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Home My Public Portal AboutMainSt_3771Follow 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, 1979 (NO ACCESS FOR CURRENT PHOTOS) 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 126-15 Harwich BRE.45 Town/City: Brewster Place:(neighborhood or village): East Brewster Address:3771 Main Street Historic Name: Herbert W. & Danena Doane House Uses:Present: single-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: 1896-1905 Source:deeds, historic atlases directories Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Herbert Doane, probable builder Exterior Material: Foundation: stone Wall/Trim: wood shingles Roof:asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: garage Major Alterations (with dates): Window sash replaced Condition: Moved: no yes Date: Acreage:1.01 acre 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 3771 MAIN STREET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 BRE.45 Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This house was not accessible for photography and architectural analysis and documentation. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE: The house numbered 3771 Main Street is one of three on Main Street in East Brewster built on land owned by Samuel William Doane Jr. (1840-1924) for his adult children. Doane, the son of Samuel W. and Bathsheba Clark Doane, was living in his parents’ household in Harwich in 1850, but the family had moved to Brewster by 1855, and in 1860 Samuel W. Doane Sr. had real property valued at $150 in Brewster. Samuel W. Jr. was then a 19-year-old mariner. In 1867 he married Bessie Anna Eldredge, the daughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth Dunlap Eldredge of Harwich, whose uncles, Abner and Christopher C. Eldredge, had moved from Harwich to East Brewster. In 1871 Samuel W. Doane bought the former William Freeman homestead on the north side of Main Street,1 and he set off parcels from his homestead and other land to his children—in 1891 to daughter Bessie Anna Doane Rogers (1867-1931), husband of Oscar I. Rogers, for whom 3873 Main Street was built; in 1896 to son Herbert William (1874-1943), who built this house; and in 1918 to youngest son Eugene Franklin Doane (1885-1967), who built 3825 Main Street and sold it in 1924 to his married sister Evelyn May Doane Ellis (1882-1971). In February 1896, Samuel W. Doane deeded 13 acres of land on the north side of Main Street to his son Herbert.2 Born in Brewster in 1874, Herbert W. Doane had probably moved to Watertown, Massachusetts, by 1900 (though he has not been located in the 1900 census), and he was certainly running a store in that city by December 1901, when he married Lena Campbell, a laundress from Cape Breton Island who had come to the United States in 1896. Directories from 1903 to 1910 show Doane as a retail grocer on 46 North Beacon Street in Watertown, while the 1912 Watertown directory notes that he had “removed to East Brewster.” Local history maintains that Doane and an Eastham craftsman built the 3771 Main Street house to Doane’s own plans just before he married, and the 1905 Barnstable County map attaches Doane’s name to the house on this site as well as to one west of and on the other side of Main Street (3966 Main Street,). It seems clear that the couple used the 3771 Main Street house as a summer place before moving there permanently in 1911-12.3 Though census records often show Doane’s wife as Lena, the record of her birth, from Inverness on Cape Breton Island, gives her name as Danena Campbell. She was born in 1879, and she is listed as Lena Campbell on the list of passengers on a steamship from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, to Boston in late 1896. In 1900 she was boarding in the Watertown household of laundry salesman Wilbur C. Chase on 67 North Beacon Street, not far from Doane’s grocery store. The 1920 census lists Herbert W. Doane as a farmer in East Brewster living with his wife and a boarder, Lillian Gertrude Rowell, born in Salem in 1901. Her mother Martha Groce Rowell had died in 1908, and at some point after 1910, Lillian came to live with the Doanes. She is cited as a Doane’s foster daughter in the 1940 census. Assessors’ records for 1926 list Doane with three dwellings—one valued at $1000 (probably 3966 Main), another (probably this house) at $4000, and a dwelling at 3915 Main Street formerly owned until 1914 by Richard S. and Hannah M. Gage and valued at $1100. He also owned two barns, a garage, two hen houses, a store, a gas tank, and a “electric light house” that probably powered his homestead. The 3771 Main Street homestead was still 13 acres, and the other two together were 28 acres. Doane also owned a 2-acre asparagus field, a half-acre cranberry bog, and other parcels of woodland and meadow. His personal property included 5 cows, 2 yearlings, 200 hens, and stock in trade. Doane ran Windy Hill Farm Stand at 3996 Main Street, which offered vegetables in season, eggs, and milk “all raised on our farm.” Taunton printer H. A. Dickerman and Son (in 1 Solomon Freeman to Samuel W. Doane, 19 May 1871, BCD 104:428; Caroline Freeman to Samuel W. Doane, 19 May 1871, BCD 104:427. 2 Samuel W. Doane to Herbert W. Doane, 21 February 1896, BCD 278:288. 3 That they summered in East Brewster is attested in “East Brewster,” Hyannis Patriot, 15 June 1908, 3: “Mr. Herbert W. Doane is convalescing slowly after a long and serious illness.” INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 3771 MAIN STREET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 BRE.45 business from 1907 to 1936) published a postcard view of the East Brewster stand and the 1930 census indicates that Gertrude Rowell was the roadside stand salesperson.4 By 1940 Herbert Doane was still farming, Danena Doane was keeping a lodging house for tourists at this address, and Rowell was taking care of the house. Herbert Doane died in 1943, and Danena and Gertrude remained in the house. Danena Doane died in 1979, and Gertrude Rowell then set off the 3771 Main Street house on a 1.01-acre lot and sold the parcel in August 1987 to Wilbert and Beatrice A. Wanamaker of Upper Nyack, New York. Rowell died in November of the same year. The Wanamaker family sold the property in 2013 to Kevin J and Pamela J. Arico, the owners of record in 2018.5 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) NO ACCESS TO PROPERTY 4 Metropostcard.com includes a list of postcard publishers and their active dates. 5 Gertrude L. Rowell, 3771 Main, to Wilbur and Beatrice A. Wanamaker, Upper Nyack NY, 12 August 1987, BCD 5881:104; Edward A. Wanamaker, Brewster, and Julia A. Wanamaker, Orleans, to Kevin J. and Pamela J. Arico, 3771 Main, 16 July 2013, BCD 27557:46. The house and garage are shown on “Survey and Plan of Land in Brewster, MA, Prepared for Edward A. Wanamaker and Wilbur and Beatrice Wanamaker,” 31 July 1987, BCP 437:66.