FORM B - BUILDING In Area no. Form no.

iarlborou~h

Frospect ~treet

tme Immaculate Conception Cbu~ch

Church

Roman Catholic Cbllrch

] 868
Source Cbllrch Record

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of. Map. Draw sketch of building location Architect ,James P/'lJrphy - Rhode Ls.Lan:
in relation to nearest cross streets and
other bui lding s , Indicate north. Exterior wall fahric Red br i ck

Outbuildings (describe)
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WIIJ..X£J:. Other features
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Alterednew steepl e Date 19J8

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5. Lot size:

One acre or less -x- Over one acre _

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N
Approximate

Approximate
frontage

distance
6 0'-·

of building
_

from street

RECEIVED 20'

6. Recorded by 'iJ. Gibbon s

JUl - 61979
Organization Marl boro Pl ann i ng Dept.

Date 6/29/79
(over)

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7. Original owne r (if known) :~oman Ce t ho 1 ic C.burch

Original use Cnurch

subsequent uses (if any) and dates ::oarne

8. Themes (check as many as applicable)

Aboriginal Conser vation Recreation

Agricultural Education Religion x
Architectural x Exploration/ Science/
The Arts settlement invention
Commerce Industry Social!
Communication Military humanitarian x
Community development x political Transportation

9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above)

The Immaculate Conception Church was erected in 1868. Rev. John ~elch
became the first resid ent clergyman. Fr. John Cond in had dr awn up the
plans for the church ang be~an layinf the foundation of sto~e.
Fr. r.'ichaelrr.aguire,his successor, built the church in brick. It was
constructed in less than two years, costing $60.000. Fr. Delahunty
replaced him in 1871. decoratin~ the interior and purchasing the
paintinp of the Immaculate Conception. In addition, he purchased a
parochial residence and erected a monument in Fr. ~aguire's honor.
The orifinal building did not possess the 175' spire and entrance
vestibules. These were added a few years later. A clock with dials
facinp south, west and north, and bell were also added by Fr. ~cKenna
in 1886. He was instrumental in erecting the new parochial residence.
Rev. Thomas B. Lowney next presided as pastor. He is remembered for
havinr the Immaculate Conception Parochial ~chool built in 1910. He
prepared for a convent for the Srs. of St. Joseph, the instructors of
the school.
In the earlier patt of the century, a violent rainstorm destroyed the
steeple, which was replaced by a shorter one. The church was remodeled
in 1938. after the hurricane again brought down the steeple. ~onsignor
James J. Phalan and Fr. John J. Fletcher succeeded Fr. Lowney. In 1943.
Rev. John J. Phelan came to the Immaculate Conception Church. He was
responsible for completely renovating the lower church. The plans to
renovate the upper church were aCRomplished by Rev. Henry J. Evers,
who also built the I.e. School. also located on Prospect St. The
Immaculate Conception Church. located in the Boston Diocese. houses
one of the finest organs in the state.

10. Brhl iogr-aphy and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records,
ear ly maps, etc.)

Historical Reminiscences of lfJarlborough.Ella Bigelow, 1910 Marlborough

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

Massachusetts Historical Commission 69-483 I Marlborough I H 98

80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

Town Marlborough

Place (neighborhood or village) _

'. ;;

Address Prospect Street

Historic Name Immaculate Conception

Church
Uses: Present Roman CathoHc Church

Original Raman Catholic Church

/ .•.. : Date of Construction 1868-1871

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Source Bigelow

Style/Form Gothic

Architect/Builder lames Murphy

Exterior Material:

Foundation granite
within
'olaf WaUffrim __ b_o_·C_k _
~lstreets
..,epa rate Roof date
Indicate north.
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures _

none

Major Alterations (with dates) Tower added

1880's; new windows jnstaJled, 1890; Steeple

replaCed' 1938 See also Page 3

Condition g....
o-o-d----------

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

Acreage less than one acre

Additional infomation
ecorded by Anne Forbes Setting Above comer of Main, aeljacent to

Organization for Marlboro His. Comm Bartlett Park Random ashlar granite retaining

Date 3110194 wall with iron rail across front

BUILDING FORM

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION [Xl see continuation sheet

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

SEE CONTINUATION SHEET for supplementary information to former inventory form.

;
0/

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.

SEE CONTINUATION SHEET for supplementary information to former inventory form.

. ',

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ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES, cont.

Centennial '90: Marlborough the City. 1990.

