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Home My Public Portal AboutOldLongPondRd_177Follow 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 west. 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 94-14-0 Harwich BRE.292 Town/City: Brewster Place:(neighborhood or village): South Brewster Address:177 Old Long Pond Road Historic Name: Joseph C. & Mary Ann Newcomb House Uses:Present: single-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1865 Source:deeds, historic atlases Style/Form: Classical Revival/ cross wing Architect/Builder: unknown Exterior Material: Foundation: concrete block Wall/Trim: wood clapboard/wood Roof:asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: none Major Alterations (with dates): concrete block foundation added wood clapboard siding added shed dormers added window sash replaced Condition:fair Moved: no yes Date: Acreage:0.79 acre Setting: The house is situated in a dense residential area characterized by summer cottages and retirement homes built in the 19th & 20th centuries. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 177 OLD LONG POND ROAD MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 BRE.292 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 Joseph C. and Mary Ann Newcomb House, built ca. 1865, is a story-and-a-half wood frame single dwelling with a cross- gable plan. The front gable façade is framed by corner pilasters and Classical trim along the eaves and contains an entrance in a simple architrave to one side offset by two windows; two windows are evenly spaced across the upper story. A bay window is positioned at the rear of the north wall where a shed dormer later was raised. A cross-gable wing is recessed on the south side of the house, with a sun porch added to the front. Its gable end has the same trim features as the front gable; pairs of windows centered in both stories appear to be additions, as does a one-story wing on the east side built to contain a kitchen. The house is situated on a rectangular lot with a wide frontage and shallow depth bordering on Long Pond Road, which was constructed in the 1920s. The front is set back a short distance from Old Long Pond Road and is screened by dense foliage. A driveway enters the north side of the frontage and circles in the space at the north side of the house. The south side of the lot contains a large yard. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE: The 1880 Barnstable County Atlas associates this house with Joseph C. Newcomb (1825-1904), a fisherman who married Mary Ann Cahoon (1822-1894), daughter of Jonathan Cahoon and Salome Eldridge of this neighborhood in 1846. Newcomb was born in Harwich to Ebenezer Newcomb and Thankful Rogers. Joseph and Mary Ann Newcomb were enumerated in a household on Old Long Pond Road as early as 1850 but probably not in this house. In 1860 Newcombe was credited with $150 of real estate, the value of a much lesser dwelling. Sons Jesse C. (1843-1871) and Joseph H. (1847-1895) were counted in the household; daughter Mary was born in 1862. Ten years later, Newcomb’s real estate was assessed at $800, indicating that a new house had been built in the interim. His son Joseph, recorded as Josephat, was working as a fisherman and Mary, age eight, was at school. She had married fisherman Miller B. Bassett by 1880 and the newlyweds were living in her parents’ household. Her husband apparently lost at sea, Mary Newcomb Bassett married Jacob Andrew Eldridge (b. 1865) in 1891. He was the son of Jacob and Mary Eldridge and younger brother of Elisha F. (b.1849) and George H. (b.1853) and lived across the street. All of them were fishermen. By the time the 1900 census was taken J. Andrew Eldridge, his wife Mary Newcomb Bassett and their son Curtis were living at 177 Old Long Pond Road. The 1910 map attaches his name to the address and the 1910 census enumerates them in the midst of the Eldridge family. J. Andrew Eldridge and his wife lived alone at 177 Old Long Pond Road until 1923, when he sold the property to Delia Nimmo of New York City. Nimmo had owned and apparently occupied seasonally 1795 Long Pond Road (BRE.223) since 1904, and she probably permitted the Eldridges to remain in the 177 Old Long Pond Road house; censuses for 1930 and 1940 suggest as much. After 1940 the old couple left the property, and in 1942 Nimmo, then living in Boston, sold it to Wilbert H. and Hazel D. Jerauld.1 Born in Boston in 1914, Wilbert H. Jerauld was the son of Leroy Wilbert Jerauld, a laborer and Harwich native who had been killed five months earlier in a railroad accident, and Flora Wolcott, from Lynn. In 1940 Wilbert Jerauld was employed on a Works Progress Administration sewer project and lived in Somerville with his wife, Hazel D. Graham, and two-year-old son Wilbert. They owned 177 Old Long Pond Road for only four years, appear to have reacquired it in 1954, and then owned it for nearly 60 more years. In 1950 the tract was divided by the alteration of Long Pond Road.2 Wilbert Jerauld died in July 1962, and his widow 1 J. Andrew Eldridge to Delia Nimmo, New York NY, 23 May 1923, BCD 440:341; Delia Nimmo, Boston, to Wilbert H. and Hazel D. Jerauld, Somerville, 29 August 1942, BCD 595:235. Jacob Andrew Eldridge died in 1948 and his wife Mary/Maria in 1950. 2 A parcel 60 feet wide was taken for rerouting the road; see parcel 70 on “Section 2 Brewster 1950 Alteration,” sheets 9 and 10, cited in BCD 5672:100. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BREWSTER 177 OLD LONG POND ROAD MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 BRE.292 deeded the property to Martin D. Jerauld, probably a son. Martin Jerauld’s children Kenneth, Diane, and Debra sold 177 Old Long Pond Road to John W. Martens and Judith A. Lagergren in October 2013, who were the owners of record in 2018.3 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 south. 3 Wilbert H. and Hazel D. Jerauld, Somerville, to Charles R. and Helen T. Stires, Bloomfield NJ, 13 September 1946, BCD 656:492; Charles R. and Helen T. Stires, Glen Ridge (Essex Co MA), to Louis E. and Jane P. Degagne, Orleans, 27 March 1950, BCD 745:403; Louis E. and Jane P. Degagne, Bourne, to Wilbert and Hazel D. Jerauld, Brighton, 15 January 1954, BCD 864:118; Hazel D. Jerauld, Arlington, to Martin D. Jerauld, 177 Old Long Pond Road, 28 July 1990, BCD 7251:178; Kenneth Jerauld, Brewster; Diane Pellegrino, Burlington; and Debra Curran, Woburn, to John W. Martens and Judith A. Lagergren, 177 Old Long Pond Road, 9 October 2013, BCD 27751:68; John W. Martens and Judith A. Lagergren to John W. Martens and Judith A. Langergren, 177 Old Long Pond Road, May 2017, BCD 30479:72. See also “Survey Plan of Land, Brewster, Mass., Prepared for Hazel D. Jerauld,” 25 September 1989, BCP 464:96.