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HomeMy Public PortalAboutLongPondRd_90Follow 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 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 56-57-0 Harwich I BRE.332 NRHD 2/23/1996 Town/City: Brewster Place:(neighborhood or village): Brewster Center Address:90 Long Pond Road Historic Name: John & Ann Doyle House Uses:Present: single-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1868 Source:deeds, historic atlases Style/Form: indeterminate Architect/Builder: unknown Exterior Material: Foundation: stone Wall/Trim: asbestos-cement shingles Roof:asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: none Major Alterations (with dates): Asbestos-cement shingles added, mid-20th c. Shed dormer added, late 20th c. Condition:fair Moved: no yes Date: Acreage:0.41 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 90 LONG POND ROAD MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 BRE.332 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 John and Ann Doyle House, built ca. 1868, is a distinctive surviving example of an Irish immigrant family’s dwelling once associated with a 24-acre farm for subsistence and market produce. The small one-story gable block has an entrance and a single window on the front and two windows on the sides; a one-story kitchen ell and attached outbuilding telescope out from the rear. A barn and other outbuildings are no longer extant. The house now occupies a narrow lot, now mostly wooded. A driveway enters the west side of the frontage and runs along the lot line to the rear where it exits onto a more recent lane (Maury Lane) accessing house lots subdivided from the farm. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE: In November 1866, Brewster merchant Jeremiah Mayo sold an acre and 98 rods of pasture land to John Doyle for $15.1 In 1850 Doyle, born about 1830 in Ireland, emigrated in 1848 and had been a domestic servant living in Mayo’s Main Street house; his brother Lawrence came to the United States in 1851 and also lived most of his life in Brewster. By 1855 John Doyle had married and was living with his wife Ann Murphy Doyle and infant daughter Margaret in a house just southeast of Mayo’s own house. The 1865 state census lists the couple with another child, Joseph, born in 1856, but in August of the same year both children died within weeks of each other of scarlet fever and throat distemper. Doyle acquired his Long Pond Road parcel the next year, and in 1868, after Jeremiah Mayo died, his widow Mary sold 11.75 acres bordering Doyle’s lot to him for $127.50. About ten days later, when Doyle took out a mortgage for $150 from Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank, the two parcels were treated as a single 14-tract, and a dwelling house and outbuildings were extant on the lot.2 Doyle and his wife are not listed among Brewster residents in the 1870 census, but by 1880 the census clearly enumerates them in the 90 Long Pond Road house, which they shared with a domestic servant named Nelly Dean. John Doyle was a farmer, and Ann Doyle worked as a laundress. The next year, according to the Barnstable Patriot, John Doyle was “at work for the Old Colony Railroad.”3 Ann Doyle died in September 1884 at the age of 55, and in 1885 John Doyle married Louisa L. Doyle, an Irish immigrant domestic servant who had also been married before. The 1900 census lists Doyle and his second wife in this neighborhood, surely at 90 Long Pond Road, in a house they owned free and clear. John Doyle died in early July 1904 and is buried at St. Peter’s Cemetery in Sandwich. The 1910 Brewster map continues to attach the name “J. Doyle” to the 90 Long Pond Road house. In July 1915 Louisa L. Doyle died, and her will, written less than two months earlier, left her estate to the Rev. Joseph H. Eikerling, a German-born priest who service Roman Catholics in Wellfleet, Truro, Brewster, and Harwich.4 She also left Eikerling $500 in trust to offer Masses “in some Roman Catholic Church for the repose of my soul and the soul of my deceased husband John Doyle.” In June 1916 Eikerling sold the Doyle farm to Marie J. Cardinal, whose older sister Henriette had married William S. Tubman and had inherited the 45 Long Pond Road house of her mother-in-law, Mary Shields Tubman.5 The sisters were living with their brother Hormisdas Joseph Cardinal in 1920, probably at 45 Long Pond Road (BRE.212), and Cardinal probably rented the Doyle farm for income. A year later, she sold ten acres of the farm, including the Doyle house, to F. Harold and Olive F. Coggeshall; eight years later she sold about 1.4 undeveloped acres to Charles Ellery Sears, who built 76 Long Pond Road (BRE.331) on the parcel.6 1 Jeremiah Mayo to John Doyle, 21 November 1866, BCD 93:8. 