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

Massachusetts Historical Commission I 46-3280 Boylston StreetBoston, Massachusetts 02116

I IMarlborough I __ ]__ 7 _---'

ighborhood or village) _

197 Stow Road

Uriah Eager House

dweUing

dwelling

late 18th century

.'~_<>3rior Material:

\,mdation'(~

i;" ,"'.- Iffrim

fieldstone and granite

synthetic siding

asphalt shingle

/' ildings/Secondary Structures small,.

.g~hJc-end barn w modern garAge doors; longwagon shed.

Major Alterations (with datesj.L; _

_____ nilllC since C4 ]900 (see p 2 )_

Condition _ fai_r _

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

Acreage 4 73 acres

~~corded by Anne Forbes Setting Faces SOllth)' side to street, over open

Organization for Marlboro Hjst C..omm

Date 6/22/95I

lawn with small orchard I.alge developmentof new wood-frame houses under construction

ACroSS Stow Road

BUILDING FORM

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION [] see continuation sheetDescribe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildingswithin the community.

In spite of its synthetic siding and its nineteenth-century updating, this house is one of Marlborough'sfew intact examples of a large "double-pile", side-gabled farmhouse of the late eighteenth century.The twin ridge chimneys, (which may have been rebuilt at some point to a narrower profile), indicatethe arrival in that era of the central through-hall, four-room plan. A long one-story ell of uncertaindate extends to the east. Much of the house's detailing is the result of a series of updates duringthe nineteenth century. The earliest visible renovations, dating to the Greek Revival period, wereprobably done under Moses Barnes' ownership in the 1830's-to '40's. They appear to include the6-over-6-sash windows with molded pediments, the wide comer pilasters with molded caps, and thewide frieze, with architrave, under the molded, boxed cornice. The house is five- by two bays, andthe center entry has a four-panel door with the full-length sidelights typical of the Greek Revival.Additions of the Queen Anne period, probably made during the 1890's, include the wide door hoodat the main entry, and the porch along the west end. Both are supported on lathe-turned posts, withsquare-doweled frieze screens and small, sawcut brackets.

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Some outbuildings on the property, including a huge barn that once stood directly across the street,have been demolished. A large gable-end barn was standing just east of the house as late as 1927.

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE [ ] see continuation sheetExplain history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of thebuilding, and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community.

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Visual evidence indicates that this house dates to the end of the eighteenth century. If that is the case,it probably would have been built for farmer Uriah Eager, II, who lived from 1740 to 1813. Hemarried Triphosa Bush in 1764. One of Marlborough's Revolutionary soldiers, he saw action in RhodeIsland, and was probably the Uriah Eager who, as an Ensign with Capt. Howe's company, marched toCambridge on April 19, 1775.

In 1803, as was typical of that time, this farm is shown under the ownership of both Uriah and his son,Moses Eager. Born in 1772, he married Sarah Stratton in 1793. They eventually moved to Weston,possibly shortly after Uriah's death in 1813. The next owners of the house may have been Moses'older sister, Rebecca, and her husband, Lovewell (Lovell) Barnes, (1764.1831), whom she married in1786. He was one of the more successful businessmen in Marlborough in his day, and rose to the rankof Colonel in one of the local militias of the early nineteenth century. Among their thirteen children,their eldest son, Moses Barnes (b. 1789), was the next owner. He married Hepzibeth Hapgood in1818.

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By 1875 the property belonged to J.S. Ingraham, who owned it into the 1890's. Edmund Sowerbyacquired the farm in about 1897, and lived here for at least thirty years.

BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [] see continuation sheetMaps and atlases: 1803, 1830, 1835, 1856/57, 1875. 1889, 1900.Bigelow, Ella. Historical Reminiscences of Marlborough, Mass. 1910.Bigelow, James. "Photographs and Descriptions of Some Old Houses in Marlborough". 1927.Hudson.Marlborough Vital Records.Marlborough Directories and Real Estate valuations.

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

I FORM B - BUILDING Assessor's number USGS Quad Areats) Form Number

Massachusetts Historical Commission I 20-480 Boylston StreetBoston, Massachusetts 02116

1 (Marlborough I ______ ~ 636, 637

Ma rlborougb

neighborhood or village) _

'. 547 Stow Road

: Name Samuel Hunting House

dwelling

riginal dweJJing

late 18th C, with la1e.I..-update

maps; visual assessment

rm Federal. updated to Greek Revival..•.,:.... and Queen Anne vernacular

Architect/Builder unknown

Exterior Material:

Sketch MapDraw a map of the area indicatingproperties withinit. Number each property for which individualinventory forms have been completed. Label streets,including route numbers, if any. Attach a separatesheet If space is not sufficient here. Indicate north.

