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HomeMy Public PortalAboutLongPondRd_463Follow 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 SE. Locus Map (north at top) Source: Mass GIS Oliver Parcel Viewer. Recorded by: Kathryn Grover & Neil Larson Organization: Brewster Historical Commission Date (month / year): December 2018 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 66-57-0 Harwich D BRE.214 Town/City: Brewster Place:(neighborhood or village): South Brewster Address:463 Long Pond Road Historic Name: Edward & Mary Hopkins House Uses:Present: single-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1780 Source:deeds, historic atlases Style/Form: Federal / Cape Architect/Builder: Hopkins family Exterior Material: Foundation: stone Wall/Trim: wood shingles / wood Roof:asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Barn (attached), rebuilt 1969 Major Alterations (with dates): Window sash replaced Condition:good Moved: no yes Date: Acreage:1.91 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 463 LONG POND ROAD MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 D BRE.214 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 Edward and Mary Hopkins House, built ca. 1780, is a story-and-a-half wood frame dwelling with a series of outbuildings of various unknown functions and construction dates. (The age and complexity of this assemblage warrants more intensive investigation and analysis of materials and construction methods.) The house has a traditional center-chimney plan; the front façade is imbalanced with the central entrance flanked by two windows on one side and one window on the other, which could be the result of staging. A story-and-a-half ell extends from the rear of the house on the east side, to which a one-story wing was added. From this stage, functions shift from domestic to agricultural and/or trade work. For one, a blacksmith shop has a historical association with the property; so too does a turning shop powered by a windmill on the hill behind the house where a huge water tank is now located. A large barn is a central feature in the complex of connected buildings. Previous documentation states that it was rebuilt in 1969. A rear view indicates the upper level has been adapted for domestic use. The house passed out of Hopkins family ownership in 1979, after which it was gentrified for summer residence. Dormers were added to improve bedroom space and other amenities added to the buildings and the landscape. The building is embedded in a hillock on the west side of the parcel; a driveway runs along the lot line to access the upper level of the barn. A second driveway enters an area on the east side of the house through a tall, thick privet hedge screening the property from the highway. Farther east is a large meadow bordered by tree lines. A swimming pool and pool house are contained in a copse east of the barn. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE: The house at 463 Long Pond Road was one of at least four houses on this street that belonged to Edward Hopkins (1748-ca. 1809) or his descendants. In January 1809, Brewster mariner Freeman Hopkins (1768-1812) sold housewright Moses Hopkins Jr. two parcels of land totaling five acres with a house on it that had “formerly belonged to Edward Hopkins,” Freeman’s father, with the stipulation that Edward Hopkins’s widow, Mary Mayo Hopkins, be permitted to use and improve half of the house and land during her lifetime.1 Born in Harwich in 1748, Edward Hopkins was the son of Moses Hopkins (1722-76) and Hannah Berry (1723-1809) and a fifth-generation descendant of Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins. He married Mary Mayo (ca. 1748- 1820) in 1767, and the 1798 federal direct tax listings for Harwich (of which Brewster was then still part) show him with a house. His exact date of death is not known, but the January 1809 deed documents that he had by then deceased. Several possibilities exist for the grantee Moses Hopkins Jr. Edward Hopkins had an older brother Moses, born in 1741, who would properly be Moses Hopkins Jr. while his father was living, but Moses Sr. died in 1776. After 1776, Moses Hopkins Jr. could have been the son of Moses, born in 1781 (possibly in Orleans) or the son of Edward, born in 1783. Edward’s brother married Mary Burgess in 1765, and he is probably the Moses Hopkins listed in the Harwich censuses of 1790 and 1800. The 1810 census lists both a Moses Hopkins and Moses Hopkins Jr., and although the manuscript schedules are not entirely clear it appears that