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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): December 2018
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
75-18-0 Harwich D BRE.219
Town/City: Brewster
Place:(neighborhood or village):
South Brewster
Address:766-804 Long Pond Road
Historic Name: Moses & Betsey Hopkins House
Uses:Present: single-family residence
Original: single-family residence
Date of Construction: ca. 1803
Source:deeds, historic atlases
Style/Form: Federal / two-thirds cape
Architect/Builder: unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation: stone
Wall/Trim: wood shingles / wood
Roof:wood shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
domestic barn
agricultural barn, converted to dwelling (#804)
Swimming pool
Major Alterations (with dates):
20th-century addition on west end
window sash replaced
Condition:good
Moved: no yes Date:
Acreage:3.90
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 Moses and Betsey Hopkins House originated as a one-story, wood frame two-thirds Cape-type house constructed ca. 1803.
The house currently faces south, away from the road, but it may have fronted on Long Pond Road before the existing one-story
cross-gable wing was added later in the period. Orienting the fronts of houses to the south for solar gain is not unusual in the
town, but typically the rotation is 90 degrees away from the road; orienting the rear sides to the street is virtually unheard of.
However, the neighboring William and Betsey Hopkins two-thirds cape house next door at 724 Long Pond Road is oriented the
same way. There is the off chance that the road formerly was routed south of the houses, although the earliest map of the road
(1858) shows it in its current location north of the houses. Further physical investigation into the construction history of the house
is needed to determine the sequence of events.
A one-story wing attached to the west end of the house contains the current entrance; it is flanked by pilasters of undetermined
date. The 1985 MHC B Form provides the following description: “the narrow windows jutting out from the walls indicate the
vertical plank construction underneath. The interior floor plan is the traditional half-house style where upon entering the front
door the stairs are right there and you turn to the right and enter the parlor. The fireplace system has a bake oven off to the right
of the kitchen hearth, and a hearth in the parlor.” A third wing at the far west end apparently was, according to the B Form,
added in 1985.
West of the house is a small domestic barn of 19th-century construction. A larger barn is located east of the house; it has been
converted into a dwelling with domestic doors and windows added. The property slopes fairly steeply south from the roadside
into a depression containing a watercourse. The buildings are sited in small yards with the rest of the hillside characterized by
fallow meadow.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE:
The house at 766 Long Pond Road was one of numerous dwellings on this street that belonged originally to Edward Hopkins
(1748-ca. 1809) or his descendants. Born in Harwich, 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 one deed documents that he had died by January 1809. His descendants,
particularly the family of his son Moses (1783-1864), owned a great deal of property in this section of South Brewster, and it is
sometimes difficult to untangle deeds. Moses Hopkins was a carpenter, as were his sons William (born 1804), Edward (1809-
50), Moses Jr. (1811-70), Elisha F. (born 1824), and George Crocker (1828-1909). The house at 766-804 Long Pond Road was
very likely Moses Sr.’s house and probably built by the time he married Betsey Crocker of Brewster.
Born in Harwich, Moses Hopkins married Betsey Crocker in 1803.1 The couple had ten children—William, Betsey, Edward,
Moses Jr., Mary, Abigail, Sukey, Caroline, Elisha F., and George C.—between 1804 and 1828. The 1850 census lists part of the
family in this neighborhood: Moses was a 67-year-old farmer with $556 in real property in a household with wife Betsey, sons
Elisha and George C., daughter Abigail, widowed daughter Susan Hopkins Baker, and Baker’s children John H. and Susan D.
Baker. Elisha and George were both working as carpenters, as was son Edward, enumerated next in the census, and son
1 This Moses Hopkins was one of two adult men bearing the name who are listed in their own Brewster households in 1810, one of them
identified as Moses Jr. and very likely the son of Edward Hopkins’s brother Moses (born 1741); he was first cousin to Edward Hopkins’s son
Moses and born two years earlier. The age ranges and numbers of children do not, however, match the household of the Moses in Edward’s
line.By 1820 only one Moses Hopkins is listed in the Brewster census, and it seems likely that Edward’s brother and his family had by then left
Brewster. Little has so far been discovered about them. The earliest deed to a Moses Hopkins in Brewster is dated 1809, and no earlier deed
is found in Harwich. The Barnstable County Registry of Deeds fire in the early 1900s probably destroyed any evidence of his earlier property
acquisitions.
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Moses Jr., living with his own family to the west, on the north side of Long Pond Road (#463). Son William had by then moved to
Brooklyn, New York, and was also a carpenter.
Betsey Hopkins died in December 1854, and in 1855 Moses Hopkins was living in the household of mariner Reuben Weeks; by
1860 he had moved in with his son Elisha, whom deeds indicate Moses deeded the homestead property 1859. Elisha and his
wife had moved to Orleans by May 1863 and deeded the property back to Moses, who died in September 1864. Moses left this
parcel and two others to his youngest son George Crocker Hopkins, the first railway station attendant at the Brewster depot, and
in 1868 George mortgaged all three with Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank. The 1880 map attaches his name to the property,
but by October 1879 he had defaulted, and the bank sold 766 Long Pond Road and the two other tracts at auction to Josiah G.
