Area H Middle Village

FORMA -AREA Assessor's Sheets USGS Quad Area Letter Form Numbers in Area
Massachusetts Historical Commission

80 Boylston Street
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"3oston, Massachusetts 02116
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Town Marlborough
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Place (neighborhood or village)
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city center
Name of Area Middle Village*
Present Use residential; industrial;
Construction Dates or Period mid-19th- to

early 20th C.
Overall Condition fajr to good
14: 1-24 Major Intrusions and Alterations some yisjble

15: 41-22
alteration: a few modern houses. schools. and
commercial buildings.
Sketch Map Acreage ca. 35 acres
Draw a map of the area indicating properties within
it. Number each property for which individual Recorded by Anne Forbes, consultant
inventory forms have been completed. Label streets
including route numbers, if any. Attach a separate Organization Marlborough Historical Corom.
sheet if space if not sufficient here. Indicate North.
Date (monthlday/year) 8/25/94
*Includes entire street, unless otherwise noted:

Bolton Street: 70-92, inclusive
Cashman Street
Central Street
Devens Street
Grant Court
Huntington Avenue, 11-30 inclusive
Lincoln Street: 135-316, inclusive
McEnelly Street
Prospect Street: 23-68 inclusive
SEE ATTACHED SHEET Rawlins Avenue
Rice Street
Short Street: 7-19, inclusive
Washington Court
Washington Street
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form
AREA FORM
ARCHITECfURAL DESCRIPTION [X] see continuation sheet

Describe architectural, structural and landscape features and evaluate in terms of ocher areas within the
community.
The early development between 1855 and 1870 of the wide ca. 35-acre area north of Main Street
between Bolton and Mechanic Streets succeeded in finally linking the old East and West Villages
into one large, mainly residential town-center area. Nearly half the area's 200 historic resources
date to those fifteen years, with most of the rest filling in empty spaces between the earlier houses
from 1875 to 1905. The result for the neighborhood is one of the highest concentrations in
Marlborough of houses in the vernacular Italianate style. The early phase of the Italianate, which (
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was developing here by the late 1850's, tended to take precedence over both the late Greek Revival
and the Second Empire in middle-income neighborhoods such as this, and its sheer numbers here,
especially on the streets of the Rice Farm subdivision, give the area a cohesiveness that is lacking
in other parts of the center.
One altered, formerly high-style early It alianate building, the CA. Warren House at 58 Washington
Street (MHC #488), has the shallow-pitched roof of the Tuscan Italianate, and probably dates to
the late 1850's. A completely different house-type of about the same date, the little 2-story gable-
ended Mulligan House at 92 Washington (MHC #482), has paneled corner pilasters and several
round-headed windows; those in a polygonal facade bay are nearly Palladian in proportions. (Cont.)
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HISTORICAL NARRATIVE [X] see continuation sheet )

Explain historical development of the area. Discuss how this area relates to the historical development
of the community.
The early development of the center of Marlborough from the seventeenth through early nineteenth
centuries is marked by the presence of two separate villages, located less than a half-mile apart. The
earliest village, the westernmost, grew up along today's West Main and Mechanic Streets, adjacent
to the original meetinghouse, which stood just southwest of Area H on the old Town Common
(MHC #906). By the 1820's it had expanded to the northwest, near the West Meetinghouse, and
by 1870 had grown into the large, 50-acre area known as the "West Village", (See Area Form C.)
The cluster of buildings that came to be known as the "East Village" was centered at the foot of
Spring Hill, and spread north from the intersection of Main and Bolton Streets after the new town
meetinghouse was located on the hill in 1806. (See Form 194). Each village had its own
schoolhouse in a triangle at Main Street. (The location for the one in the east village was moved
by 1830 to a position further up Bolton Street, on the west side, near the present Washington
[Freeman] School). In spite of the continued growth of each village, and even the construction
of an 1840 Town Hall (demolished) midway between them on Main Street, however, there was
virtually no building construction north of Main Street in the area between the East and West
Villages before the late 1850's. (Cont.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [ ] see continuation sheet

