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FORM B BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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Recorded by: Kathryn Grover & Neil Larson
Organization: Brewster Historical Commission
Date (month / year): June 2018
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
103-15 Harwich BRE.452
Town/City: Brewster
Place:(neighborhood or village):
East Brewster
Address:202 Linnell Landing Road
Historic Name: Paine-Rice House
Uses:Present: single-family residence
Original: single-family residence
Date of Construction: ca. 1791
Source:deeds, historic atlases
Style/Form: Federal
Architect/Builder: unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation: stone
Wall/Trim: wood shingles
Roof:asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
none
Major Alterations (with dates):
1-sty hipped-roof wing added west side, 20th cent.
Shed dormer added west side, 20th century
Wing added to east end, 20th century
Window sash replaced
Condition:good
Moved: no yes Date:
Acreage:0.87 acre
Setting: The house is situated in a dense residential area
characterized by summer cottages and retirement homes
built in the mid-20th century.
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Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
The Paine-Rice House is comprised of a one-story gable roof house with a side passage plan built ca. 1791 and additions
constructed in the 19th and 20th centuries. The front façade of the house faces south and contains an entrance with simple trim
and a single window. The plan is deep with one principal room in the front on the west end of the house and a bed chamber
above it centered on the ridge in the attic with flanking rooms under the eaves. The chimney is positioned behind the entry and
would have heated the front room. A one-story cross-gable wing on the north side of the house and a one-story wing with a
lower gable roof on the east side are additions, although which came first has not been determined. The basement of the north
wing was exposed at grade. In the 20th century, a long, one-story, hipped-roof addition was constructed along the entire west
side of the house; a shed dormer was raised in the roof of the north wing at this time or somewhat later. The most recent
addition is a one-story, gable-roof wing with chimney added to the east end of the east wing.
The house is centered in a small yard with the fringes of the property being wooded and part of a state forest. A driveway loops
around the house with the northern leg connecting to a one-story wood frame hipped-roof two-car garage behind the house.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE:
The absence of most eighteenth-century deeds for Brewster (then Harwich’s north precinct) has made it impossible to determine
who built the house at 202 Linnell Landing Road. The first documented owner is Reuben Paine (1793-1848), who may have
inherited it from his father Sylvanus Paine (1760-1836), who married Susannah Bangs of Harwich in 1791, or from his
grandfather James Paine (born 1720), who married Patience Crosby of Harwich in August 1759. The Paines were descended
from Thomas Paine (1644-1706) and his wife Mary Snow of Eastham, whose son Joseph married Patience Sparrow in 1691 and
moved afterward to that part of Harwich that is now Brewster. Joseph Paine was one of the eight men who established the First
Church of Harwich (now Brewster) in 1700 and served as selectman and town clerk at various times before he died in 1712. His
homestead was left to his eldest son Ebenezer; Reuben Paine descended from Ebenezer’s younger brother Joseph (1697-
1771).1
The 1798 Federal Direct Tax shows both Sylvanus Paine and his father James with houses and modest acreage in Harwich,
and Sylvanus Paine is shown among households of Paine relatives in the 1820 and 1830 censuses. Son Reuben, born in 1793,
married Therese Hurd in 1833 and is shown in a household of five persons in the 1840 census. Paine was a master mariner
and was “formerly of the ship Wakona” of Boston when he died of typhoid in November 1848.2 In 1854 the guardians of Paine’s
children, all minors at the time of his death, sold the 202 Linnell Landing house and six acres at auction for $3,233.26 to Loring
Maker. Paine’s widow Hannah released her right of dower in the property for $130.74 and four months later sold Maker an
adjacent 14-acre tract for $90.3 The deed describes the parcel as bounded on the east by the land of Nathan Crosby, on the
north by the “sea shore,” on the west by a town road. The 1858 Barnstable County map attaches the name “L. Maker” to the
house.
Born in Harwich in 1826, Loring Maker was the fourth of eight children of William and Deliverance Maker, and the 1850 census
lists him as part of his father’s Brewster household even though both he and his father were then at sea. Loring Maker’s younger
brothers Joshua and Hiram, then 19 and 16 years old respectively, were also at sea, which left only William Maker’s wife
Hannah as resident in the house at the time. In November 1854, nine months after having bought the Paine house, Maker
1 Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Boston: Graves & Steinbarger, 1901), 865; Josiah Paine, “Thomas
Paine of Eastham and Posterity,” New England Historic Genealogical Register (January 1868): 60-64; (April 1868): 187-191; (July 1868): 291-95.
2 Henry J. Sears, Brewster Ship Masters (Yarmouthport, MA: C. W. Swift, 1906), 69, states that Paine was captain of ship Hamilton, bark Binney, and bark
Wacoma and notes his date of death correctly; his year of birth is given here, incorrectly, as 1810. Paine’s first wife died in 1842; he married a second time, in
1843, to Hannah Knowles Gould.
3 George Paine, guardian of Reuben Paine; John Myrick, guardian of Alfred Paine; Roland Paine, guiardian of Francis H. Paine, all Brewster, and Nathaniel
Gould, Orleans, guardian of Mary L. Paine and Oren A Paine, minors and heirs of Reuben Paine, to Loring Maker, 10 February 1854, BCD 40:355; Hannah H
Paine to Loring Maker, 12 June 1854, BCD 59:372.
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married Amanda Long, daughter of Joseph and Hannah Long of Brewster, and no doubt bought the property in anticipation of
establishing his own household. The 1860 census lists Loring Maker as a mariner with $700 in real property living with his wife
and their three-year-old daughter Idella (or Ida). By 1865 the couple and their daughter shared the 202 Linnell Landing house
with laborer Reuben Harding and his wife Esther.
