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Home My Public Portal AboutMainSt_3112, BRE.179Follow 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 101-56 Dennis A, G BRE.179 Town/City: BREWSTER Place:(neighborhood or village): East Brewster Address: 3112 Main Street Historic Name: Paine, Benjamin/ Hurd, Sylvanus and Bethiah HouseUses:Present: Residential Original: Residential Date of Construction: [1842-1843] Source:Deed research Style/Form: Greek Revival Architect/Builder: Unknown Exterior Material: Foundation: Fieldstone Wall/Trim: Wood clapboard, wood shingles/ Wood Roof: Asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Large barn (see Photo 3) Major Alterations (with dates): Rear ell/addition (date unknown) New windows (2013) Condition: Good Moved: no yes Date: Acreage: 0.93 acres Setting: This property is located in East Brewster on the south side of Main Street, and is bordered on the west by Millstone Road. This surrounding area is developed with a mix of historic and contemporary residential and commercial buildings, with the large camp property across the street. This house is set close to the street. An asphalt driveway leads from Millstone Road to a barn behind the house. Landscape features include a lawn and foundation plantings around the house and a privet hedge along both streets partially obscuring the house. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 3112 MAIN STREET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 A, G BRE.179 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 Greek Revival-style house. The house consists of a 1½-story, gable-front main block with a partially enclosed porch that wraps around the front and side elevations, and a long, one-story rear ell/addition. The house rests on a raised fieldstone foundation. The front elevation is clad in wood clapboard siding and the remaining elevations are clad in asphalt shingles. The roof is clad in asphalt shingles (likely wood shingles originally) and has a molded box cornice with partial returns across the gable ends – a Greek Revival-style detail. A large brick chimney rises from the main roof ridge. Fenestration consists primarily of replacement 6/6 double-hung sash set in flat surrounds. The porch is supported by narrow chamfered posts, which would indicate that it was a later addition. The house has an unusually long, one-story rear ell (see Photo 2). The property includes a two-story barn. This building has gable-front openings (now garage doors), meaning this barn could be classified as “New England” in form (barns with doors on side elevations are referred to as “English” in form). 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 appears to have been built on land that he bought from Elisha Crosby in 1842 (Book 30/ Page 243). This deed describes the three acre parcel as having “buildings and orchards.” The following year, Paine conveyed the three acre parcel to Sylvanus H. Hurd of Orleans, now described as containing “orchard, dwelling house and outbuildings” (Book 32/ Page 410). Sylvanus (Silvanus) H. Hurd (1818-1867) had married Bethiah Rogers (1821-1901) in Orleans in 1842. He was a mariner and then acquired additional land in the area in the mid-1840s and worked as a farmer. In 1879, Bethiah Hurd, now a widow living in Barnstable, conveyed this 3-acre property to Gideon Eldridge (Book 143/ Page 144). Gideon (1819-1887) and his wife Martha (b. 1823) were living here with their children and grandchildren, and he worked as a farmer and fisherman. During this time, Millstone Road was known as Gideon's Road due to Gideon Eldredge living at this house and his parents living farther south on this road. In 1901, Gideon’s son and daughter conveyed this property to Joshua F. Doane (Book 253/ Page 246). That same year, this property (Book 251/ Page 328) and surrounding property owned by others totaling 13 acres was acquired in six transactions by Matilda P. Nickerson. According to the 1980 version of this Form B, Matilda and her husband, Samuel Nickerson, and their son Roland Nickerson used this house as a residence for one of their caretakers for their large family land holdings in Brewster. In 1943, the estate of Roland Nickerson’s daughter, Helen Nickerson Sears, conveyed this property to Gardner W. and Hilda T. Chase (Book 601/ page 380). Gardner Chase ran a chicken farm here, the coops for which are perhaps the two long buildings shown on a 1972 subdivision plan they recorded (see attached plan, Plan Book 271/ Page 28). In 2011, Hilda Chase conveyed Lot 1 with the house and barn to Samuel Southworth and Melissa Chaves of Brewster (Book 25679/ Page 231). This parcel is located within the Old King’s Highway Regional Historic District adopted in 1973. 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 (1860, 1880), State Census (1865) INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 3112 MAIN STREET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 A, G BRE.179 Assessor sketch. Photo 2. View from Millstone Road looking northeast. Photo 3. View of outbuilding, looking southeast.