FORM B - BUILDING In Area no. Form no.

l\1ASSACHUSETTS HISTORICALCOIvlMISSION
Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston

1. Town !':arl borough

Address 173 Ho';ve ;::itreet

Name Hezekiah Haynard Homestead

Present use Residence

2.

Present owner Ms. Shirley McCarthy

3. Description: 2t Story Center Hall

Date 1739

Source Pub. Local Histories

Style Coionial

4. Map. Draw sketch of building location Architect None

in relation to nearest cross streets and ---------------
other buildings. Indicate north. Exterior wall fabric \-lood Shingle

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Lot size:
o no s 0 One acre or less Over one acre
§ Approximate frontage 75 Feet
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1'\ Approximate distance of building from street

S 20 Feet
r 6. Recorded by Ernest Ginnetti

Organization Marlborough Historical

RECE\VEO Commission
Date 6/30/78
JUl 6 1978
(over)

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MASS. H\ST. CoMM.
 7. Original owner (if known)~lczekiah
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Original use 2arm
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Subsequent uses (if any) and dates Residence-Tenement
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8. Themes (check as many as applicable)

Aboriginal Conservation Recreation

Agricultural Education -- Religion
Architectural JC Exploration/ -- Science/
The Arts settlement X invention
Commerce -- Industry Social!
Communication
-- Military humanitarian
Community development )( Political Transportation
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9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above)
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The Haynards were among the first settlers of Har1borough and:
some of the name remain to this day. \
John Maryard., one of the petitioners for the. grant of Har1borough
was in Sudbury in 1638, and was one of the. 47 who shared. in the di-
vision of Sudbury Mead.oW'sin 1639, and viaS made Selectman there.
He moved. to Har1borough soon after the Grant (1660), and died here
December 22, 1711.
I believe this house is the oldest house belonging to the Maynard
family left in the city, the ell suggests a house plan of the 17th
centuDT and if it was not built by John Maynard, it almost certainly
was built by one of his sons. The date. of 1739 is a conservative one
at best, it is to early for the large center hall section of the
house, and to late for the ell section. Because there was a Hezekiah
Maynard. living there on the map of 1803, and. because his father-\vas
aLso named He~ekiah, grand.son of John, I took the date of 1739 wh i.ch
is the year that Hezekiah Maynard. grandson of John Haynard married.
Tabitha Howe, daughter of John and Elizabeth Howe, on June 11th of
that same year, he was born June 17, 1708 and died Oct. 28, 1781.
Since this is one of the few houses not mentioned. by Ella Bigelow
in her Historical Reminiscence.s of Marlborough in 1910, but it could
be one of the most important properties covered by this survey, the
date is pure conjecture, yet I believe it to be very old.

10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records,
·early maps, etc.)
Historical Reminiscences of Marlborough, Ella Bigelow, Marl., 1910.

History of Marlborough Mass. Charles Hudson, Boston, 1862.

1803 Map of Marlborough Silas Holman Surveyor.

FORM B - BUILDING Assessor's Dumber USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
Massachusetts Historical Commission
80 Boylston Street
I 82-97 II Marlborough II G I 180

Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Town Marlborough

Place (neighborhood or village) _

Howe Street Area

Address 137 Howe Street

Historic Name _

Uses: Present three-unit dweJJing

Original three-unit dwelling

Date of Construction _---"-c .•.•.

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Style/Form Three-decker

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Exterior Material:

Sketch Map Foundation b_o_·_ck _

Draw a map of the area indicating properties within
it. Number each property for which individual Wall/Trim WQod clapboard and shingle
inventory forms have been completed. Label streets,
including route numbers, if any. Attach a separate Roof (not visible)
sheet if space is not sufficient here. Indicate north.
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures _

3-hay, hip-roofed garage) ca 1920

j Major Alterations (with dates} _

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modern

Condition
wooden fire escape on facade

excellent

Moved [X] no [ ] yes Date _~N_/~A _

Acreage Jess than one acre

"Recorded by Anne Forbes Setting On open Jot, in neighborhood

Organization fQr Marlboro Hist CQmm of mixed mjd-19th- to early-20th-century

Date 4130194 houses Greek Revival house to north

Massachusetts Historical Commission Community Property Address
80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Marlborough 173 Howe Street

Area(s) Form No(s).

