecting polygonal
bay rising from the southeast comer. Hip-roofed double dormers also break the roof plane on three
j
sides. The house has a typically wide, expansive wraparound porch, with lathe-turned posts, solid
brackets, and a pediment over the entry stair. The entry itself, at the north end of the facade, has
a double-leaf, glass-and-panel door. A colored-glass panel beside it lights the entry hall. Much of
the north side of the house is filled with a large, mullioned two-story oriel stair window of leaded
and colored glass. In front of it is a second-story rectangular oriel bay window, over a colored-glass
double-hung window at the first story. On the south side of the house is a two-story polygonal bay
window, smaller at the second story than at the first.

Most of the windows in this house are Lover-l-sash; some have been replaced. In contrast to 105
Newton Street, most of this house is clapboarded, with only a band of decorative shingle between
the stories. The architectural trim includes a wide frieze decorated with incised foliate designs, saw-
cut brackets at the molded, boxed cornice, and large pierced brackets under the oriel corners and
at the polygonal facade bay.

The interior of the building was renovated in 1946, with the downstairs used for meeting and
recreational rooms, and the upstairs as a sanctuary.

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 ownersloccupants played within the community.
,,
Like its neighbors, this house stands on one of the lots laid out by Samuel Boyd in the 1870's on the "
southern part of the large acreage he owned on the south and east slopes of Fairmount Hill. The
lot changed hands at least twice before ca. 1890, when it was purchased, and this house built upon
it, by one of several Main Street merchants to make their homes on Newton Street, Michael J.
McCarthy. For many years he had a sizeable mens' clothing store in the old Hazelton Block. His
first wife was Hannah O'Connell, daughter of shoe-manufacturer John O'Connell, and sister of
Daniel F. O'Connell of 98 Newton Street (see Form #173.) She died in 1886, and it is likely that
this house was built at the time of Michael McCarthy's second marriage.

The McCarthy family owned the property until 1945, when the house was purchased as the first
permanent home of Marlborough's founding Jewish congregation, Temple Emmanuel, which was
organized that same year. At that time Jewish families in Marlborough numbered only about twenty.
The first officers of the temple were Joseph Greenglass, president, Harry Weitzler, vice-president,
Israel Shapiro, treasurer, and Edith Goldberg, secretary.

BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [] see continuation sheet

Bigelow, Ella. Historical Reminiscences of Marlborough. 1910.
Centennial '90. 1990.
Maps and Atlases: Sanborns.
Marlborough Directories.
Marlborough Enterprise, 9/1890.
Records of Temple Emmanuel.

[ 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 Community Property Address
80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Marlborough 111 Newton Street

Area(s) Form No(s).

F 70

National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form

Check all that apply:

[x] Individually eligible [ ] Eligible only in a historic district

[xl Contributing to a potential historic district [] Potential historic district

Criteria: [x] A [] B [x] C [] D

Criteria Considerations: [] A [J B [J C [] D [] E [] F [] G

Statement of Significance by Forbes / Schuler

The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here.

The Michael J. McCarthy House meets Criteria A and C of the National Register individually
and as part of the Fairmount Hill district. The property is part of a mid to late nineteenth
century subdivision which was laid out by Samuel Boyd who had purchased Caleb Witherbee's
estate in the 1850's and subsequently built his own house at the crest of the hill (no longer
extant), laid out streets and donated the southern slope of Fairmount Hill for a park. Newton
Street was laid out by 1870. By the tum of the century 1110stlots had been improved with large
comfortable houses for Marlborough's upper-middle class, many of whose businesses were just
south of Main Street. The 1890-1891 elaborate high-style Queen Anne with high pyramid roof
housed Marlborough's first Jewish congregation from 1945. The property retains integrity of
location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association.
FORM B - BUILDING Assessor's number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number