Bigelow. HistOlic Reminiscences of Marlborough. 1910.
Hudson. History of the Town of Marlborough, 1862.
Hurd. History of Middlesex County. 1890.
Maps, birdseye views, and atlases: 1857, 1871, 1875, 1878, 1889, Sanboms.
Marlborough directories and tax valuations.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Catalog. N.D.
\Vadsworth. Plan of Lots in Marlborough Being the North Part of the Farm of Henry Rice. 1855.
[X] Recommended as a Nat.ional Register District". If checked, you must attach a completed
National Register Criteria Statement form. *Pa11of area only-see Criteria Statement.
INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community Property
Marlborough Middle Village

80 Boylston Street Area(s) Form Nos.
Boston, Massachusetts 02116 H 86, 98, 109, 119; 183-191,
461-503; Q, R
AREA DATA SHEET
NOTE: Although the inventory includes the entire area outlined on the Area Sketch Map, only
resources which have individual forms, or are mentioned in text of the Area Form, have been given
inventory numbers and are listed on the Area Data Sheet. As a rule, these represent the most
historically or architecturally significant resources in the area. There are many more historic
properties located within the area, however. (See Area Sketch Map for their locations.) Starred
properties (*) have individual or smaller area or streetscape inventory forms).
MHC# Parcel # Street Address Historic Name Date Style/type
473 57-95 70 Bolton Street ca. 1880 Italianate
*185 69-367 Central Street Sts. Anargyroi Church 1925 Eastern Rev.
467 69-365 23 Central Street Knowlton House ca. 1870 Italianate
466 69-363 33 Central Street Martin House ca. 1870 Italianate
465 69-362 37 Central Street ca. 1905 Bungalow
464 69-361 39 Central Street ca. 1905 Bungalow
463 69-376 44 Central Street Albee rental house late-19th C. double-house
462 69-369 49 Central Street 1880's Queen Anne
461 69-356 53 Central Street ca. 1920 utilitarian
493 70-20 12 Devens Street ca. 1885 Queen Anne
494 70-46 15 Devens Street ca. 1880's Italianate
495 70-44 19 Devens Street 1890's Queen Anne
496 70-23 20 Devens Street W.S. Frost House ca. 1880 Italian ate
497 70-43 34/36 Devens St. Boyd & O'Neil rental hse. ca. 1890 double-house
498 70-52 41 Devens Street Kellehan House ca. 1868 Italianate
499 70-42 42 Devens Street ca. 1910 Four-Square
500 70-41 46 Devens Street ca. 1870 Italianate


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MHC# Parcel # Street Address Historic Name Date Stvle/type
502 70-39 54/56 Devens St. ca. 1890 double-house
480 69-512 25 Huntington Ave. ca. 1910 Four-Square
472 57-69 139 Lincoln Street late 19th C. side-gable
471 56-363 197 Lincoln Street 1890's Queen Anne
470 56-365 201 Lincoln Street 1890's Queen Anne
469 56-369 220 Lincoln Street ca. 1880 Italianate
*119 69-343 293 Lincoln Street Wood-Willard Bldg. ca. 1890's Utilitarian
*187 69-343 293 Lincoln Street Hall, Sandiford & Watson ca. 1870 Utilitarian
Machine Shop
*186 69-342 301 Lincoln Street E.C. Whitney House ca. 1863 2nd Empire
*188 69-340 307 Lincoln Street Fitchburg RR Freight Hse. ca. 1895 Utilitarian
*109 70-76 20 McEnelly Street George Brigham House 1860's 2nd Empire
485 70-63 29 McEnelly Street ca. 1890 Queen Anne
*98 69-483 Prospect Street Immac. Conception Church 1868-71 Gothic Rev.
*183 69-492 23 Prospect Street J as. Me Donald Hse. ca. 1896 Queen Anne
*184 69-494 27 Prospect Street Jas. Campbell Hse ca. 1870's Queen Anne
468 69-527 66 Prospect Street J. Gleason House 1860's 2nd Empire
474 57-93 17 Rice Street Hurley House ca. 1870's side-gabled
475 57-92 23 Rice Street Hurley House ca. 1880 Italianate
476 70-3 66 Rice Street late 19th C. side-gabled
*477 70-2 72 Rice Street late 19th C. side-gabled