Hurd, D. Hamilton. History of Middlesex County. Mass. 1890.
Maps and Atlases: Walling, 1871; Beers, 1875; Bailey & Hazen,1878; Walker, 1889; Sanborns.
Marlborough Enterprise. 1890.
Marlborough Historical Society: Moineau Photo Collection.
McCarthy, Claudia, "Our Immaculate Conception Parish, Marlborough, Mass: a History, 1850-1976."
Pictorial Marlborough. 1879.
Picturesque Marlborough and S. Framingham. 1895.

[X] 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 Property

Marlborough Immaculate Conception

Church

Massachusetts Historical Commission

80 Boylston Street Area(s) Form No.
Boston, Massachusetts 02116 H 98

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION, cant.

This church, which has been extensively remodeled twice, is an elegant example of the simple,
compact American version of the gothic as expressed in brick and sandstone. The two-story, gable-
front building was originally steepleless, with a flat facade. Since about 1886 the main entrance has
been in the base of a large square tower which abuts the facade. The present short, six-sided steeple
atop the tower was built in 1938-39 to replace the 175-foot, ca. 1886 steeple, which was destroyed
in the 1938 hurricane. The main body of the church is two stories high, six bays long, with a line of
leaded stained-glass, pointed-arched windows set into recessed, pointed wall arches along the sides
of the sanctuary. Below them at basement level is a line of six double l-over-I-sash windows .. A
windowless clerestory runs the length of the gabled roof. Across the east end is a hip-roofed one-
story projection.

The facade is three bays wide, each with a modem oak double-leaf door under a projecting
sandstone pointed arch with carved relief sculpture in the tympanum--the Virgin in the central entry,
and floral designs in the others. Leading to each entry is a set of granite steps. The stone door
surrounds were also apparently added in ca. 1886, while the projecting sandstone hoods are of
relatively recent date. Probably original to the building, however is the double pointed-arched,
mullioned window at each end of the facade, above the door, and the smaller pointed-arched,
stained-glass windows between the outer doors and tower at first story level. Each face of the
second stage of the tower has a large three-part leaded and stained-glass pointed-arched window;
above each of them, in the square base of the steeple, is a set of four wooden louvered openings.
According to accounts of the the time, some new windows were installed in 1890-91.

Shallow brick buttresses with sandstone dripstones abut the building comers. Near the front end of
each side elevation is a projecting slate-roofed, gabled stone "porch" with a pointed-arched entry.
A late-twentieth-century ramp leads along the north side of the building to a rear side entry; another
entry at the rear of the south wall has a recent metal or wooden hood.

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cont.

The Church of the Immaculate Conception is the oldest and largest of Marlborough's three historic
Roman Catholic churches. It represents both the origin of Catholicism in the community and the
arrival of the first great wave of immigrants, the Irish, by the middle of the nineteenth century. In
1850 Father George Hamilton came from Saxonville to conduct the first mass in Marlborough in the
old "Arcade" on South Street, a crowded tenement where some of the founders of the church,
including William Brewin, Michael Burke, Walter Wall, and Patrick Quirk lived. In 1851, the
Catholic population of Marlborough numbered about 25, and, although their numbers grew quickly,
Marlborough was not organized as a separate parish until 1864. Until then, Marlborough was a
mission of the Catholic church, and mass was celebrated regularly in private homes by visiting
pastors, most notably the Rev. John Farrelly (Farley) of Milford. The old arcade was still a frequent
location for worship, and as the congregation became too large to meet indoors, monthly services
were held in the open air at an altar that stood in front of the house. (cont.)
INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community Property

Marlborough Immaculate Conception

Church

Massachusetts Historical Commission

80 Boylston Street Area(s) Form No.
Boston, Massachusetts 02116 H 98

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cont.

In 1854-55 the local congregation built a small church with a tall spire on Mt. Pleasant Hill, west of
South Street in the vicinity of today's Charles Street. It continued under visiting priests for several
years. Father Farrelly, who died in 1856, was succeeded by the Rev. John Walsh, who made two
important purchases--2.5 acres of land on "Gates Hill" (Mt. Pleasant Hill) for the first section of the
Immaculate Conception Cemetery in 1856, and, in 1862, land on Prospect Street for the present
church.

Father Walsh's successor was the Rev. John A. Conlin, the parish's first resident pastor. He left the
Marlborough church in 1869, after having begun to lay the foundation for the new building. That
same year lightning struck the steeple of the church and caused a fire. Although the building was
not totally destroyed, Father Conlin's successor, Father Michael Maguire, accelerated the effort to
build the new 1400-seat church on the Prospect Street property. Although Father Conlin had
planned for it to be constructed of local South Street granite from the "Patch Hill" quarry, when the
stone proved too hard to work, the church was constructed of brick instead.