National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form

Check all that apply:

[x] Individually eligible [ ] Eligible only in a historic district

[ ] Contributing to a potential historic district [] Potential historic district

Criteria: [x] A [] B [x] C [] D

Criteria Considerations: [] A [] B [] C [] D [] E [] F [] G

Statement of Significance by __ F_o_rb_e_s_I_S_c_h_u_le_r _

The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here.

The Hezekiah Maynard Homestead meets Criteria A and C of the National Register. The ca. 1739
center hall plan house is the oldest remaining Maynard house in Marlborough and is representative
of the early development of this community. The house is one of only a few remaining Second
Period houses and is important for its articulation of the early settlement of Marlborough.
Furthermore the Maynard family is associated with Marlborough from the beginning as John
Maynard wa onle of the petitioners for the 1660 grant of Marlborough.
FORM B . BUILDING Assessor's number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number

Massachusetts Historical Commission I 70-204 I I Marlborough I G 182

80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Town Marlborough

Place (neighborhood or village) _

Address 37 Howe Street

Curtis Shoe Factory of
Historic Name Rice & Hutchins Shoe Co.

Uses: Present shoe outlet; storage

Original shoe factory

Date of Construction __ 1_9~0_2 _

Source Centennial '90; 300 Yrs. of Shoe-Mfg

Style/Form utilitarian

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Exterior Material:

Sketch Map Foundation hrick

Draw a map of the area indicating properties within
it. Number each property for which individual Wall/Trim asphalt oyer wood shingle
inventory forms have been completed. Label streets,
including route numbers, if any. Attach a separate Roof not visible
sheet if space is not sufficien here. Indicate north.
L.\}D Outbuildings/Secondary Structures _

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Acreage 1 5 acres

Recorded by Anne Forbes Setting Ems most of triangular block between

0rganization for Marlboro His! Camm Howe & Route 85 Small lawn at N entrance;

Date 4130194 four 19tb-C houses fO SF

BUILDING FORM.

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION [] see continuation sheet

Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings
within the community.

In contrast to the turn-of-the-century housing found Worcester, Boston, and many smaller
manufacturing communities, for a city whose economy was industrially-based well into the twentieth
century, Marlborough has remarkably few examples of that indigenous New England multi-unit
building form, the "three-decker." None were built in groups here, and only a few, all in altered
condition, are scattered across the residential areas of the city near the shoe factories. 137 Howe
Street is Marlborough's most well-preserved example of the type, and the only true three-decker
in the Howe Street area.

This is a long, bulky, three-story building with a nearly flat roof, a large bow-window bay on the
southeast facade comer, a forward-projecting rectangular bay on the northeast upper two stories,
and, wrapping from the center facade around to the north side of the building, an imposing three-
story porch on lathe-turned posts, with balustrades of square dowels. The main entries, in the
center section of the facade, include a wood door with large oval light at the first story, and a glass-
and-panel door with square light on each of the upper floors. An unusual feature is the second
entry for each story located on the north side, sheltered by the porch. The doors there are of the
same type as the upper facade doors. A shallow bow window bay projects slightly from first
through third stories on the north side.

The massive quality of three-deckers was often alleviated by a change of siding between stories.
This building fortunately retains its original siding combination of clapboarded first story, with wood ,
shingle above. It also includes all its original 2-over-1-sash windows with molded surrounds, and I

its architectural trim, including a sillboard at the foundatiion, a narrow molding above the first
story, and a flat, overhanging roof cornice with a high frieze and long, flat brackets. The building
also includes another important feature of three-deckers, a bank of open porches at all three stories
in the rear.

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE [ ] see continuation sheet

Explain history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the
building, and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community.

