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Home My Public Portal AboutMainSt_2500, BRE.408Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.12/12 FORM B  BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph Locus Map N Recorded by: Eric Dray, Preservation Consultant, for Organization: Brewster Historical Commission Date (month / year): November, 2017 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 78-97-0 Dennis A,G,I BRE.408, 409 Town/City: BREWSTER Place:(neighborhood or village): East Brewster Address: 2500 Main Street Historic Name: Corrigan, John and Bridget House Uses:Present: Residential Original: Residential Date of Construction: 1870 Source:Historic marker, deed research Style/Form: Stick style Architect/Builder: Unknown Exterior Material: Foundation: Fieldstone, concrete Wall/Trim: Wood shingles/ Wood Roof: Asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Barn, ca. 1895, BRE.409 (the barn has an address of 2512 Main Street in MACRIS), small shed Major Alterations (with dates): Dining room addition (2005) New windows (2015) Addition on west side (2016) Condition: Good Moved: no yes Date: Acreage: 3.0 acres Setting: This property is located in East Brewster on the south side of Main Street. The surrounding area is developed with a mix of historic and contemporary residential and commercial buildings. The house is set relatively close to the street on one side of its large U- shaped lot. A gravel driveway leads to a barn/garage to the east of the house. The parcel is informally landscaped with lawn, deciduous trees and shrubbery. The house itself has minimal foundation plantings. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 2500 MAIN STREET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 A,G,I BRE.408, 409 Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. Use as much space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. This is a modest example of a Stick style house. The form consists of a 1½-story gable front main block with a stepped-down side gable on the east side, and rear and west additions built in the 2000s. The main block and side ell rest on a fieldstone foundation, and the west addition rests on a concrete foundation. The building is clad in painted wood shingles with narrow cornerboards. The roof is clad in asphalt shingles (likely wood shingles originally). The roof has a deeply projecting cornice with open eaves and bracing in the gable peaks – this bracing is one of the decorative elements that identifies the house as Stick style. A corbelled brick chimney rises from the left roof slope of the main block near the gable peak. Fenestration consists of replacement 2/2 windows in flat surrounds with projecting sills. It appears that one of what was likely three windows on the front elevation, second floor, has been removed. The front entrance on the main block consists of a panel door with two etched glass windows that were replaced-in-kind. The door is set within a simple frame with a shed-roofed canopy supported by braces similar to those in the gable ends. An open porch with hipped roof supported by turned posts spans the front of the east ell. The property has two outbuildings, both east of the house. There is a small one-bay, gable-front garage and a larger side-gable garage/barn with lean-to roof built ca. 1895 (BRE.409). HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Discuss the 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 on land that Freeman Foster of Brewster sold to John Corigan (Corrigan), also of Brewster in 1866 (Book 91/ Page 140). An historic marker on the house states that the house was built in 1870 by J. Corrigan, which would mean that Corrigan waited four years to build the house. John Corrigan (ca. 1815-1893) and his wife Bridget (1833-1903) were both born in Ireland. John owned additional land in Brewster and was listed as a farm laborer in the 1880 US Census. In the 1900 US Census, the head of house is listed as Bridget’s son James Corrigan. He and his wife Almira were living there with his mother. By 1910, however, it does not appear that any members of the family were living at this address. By that time, James was living in an apartment in Lowell with his brother John, and he was working as a mill laborer; and their daughter Mary E. Corrigan, who had married William B. Chalk (Chalke) in 1892, was living in a rental in Cohasset were William worked as a chauffeur for a private family. The house appears to have passed to the Chalk side of the family. In 1978, Ruth Chalke sold the property to Paul and Eleanor Bowkers of Brewster (Book 2801/ Page 336). The house remained in the Bowker family until 1998, when Peter Bowker of Taylors, SC sold the property to Benjamin and Nina Gregson of Sterling, MA (Book 11526/ Page 187). This parcel is located within the Old King’s Highway Regional Historic District adopted in 1973, and the house and barn are a contributing resources in the Old King’s Highway National Register District adopted in 1996. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES 1858 Map, Map of Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, & Nantucket, Walling, Henry. 1880 Map, Atlas of Barnstable County, Boston, MA: George H. Walker & Co., 1880. 1910 Map, Atlas of Barnstable County, Boston, MA: Walker Litho. & Publishing Co., 1910. Barnstable County Registry of Deeds www.ancestry.com - Vital records, US Census (1880, 1910, 1920) INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 2500 MAIN STREET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 A,G,I BRE.408, 409 Brewster Assessor sketch.