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Home My Public Portal AboutStonyBrookRd_1002, BRE.69Follow 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): June 2017 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 36-50-0 Dennis C,G,J BRE.69 Town/City: BREWSTER Place:(neighborhood or village): Address: 1002 Stony Brook Road Historic Name: Winslow House Uses:Present: Residential Original: Residential Date of Construction: [1750-1800] Source:Deed research, vital records, house form Style/Form: / Full Cape Architect/Builder: Unknown Exterior Material: Foundation: Fieldstone Wall/Trim: Wood shingles/ Wood Roof: Asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: None Major Alterations (with dates): One bay added to left side (date unknown) Some replacement windows (late 20th-early 21st c.) Condition: Good Moved: no yes Date: Acreage: .71 acres Setting: This parcel is located on the northeast side of Stony Brook Road This stretch of Stony Brook Road is developed with a mix of historic and contemporary dwellings on varying sized lots, with no set pattern of siting. This house is set close to the street on a slight rise, and obscured from the street by a mature privet hedge. The house is surrounded by a small lawn with no foundation plantings. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 1002 STONY BROOK ROAD MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 C,G,J BRE.69 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 an intact example of a Colonial-era Full Cape. The building rests on a low fieldstone foundation. The walls are clad in wood shingles with narrow cornerboards. The broad roof is clad in asphalt shingles and has a slightly projecting molded box cornice on the front elevation with narrow trim (or frieze) boards below, and narrower trim boards on the side elevations. A large brick chimney is centered above the front entrance on the roof ridge. The front elevation is characteristic of the Full Cape form, with a centered entrance flanked by two evenly (and broadly) spaced windows on each side. The front entrance has a six-panel wood panel door set in a surround decorated with broad pilasters and a four-light transom. The door lintel is set into the cornice trim, a feature often seen on Colonial-era Capes. Fenestration consists of wood 12/8 windows on the first story, and replacement 12/12 windows on the side elevations. Small square windows are located close to the roof eaves on both side elevations. Unusual for Capes in this area, there are no rear or side ells/additions. However, the right (west) side of the house was extend by one bay (date unknown). 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 is located in West Brewster, on a road that was originally part of Old King’s Highway. Laid out in 1665, Old King’s Highway, also historically referred to as King’s Highway and County Road, and was the region’s major east/west corridor. In Brewster, the original route followed Stony Brook Road, avoiding the wetlands and marshes associated with Quivett Creek and Stony Brook. By the mid-19th century, causeways and bridges were built across tidal and wetland areas allowing for the straightening of Old King’s Highway, including northwest of this house near the Dennis town border. Mill sites on Stony Brook became an important economic engine and led to early development in West Brewster, including extant residential resources from the 18th and 19th century along Stony Brook Road. The name “Stony Brook Road” was in use by the early-20th century. The 1969 and 1986 versions of this Form B date the house to ca. 1750 and ca. 1800 respectively, and the Stony Brook/Factory Village National Register nomination dates the house to the late-18th century. Deed research was unable to confirm that date range, but the form of the house, including the broad spacing of the front elevation windows and the placement of those windows into the roof entablature, do suggest that date range. This house and the house at 962 Stony Brook Road (BRE.68) were both owned by Nathan and Lurana (Freeman) Winslow in the early-to-mid 19th century. Nathan Winslow (1811-1856) married Lurana Freeman (1811-1899) in 1829. The Winslow family were prominent early settlers of the Stony Brook area, and had interests connected to the mill village. Both Nathan’s father and grandfather were farmers. All the 19th century deeds for 962 Stony Brook Road reference a barn and other outbuilding, but when this house was sold by Lurana Freeman in 1856, the deed referenced a dwelling house only, which might suggest that this house was built and used by members of the extended Winslow family who were operating the family farm together, until Lurana decided to sell the house in 1856 following her husband’s death. That year, she sold the house to Samuel Doane of Brewster (Book 62/ Page 489). This deed referred to Doane as a labourer, stated that the property included a dwelling and other buildings, and provided Lurana Winslow the right to match any future buyer’s price when Doane decided to sell. She apparently decided not to buy back the house; it was sold in February of 1876 to master mariner William Robbins of Brewster (Book 119/ Page 400). That deed described the parcel as containing ¾ acres. The next month, William and his wife Fanny sold the property to Clark H. Baker (Book 123/ Page 505). This deed described the parcel as including a dwelling and barn. If a barn had been erected by Doane or Robbins, it is no longer extant. Clark was described as a laborer in the 1880 and 1900 US Census. He died in 1908, and left this property to his widow Amanda and their son Abbott. Abbott worked as a road surveyor and tree warden. In 1934, Amanda Baker sold the property to H. Bradford Clarke INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 1002 STONY BROOK ROAD MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 C,G,J BRE.69 of Brewster (Book 503/ Page 49). Two years later, Clarke sold the property to Theodore and Jean Evans of New Haven, CT (Book 522/ Page 424). Interestingly, the Clarkes sold the property in 1987 for $1 to Vassar College (Book 6083/ Page 205). Vassar sold the property back into residential ownership the following year. This property is located within the Old King’s Highway Regional Historic District (adopted 1973) and the house is a contributing resource in the Stony Brook/Factory Village National Register District (listed 2000). 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 Stony Brook/Factory Village National Register nomination (2000) www.ancestry.com - Vital records, US Census (1880, 1900) Brewster Assessor sketch. Photo 2. Same view as cover photo from 1969 Form B.