Amanda Long Maker died in 1881, and Loring Maker died less than five years later. Assessors’ records for 1890 taxed his estate
on a house and barn, the 4-acre homestead, and 12.5 acres of pasture, woodland, and cranberry swamp but exempted the
estate from taxes. Deeds, however, document that Ida Maker, then a jewelry store clerk living in Providence (at the city’s YWCA
by 1900), sold her family home, its outbuildings, and 12 acres of land to Sarah E. Crosby, the third wife of Isaac Francis Crosby,
in July 1891. The Crosbys took out a mortgage on this and other properties with Winfield Scott Richards of Newton the next year
and defaulted on it by November 1899, when Richards sold 202 Linnell Landing to George S. Rice and Harry W. Mason of
Newton for $5500.4 Rice and Mason took out a mortgage on the property with Samuel Mayo Nickerson the next year and had
defaulted on it by October 1902, at which point Nickerson arranged for the property to be sold at auction to Rose B. Rice,
George Rice’s wife, for $4200.5
Born in Boston in 1849, George Staples Rice was a civil engineer. He married Rose Burchard, a native of Albany, New York,
and in 1896 their son Albert Feeley Rice was born in Newton. The family was living in New York City by 1910 and in Montclair,
New Jersey, by 1920, the year George Rice died. His widow Rose and son Albert, who had served in the Navy during the First
World War and was later a broker, remained in Montclair and used the 202 Linnell Landing property either as a summer place or
possibly as a rental property, as both the 1901 and 1929 Cape Cod directories list the Rices as living on Main Street in East
Brewster. In 1933 Rose Rice deeded the property to her son Albert and his wife Laura, whose family owned 202 Linnell Landing
Road (in trust since 2005) in 2012.6
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
American Ancestors.org. Massachusetts vital, tax, and probate records.
Ancestry.com. Federal and state censuses, vital records, historic maps, and “Valuation List of the Town of Brewster 1890.”
Barnstable Patriot Digital Newspaper Archive. Sturgis Library website,
http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/APA/Sturgis/default.aspx#panel=home.
Brewster Assessors’ Records, Brewster Town Clerk Archives and 1926 Town Report.
Deyo, Simeon L. History of Barnstable County, Mass. New York: H. W. Blake Co., 1890.
Freeman, Frederick. The History of Cape Cod: The Annals of Barnstable County. Boston: George C. Rand and Avery, 1858-62.
Otis, Amos. Genealogical Notes on Barnstable Families. 2 vols. Barnstable, MA: Patriot Press, 1888.
Sears, Henry J. Brewster Ship Masters. Yarmouthport, MA: C. W. Swift, 1906.
Simpkins, John. “Topographical Description of Brewster.” Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 10 (1809): 72-79.
MAPS
Walling. Henry Francis. Map of the Counties of Barnstable, Dukes & Nantucket, Massachusetts. Boston: 1858.
Atlas of Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Boston: George H. Walker & Co., 1880.
Atlas of Barnstable County Massachusetts. Boston: Walker Lithograph & Publishing Co., 1910.
4 Ida J. Maker, Providence RI, to Sarah E. Crosby, 22 July 1891, BCD 196:496;Isaac F. and Sarah E. Crosby to Winfield S. Richards, Newton, 26 September
1892, BCD 203:256-60 (mortgage deed); Winfield S. Richards, Hull, to George S. Rice and Harry W. Mason, both Newton, 16 November 1899, BCD 240:241.
5 George S. Rice and Harry W. Mason to Samuel M. Nickerson, 26 November 1900, BCD 248:107 (mortgage deed); Samuel M. Nickerson to Rose B. Rice, 4
October 1902, BCD 260:161.
6 Rose B. Rice, Montclair NY, to Albert F. and Laura R. Rice, Montclair NJ, 17 July 1933, BCD 496:232; Chemical Bank, trustee will Albert F. Rice, New York
NY, to Rogers Jones Rice, Linnell Road, 12 June 1989, BCD 6777:158; Rogers Jones Rice, 202 Linnell Road, to Rogers J. and Jeanne T. Rice, 19 July 1989,
BCD 6815:123; Rogers J. and Jeanne T. Rice to Rogers J. and Jeanne T. Rice, trustees Linnell Nominee Trust, 7 June 2005, BCD 19943:320; Rogers J. and
Jeanne T. Rice, trustees Linnell Nominee Trust, to Rogers J. Rice, trustee 202 Linnell Road Trust, 1 June 2012, BCD 26427:97. This last deed states that 202
Linnell Landing Road was known as the “Maker House.”
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PHOTOGRAPHS (credit Neil Larson, 2018)
View from NW.
View from NW.
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National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form
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Criteria: A B C D
Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G
Statement of Significance by_____Neil Larson___________________________________
The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here.
The Paine-Rice House appears to be individually eligible for the National Register under Criteria A & C for its
historical and architectural significance. The house probably was built for Sylvanus and Susannah Paine when
they were married in 1791, but it also may have built for Sylvanus’s parents, James and Patience Paine a
generation earlier. (A more intensive examination of the house is needed to determine a more accurate
construction date.) At the house’s core is an18th-century one-story dwelling with a lobby entrance and a plan
organized around one principal room. The many additions represent the growth and evolution of this small
traditional fisherman’s house into a larger farmhouse and, eventually into a summer house. The name includes
that of the Rice family, which has owned the property for more than a century.