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Home My Public Portal AboutStonyBrookRd_1211, BRE.430Follow 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 47 4 0 Dennis BRE.430 Town/City: BREWSTER Place:(neighborhood or village): Address: 1211 Stony Brook Road Historic Name: B. B. Winslow & Co. Store Uses:Present: Residential Original: Commercial Date of Construction: 1866 Source:Deed research Style/Form: / Full Cape Architect/Builder: Unknown Exterior Material: Foundation: Fieldstone, cement block Wall/Trim: Wood clapboard, wood shingle/ Wood Roof: Wood shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage/barn (2011) Major Alterations (with dates): Addition, new front door (2002) Condition: Good Moved: no yes Date: Acreage: 0.68 acres Setting: This house is located on a small parcel at the intersection of Main Street and Stony Brook Road. The surrounding area is developed with a mix of historic and contemporary houses on varying sized lots, most set close to the street. This house is oriented to a short stretch of road connecting Stony Brook Road to Main Street. The house is set close to the street on a slight rise. A clamshell driveway leads from the street to a new garage/barn south of the house. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 1211 STONY BROOK ROAD MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 BRE.430 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 building began as a two-story, gable-front store with Italianate-style ornamentation (see Photo 3). The gable-front storefront was oriented to Main Street. Sometime between 1921 and 1933, the building was converted to a dwelling; the second story was removed and the north end of the block was shorted by approximately 8 feet. The building now has the appearance of a Full Cape. The raised foundation consists primarily of fieldstone, with cement block on the north end elevation (where the building was shortened). The front elevation is clad in painted wood clapboards and the remaining elevations are clad in wood shingles with plain cornerboards. The roof is clad in wood cedar shingles and has a modest box cornice on the front and rear elevations (obscured by a modern gutter on the front elevation) with narrow trim boards below and narrow two-part trim boards on the side elevations. A narrow, corbelled brick chimney is centered on the roof ridge. Fenestration consists primarily of wood, 6/1, double-hung sash set in slightly-projecting molded surrounds with projecting sills and molded lintels. The front entrance has a five-panel wood door with the upper two panels infilled with etched glass. The door is flanked by tapered pilasters and surmounted by transom lights and a molded lintel above. A shed dormer spans the rear roof slope, which may date to the building conversion, and a small ell with hipped roof was added to the south elevation (date unknown). The property includes a barn/garage built in 2011 with a New England barn form, meaning a barn with the main barn opening on the end gable. 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 the eastern end of the 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, 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. This building began as a store that was built on “tillage” land that was sold in 1866 by Elisha Foster to Bartlett B. Winslow and Benjamin B. Freeman, 2nd under the firm B. B. Winslow and Company. Bartlett Winslow (1829-1909) had started a stove and tin plate business in 1854 in a store on the north side of Main Street near his house. He sold that building in 1866, and partnered with Freeman to build a larger store across the street, “in which was carried on the stove and tin plate business, in connection with the grocery trade” (Deyo, p. 905). In 1868, Freeman (1848-1912) sold his half of the property to Bartlett Winslow, now described as an “undivided half part of a store recently occupied by said Winslow and myself as partners in trade...” (Book 96/Page 497). The 1880 Barnstable County Atlas map shows a building footprint, above which is the name “Stoves & Tin Ware, T. D. Sears” and below which is the name “B. B. Winslow” (see attached detail of Atlas). “T. D. Sears” refers to Thomas D. Sears (1845- 1931) who appears to have partnered with Bartlett Winslow prior to owning an interest in the land himself. It was two years later that Winslow sold the property to Sears (Book 152/Page 66). Sears was listed as a tin smith in the 1880 US Census and then a INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 1211 STONY BROOK ROAD MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 BRE.430 stove dealer in the 1900 US Census. In 1887, Sears sold his interest in the grocery business, which was carried on in the store on the lower floor of the building, to F. B. Crocker, which explains the store sign in the historic view (Photo 3). Thomas Sears sold this property “with all buildings standing thereon” in 1921 to Curtis C. Eldridge of Brewster (Book 382/Page 419). Sometime between 1921 and 1933, when he sold the property, Eldridge converted the building to a dwelling. The 1933 deed references a “building formerly used as a store by the grantor.” The buyer was Seth Sears of Brewster. He sold the property in 1937 to William and Helen McGinnis of Boylston, MA (Book 529/Page 251). This deed and all subsequent deeds for this property included the provision that the property may only be used for residential purposes. 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 Deyo, Simeon L., ed., History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts: 1620-1890, New York: H. W. Blake & Co., 1890. www.ancestry.com - Vital records, US Census (1880, 1900) Brewster Assessor sketch. Photo 2. View looking southwest. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 1211 STONY BROOK ROAD MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 3 BRE.430 Photo 3. Historic view of 1211 Main Street, looking south (Source: current owners, David and Amy Mason). Detail of 1880 Barnstable County Atlas. Detail of 1910 Barnstable County Atlas.