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Home My Public Portal AboutMainSt_649Follow 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): May 2019 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 26-19-0 Harwich C, G BRE.503 Town/City: Brewster Place:(neighborhood or village): West Brewster Address:649 Main Street Historic Name: Albertus & Elizabeth Dugan House Uses:Present: single-family residence Original: single-family residence & repair shop Date of Construction: ca. 1914 Source:deeds, historic atlases Style/Form: Craftsman/Bungalow Architect/Builder: unknown Exterior Material: Foundation: molded concrete block Wall/Trim: wood shingles/wood Roof:asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: two unidentified cottages in rear. Major Alterations (with dates): repair shop added to rear, ca. 1929 wing added, late 20th century central dormer added, early 21st century Condition:good Moved: no yes Date: Acreage:1.30 Setting: The house is situated in a dense residential area characterized by summer cottages and retirement homes built in the 20th century. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 649 MAIN STREET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 C, G BRE.503 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 Albertus and Elizabeth Dugan House is a story-and-a-half wood frame single dwelling with a gable roof and wood shingle siding built ca. 1914. Although it has a simple gable block form at its core, the incorporation of a shed former in the front and a full front porch with shingled knee walls associate it with the Craftsman taste. The house also has a five-bay front façade with a center entrance arranged in a traditional manner. It appears the shed dormer in the roof has been elaborated by the addition of a hipped roof dormer that projects out over the porch, probably to house a bathroom. Single windows are centered in each story on the east end of the house, and a one-story, hipped-roof addition on the west end is built out to the front of the porch and joined to its roof. A large front-gable garage with two vehicle doors on its west end was added after the house was built when the owner began an automobile repair business on the property. It is attached to the house by a long one-story hyphen, used either for domestic or commercial purposes, or both. The house is centered in the front of a trapezoidal parcel and is set back from the highway behind a large lawn. A driveway enters the property at the eastern edge of the frontage and runs past the house and its garage wing to the cottages concealed in the wooded rear of the lot. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE: The house at 649 Main Street was built for Albertus Dugan on a two-acre tract his father Emanuel had transferred to him in April 1914.1 Emanuel Dugan had been born on the Azorean island of St. George in 1836 and had emigrated to Providence, Rhode Island, in 1852. By 1856 he was living in Brewster when he married Elizabeth Ellis, the daughter of Thaddeus Ellis, in Dennis. In 1860 Dugan, his wife, and their three-year-old daughter Elizabeth were living in her father’s Brewster household; he was then working as a mariner. In 1860 and 1864 he had acquired West Brewster land from Anthony Smalley and Samuel S. Hall, and he had built his home on the south side of the state highway by 1865. Elizabeth Ellis Dugan died in 1888 of heart disease, and in 1891 her widowed husband remarried, to Rebecca Kelley Chase of Dennis. Their son Albertus Emanuel was born the next year. By 1910 Albertus Dugan was a shell fisherman, and in 1911 he was working as a chauffeur when he married Elizabeth B. Rogers, the daughter of Alliston and Laura Ellis Rogers. By 1912 he was working in and perhaps managing the grocery store that his father had been operating since at least 1910.2 Emanuel Dugan died in 1916. The 1920 census lists Albertus Dugan as a farmer in this mortgaged 649 Main Street property with his wife Elizabeth and their son Ivan Albertus, born in 1916.3 By 1929 he was running a garage from his West Brewster home, and his widowed mother Rebecca was running a variety store at her home across the street. He remained a garage owner and mechanic through at least the early 1940s, and by 1940 his son Ivan was married, an ”auto garage machinist” probably working with him, and living with his grandmother Rebecca Dugan. In 1926 Albertus Dugan transferred the title to 649 Main Street to his wife, and in 1972, after her death, son Ivan sold the property to Lincoln Realty Trust.4 In 1978 Charles F. Oliver of Norwich, Vermont, acquired it, and he and his family owned and occupied it until 2015. Oliver’s wife Mary, a native of Littleton, New Hampshire, died in 2008, and Charles F. Oliver reserved a life estate for himself and his second wife Marjorie when he sold the property to David G. Oliver of Barrington, New Hampshire, in March 2015.5 1 Emanuel Dugan to Albertus Dugan, 28 April 1914, BCD 332:331. 2 “West Brewster,” Yarmouth Register, 4 May 1912, 1: “Albertus Dugan is enlarging his grocery store.” 3 For some reason Dugan and his family were living in the “upper tenement of Mr. S. M. Young’s house” in Yarmouth in June 1920; see “Yarmouth,” Yarmouth Register, 19 June 1920, 2. 4 Albertus E. Dugan to Elizabeth B. Dugan, 5 February 1926, BCD 395:418; Ivan A. Dugan to Robert M. Malloy, Andrew W. Dahl, and Kathleen L. Malloy, trustees Lincoln Realty Trust, 6 July 1972, BCD 1684:218 5 John D. O’Leary, Edison NJ, and Kevin V. O’Leary, Princeton NJ, to Charles F. Oliver, Norwich VT, 28 September 1978, BCD 2852:51; Charles F. Oliver, 649 Main Street, to David G. Oliver, Barrington NH, 3 March 2015, BCD 28717:217. See also Death Certificate, Mary L. Oliver, BCD 22724:29, and Death Certificate, Mary L. Oliver, BCD 22724:29. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 649 MAIN STREET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 C, G BRE.503 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, 2019) View from south. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 649 MAIN STREET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 3 C, G BRE.503 Detail of rear garage wing from SE. Aerial view showing two cottages in rear. From google.com/maps.