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MHC# Parcel # Street Address Historic Name Date Style/type
478 57-84 73 Rice Street late 19th C. side-gabled
*479 70-1 76 Rice Street late 19th C. side-gabled
*191 69-467 11 Washington Ct. Immac. Conception Convent ca. 1910 Col. Revival
*190 69-475 17 Washington Ct. Immac. Conception Rectory 1890's Queen Anne
*189 69-476 25 Washington Ct. Immac. Conception School 1910 Col. Revival
*86 70-18 15 Washington St. Washington St. (Freeman) 1916 Col. Revival
School
492 70-16 33 Washington St. D. Brady House ca. 1870 side-gabled
*491 70-16 43 Washington St. ca. 1880's Italianate
*490 70-14 45 Washington St. Cavanaugh House ca. 1870 Italianate
489 70-13 51 Washington St. ca. 1870 Italianate
488 70-12 58 Washington St. C.A. Warren House ca. 1857 Italianate
487 70-9 65 Washington St. J. Allen House ca. 1870 Italianate
486 70-8 69 Washington St. S. Smith House ca. 1860's Italianate
484 70-67 70 Washington St. G. Flynn House ca. 1870 Italianate
483 69-473 84 Washington St. G. Flynn House ca. 1870 Italianate
482 69-474 92 Washington St. Mulligan House ca. 1857 Italianate
481 69-489 110 Washington St. ca. 1870 side-gabled


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ARCHITECfURAL DESCRIPTION, cont.
There are a few examples here of three-bay 2- or 1 1I2-story, side-gabled houses. Most are altered,
but those at 33 and 110 Washington Street, 17, 66, and 73 Rice Street, and at 139 Lincoln Street
still contribute to the character of the area. (MHC #s 492, 481, 474, 476, 478, and 472). A pair
of twin-ridge-chimney houses at 72 and 76 Rice Street (Streetscape Form Q: MHC #s 477 and 478)
are well-preserved examples of a type of large three-bay, side-gabled house with polygonal facade
bays and a wide gabled wall dormer on the facade that was becoming popular, especially in double-
houses, by 1880. The facade porch at #72, on bracketed, turned posts, with a turned balustrade,
is typical of the transition in the 1880's to the Queen Anne Style.
Vernacular Queen Anne houses of the 1880's and '90's are abundant in the Middle Village. Most
are of the 2 1I2-story, side-hall-entry gable-end form, and, like #29 McEnelly Street (MHC #485)
or 19 Devens Street (MHC #495) display their Queen Anne details in such features as solid, incised
verge-boarding, spandrel-bracketed overhanging bays, or, as at 49 Central Street (MHC #462), in
a clipped, or "jerkin-head" gable. Others incorporate more high-style Queen Anne features. In the
later, 1880-'90's section of Lincoln Street, for instance, is a house with a tall, conical-roofed comer
turret at #197, and another next door with a comer porch turret at #201 (MHC #s 471 and 470).
A two-story, gable-end cottage at 12 Devens Street (MHC #492), with an elaborate Queen Anne
"stick-work" porch gable and a pierced keyhole design in the frieze screen, is of the same design as
several others scattered throughout Marlborough center, including four built in the 1880's in the
West Village at 18-30 Franklin Street. Two very well-preserved Queen Anne houses stand on lower
Prospect Street, the James Campbell House at #23 and the James McDonald House at #27 (see
Forms 183 and 184); the Campbell House is a rare example in Marlborough of Eastl akian and Stick
Style elements, as well. The Immaculate Conception Rectory at 17 Washington Court is also a high-
style Queen Anne house. Built in the mid-1890's, with 9-over-2-sash windows, vertical-board wall
decoration and patterned shingle, it once had large Moorish arches in its veranda (see Form 190).
Very few early modern houses were built in this area after the tum of the twentieth century. Most
of those that were are considerably altered. The three-story Immaculate Conception Convent at 11
Washington Court (Form 191) is an unusual Colonial Revival building, largely devoid of detail
except for its open-pedimented entry canopy on a pair of Tuscan columns. Two altered bungalows
appear at #s 37 and 39 Central Street (MHC #s 465 and 464); the former has an end-gabled
facade, the latter is side-gabled. There are a few small American Four-Squares, including 42 Devens
Street (MHC #499), and a mid-1920's Dutch Colonial Revival house at 25 Huntington Avenue
(MHC #480).
Of the non-residential resources in the Middle Village, the brick gothic Immaculate Conception
Church of 1868-1871, designed by James Murphy, (updated in this century) is probably the oldest.
(Form 98). The ]ate-19th-century industrial complex at 293-307 Lincoln Street (see Form 119),
which includes the 1890's utilitarian Wood-Willard Building and the Fitchburg Railroad freight
house, the only survivng railroad-related building in Marlborough, is altered, but still contributes
significantly to the character of Lincoln Street. Four buildings of the 1910's and '20's also have now
become important historic and architectural resources in their own right: the two brick Colonial
Revival schools along Washington Street, the 1910 Immaculate Conception School (Form 189) and
the 1916 Washington Street (Freeman) School (Form 86), the little 1925 wood-frame, eastern revival
Sts. Anargyroi Church (Form 185), and a textured-concrete-block auto repair garage (MHC #461)
at the east end of Central Street.