Massachusetts Historical Commission _8_2_-2_2

__ 1 I Marlborough I F 169
80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Town Marlborough

Place (neighborhood or village) _

Fairmount Hill

Address 114 Newton Street

Historic Name Charles Farrell House/

Baptist Parsonage
Uses: Present Dwelling

Original Dwel1ing

Date of Construction ca ]890

Source Maps; style

Style/Form Queen Anne

Architect/Builder __ .••
J!~[Link]
••.
.•.•.•..•.
m:~vn~ _

Exterior Material:

Sketch Map Foundation brick

Draw a map of the area indicating properties within
it. Number each property for which individual WallfTrim wood clapboard and shingle
inventory forms have been completed. Label streets,
including route numbers, (f any. Attach a separate Roof asphalt shingle
sheet if space is not sufficient here. Indicate north.
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures _

I none

~ Major Alterations (with dates).•... _

I most windows replaced; garage door jnseTted,

r.J north side--20th century

Condition __ g_o~(~)d~ _

Moved pq no [ ] yes Date N/A

j

Acreage less than one acre

Recorded by Anne ForbeS Setting S corner of GarfjeJd Street in neigh-

Organization for Marlboro Hist Comm harhood of primarily late-19th-century

Date 7/30/94
, [Link] houses
BUILDING FORM

ARCHITECfURAL DESCRIPTION [ ] see continuation sheet

Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other
buildings within the community.

One of the best examples of the 1890's Queen Anne on Newton Street, this 2 1/2-story, clapboard-
and-shingle Queen Anne house has a high, combination gabled and hipped roof, and a three-story
turret on the facade. A two-story wing extends to the rear. A spacious wraparound porch on
Tuscan columns wraps from the entry in the base of the turret around the south side of the house.
Recessed under a small comer second-story balcony is a second entry, in the northwest facade
comer. The main entry has a large double-leaf door with large glass lights with colored-glass
surrounds. Beside it is a long oval window with a prominent molded and keystoned surround. j

As is typical of the Queen Anne, the windows here display a great variety in size and proportion;
most, however, have new J-over-l-sash installed in tbe original openings. A two-story polygonal bay
projects from the south side of the house. The architectural trim here includes a molded and
dentilated boxed cornice (with small brackets under [Link] turret roof,) and a rectangular panel on the
second-story facade wall that is embellished with a raised garland design. The turret still retains its
original copper finial.

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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.

Newton Street was the home of some of Marlborough's most prosperous turn-of-the-century citizens,
including lawyers, merchants, and manufacturers. This house was built for another professional, a
prominent athlete, Charlie "Duke" Farrell (1866-1925). He was a major-league baseball player, who
played catcher for the Boston Red Stockings, Chicago Cubs, and the Pittsburgh Pirates between 1888
and 1905.

The house was later bought by the Baptist Church, and served for many years as its parsonage.

BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [] see continuation sheet

Maps and Atlases: Sanborns.

Marlborough Directories.
Marlborough Historical Society files.
Interviews with neighbors.

[ 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 Community Property Address
80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116 MOarlborough 114 Newton Street

Area(s) Form No(s).

F 69

National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form

Check all that apply:

[ ] 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: [] A [] B [] C [] D [] E [] F [] G

Statement of Significance by Forbes I Schuler

The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here.

The Charles Farrell House, which was also the Baptist Parsonage, meets Criteria A and C of
the National Register as part of the Fairmount Hill district. The property is part of a mid to
late nineteenth century subdivision which was laid out by Samuel Boyd who had purchased
Calab Witherbee's estate in the 1850's and subsequently built his own house at the crest of the
hill (no longer extant), laid out streets and donated the southern slope of Fairmount Hill for a
park. Newton Street was laid out by 1870. By the tum of the century most lots had been
improved with large comfortable houses for Marlborough's upper-middle class, many of whose
businesses were just south of Main Street. The ca. 1890 house is one of several well preserved
Queen Anne style dwellings on Newton Street. The property retains integrity of location,
design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association.