Foundation granite

WallfIrim

Roof

synthetic siding

asphalt shingle

Outbuildings/Secondary Structures -large clap-

hoard bam .. ca 19QO.1W..o...snLflJler, later barns,garage, shed, well

Major Alterations (with dates) SlID roomaL_

NW corner, picture windO\!l on N end oLell

..=201b century _

N Condition fair

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

Acreage 10 23 acres

n"'.corded by Anne Forbes Setting Amid woods, fields, and stone walls

urganization for Marlboro J-Jist Comm Guyed drive to S ; pair of mature deciduous

Date 61?7195. trees at front

BUILDING FORM

ARCHITEcruRAL DESCRIPTION [X] see continuation sheetDescribe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildingswithin the community.

This property is not only one of "Marlborough's few remaining working farms, but preserves the !character of an evolving farmstead as well, with an assortment of barns, sheds, and utility buildings 1clustered near the roadside farmhouse. The farm's present function as a turkey farm, as "Mello Lane (Turkey Farm", continues a long tradition of poultry-raising on Stow Road.

This house, which may have begun as a late-eighteenth-century "half-" or "three-quarter-house", isa 2 1I2-story, four- by three-bay, side-gabled structure, with a one-story ell bisecting the northwestfront corner. A tum-of-the-century porch on lathe-turned posts wraps around the main facade andsouth gable-end to a one-story southeast corner bay. The porch also retains turned braces andbalusters. Two tall, narrow chimneys rise from the roof, one placed off-center just behind the mainridge, the other {Tomthe ridge of the ell. Much of the architectural trim here, including a boxedcornice with an echinus molding, dates to what was apparently an update during the Greek Revivalperiod. Other detailing shows characteristics of more than one period. (Cont.)

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE [] see continuation sheetExplain history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of thebuilding, and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community.

In spite of its largely Greek Revival appearance, maps indicate that this house was probably built byfarmer Samuel Hunting, and was standing by 1798. Samuel Hunting, (b. ca. 1741), the first of thename in Marlborough, came here from Needham in 1769 with his wife, Elizabeth. During theRevolution, he served in both the Marlborough Militia and the Continental Army. Little else is knownabout him; he died in 1816. Other Huntings lived in the vicinity, as well; by 1830 a house belongingto John Hunting was standing across the road.

The next known owner of this house was a member of the Stow family, shown as J. Stow on the mapsof 1830 and 1835. Just which Stow this was should be traceable through future deed research. (Manymembers of the large Stow family, for whom the road is named, lived in the vicinity, which, along withat least the lower section of Concord Road, was part of the large farm accumulated by Simon Stow[1722-1795]).

This farm changed hands several more times before the present day. By the middle of the nineteenthcentury, it had been acquired by Charles Stevens. He lived here until at least 1875, and is listed onreal estate valuations as owning a fann of 92 acres. By 1889 it was the property of Joseph H. Dyer,who owned it until the end of the 1890's, when J.M. Clarke. became the owner.

BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [] see continuation sheetMaps and atlases: 1803, 1830, 1835, 1856/57, 1875, 1889, 1990.Hudson.Marlborough Vital Records.Marlborough Directories and Real Estate valuations.

[] Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, a completedNational Register Criteria statement is attached.

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

Massachusetts Historical Commission 1...._9_-_2 1 I Marlborough I80 Boylston StreetBoston, Massachusetts 02116

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Town Marlborough

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C.L. Perry House

Present dweJljng

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Original dwe])jog

lte of Construction ca 1860's or earlier

maps; visual assessment

stoJy-and-a-half cottage

unknown

Exterior Material:

Sketch MapDraw a map of the area indicating properties withinit. Number each property for which individualinventory forms have been completed. Label streets,including route numbers, if any. Attach a separatesheet if space is not sufficient here. Indicate north.