2 Mary P Mayo to John Doyle, 3 September 1868, BCD 98:3; John Doyle to Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank, Harwich, 14 September 1868, BCD 97:381. Also in the late 1860s the Mayos had sold Mary S. Tubman, an Irish immigrant servant in their household in 1855, a parcel that became 45 Long Pond Road. 3 “Brewster,” Barnstable Patriot, 19 April 1881, 1. 4 By 1930 Eikerling (or Eickerling), born in Germany in 1874, was living and working as a priest in Honolulu, where he died in 1934. 5 Joseph Eickerling, Wellfleet, to Marie J. Cardinal, 7 June 1916, BCD 350:101. See also “Brewster,” Barnstable Patriot, 5 June 1916, 3: “It is reported that Miss Marie J. Cardinal has purchased the John Doyle place in South Brewster.” 6 Marie J. Cardinal to F. Harold and Olive F. Coggeshall, 24 October 1921, BCD 371:237 (90 Long Pond Road); Marie J. Cardinal to Charles Ellery and Leila Edith Sears, 27 February 1929, BCD 463:259 (76 Long Pond Road). INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 90 LONG POND ROAD MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 BRE.332 The Coggeshalls owned 90 Long Pond Road for less than five years and sold it in February 1926 to Charles L. Smith of Chatham.7 Smith, born in 1881, ran Smith’s Drug Store in Chatham, and his father Edward was a realtor there; it seems likely that he also rented 90 Long Pond Road for income. The 1930 census and later deeds suggest that he rented to Norwegian immigrant railroad engineer Oscar Pederson, who is listed in this neighborhood with his wife Ann J., their children Harold Oscar, Patricia, and Norma, and Anna Pederson’s widowed father, Charles A. Collins. Oscar Pederson died in Brewster in 1937, and by 1940 Ann Pederson was managing a hotel and living with her sons Harold and Norman and her father on State Road. In 1944 Charles Smith sold the ten-acre parcel and its 90 Long Pond Road house and outbuildings to Ann J. Pederson, and she owned the property for the next 15 years.8 In September 1959 she divided the property into a lot of 18,200 square feet on which the house was located and a second 6.6-acre parcel behind the first that featured a narrow access lane to Long Pond Road. She then sold both parcels to Nauset Real Estate Inc. of Orleans, who sold the smaller Lot A to Albert F. Ward Jr. and Doris F. Ward several months later.9 The Wards remained at 90 Long Pond Road for decades. Albert F. Ward Jr. died in March 1988, and in 1998 Doris Ward transferred title to the property to John A. Ward, the owner of record in 2018.10 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. 7 F. Harold and Olive F. Coggeshall, Chatham, to Charles L. Smith, Chatham, 6 February 1926, BCD 431:113. 8 Charles L. Smith, Chatham, to Anne J. Pederson, 7 February 1944, BCD 610:507. 9 “Plan of Land in Brewster, Mass. Made for Milton M. Gray Jr.,” September 1959, BCP 150:97 (90 Long Pond is Lot A); Ann J. Pederson to Nauset Real Estate Inc., Orleans, 10 September 1959, BCD 1053:437; Nauset Real Estate Inc., Orleans, to Albert F. Ward Jr. and Doris F. Ward, 16 December 1959, BCD 1063:304. 10 Doris F. Ward, 90 Long Pond Road, to John A. Ward, 8 October 1998, BCD 11756:151. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 90 LONG POND ROAD MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 3 BRE.332 The 90 Long Pond Road house is depicted on Parcel A of the 1959 subdivision of part of the former John and Ann Doyle farm (BCP 150:97). PHOTOGRAPHS (credit Neil Larson, 2018) View from NE. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 90 LONG POND ROAD MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 4 BRE.332 View from NE. View from SW.