The south end of Howe Street, which until nearly the end of the nineteenth century was still
farmland, was the last section of the street to be subdivided for development. While most of the
houses further north were standing by 1890, this one and all those from here to Valley Street were
constructed between ca. 1895 and 1915. Most were single-family houses, but tbis building, and
another triplex at 177 Howe Street (MHC #455) reflect the fact that early in the twentieth century,
rental housing was still needed in the area for workers at the two nearby shoe factories,
Commonwealth Shoe & Leather just to the east on Maple Street, and Rice & Hutchins, which by
that time was operating in three buildings located three blocks to the north.

BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [ ] see continuation sheet

Maps and Atlases: Sanborns.

[] Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, a completed
National Register Criteria Statement form is attached.
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Marlborough Rice & Hutchins Co.

Massachusetts Historical Commission

80 Boylston Street Area(s) Form No.
Boston, Massachusetts 02116 G 182

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION, cont.

Jutting east from the mid-section of the main block to the edge of Rte. 85 is a long four-story wing,
also terminating in a square stair tower. A cluster of three other stair- and elevator towers is tucked
into the angle of the two wings. Beside them, facing Route 85, is the factory power plant, a one-
story brick rectangular structure with a corbeled cornice, parapet end walls, and a shingled clerestory.
At its north end is a tall, tapered square chimney, which still bears the painted name of a later
owner, the Castro Company.

The fenestration of this building is typical of factories built in the first years of this century. It
consists largely of banks of 9-over-9-sash windows, which line the entire wall space of the long sides;
the north elevation is filled with 12-over-12's. The towers and stairwells more typically have one
window per floor, Of, as in the case of the Howe Street tower facade, a paired window at each floor.
The windows of the Howe Street facade are 9-over-9-sash. Those in the power plant are also 9-over-
9's, but paired, with 6-light transoms, and set into segmental-arched openings.

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, cont.

When the Cotting Avenue factory was built, John E. Curtis, who in 1879 had closed his own shoe
company to superintend another Rice & Hutchins factory at High and Exchange Streets, was put in
charge as manager and superintendent of both it and the home shop. (See Form #113, "Hollis
Loring, 2nd House"). By the time of his death in 1896, two of his sons had risen to responsible
management positions at the Cotting Avenue factory: Charles W. Curtis was superintendent of the
plant, and Arthur Curtis was foreman of the cutting room.

Charles Curtis, who was with Rice & Hutchins for over 44 years, rose quickly to positions of the
highest level in the overall company, and in the year his father died he was elected a director of tbe
entire Rice & Hutchins corporation. This 1902 building, of which he was to be in charge, was
erected under his direct personal supervision, and it was officially known as the Curtis Shoe Factory
of the Rice & Hutchins Shoe Company, specializing in the production of men's dress shoes. Shortly
after it was built, all three of the Rice & Hutchins Marlborough shoe factories, as wen as their paper
box factory, came under Charles Curtis's direction.

Charles Curtis's four sons were also connected with Rice & Hutchins operations: John A. Curtis
later became superintendent of this building, and Arnold S. Curtis was an assistant here, while
Charles W. Curtis, Jr. and Roger Curtis were connected with retail stores associated with the factory.

In 1928, Rice & Hutchins closed, and Charles Curtis and his four sons formed a corporation to
purchase the Cotting Avenue factory, which tbey subsequently operated as the Curtis Shoe Company,
continuing to specialize in men's dress shoes. This Howe Street factory was acquired by another
corporation, the Diamond Shoe Company, which operated here through the middle of the century.

The Curtis Shoe Company eventually closed as a result of foreign competition, and the Cotting
Avenue factory was torn down. In 1970 Diamond Shoe also ended its operations. Since that time
the building has been used for various shoe-related businesses, however, including its present
function as a discount outlet for Rockport Shoes.
BUILDING FORM

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION [X] see continuation sheet

Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings
within the community.