Father Maguire, who died in December of 1870, did not live to see the building's completion. It was
completed the next year, and dedicated under the Rev. John Delahunty. Father Delahunty, who
served the church until 1876, bought land, (possibly with a house already on it) for a rectory. (See
Form #190.)

The Rev. Delahunty was succeeded by the Rev. James B. Donegan, who died in 1886. He was
followed by one of the church's best-remembered pastors, the Rev. Peter A. McKenna, who had
briefly served as Father Delahunty's assistant. Before his death in 1896, Father McKenna made
many changes to the church property. In 1886 he added the tower, with a new bell and 175-foot
spire, and subsequently replaced the Washington Street rectory with the present parochial residence.
He also founded and edited a bi-weekly newspaper, the Marlborough Star, which not only informed
parishioners about religious matters, but preached the virtues of temperance to all.

Father McKenna was succeeded by the Rev. Thomas B. Lowney, who built the Immaculate
Conception Shool in 1910, and added the convent for the Sisters of St. Joseph, who taught at the
school, at 11 Washington Court (see Forms 189 and 191).

Father Lowney died in 1929. His successors, until the middle of this century, included Monsignor
James J. Phalan (1929-1932), the Rev. John J. Fletcher (1932-1943), the Rev. John J. Phelan (1943-
1952), who renovated the "lower church" in the basement story, and the Rev. Henry J. Evers, who
renovated the "upper church", and built the new building for the Immaculate Conception School at
Washington and Prospect Streets, on the property where the earlier Fitchburg Depot and
freighthouse once stood.
Massachusetts Historical Commission Community Property Address
80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Marlborough Prospect Street

Area(s) Form No(s).

H 98

National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form

Check all that apply:

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

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

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

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

Statement of Significance by __ F_o_r_b_e_s~/_S_c_h_ul_e_r _

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

The Church of the .Immaculate Conception meets Criteria A and C of the National Register.
The four-building Immaculate Conception complex articulates the social andeconomic pattern
of the local work force in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The advent of the first
Catholic parish in Marlborough marked the arrival of the Irish immigrants. The brick and
sandstone building represents an American version of Gothic Revival architecture common for
ecclesiastical buildings. The property retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials,
workmanship, feeling and association.
 FORM B • BUILDING Assessor's number USGS Quad Area(s) Fonll Number

Massachusetts Historical Commission I 69-492 I I Marlborough I I H I 183

80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Town Marlborough

Place (neighborhood or village) _

Address 23 prospect Street

Historic Name Tames W McDonald Home

,'.',.', Uses: Present dwe1Jing

Original dwel]ing

Date of Construction ca 1896

. Source maps; style

\ StylelForm Queen Anne

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n•••• wn
n.•.•••......
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Exterior Material:

Sketch Map Foundation yellow brick

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

,"~
i 1~
none

Major Alterations (with dates) most

Q.-
wjndows replaced Iran balustrade at

front steps
o Condition good

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

,

Acreage Jess than one acre

Recorded by Anne Forbes Setting Aeljacent to Ie CbllTch, facing old

Organization for Marlboro Hist Carom cammon and former bigb school

Date 3;Jl/94
,
BUILDING FORM

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION [X] see continuation sheet

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

The McDonald House is one of Marlborough's best-preserved Queen Anne residences. Typical of
the style, it is a house of complex massing, with many projections, and a variety of surfaces and
details. It is a 2 1/2-sto1)7,gable-roofed building, with a prominent facade pediment overhanging a
pair of second-story bay windows, (one polygonal, one curved). A wide polygonal bay window
occupies the southwest facade corner, and another appears on the north side of the house, along
with a tall rectangular bay under an overhanging, shingled gable. Two large gabled dormers project
from the south roof plane. The rear one overhangs a second-story polygonal bay window; the one
closest to the front is pierced by a typical Queen Anne feature.-a tall, through-cornice orange-brick
chimney embellished with floral brick or terra-cotta relief panels. A broad, Tuscan-columned
veranda wraps aross the facade, flares into a circular corner section, and continues down the south
side of the house. It displays a turned balustrade and a pedimented, molded and dentilated cornice.