the former Moses Hopkins household was headed by a woman. Thus, that census at least suggests that Edward’s brother Moses had died by then, and later censuses and deeds indicate that the 463 Long Pond Road property descended in the family of Edward’s son. In addition, all early deeds identify the grantee as a carpenter, a trade also followed by this Moses’s sons Edward (1809-50), Moses (born 1811), Elisha F. (born 1824), and George Crocker Hopkins (1828-1909). This Moses Hopkins Jr. was twenty years old when in 1803 he married Betsey Crocker in what had by then become Brewster. By the time the 463 Long Pond Road house and land were deeded to him in 1809, he and his wife had two children, William and Betsey, and were expecting a third, Edward, born less than four months after the deed was executed. In 1814 Hopkins bought eight acres bordering land his grandfather Moses had once owned, and in 1816 Zoheth Hopkins of Harwich, possibly Moses’s uncle, sold him three acres between his own Brewster land and land Moses already owned.2 By 1850, four of the ten children of 1 Freeman Hopkins, Brewster, mariner, to Moses Hopkins Jr., housewright, Brewster, 17 January 1809, BCD Brewster Book 1 (999011:301). 2 Elkanah Freeman to Moses Hopkins, carpenter, 11 March 1814, BCD 999011:305; Zoheth Hopkins, Harwich, to Moses Hopkins Jr., Brewster, 17 May 1816, BCD 999011:302. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 463 LONG POND ROAD MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 D BRE.214 Moses and Betsey Hopkins were living in their parents’ household—Elisha F. and George C., both carpenters, daughter Abba (born 1815), and widowed daughter Susan Baker (born 1817) and her two children John H. and Susan D. Baker.3 Son Edward, also a carpenter, was then living just to the south at 636 Long Pond Road, and son and carpenter Moses (then Moses Jr.) and his wife and two children were enumerated two households away from his parents. In 1855 the state census listed Moses Hopkins as a carpenter, and he then shared his house with married daughter Mary (born 1813), her husband Reuben Weeks, a mariner, and their son Joseph F. Weeks. The 1858 Brewster map marks the 463 Long Pond Road house “M. Hopkins Jr.” and shows a blacksmith shop at the rear, and a house further southeast on Long Pond Road as “M. Hopkins.” In 1860 Moses Sr., then 77 years old, appears to have lived in that second house with his son Elisha and Elisha’s wife Mary. By 1863 Elisha and his wife had moved to Orleans, and though the chain of title is not entirely clear the 463 Long Pond Road house appears to have passed to Moses Jr. by 1858. Born in 1811, Moses Hopkins Jr. married Fanny Robbins in 1833. Curiously, the 1858 map attaches the name “Mrs. F. Hopkins” to a house on the south side of Long Pond Road; she may have been deeded it by her father Nathaniel Robbins, who lived just across Long Pond Road, and she may have rented that house for income. In 1860 Moses Hopkins Jr. is shown with $1050 in real property and was living with his wife, his married daughter Elizabeth and her husband Barnabas G. Baker, their 15-year-old son Henry, and Fanny Robbins Hopkins’s father, 73-year-old mariner Nathaniel Robbins. Moses Hopkins’s father Moses died in 1864 and Moses Hopkins Jr. in 1870. It appears, but cannot as yet be confirmed, that the widowed Fannie Robbins Hopkins moved to 463 Long Pond Road by 1870; the census shows her in this neighborhood with $2000 in real estate and living with her son Henry, a carriage maker, and her widowed daughter Elizabeth Baker, a tailor.4 Later that year Henry Hopkins married Keziah N. Paine of Harwich; his marriage record describes him as a carpenter, and the 1880 Brewster map, while it does not show the 463 Long Pond Road house, attaches Henry’s name to the windmill just north of the house, on one of the highest spots in the town. One 1884 Cape Cod newspaper article noted in late January 1884, “Mr. Henry Hopkins recently sawed sixty bundles of lathes in about five hours.”5 The 1880 census lists Hopkins as a wheelwright living with his wife and their four children—Chester M., Geneva M., Fannie K., and Jeannette—born between 1874 and 1879.6 By early April 1889, according to the Barnstable Patriot, Henry Hopkins built the house across Long Pond Road (possibly what is now numbered 4 Depot Road, owned in 1969 by Jennie L. Hopkins Cummings) and moved his family there.7 The 1900 census shows him in a household with his wife and their youngest children—Fannie K., a milliner; Sumner H., a farm worker; Ruth H., born in 1884, and Jennie