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Home My Public Portal AboutLongPondRd_67Follow 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 south, 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 56-15-0 Harwich I BRE.330 NRHD 2/23/1996 Town/City: Brewster Place:(neighborhood or village): Brewster Center Address:67 Long Pond Road Historic Name: Fred H. & Wilma E. Nash House Uses:Present: single-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1925 Source:deeds, historic atlases, vital statistics Style/Form: Craftsman / Cottage Architect/Builder: unknown Exterior Material: Foundation: rock-faced cast concrete block Wall/Trim: wood shingles / wood Roof:asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage, ca. 1960 Stone wall, concrete posts, late 20th century Major Alterations (with dates): Window sash replaced Condition:good Moved: no yes Date: Acreage:0.81 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 67 LONG POND ROAD MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 BRE.330 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 Fred H. and Wilma E. Nash House, built ca. 1925, is a one-story wood frame single dwelling designed in the Craftsman Cottage mode. The low, hipped-roof building has a narrow front façade with an entrance on a porch tucked under the roof in the southwest corner. A hipped-roof wing projects from the rear of the westerly side. The house is sited at the westerly side of the parcel set back behind a small yard; a recent stone wall runs along the street frontage with a break at the westerly end for a driveway running along the lot line to a garage, apparently built later in the 20th century, behind the house. Large yards are located on the north and east sides of the house, with the extreme eastern portion of the parcel wooded. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE: In April 1925, Elizabeth R. Hill Consodine sold her married daughter Wilma E. Nash a lot of roughly a quarter of an acre on the northeast side of Long Pond Road. The lot had been part of the 7-acre Elijah E. Knowles homestead, from which the Mary Tubman house at 45 Long Pond Road had earlier been set off; Consodine had bought the homestead in August 1922.1 Her daughter Wilma had married Boston Elevated Railroad worker Frederick H. Nash in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in March of that year, and newspaper articles suggest that the Nashes had built and were occupying their house by February 1929.2 Born in Worcester in 1904, Wilma E. Consodine was the daughter of Brewster native William Israel Consodine, one of the sons of John Consodine, and his wife Elizabeth R. Hill, a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1910 the Consodines lived in Fall River, where William Consodine worked as a wholesale beef merchant, and by 1920 the family was living in Boston. William Consodine was then a traveling grocery salesman. Born in Taunton in 1900, Frederick H. Nash was living in Boston at the time of his marriage. He and his wife Wilma are listed on Station Road in the 1929 directory and on Depot Road in 1930; both were earlier names for Long Pond Road. In 1930 Nash was working at odd jobs, and the 67 Long Pond Road household included the Nash’s children Barbara F. and William F. In 1940 Nash was a railway express agent, and the couple had one more child, Jean, born in 1931. In the same year Elizabeth Consodine sold her daughter a second parcel adjoining the Nash house lot.3 Wilma Consodine Nash died in November 1966, and her widowed husband remained at 67 Long Pond Road until 1980, when he sold the property to his children. Eight months later they sold the property to Robert A. and Jacqueline A. Booth, who owned and occupied it until 2002. The Booths sold in the latter year to Gerard J. and Therese K. Mannix of Penn Yan, New York, who placed the property in trust in 2014 and were the owners of record 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.” 1 Mary F. Freeman, Chatham NJ, to Elizabeth R. Consodine, 2 August 1922, BCD 388:428; Elizabeth R. Consodine to Wilmer E. Nash, 20 April 1925, BCD 417:466. See also “Brewster,” Barnstable Patriot, 7 August 1922, 5: “The house formerly owned by the late Elijah E. Knowles has been sold to William Consodine,” the husband of Elizabeth Consodine, and “Brewster,” Hyannis Patriot, 17 April 1930, 15: “Mr. and Mrs. William Consodine have opened their house, after spending most of the winter at Mrs. Parker’s,” a reference to Mrs. Parker’s Tourists Home across from the intersection of Long Pond Road and Main Street; see George H. Boyd III, Brewster: The Way We Were (Brewster, MA: by the author, 2016), 11. 2 “Brewster,” Hyannis Patriot, 28 February 1929, 14. 3 Elizabeth R. Consodine to Wilma E. Nash, 18 January 1940, BCD 562:222. 4 Fred H. Nash to William F. Nash, Bourne; Jean Chartrand, Orleans; and Barbara Ilkovich, Orleans, 17 April 1980, BCD 3086:80; William F. Nash, Bourne; Jean Chartrand, Orleans; and Barbara Ilkovich, Orleans, to Robert A. and Jacqueline A. Booth, 183 East Main Street, 3 December 1980, BCD 3204:145; Robert A. and Jacqueline A. Booth, 67 Long Pond Road, to Gerard J. and Therese K. Mannix, Penn Yan NY, 22 July 2002, BCD 15390:288; Gerald J. and Therese K. Mannix, 67 Long Pond Road, to Gerald J. and Therese K. Mannix, trustees Mannix Living Trust, 19 May 2014, BCD 28239:350. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 67 LONG POND ROAD MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 BRE.330 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) View from SE.