Although much of the l-over-1-sash here appears to have been replaced, the house retains several
elaborate Queen Anne windows, including a leaded-sash Palladian window in the facade gable, a tall
8-pane stair window with "swan's neck" pediment in the north bay, and a triple-sash window in the
rear south dormer with garland-carved panels above. Another garland-and-wreath motif appears
below it in a panel under a small colored-glass window in the second-story bay. (Cont.)

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE [Xl see continuation sheet (

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

This house was built as the residence of one of Marlborough's most distinguished citizens of the
early twentieth century, Judge James W. McDonald. He was born in Marlborough in 1853, the son
of Michael and Jane (Mulcahy) McDonald. It was apparently shortly after the Civil War that
Michael McDonald, a shoe-finisher, built the family home on this site-sa two-story, gable-end house
with a one-story south wing, which was moved to Huntington Street when this one was built. The
most likely date for the construction of the new house would have been 1896, the year of Mr.
McDonald's marriage to Mary Culbert Giblin.

For thirty years James McDonald was judge of the District Court of Marlborough (appointed in
1896, when it was still the Police Court). In 1922 he was appointed presiding justice of tbe new
Appellate Court for the northern division, and reappointed in 1924. As a young man he studied law
under William B. Gale, in whose office he began his legal career. For several years he was town
counsel for Marlborough, and after it became a city in 1890, served for twenty-four years as city
solicitor. During that time he also served for twelve years on the School Committee. He was
elected to the Mass. House of Representatives in 1880, and to the Senate in 1891, where he chaired
several committees. (Cont.)

BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [ ] see continuation sheet

Bigelow, Ella. Historical Reminiscences of the Early Times in Marlborough. 1910.
Conklin. Middlesex County and its People. 1927.
Maps and Atlases: Sanborns from 1901.
Marlborough Directories
Interviews with local residents, 1994.

[ X] Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, a completed
National Register Criteria Statement [orm is attached.
INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community Property

Marlborough Wm. McDonald House

Massachusetts Historical Commission Area(s) Form No(s).

80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116 H 183

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION, cont.

The main entry, in the north part of the facade, has a heavy oak door with a large glass panel, and
a fluted-pilaster surround. Most of the windows have molded surrounds and retain their original
shutters. The main cornices are molded and boxed, with large flat brackets under the main
overhangs.

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cont.

He is still remembered as the sponsor of the "McDonald Bill" of 1891, which permitted cities and
towns to construct and operate their own gas and electric plants. That achievement led to a position
as chairman of the state Board of Gas and Electric Light Commissioners in 1892.

Locally, he was also a director of the Peoples' National Bank, trustee of the Marlborough Savings
Bank, president of the Bar Association, an incorporator of Marlborough City Hospital, chairman
of the Red Cross, and, during World War I, chairman of the War Legal Advisory Board.
Massachusetts Historical Commission Community Property Address
80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Marlborough 23 Prospect Street

Area(s) Form No(s).

H 183

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

Statement of Significance by __ F_o_r~b~e~s~/~S_c~h~ul~e~r _

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

The James W. McDonald House meets Criteria A and C of the National Register. The ca.
1896 dwelling articulates the growing prosperity within Irish shoe factory workers' families. The
modest family house of the shoe-finisher father was moved to make way for the construction of
this more opulent building, appropriate for a lawyer and judge who was the son of immigrant
workers. The house is one of Marlborough's best preserved Queen Anne residences with
complex massing and abundant architectural detail. The property retains integrity of location,
design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association.
FORM B • BUILDING {Assessor's Dumber USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
Massachusetts Historical Commission} I 69-494 I I Marlboro~gh I I H I 184
80 Boylston Street j
Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Town Marlborough

Place (neighborhood or village) _

Address 27 prospect Street

Historic Name Dr lames Campbell House

Uses: Present dweJJing

Original dwelling

ate of Construction ca 1888

maps; style

Eastlake/Queen Anne

unknown

Exterior Material:

Sketch Map Foundation granite

Draw a map of the area indicating properties within
it. Number each property for which individual Wallffrim wood clapboard
inventory forms have been completed. Label streets,
including route numbers, if any. Attach a separate Roof red slate
sheet if space is not sufficient here. Indicate north.
s: l":' Outbuildings/Secondary Structures _
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none
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Major Alterations (with dates), _
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none
o Condition excelJent
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C1 Moved [X] no ] yes Date N/A

Acreage less than one acre

Recorded by Anne Forbes Setting At corner of Washington, facing old

Organization for Marlboro His! Camm cemetery and fooner high school; modern

Date 3/31(94 SChoolto N ; Queen Anne house to S

BUILDING FORM

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION [X] see continuation sheet