Foundation fieldstQneLgranite

Wall/frim synthetic sidjng

Roof asphalt shingle

Outbuildings/Secondary Structures _

l-car, early-twentieth century garage

Major Alterations (with dates) hip-roofed

entry bQod Qn replacement supports

Condition fajr

Moved [ ] no [] yes Date (possibly movedca. 1860--see p. 2)

Acreage 14 acres

~ecorded by Anne Forbes Setting Dose to road in open, fanner

Organization for Marlboro Hjs! Cnmm farming area Stone waJIs along edge of

Date 6flR195 road; large early farmstead opposite

INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community

Marlborough

Property

Samuel Hunting House

Massachusetts Historical Commission80 Boylston StreetBoston, Massachusetts 02116

Area(s) Form Nos.636, 637

ARCHITECfURAL DESCRIPTION, cont.The main entry, for instance, has a late-nineteenth-century glass- and multi-paneled door flanked byearly Greek Revival full-length, leaded and divided sidelights and a molded-board surround with cornerblocks and center panel in the frieze. A second door, located beside the first, is a smaller glass-and-panel type, with a flat surround. The windows, most of which are 2-over-l-sash, probably date to theturn of the twentieth century.

Among the outbuildings on the property is one of Marlborough's best-preserved gable-end "NewEngland" barns of ca. 1890-1900, with a louvered cupola with arched openings, and a rolling door withtransom. (#637)

BUILDING FORM

ARCHITECfURAL DESCRIPTION [] see continuation sheetDescribe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildingswithin the community.

Although the first historical map to show a house in this location is the ]875 Beers Atlas map, theform and style of the building suggest that it was actually built in the early part of the nineteenthcentury, and probably moved here from another location. (See below). It is the side-gabled "story-and-a-half' cottage type, which was most prevalent during the Federal period, with a high upper wallexpanse across the five-bay facade, and one rear-wall chimney, which probably remains from a pair.A one-story ell extends to the rear from the north end. Characteristic of farmhouses of the Federalperiod, the roof does not overhang the gable ends; the front and rear cornices are molded, withreturns. The main, center entry has a 4-panel door flanked by 4-pane, 2/3-length divided sidelightsand flat pilasters with molded caps.

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HISTORICAL NARRATIVE [] see continuation sheetExplain history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of thebuilding, and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community.

Town histories do not mention this building, but historical maps show a house on the property, thoughnot positioned this close to the road, as early as 1803. It was situated on a lane that ran northeastfrom Stow Road to the house of Dea. Abner Goodale on Chestnut Street, now in Hudson (cf. Form#32, NR). By 1835 the lane is shown leading, not to the Goodale farm, but east to Concord Road;after that it disappears from the maps. Since the form and style of the house are largely characteristicof the early part of the nineteenth century, it is possible that this may be the building shown on theearly maps, and that it was moved closer to the road sometime between 1856 and 1875.

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If that is the case, then the early owners were as follows. Benjamin Gould is shown as the owner in1803. As he is not listed as a property owner on the tax rolls of 1798, the house may have been builtcloser to 1803. He and his wife, Abigail, had two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, born in 1793 and1795. In 1830 and 1835 the owner is shown as "I. Brown. This is probably Isaac Brown, who in 1780married Deborah Gould, undoubtedly a relation of Benjamin Gould, and possibly a third daughter.By 1856 the house, still at the old location, is shown under the ownership of Joel Coolidge. He is listedas owning a farm of nineteen acres in 1860.

The map of 1875 is the first to show a house in the present position. It was owned at that time byCharles L. Perry, a Civil War veteran who had served with the 13th Massachusetts Regiment, HeavyArtillery. (He may have been Charles Lyman Perry, as real estate valuations show "Lyman Perry"owning a large property in about this area.) In 1889 it is shown under the name of "B. Judd", possiblythe Rev. B. Judd, who was minister of the Methodist Church for a few years. In 1900 the housebelonged to J.H. Kelley.

BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [] see continuation sheetMaps and atlases: 1803, 1830, 1835, 1856/57: house at location east of Stow Road;

1875, 1889, 1900: at present location.Bigelow, Ella. Historical Reminiscences of Marlborough, Mass. 1910.Marlborough Vital Records.Marlborough Directories and Real Estate valuations.Hudson.

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

FORM B - STRUCTURE SURVEYMASSACHUSETTSHISTo.RICALCOMMISSIONOffice of the Secretary, State House, Boston

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3. CONDITION: Excel1en~air Deteriorated Moved Altered

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1. Town M~rl boroughAddress Stow Road

Name Josiah Howe

Present use Apple Orchard

Present owner Ralph Barnes

3. Descr-Iption. 2~ Story Center Chimney

Date 1673

'Source Pub. Local llistories

StYle Colonial

Architect Josiah Howe

Exterior wall fabric Clapboard

Outbuildings (describe) 3 barns used forprocessing and sel1~ng applesOther features

Altered Date

Moved Date

5. Lot size:

One acre or less Over one acre 50--Approximate frontage t mileApproximate distance of building from street