Boston, Massachusetts 02116 If 86,98,109,119; 183-191,
461-503; Q, R
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cont.

This anomaly can be attributed almost entirely to the presence between Bolton and Prospect Streets
of a large "gentleman's farm" that was in existence through the middle of the nineteenth century.
It belonged to Major Henry Rice (1786-1867), a leading New England merchant, whose primary
residence was on Bulfinch Place in Boston. He had gained the rank of Major in the War of 1812,
had his portrait painted in 1815 by Gilbert Stuart, served on the Boston City Council and in the
Massachusetts legislature, and in general lived the life of the landed gentry, spending the winters
in Boston and often summering here on his country estate. In 1846 he retired from business, but
spent much of his time in a second career as a stock and real-estate broker.
Henry Rice was the son of Noah Rice and his second wife, the former Hannah Palfrey Cole of
Boston. It was Noah Rice (b. 1751), who apparently amassed the large farm here, and when he
died he left it to his children. Henry's sister, Sarah, and her husband, Heman Seaver, resided here
for many years, and are shown as the farm's owners on the maps of 1830 and 1835. After Heman
Seaver's death, Maj. Rice became the owner. At first, he came frequently from Boston to
Marlborough to oversee the operation of the farm, which in the middle of the nineteenth century
descended in graceful terraces down toward the family homestead, a huge old three-part house on
a curving drive overlooking Main Street.
In 1855, however, the Marlborough Branch Railroad had reached the town center, with its terminus
just east of Prospect Street, the shoe industry was expanding rapidly to the east, south, and west of
the farm, and Major Rice, anticipating the need for housing at Marlborough center, laid out 82
house-lots on the north part of his property. Washington Street was the first street to be cut
through. Rice Street, Lincoln Street (this eastern section first named Palfrey Street, apparently after
Maj. Rice's mother) from Bolton to today's Short Street, (which was part of Palfrey) and the first
block of Huntington Avenue followed soon afterward. Many of the lots were acquired by shoe-
manufacturer Samuel Boyd well before Major Rice died. In 1868, however, the rest of the Rice
real-estate holdings were sold off. According to Bigelow, Samuel Boyd acquired the Rice
homestead itself at about that time. He and his partners used the building for some years as a
company boarding house. By 1879 it had become a hotel, run by Mrs. P. West, and was eventually
tom down.
Samuel Boyd, possibly in conjunction with his main business partner, Thomas Corey, apparently next
developed Devens Street, laying out a small subdivision of ten lots on the north side, with an
eleventh piece south of the Congregational Parsonage on Bolton Street. By 1871, 73 houses stood
on the streets of the former Rice farm, the adjacent Grant Court, McEnelly Street (first called Hill
Street), and Washington Court, which was first called Court Street.
By 1870, in fact, the old East and West Villages had truly become linked by development into one
continuous town center. The western section of Area H, between the Rice Farm and Mechanic
Street, had also been devoid of buildings through the middle of the nineteenth century, but by 1870
had acquired over two dozen houses and industrial buildings. By 1871 Central Street had been laid
out from Mechanic to Prospect Street north of the Old Common Cemetery, and five houses had
been built there. Lincoln Street had been extended east from Mechanic to the railroad by the early
1860's, with a narrow extension to Prospect. Stylish houses, including the large home property of
National Bank cashier E.C. Whitney (MHC #186), stood on the north side of the street, and by
1871 six smaller houses lined the south side of the block. On the north side of Lincoln along the
railroad were a lumber yard and planing mill, C.L. Fay's coal company, a machine shop, and Levi
Taylor's carriage- and blacksmith shop. (Cont.)