Baker. Baker promptly returned them to the bank’s ownership, and in February 1880 Thomas G. Small of Harwich bought a one-
acre parcel with the house and its outbuildings; the next year he acquired an adjacent parcel of unstated acreage.2
Small lived in Harwich and probably rented out the farm until 1890, when he sold it to Mary Elizabeth Kendall, the wife of wood
turner Isaac Holmes Kendall of Winchester. The Kendalls no doubt used the house as a summer place. Mary E. Kendall died in
1901, and in 1906 her children sold the property to Grace Miles Haynes of Boston.3 Haynes was the wife of electrical engineer
John P, Haynes, whose name is attached to the house on the 1910 Brewster map. The Hayneses owned the property until
1915, when they sold it to Drayton M. Jones of Marlboro, Vermont, whom the 1920 census lists in this neighborhood.4 Born in
Racine, Wisconsin, in 1851, Drayton Morrison Jones was widowed by 1910 and living in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, with his parents,
his sister Mary, and his son Royal A. Jones, a farm laborer. The 1920 Brewster census lists Jones without occupation and living
here with his sister and son, then a farm worker.
In 1922 Jones deeded the property to his sister May, and he died in Brewster in 1925. In 1929 May Jones sold 766 Long Pond
Road to Suzanne L. R. Lutz, who owned it until August 1944.5 Lutz was the daughter of Boston architect Philip Richardson and
granddaughter of nineteenth-century architect Henry Hobson Richardson.6 Probably in 1927 in Dennis, she married Herbert Barr
Lutz, and the 1930 census lists them together in the Long Pond Road house. Born in West Virginia in 1904, Herbert B. Lutz was
the son of gospel minister Henry Frey Lutz, and he had a varied career as a portrait painter, playwright, and stage manager. The
couple lived in Boston and in Eastchester and Poughkeepsie, New York, and in 1942 they had a son, Christopher Hayden Lutz.7
In 1944 Lutz sold 766 Long Pond Road to Frances C. C. Johnson of Eastham, who sold it the next year to George E. and Clyde
B. Irving of Boston. Irving was an attorney and municipal court clerk in Boston and married his wife Clyde between 1930 and
1933. The owned the property until 1964. The owners in 2018, Paul R. and Heather Mangelinkx, acquired 766-804 Long Pond
Road in 1978.8
2 Moses Hopkins to Elisha F. Hopkins, 5 November 1859, BCD 69:560; Mary F. Hopkins, Orleans, to Moses Hopkins, 1 May 1863, BCD
75:358; George C. Hopkins to Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank, 17 February 1868, BCD 97:9 (mortgage deed); George C. Hopkins to
Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank, 4 October 1879, BCD 137:455 (foreclosure deed); Josiah G. Baker to Cape Cod Five Cents Savings
Bank, 23 December 1879, BCD 141:19; Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank, Harwich, to Thomas G. Small, Harwich, 19 February 1880, BCD
145:1; Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank, Harwich, to Thomas G. Small, Harwich, 18 April 1881, BCD 141:194.
3 Thomas G. Small, Dennis, to Mary Elizabeth Kendall, Winchester, 25 August 1890, BCD 190:360; Charles E. Kendall, Winchester; Alfred A.
Kendall, Chicago, IL; and Eliza J. Ireland, Newton, to Grace Miles Haynes, Boston, 1 December 1906, BCD 341:405.
4 J. Paul Haynes and Grace Miles Haynes, Boston, to Drayton M. Jones, Marlboro VT, 18 September 1915, BCD 340:484.
5 Drayton M. Jones to May E. Jones, 20 October 1922, BCD 420:201; May E. Jones to Suzanne L. R. Lutz, 9 November 1929, BCD 468:329.
6 It is possible that Suzanne Richardson Lutz was somehow related to Mary E. Kendall, whose maiden name was Richardson.
7 Suzanne and Herbert B. Lutz may have divorced by 1944, when she sold the Brewster property. In 1953 Lutz married the Evelyn Lilly, the
granddaughter of pharmaceutical magnate Eli Lilly, and upon her death in 1970 he inherited much of her fortune. In 1979 Lutz married again,
to Elena Yee, and the couple were part of a sensational dispute over Elena Lutz’s alleged efforts to gain control of Herbert Lutz’s estate on the
grounds that he was incompetent to control a trust valued at $3.5 million. Herbert Lutz died in April 1982. See “Eccentric Millionaire, ‘Dragon
Lady’ Disappear,” Indianapolis Star, 12 April 1981, 1; “Natural Diseases Caused Herbert Lutz’s Death,” Lexington (KY) Herald, 17 April 1982,
14; “People in the News,” AP News, 17 December 1987; and obituary for Philip Richardson, Boston Globe, 11 April 1948. 33.
8 Suzanne L. R. Lutz, Dennis, to Frances C. C. Johnson, 7 August 1944, BCD 616:392; Frances C. C. Johnson, Eastham, to George E. and
Clyde B. Irving, Boston, 2 January 1945, BCD 653:516; George E. and Clyde B. Irving, Boston, to Peter R. Latham, Norfolk VA, 9 June 1964,
BCD 1254:361; Michael W. Latham, 766 Long Pond Road, to Paul R. and Heather Mangelinkx, West Yarmouth, 7 June 1978, BCD 2732:238.
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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)
View from north showing current entrance in side wing.
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View from NW.
View of small barn from north.
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Aerial view of property showing house (#766) at top and barn adapted for residential use (#804) at
left center. Buildings sited in small yards with fallow meadows comprising the rest of the landscape.
Source: www.google.com/maps.