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

This house, like #23 just to the south, (see Form #183), replaced (or may incorporate) part of a
much simpler, gable-roofed structure. It is one of the most intact of any of Marlborough's stylish
late-nineteenth-century residences, and perhaps its best example of the Queen Anne in its Eastlakian
mode. It is a square, two-story building with a high hipped and gabled roof and an elaborate
wraparound veranda. The roof, the only one in Marlborough of red slate, is pierced by a wide
gabled dormer on the south side and a prominent central facade gable which extends forward over
a shallow, three-story pavilion. At the rear south corner is a one-story oriel rectangular bay window.
The facade is three bays wide, with tall 2-over-2-sash windows. The center entry in the pavilion has
a double-leaf glass-and-panel oak door with a molded surround. Much of the building's decoration
is concentrated in the area above the entry, where at second-story level a l-over-l-sash window is
flanked by half sidelights over diagonal-board panels, and, above the window, a band of vertical-
board "stickwork" spans the width of the pavilion. Under the pavilion gable, above another l-over-l-
sash window, is a saw-cut gable screen with a central circle. (Cont.)

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.

Both this house and the former one on the site belonged to Dr. James Campbell. He succeeded Dr.
Edward Barnes, who died in 1878, as the principal physician of Marlborough, and practiced here for
about 15 years. He also had political ambitions, and when Marlborough became a city, ran for
mayor during the first two elections. The first year he was defeated by S.H. Howe, the second by
George Howe.

Dr. Campbell died in the mid-1890's. The house was inherited by his widow, who lived here for
many years with her children, Anna, Mary, and William.

Prior to the Campbells' ownership, the former building on this site belonged to the firm of Cate &
Walker, and was used as both a house and carpentry shop. George N. Cate and Herbert F. Walker
were in the lumber and building-contracting business, and later had a lumber yard near the end of
the railroad tracks on today's Cashman Street. George Cate, especially, who lived opposite the
lumber yard, was one of Marlborough's more prolific builder/developers of the second half of the
nineteenth century. He built and sold houses "on easy terms, making it possible for the man with
small means" to buy a house. (Hurd) H. F. Walker later had a carpentry shop on Hayden Street.
In ca. 1860, after the town built a new high school on the old common, he bought the old 1827
"academy" building, which had been used as the town's first high school, at auction, and moved it
to the rear of this property. Further research will be required to deteremine whether that building
still exists.

BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [ ] see continuation sheet

Bigelow, Ella. Historical Reminiscences of the Early Times in Marlborough. 1910.
Centennial '90. 1990.
Hurd, D. Hamilton. History of Middlesex County. Mass. 1890.
Maps and Atlases: Sanboms.

[ X] 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 Property

Marlborough Dr. James Campbell

House
Massachusetts Historical Commission
80 Boylston Street Area(s) Form No.
Boston, Massachusetts 02116 H 184

ARCHITECfURAL DESCRIPTION, cont.

The rest of the architectural detail is also among the most sophisticated for its era in Marlborough.
A cove cornice with comer brackets emphasizes the roofline, and clapboards arranged in typical
Queen Anne sunbursts draw the eye to the peaks of the north and south gables. A flat horizontal
band interrupts the wall surface between first and second stories, and a water table marks the
transition between the wall and foundation. Most of the windows have molded surrounds, and, as
at #23 Prospect, retain their original shutters. The first story facade windows have paneled friezes,
and large X-motifs appear between a paired window on the south side of the house, and in a panel
below a double window on the north. A one-story polygonal bay window on the north side has a
bracketed and dentilated cornice. In spite of the wealth of detail on the house itself, the building's
focal point is clearly the wraparound porch, which is lavishly embellished with lathe-turned posts and
spindles, and with elaborate jig-saw-cut "pierced" work in the balustrade, skirt, and small central
pediment.

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Massachusetts Historical Commission Community Property Address
80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Marlborough 27 Prospect Street

Area(s) Form No(s).

H 184

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

Statement of Significance by __ F_o_f_b_es_I_S_ch_u_l_e_r _

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

The Dr. James Campbell House meets Criteria A and C of the National Register. The ca.
1888 dwelling articulates the growing prosperity among Marlborough's professionals. The
elaborate house replaces a simpler house which also belonged to Campbell who was the
principal physician of Marlborough from 1878. The house is one of Marlborough's most intact
and stylish example of Eastlake version of the Queen Anne design. The property retains
integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association.