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HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cont.

Cashman Street was also in existence by 1871, and it was here that builder George Cate lived and
operated a lumber yard. On the site of the present #27 Prospect Street, he and his partner, H.F.
Walker, had a house and carpentry shop. Cate & Walker, in fact, who built and sold houses "on
easy terms" for lithe man of small means", put up many of the homes in the area. For a while the
old 1927 Academy even stood on the rear of their property at 27 Prospect, having been moved to
make way for the new High School on the common in 1860. (See Form 184).
In 1862, the Catholic church purchased land opposite the common at the foot of Prospect Street for
the Immaculate Conception Church. (Form 98.) Completed in 1871, its location, just north of Main
Street at the southwest corner of the former Rice Farm, was a fitting one. The church, the first
Catholic church in Marlborough, had been founded on Mt. Pleasant Hill in the 1850's by a group
of Irish immigrants, and it and its parish quickly became strongly identified with Marlborough's large
Irish-American population. Nearly all the owners of the new houses on the lots of the Rice Farm
subdivision, as well as many on the blocks west of Prospect Street, were also Irish-born, and the
"Middle Village", together with the early streets of Spring Hill just to the east (Area Form I),
remained for generations the most solidly Irish-American neighborhood in Marlborough.
The identification of the neighborhood with the Immaculate Conception Church was strengthened
over the years by the church's purchase and development of considerable property at the lower end
of Washington Street. At the time the church was built, with the exception of the Mulligan House
at 92 Washington Street, the entire block between Washington and Grant Courts was occupied by
the first rectory and its grounds. In the 1890's a second rectory, at 17 Washington Court, replaced
the first, and in 1910 the Immaculate Conception School was built on the north part of the block,
with a teachers' Convent south of the rectory, at 11 Washington Court. (See Forms 190, 189, and
191.) Finally, in the 1950's, after the railroad tracks and associated buildings had been removed, the
church acquired the original Fitchburg Depot property, and built a second large school there on the
north side of Washington Street.
The residential development of the "Middle Village" was essentially complete by 1890, with only a
few more houses added on vacant lots through the turn of the twentieth century. The industrial
climate changed, however, with the building of a new major factory building, the Wood-Willard
Building, at 293 Lincoln Street in the early 1890's. At about the same time, the Fitchburg Railroad
built a railroad spur leading southwest from the old Marlborough Branch tracks to a new depot at
the corner of Lincoln and Mechanic Streets, (demolished). In the process, they removed all the
nearby houses on the north side of Lincoln except for the Whitney House, and built the building at
#305-307 Lincoln for a freight house (See Form 119).
In 1916, the city of Marlborough replaced the third district school in the area, the 1865 wood-frame
Washington Street School, with the new Washington Street School, on part of the old school
property at the east end of Washington Street. Another institutional change occurred in 1925, when
the recently formed Greek Orthodox Community of Sts. Anargyroi built its church at the
intersection of Central and Cashman Streets.
The buildings discussed above and listed on the Area Data Sheet represent some of the most
historically or architecturally significant resources in the area. There are many more significant
properties in the area, however. See Area Sketch Map for their locations.
FORM B - BUILDING In Area no. Form no.
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Renaissance Revival
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in relation to nearest cross streets and
other buildings. Indicate north. Exterior wall fabric Clapboard
Outbuildings (describe)
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Other features Mansard roof with
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Subsequent uses (ifany) and dates fame
8. Themes (check as many as applicable)
Aboriginal Conservation Recreation