'20 Feet

6. Recorded by Ernest GinnettiMarlborough H~stor~cal

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Dea, Josiah Howe was born in Marlborough, in 1748,' and a direst des--- -_._,cendant of John Howa, thpufirst, White settler of Marlborough in theyear of 1656, his house still stands' o~ Fowler Street and is includedin this collection of Marlboroughs' Colonial Archetecture. Deacon Josiahmarried Molly Adams in the year 1770, a~~ gave birth to7 children,Their son Lewis inherited the farm ,after the death of his father Josiah'in 1827. The farm left the family when Lewis sold the home to live inthe village. b'fhe present owner Mr..Ralph F. Barnes, whose grandmotherwas Arathusa R. Howe, wif,e of William Barnes, and a grandaughter ofDeacon Josiah Howa, places a date~ of ~on the' above Homestead."

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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community

Marlborough

Property

Josiah Howe House

Massachusetts Historical Commission80 Boylston StreetBoston, Massachusetts 02116

Area(s) Form No.60

Additional information by Anne Forbes, consultant to Marlborough Historical Commission,6/28/95:

ASSESSOR'S #8-1 2.6 acres PHOTO #95-17: 16 and 18

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION.As existing inventory forms place the construction date for this house at either 1673 or 1797, astructural inspection will be necessary to come closer to an accurate estimate for any part of thehouse. The 2 1I2-story side-gabled, 5 by 2-bay, center-chimney form is certainly typical of theeighteenth century, and in a rural community could have been built into the early Federal period,making a date of 1797 possible. Some of the architectural detail, including the roof cornice, witha large bed molding below, is characteristic of that time. The foundation is largely fieldstone, whichis less characteristic of 1797 (when granite-block was fashionable), and more likely to date to anearlier period. Certainly, if the house evolved like other farmhouses of Marlborough's earlyfamilies, it is most likely that it grew over time, and probably incorporates a pre-1797 buildingwithin it. This may be part of the main house-one side, or the first story, for instance (the positionof the chimney slightly in front of the ridge could indicate that the roof was raised and its ridgemoved back at some point), or possibly some part of the two-story rear wing.

Alterations have obscured other exterior clues. Although the building is still clapboarded, thewindows have been changed at least twice--the present 6-over-6-sash is recent; the house had late-nineteenth-century 2-over-2-sash for many years. The main entry has a five-panel door of a late-nineteenth-century type in a sidelighted surround, with a center turn-of-the-century porch withsquare posts, balusters, and frieze screen. A modern garage has been added to the rear end of thewing, and a small, shed-roofed ell abuts the west end of the main house.

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cant.Since sources clearly conflict as to the date of this house, a structural inspection would be necessaryto help determine who the original owner of the building, which may either replace or incorporateanother house, might have been.

All the Howes who lived here were farmers, and over the generations the farm developed into oneof Marlborough's most extensive apple orchards. To add to the record on the earlier inventoryforms: Deacon Josiah Howe apparently owned the property until his death in 1827 at the age of78. His widow, Molly, who died in 1845, lived to be 93. Lewis Howe, who married Sally Witt in1816 (and later Asenath Boyd), was the owner from at least 1830 through 1856. He apparentlydied before 1860, and from 1875 through at least 1889 the owner is shown on maps as Mrs. A.Wheeler, possibly a daughter of Mr. Howe.

..INvENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community Property

Marlborough Josiah Howe House

Massachusetts Historical Commission80 Boylston StreetBoston, Massachusetts 02116

Area(s) Form No.60

ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY.Maps and atlases: 1803, 1830, 1835, 1856/57, 1875, 1889, 1900.Marlboro vital records.Marlboro directories and tax valuations.James Bigelow. "Photographs and Descriptions of Some Old Houses in Marlborou h", 1927.

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Massachusetts Historical Commission80 Boylston StreetBoston, Massachusetts 02116

Community Property Address

Marlborough 726 Stow Road

Area(s) Form No(s).60

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 [] D

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

Statement of Significance by _An~_ne_F_o_rb_e_s _The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here.

This well-preserved eighteenth-century five-bay, center-chimney farmhouse is updated mainly by somenineteenth-century details and modem, but compatible 6-over-6-sash windows, and thus meetsCriterion C as one of the better representatives of this prevailing late-colonial housetype in ruralMarlborough. The likelihood that it may contain an earlier structure enhances its architecturalsignificance. It also meets Criterion A for its long history as one of Marlborough's most extensiveapple orchards, much of which, including a cluster of outbuildings from various eras, still remains.

The property retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, andassociation.