L., born in 1891. The 463 Long Pond Road house remained in the Hopkins family, and in 1900 it was very likely occupied by the widowed Elizabeth Hopkins Baker. The 1910 map attaches the name “E. A. Baker” to the house, and the census that year shows her living alone there on her own income. Elizabeth Baker died in 1914 at the age of 79, her brother Henry Hopkins’s wife Keziah died in 1915, and Henry himself died in August 1918. The 463 Long Pond Road house passed to Henry’s five surviving children, and in 1920 four of them transferred their interests in the property to the fifth, Fannie K. Hopkins.8 The 1920 census lists her, her 35-year-old sister Ruth, and her brother Sumner, a house carpenter, in this neighborhood, but it is not clear whether they lived here or in the newer house across the street. The siblings lived together in 1930 as well. Sumner Hopkins died in 1935, but by 1940 Fannie and her sister Ruth 3 Shown in birth records as Sukey Hopkins, she married John A. Baker of Dennis in 1838; he died in December 1842, eight months after daughter Susan D. was born. 4 In 1855 Elizabeth Hopkins (1835-1914) married Brewster mariner Barnabas G. Baker, the son of Joshua G. and Margaret Baker. In December 1863 he enlisted in the 58th Massachusetts Infantry. He was promoted to corporal in April 1864, was wounded near Poplar Grove Church, Virginia, on 6 June 1864, and listed as missing on 30 September; he was in fact taken prisoner that day. In February 1865 he was admitted to hospital in Richmond and about a month later was sent to Jarvis Hospital in Baltimore, where he died on 11 April 1865. See his Civil War record on Fold3.com. 5 “South Brewster,” Barnstable Patriot, 29 January 1884, 3. The 1985 MHC building form for 463 Long Pond Road states that the site of this “post windmill” was then marked by a pole in the ground. It was moved there from the Pochet section of Orleans at some point in the 1800s and was moved back to Orleans in the early 1900s to what was then the Nichols homestead in Pochet. Hopkins used the mill to turn wood and make posts for fences and beds. 6 Fanny Robbins Hopkins is not shown in this household in 1880, and she has not been located in any census that year. She died in 1889 in Brewster at the age of 77. 7 “Brewster,” Barnstable Patriot, 2 April 1889, 3: “We are glad to see Henry Hopkins and his family in his new house.” The 1985 MHC building form describes this new house as Victorian but does not supply a street address. 8 Geneva M. Cole, Sumner H. Hopkins, Ruth H. Hopkins, Jennie L. Cummings to Fannie K Hopkins, 23 April 1920, BCD 358:418: 8. A month earlier they also transferred to her the rest of their father’s property, including the new house, in Brewster; see BCD 358:393. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 463 LONG POND ROAD MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 3 D BRE.214 were shown on Tubman Road, which, if correct, seems to indicate that they lived in the newer house. The family probably rented 463 Long Pond Road, and it retained ownership of it until 1972. In that year the heirs of Fannie Hopkins and her sister Ruth sold the property to Henry B. Andrews Jr. of Boston, who owned it until 1985.9 The owners in 2018, William C. and Carol E. Appleton, acquired the property in 1995.10 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. Barnstable County Registry Plan 391:28. 9 Frances E. Shonio, Bridgewater; Leo H. Cummings, Brewster; Marion Carlson, Harwich; Elaine J. and Lisbeth H. Hopkins, Harwich; and Hillard E. Hopkins Jr., Chatham, to Henry B. Andrews Jr., [Boston], 20 June 1972, BCD 1754:58. 10 Henry B. Andrews Jr., Long Pond Rad, to Robert M. Granville and Nancy G. Bone, Safat Kuwait, 11 June 1985, BCD 4575:45; BBX Real Estate Corporation, Burlington, to William C. and Carol E. Appleton, 4 Depot Road, 5 January 1995, BCD 9514:231. The property is shown on “Plan of Land in Brewster, Mass., Made for Henry B. Andrews Jr.,” March 1971, BCP 391:28, and as Parcel B on “Plan Showing a Subdivision of Land in Brewster, Mass., Prepared for Alfred P. Franz Jr. et al. and Robert M. Granville et ux Nancy G. Bone,” 9 April 1986, BCP 416:30. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 463 LONG POND ROAD MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 4 D BRE.214 PHOTOGRAPHS (credit Neil Larson, 2018) View of barn & connected outbuildings from south. View of house from NW. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 463 LONG POND ROAD MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 5 D BRE.214 View of barn from NW.