Agricultural Education Religion
Architectural x Exploration/ Science/
The Arts settlement invention
Commerce Industry Social!
Communication Military humanitarian
Community development x Political Transportation
9. Historicalsignificance(includeexplanation of themes checked above)
This buildin~ stands atop a rocky ledpe overlookinp ~ain Street

and is located behind and above the Bripham and Eager Building
on OCain Street. Both buildinfs are in the French Renaissance
Revival style. It was constructed approximately 1889 under
the direction of Brigham & Eager, local jewelers.
There is little other information concerning this building

as many records of the city were destroyed by various fires
around the turn of the century.
10. Brbl iogr-aphyand/or references (such as localhistories,deeds, assessor's records,

early maps, etc.)
Interview: Louis Masciarelli - current owner of 20 McEnelly Street

and 173 Main Stre~t
Marlborough Directory: 1889, 1905 - Listing of this property
as belonging to Loriman S. Brigham and
Henry W. Eaeer, Jewelers.

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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION, cont.

Most of the Italianate houses in the area, however, are vernacular buildings of the 2 1I2-story, side-
hall-entry, gable-end type. There are several with long side wings in the "upright-and-wing" form;
many on the narrower lots have shorter side bays or rear wings instead. Some are smaller 2-story
or 1 1I2-story cottages, and a few examples of T-plan and L-pJan houses with the main entry in a
side wall or wing lend variety to the streetscapes. The north side of Washington Street, especially,
has many upright-and-wings; particularly well-preserved examples are #s 43, 45, 51, and 65 (MHC
#s 491,490,489 and 487.) #70 Bolton Street is an extremely well-preserved house with both a short
side wing and a two-story rear wing, and 69 Washington is a good illustration of the T-plan type.
(MHC #s 473 and 486). The L-plan house is also found on Washington Street; a tall example at
#84 (MHC #483) and a little 2-story cottage version at #70 (MHC #484) both belonged in 1870
to the Flynn family. One of the most intact L-plan Italianate houses is 41 Devens Street (MHC
#498), which retains nearly all its original detail, including a bracketed, overhanging cornice, heavy,
bracketed window hoods, diamond windows in the gables, a round-headed, two-light, glass-and-panel
door under a bracketed corner porch, and even a rope-like molding at the comers that survives at
only a few 1860's houses in Marlborough. Although many houses on Devens Street and its
adjoining McEnelly Street, as elsewhere in the area, have been altered, it is a good place to see
considerable remaining Italianate detail. Cornice brackets, for instance, are also present at #20
Devens (MHC #496), heavy, bracketed door hoods at 46, 52, and 60 Devens (MHC #s 500, 501,
and 503) and at several houses on McEnelly, entry canopies on square, chamfered posts at 15 (MHC
#496) and 20 Devens, and a round-headed gable window at 15 Devens. Two houses on Central
Street, in the west part of the district, #s 23 and 33 (MHC #s 467 and 466), also display round-
headed gable windows, as does #23 Rice Street (MHC #475).
Other late-nineteenth-century house-types and styles are represented in smaller numbers in this
area. There are only three Second Empire buildings, all considerably altered. Two are mansard
cottages, the George Brigham House at 20 McEnelly Street (see Form 109) and the E.C. Whitney
House at 301 Lincoln (MHC #186), and one, the J. Gleason House at 66 Prospect Street (MHC
#468), is a three-story house with a concave-flared, scalloped slate roof. In contrast to other nearby
neighborhoods, only a few large 2 112-story,five-bay. side-gabled houses were built here. The best-
preserved early example is the ca. 1880 house at 220 Lincoln Street (MHC #469), which has a pair
of ridge chimneys and a gabled, second-story facade pavilion which projects over what appears to
be its original facade porch, on square, chamfered and bracketed posts. Another is one of several
properties belonging to Mrs. Margaret Albee, 44 Central Street (MHC #463). This one is a double-
house, with paired glass-and-panel entries and a later facade-width porch on bracketed, lathe-turned
posts. This neighborhood also has some of the best illustrations at Marlborough center of the long
2 112-story, side-gabled. multi-unit house. Although today most of these are two-family buildings,
they may have functioned as boarding houses or triple-houses when built. Two eight-bay examples
are located on Devens Street, one built ca. 1890 at 54/56 Devens (MHC #502), and the other,
owned in the 1880's by J.Boyd & O'Neil (probably one of the boarding-houses for one of the Boyd
shoe factories), at 34/36 Devens (MHC #497). (Cont.)
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FORMA -AREA Assessor's Sheets USGS Quad Area Letter Form Numbers in Area

