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Home My Public Portal AboutMainSt_3003, BRE.40Follow 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 101-42 Dennis A, G BRE.40 Town/City: BREWSTER Place:(neighborhood or village): East Brewster Address: 3003 Main Street Historic Name: Vincent House Uses:Present: Residential Original: Residential Date of Construction: [1780-1800] Source:Deed research, vital records Style/Form: / Full Cape Architect/Builder: Unknown Exterior Material: Foundation: Stone, concrete block (rear ells) Wall/Trim: Wood Clapboard/ Wood Roof: Asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage/barn (addition post-1957) Major Alterations (with dates): New siding (2006) Condition: Good Moved: no yes Date: Acreage: 2.06 acres Setting: This property is located in East Brewster on the north side of Main Street, and is bordered on the east by Bonnie Doone Cartway. This section of Main Street is more sparsely developed with a mix of historic and cotemporary residential and commercial buildings. This house is set relatively close to the street. A gravel driveway leads off Bonnie Doone Cartway to a parking area east of the house. Landscape features include broad expanses of lawn dotted with mature trees. An evergreen hedge along the street partially obscures the house from the street. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 3003 MAIN STREET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 A, G BRE.40 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 large example of a late-18th century Full Cape that has received a long series of rear ells. The main block of the house rests on a stone foundation and at least some of the rear ells rest on concrete block foundations. The walls are clad in wood clapboard siding with plain cornerboards. The roof is clad in asphalt shingles (wood shingles originally). The roof has a modest box cornice. A large brick chimney is centered on the main roof ridge. The main block has the form typical of Full Capes – five bays wide with a center entrance. The windows are widely spaced, which is common for Colonial-era Capes but the front windows are set below (and not into) the roof cornice, indicating a possible early Federal construction date. Fenestration consists primarily of wood 12/12 double-hung windows on the first story of the main block. The second story of the side elevations have 9/6 windows and small square windows set close to the gable eave. The windows on the front and side elevations are set in projecting frames. The main block was altered (date unknown) with a close-gabled portico over the front entrance and similarly designed gable dormers with paired 12/12 double-hung windows. There is a long, one-story rear ell which connects to a one-story cross-gabled element that terminates in a two-bay garage (see Photo 2). 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. The 1980 version of this Form B provided dates for this house of 1738 or 1780. As noted above, the form of the house, including the windows set well below the roof eaves, makes it more likely that it was built closer to 1780. Deed research traces ownership of this property, originally comprising 11 acres that stretched to the bay, to a conveyance in 1825 when Eunice (Cobb) Vincent, widow of Seth Vincent, along with her son, Allen Vincent, a cordwainer in Wellfleet, and Eunice’s daughter, Oliver Bassett, who was living in Chatham with her carpenter husband, Samuel Bassett, conveyed this property to Barnabas Paine and his brother George Paine both mariners from Brewster (Book 999011/ Page 365). Seth Vincent was born in Yarmouth to Ruth and Isaac Vincent. He married Eunice Cobb in Harwich in 1800. It is unclear if the Vincent family built this house, or whether they bought or inherited this property. This may be due to the fire in 1827 which burned almost all the records in the original Registry of Deeds. While some deeds were re-recorded, many were lost. As noted above, this property was conveyed to two brothers, Barnabas and George Paine (1800-1880). In 1834, Barnabas Paine conveyed his interest in the property to his brother George Paine and to John Myrick (Book 42/ Page 287); and in 1838, George Paine conveyed his share to John Myrick. John Myrick (1798-1875) married Betsey B. Paine in the early 1820s and they had five children that survived to adulthood. John was listed as a packet mariner (1850 US Census) and later Master Mariner (1860 US Census). Interestingly, the 1858 Map of Cape Cod for East Brewster shows two houses bracketed with the name J. Myrick (see attached detail of 1858 Map). It is unclear when the second house was built – whether for the Vincent family or the Paine brothers, and the fate of the second house is unclear. In 1878, John and Betsey Myrick’s five children sold their interest in this property to Mercy (Mercie) A. Young of Melrose, MA (Book 156/ Page 421). Mercy (b. 1834) was married to Elijah S. Young (1831-1907) who worked as a farmer. In 1891, the Youngs conveyed this property to Leslie Griffin Cauldwell of New York, NY (Book 198/ Page 65). Leslie Cauldwell (1861-1941) studied art at the Julian Academy in Paris, and lived in both New York and Paris. In addition to being a painter, he was a decorator and teacher. In 1923, Cauldwell conveyed this property to D. Glover Ware of Marblehead (Book 392/ Page 164) who, in turn, conveyed it to his brother, H. Harris Ware, also of Marblehead (Book 468/ Page 303). The lived together and were the proprietors of a motion pictures services – presumably referring to a movie house. Harris Ware’s heirs recorded a subdivision of the property in 1954, creating the current parcel (Plan Book 138/ Page 133). In 1959, the Ware family conveyed this parcel to Helen MacGregor of Brewster. It remains in the MacGregor family. This parcel is located within the Old King’s Highway local historic district (adopted 1973). INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 3003 MAIN STREET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 A, G BRE.40 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 (1850, 1860, 1880, 1920) Photo 2. View looking northeast. Brewster Assessor sketch. Detail of 1858 Map of Cape Cod showing two houses under the name J. Myrick.