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Home My Public Portal AboutMainSt_2530, BRE.410Follow 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 78-93 Dennis A,G,I BRE.410 Town/City: BREWSTER Place:(neighborhood or village): East Brewster Address: 2530 Main Street Historic Name: Clark, George and Margaret House Uses:Present: Residential Original: Residential Date of Construction: ca. 1900 Source:Deed research, historic maps Style/Form: Colonial Revival cottage Architect/Builder: Unknown Exterior Material: Foundation: Cement block, cement Wall/Trim: Wood shingles/ Wood Roof: Asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: None Major Alterations (with dates): Breezeway connecting garage to house (late-20th c.) Condition: Good Moved: no yes Date: If moved, ca. 1945 Acreage: 2.51 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 well back from the street on its deep, narrow, level parcel. An asphalt driveway leads to an attached one-car garage. The parcel is informally landscaped with lawn, deciduous trees and shrubbery. The house itself has intermittent foundation plantings. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 2530 MAIN STREET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 A,G,I BRE.410 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 modest, one-story house is set well back from the street. The front elevation initially gives the appearance of a Full Cape, but on closer examination, this house appears to be a ranch with a low-pitched roof and stepped down ells extending from both side elevations. The west ell connects to a one-bay garage. Fenestration is unevenly arrayed across the front elevation and the front entrance is off-centered. The building rests on a concrete block foundation. The elevations are clad in wood shingles with plain cornerboards. The roof is clad in asphalt shingles and has a molded box cornice with relatively broad frieze boards below. Fenestration consists of wood 2/2 windows on the main block, wood 8/8 windows on the ells, and wood 6/6 windows on the garage. The windows on the front elevation abut the cornice trim. The front entrance is the main feature which identifies this house as Colonial Revival in style. The wood panel door is set in a surround with pilasters that reach up to the cornice trim. 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 property was part of a larger assemblage of parcels owned by George C. Clark (1878-1963), including what is now 2520 Main Street (BRE.409). Before that, it was part of the holdings of Watson B. Crocker (1861-1940) who lived at 2550 Main Street (BRE.191). The Old King’s Highway National Register nomination gives this Colonial Revival-style cottage a date of ca. 1900 and the 1910 Barnstable County Atlas map shows a house with a footprint that could be this house set close to the street with the name George C. Clark. Deed research is inconclusive, but if this house is the same one shown closer to the street on the 1910 map, then it was likely moved back to its present location ca. 1945, as will be explained below. In 2015, the estate of Margaret (Pearl) Dickey conveyed two parcels, identified as Parcels 1 and 4, into a trust with her daughter Jane Remy as trustee (Book 28878/ Page 346). Based on the descriptions of the parcels, Parcel 1 was set back approximately 123’ from the street and contained this dwelling, and Parcel 4 extended farther south from Parcel 1. This was a confirmatory deed referencing a 1966 deed by and between husband and wife Arthur G. and Margaret Pearl Clark Dickey (Book 1344/ Page 333). Title to Parcel 1 on which the house would come to be located refers back to a deed from George C. Clark in 1943 to his daughter Margaret Pearl Clark Dickey (Book 609/ Page 424). This deed states that the land was deeded to Clark by the estate of Watson B. Crocker. Clark retained the land between this parcel and Main Street until 1950 when he conveyed this as well to his daughter (Book 863/ Page 319). The Assessor date for this house is 1945 which may indicate when the house was moved. George C. Clark (1878-1963) married Margaret M. Desmond in 1905 in Brewster. They had three daughters, Mary, Margaret and Lillian. George worked as a station agent for the railroad, possibly working at the East Brewster Railroad Station located farther east on County Road. Additional land was conveyed by Emma F. Payne to George Clark in 1915 (Book 355/ Page 241). The 1915 deed describes a parcel that extends from the Watson property on the east side (2550 Main Street) to other land Clark owns on the west side, and Corrigan land to the southwest. This parcel is located within the Old King’s Highway Regional Historic District, adopted in 1973, and the house is a contributing resource in the Old King’s Highway National Register District listed in 1996. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 2530 MAIN STREET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 A,G,I BRE.410 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 (1910, 1920) Brewster Assessor sketch. Photo 2. View of front elevation, looking southwest. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 2530 MAIN STREET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 3 A,G,I BRE.410 Photo 3. View of rear elevation, looking northeast.