Massachusetts Historical Commission

Name of Area Middle Village*

Present Use residential; industrial;

Construction Dates or Period mid-19th- to

14: 1-24 Major Intrusions and Alterations some yisjble

*Includes entire street, unless otherwise noted:

ARCHITECfURAL DESCRIPTION [X] see continuation sheet

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE [X] see continuation sheet )

BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [ ] see continuation sheet

Marlborough Middle Village

Massachusetts Historical Commission

AREA DATA SHEET

MHC# Parcel # Street Address Historic Name Date Style/type

473 57-95 70 Bolton Street ca. 1880 Italianate

467 69-365 23 Central Street Knowlton House ca. 1870 Italianate

466 69-363 33 Central Street Martin House ca. 1870 Italianate

465 69-362 37 Central Street ca. 1905 Bungalow

464 69-361 39 Central Street ca. 1905 Bungalow

463 69-376 44 Central Street Albee rental house late-19th C. double-house

462 69-369 49 Central Street 1880's Queen Anne

461 69-356 53 Central Street ca. 1920 utilitarian

493 70-20 12 Devens Street ca. 1885 Queen Anne

494 70-46 15 Devens Street ca. 1880's Italianate

495 70-44 19 Devens Street 1890's Queen Anne

498 70-52 41 Devens Street Kellehan House ca. 1868 Italianate

499 70-42 42 Devens Street ca. 1910 Four-Square

500 70-41 46 Devens Street ca. 1870 Italianate

501 70-40 52 Devens Street ca. 1870 Italianate

Marlborough Middle Village

Massachusetts Historical Commission

AREA DATA SHEET, cont,

MHC# Parcel # Street Address Historic Name Date Stvle/type

502 70-39 54/56 Devens St. ca. 1890 double-house

503 70-38 60 Devens Street ca. 1870 Italianate

480 69-512 25 Huntington Ave. ca. 1910 Four-Square

472 57-69 139 Lincoln Street late 19th C. side-gable

471 56-363 197 Lincoln Street 1890's Queen Anne

470 56-365 201 Lincoln Street 1890's Queen Anne

469 56-369 220 Lincoln Street ca. 1880 Italianate

485 70-63 29 McEnelly Street ca. 1890 Queen Anne

468 69-527 66 Prospect Street J. Gleason House 1860's 2nd Empire

474 57-93 17 Rice Street Hurley House ca. 1870's side-gabled

475 57-92 23 Rice Street Hurley House ca. 1880 Italianate

476 70-3 66 Rice Street late 19th C. side-gabled

*477 70-2 72 Rice Street late 19th C. side-gabled

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AREA DATA SHEET, cont.

MHC# Parcel # Street Address Historic Name Date Style/type

478 57-84 73 Rice Street late 19th C. side-gabled

*479 70-1 76 Rice Street late 19th C. side-gabled

492 70-16 33 Washington St. D. Brady House ca. 1870 side-gabled

*491 70-16 43 Washington St. ca. 1880's Italianate

*490 70-14 45 Washington St. Cavanaugh House ca. 1870 Italianate

489 70-13 51 Washington St. ca. 1870 Italianate

487 70-9 65 Washington St. J. Allen House ca. 1870 Italianate

486 70-8 69 Washington St. S. Smith House ca. 1860's Italianate

484 70-67 70 Washington St. G. Flynn House ca. 1870 Italianate

483 69-473 84 Washington St. G. Flynn House ca. 1870 Italianate

482 69-474 92 Washington St. Mulligan House ca. 1857 Italianate

481 69-489 110 Washington St. ca. 1870 side-gabled

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