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Home My Public Portal AboutLongPondRd_1032Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.4/11 FORM B  BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph View from north Locus Map (north at top) Source: Mass GIS Oliver Parcel Viewer. Recorded by: Kathryn Grover & Neil Larson Organization: Brewster Historical Commission Date (month / year): June 2018 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 85-123-0 Harwich BRE.215 Town/City: Brewster Place:(neighborhood or village): South Brewster Address:1032 Long Pond Road Historic Name: George A. and Mary E. Clark House Uses:Present: single-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: 1880-1910 Source:deeds, historic atlases Style/Form: indeterminate Architect/Builder: unknown Exterior Material: Foundation: indeterminate Wall/Trim: wood shingles & wood clapboards Roof:asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Not visible Major Alterations (with dates): window sash replaced Condition:good Moved: no yes Date: Acreage:2.09 acres Setting: The house is situated in a dense residential area characterized by summer cottages and retirement homes built in the mid-20th century. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 1032 LONG POND ROAD MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 BRE.215 Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: UNABLE TO SEE FROM ROAD HISTORICAL NARRATIVE: The house numbered 1032 Long Pond Road was built on land owned by Ezra Howes and his wife Sarah A. Maker Howes. It was the home of the Howes’s only child, Mary E., born in Brewster in 1849. Her father had died in a fishing vessel accident near Gloucester in 1863, and she was living with her mother and working as a seamstress by 1870, according to the census. In 1874 Mary E. Howes married Brewster butcher George Albert Clark, son of Jeremiah and Margaret Clark, and in 1880 the couple was living with their three sons Jeremiah M., Ezra H., and George C. in another part of Brewster. Clark, born in 1849, held numerous town offices: he was field driver in 1885-86, road surveyor in 1887, surveyor of highways in 1888 and 1905, constable in 1894, 1903 and 1904, and tree warden in 1915. Probably by 1900, judging by the census enumeration, the family had moved to 1032 Long Pond Road, but a deed conveying the property to them has not yet been located. No house stood on the site of 1032 Long Pond Road in 1880, but by 1910 the house appears on a county atlas map with the name “G. A. Clark” attached. Mary E. Clark died in 1908, and that the house was in her family is clear from later deeds in which her widowed husband transferred only a share of his wife’s estate. The 1910 census lists George Clark as a widowed farmer living in the house with his daughter Mary E. (or Ethel Mary), a telegraph operator. In 1912, Mabel W. Clark, the widow of Mary Howes Clark’s son Horace C. Clark (1885-1909), deeded the shares of the “Mary E. Clark homestead” that she and her two minor children owned to George A. Clark. In 1919 he and his children transferred their title to the property to sons George C. Clark of Brewster and Edgar C. Clark of Milton, and in 1920 they and other Clark children sold 70 acres of homestead, pasture, and woodland and their buildings to William Tweedie Beattie of Arlington.1 Beattie, born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, in 1868, emigrated to the United States in 1893 and began his career as a traveling salesman of dye stuffs. He became president of Cambridge Color and Chemical Company by 1919. By 1924, according to the Boston Herald, Beattie acquired 100 acres in Brewster, and the newspaper described the property and the new owner’s plans for it: The land is situated on Sheep pond, and extends along its shore for about half a mile. The land rises from the water up a steep cliff of 150 feet, giving from the top a magnificent view in all directions. The property is near the state owned by James J. Storrow of Boston. There is a typical old New England farmhouse, which Mr. Beattie intends to renovate into a comfortable house for a caretaker. At the highest point on the estate it is planned to build a modern house of colonial type. About 60 acres will be laid out in a nine-hole golf course, on which construction work will commence at once. On the shore of the pond Mr. Beattie will build a log cabin to be used for a duck blind.2 The 1929 Cape Cod directory lists Beattie as a summer resident of Brewster, and the enumeration order of the 1930 census suggests that Clinton Henry West might have been the caretaker of the estate and occupant of 1032 Long Pond Road; the 1929 directory shows him on South Brewster Road (now Long Pond Road). West was born in 1904 in Dennis, married in 1926, and lived here with his wife Ida and three-year-old daughter, Ruth. West may have continued to work for Beattie in 1940, when the 1 Mabel W. Clark to George A. Clark, 29 October 1912, BCD 320:41; Mabel W. Clark, Bourne, guardian of Lester C. Clark and Gladys L. Clark, minor children of late Horace C. Clark, Boston, to George A. Clark, South Brewster, 29 October 1912, BCD 315:42; George A. Clark, South Brewster; EKzra H. Clark, New York NY; Percy L. Clark, Hyannis, Mary E. Cahoon, West Medford Sarah F. Newcomb, West Brewster, to George C. Clark, Brewster, and Edgar C. Clark, Milton, 8 May 1919, BCD 372:446; George C. Clark and Sarah F. Newcomb, Brewster; Percy L. Clark, Middleboro; Edgar C. Clark, East Dedham; M. Ethel Cahoon, West Medford, and Ezra H. Clark, Brooklyn NY, to William T. Beattie, Arlington, November 1920, BCD 411:550. For some reason the MHC building form for this property bears the address 499 Long Pond Road. 2 “Buys Large Tract in Town of Brewster,” Boston Herald, 29 December 1924, 7. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 1032 LONG POND ROAD MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 BRE.215 census lists him as a private estate laborer, but by then Cora M. Young, who lived at 958 Long Pond Road, had sold Ida West a parcel with buildings formerly part of the Minnie C. Chase homestead on Harwich Road.3 William T. Beattie died in Arlington in September 1948, and in July 1949 the executors of his will sold the 1032 Long Pond Road property (by then two parcels of 70 and 33 acres) to Alfred Freeman for $20,000. The property changed hands twice more by July 1956, when Ralph W. and Caroline W. Guida acquired it. Guida developed most of the property as Sheep Pond Estates, a 76-lot subdivision with twelve of the lots and a recreation area on the shore of Sheep Pond and the first six lots fronting on Long Pond Road. In 1958, the Guidas sold Lots 5 and 6, the former with the 1032 Long Pond Road house and outbuildings standing on it, to Carlyn P. Baronousky. She and her husband owned the property until 2010, when they deeded it to their daughter Ann Marie Baronousky and Logan Chin, the owners in 2018.4 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. PHOTOGRAPHS (credit Neil Larson, 2018) 3 Cora M. Young to Ida West, 3 September 1930, BCD 477:271. 4 Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company, Lindsey K. Foster, and John McEwing Jr., executors will William T. Beattie, Arlington, to Alfred Freeman, 11 July 1949, BCD 724:319; William D. and Dorothy M. Palmer, Centerville, to Ralph W. and Caroline W. Guida, 9 July 1956, BCD 946:215; Ralph W. and Caroline R. Guida to Carlyn P. Baronousky, 19 June 1958, BCD 1007:397; Arthur G. Baronousky, Campton NH, to Ann Marie Baronousky and Logan Chin, 1032 Long Pond Road, 8 February 2010, BCD 24358:118. The property is Lot 5 on “Section 1 Sheep Pond Estates in Brewster, as Surveyed for Ralph W. and Caroline R. Guida,” August 1956, BCP 130:139-2.