Although several of Marlborough's late-nineteenth-century boot and shoe factories are still standing,
with the exception of the J.A. Frye Co. at Chestnut and Pleasant Streets (see Form #116», all,
including the Rice & Hutchins plant at Middlesex Square, have been altered nearly beyond
recognition. This 1902 facility, however, is remarkable for the fact that its original form, and most
of its detail, is nearly intact. The main block is a long four-story, shallow-gable-roofed structure
paralleling Howe Street. Running the length of the west side of the building under a separate roof
is a narrow section, one-bay deep, that terminates at the north end in a projecting stairwell. Midway
along the west facade is a wide square tower, which houses the main entry of the building--a wide,
molded and keystoned archway in a modern stucco surround. A flight of stairs under the arch now
leads to a modern door. The tower, which was originally seven stories high, with round-arched
windows at the upper level and a pyramidal roof, has been reduced to four stories, with a shallow
gabled roof. Of a two-story section that extends from the tower to the north end, the seven-bay,
southernmost portion is original; the rest was added in the 1910's. (Cont.)

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE [X] see continuation sheet

Explain history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) his/Of)'. Include uses of the
building, and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. "
>

Along with the much smaller F.W. and G.H. Morse Shoe shop at 45 Maple Street, this building is the J
only survivor of the five major shoe factories that were operating south of Main Street along the
railroad in the early years of this century. Two were virtually adjacent to this one-vthe Rice &
Hutchins Cotting Avenue plant (later the Curtis Shoe Company) across the tracks, and John O'Connell
& Sons, located diagonally northeast across Howe Street, a building which Rice & Hutchins later
leased. Two blocks to the south, opposite Edinborough Street, was the Commonwealth Shoe and
Leather Co.

This building was built in 1901-1902, as part of an expansion of the Rice & Hutchins Shoe Company.
One of the most enduring of Marlborough's shoe companies, Rice & Hutchins, whose founding partner
in 1866 had been William B. Rice of Church Street, was headquartered in Boston, with factories in
at several other locations as well as Marlborough. The company had begun manufacturing boots and
shoes in Marlborough in 1867 at the Middlesex Square factory formerly belonging to the firm of Felton
& Chipman. The plant was rebuilt after an 1878 fire, and as the company expanded into other
buildings it became their local headquarters or "home shop". (That building, much enlarged, still
exists today, in much altered guise, at 133 East Main Street (MHC# .) In 1889 they added their
Cotting Avenue factory, which stood until 1980 across the tracks where the parking lot is today, just
northeast of the present building. (Cont.)

BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [] see continuation sheet

Bigelow.
Maps and Atlases: Sanborns from 1906.
Marlborough Directories.
Marshall, Eleanore. "Personal Memories of the Marlborough Shoe Industry." 1991.
Hurd, D. Hamilton. History of Middlesex County, Mass. 1890.
Conklin, Edwin. Middlesex C.ounty and its People. 1927. (includes photo.)
Three Hundred Years of Shoe and Leathermaking. 1930.

[ X] Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, a completed
National Register Criteria Ctatemeru form is attached.
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Massachusetts Historical Commission

80 Boylston Street Area(s) Form No.
Boston, Massachusetts 02116 G 182
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Massachusetts Historical Commission Community Property Address
80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Marlborough 37 Howe Street.

Area(s) Form No(s).

G 182

National Register of' Historic Places Criteria Statement Form

Check all that apply:

[x] Individually eligible [ ] Eligible only in a historic district

[ ] Contributing to a potential historic district [] Potential historic district

Criteria: [x] A ll B [x] C [] D

Criteria Considerations: [] A [] B [] C [] D [] E [] F 1:] G

Statement of Significance by __ F_o_r_b_es~! _S_ch_u_l_e_l' _

The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here.

The Curtis Shoe Factory of Rice & Hutchins meets Criteria A and C of the National Register.
It demonstrates the continued growth and prosperity in the shoe industry into the twentieth
century with the expansion of the Rice & Hutchins company. The 1902 factory is remarkably
intact, with much of its detail preserved--an rare and important aspect, given the substantial
changes made to most industrial buildings. The property retains integrity of location, design,
setti.ng, materials, workmanship, feeling and association.