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WOODBRIDGE HOUSE NR NOMINATION Wvo O13R 106E Hou SE - U8 BW G6 ST fe - Form No. 10-300 (Rev.10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OFIHEINTERIOR FPR NFSUSEANLY r NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES RECEIVE INVENTORY-- NOMINATION FORM SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOWTO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGIST£RFORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES-- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS EUNAME HISTORIC Thomas March Woodbridge House AND/OR COMMON Woodbridge House LOCATION STREET&NUMBER 48 Bridge Street NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY,TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Salam � _.VICINITY OF l)Lfl STATE CODE COUNTY CODE Massachusetts 025 Essex 009 10'CLASSIFICATION CATEGORY OWNERSHIP STATUS PRESENTUSE —DISTRICT —PUBLIC XOCCUPIED _AGRICULTURE _MUSEUM )LBUILDING(S) X PRIVATE —UNOCCUPIED —COMMERCIAL —PARK _STRUCTURE- —BOTH —WORK IN PROGRESS _EDUCATIONAL _PRIVATE RESIDENCE —SITE PUBLIC ACQUISITION ACCESSIBLE —ENTERTAINMENT _RELIGIOUS _OBJECT JN PROCESS RYES:RESTRICTED —GOVERNMENT _SCIENTIFIC • _BEING CONSIDERED —YES:UNRESTRICTED _INDUSTRIAL _TRANSPORTATION —NO —MILITARY Y`OTHER social OWNER OF PROPERTY service ager NAME_ Children's Friend and Family Service Society STREET&NUMBER 48 Bridge Street CITY.TOWN STAgTE `Salem VICINITY OF MaSSacllusetts ®LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE. REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC. Essex Registry Of Deeds STREET&NUMBER 32 Federal Street CITY.TOWN S AE Salem t4assachuTsetts LM REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE Inventory of the Historic Assets of the Commonwealth DATE 1974 4 —FEDERAL Y`STATE —COUNTY _LOCAL DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS Massachusetts Historical Commission • CITY,TOWNTATE Boston Massaclusetts M DESCRIPTION CONDITION _ CHECK ONE CHECK ONE • -EXCELLENT _DETERIORATED -UNALTERED }�ORIGINALSITE X GOOD _RUINS _X4LTERED _MOVED DATE _FAIR _UNEXPOSED DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL(IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE The Thomas March Woodbridge House, c. 1809, is a fine five bay Federal house attributed by Fiske Kimball and others to Samuel McIntire. It faces south on approximately 1/6 acre of land on the corner of March and Bridge Streets in what is now a semi-industrial area. Fortunately, the house was preserved for many years by the Society for the Preservation of New ,England .Antiquities. In 1955 it was conveyed by deed to the North Shore Children's Friend Society, now the Children's Friend and Family Service Society of the North Shore, Inc. , and has been maintained by a sub-committee of the society known as the Preservers of Woodbridge House. It is a symmetrical three story mansion with a one story kitchen-ell to the rear. It is built of brick laid in Flemish bond and is topped by a hip roof with four chimneys and a brick modillion cornice. The windows have stone lintels throughout with those on the first two floors -having keystones, and 6/6 sash. The center window on the second-floor-of the south side has been elongated. In the 1960's the original and main.four-columned Doric entrance porch was removed. It was surmounted by a wooden modillion cornice and balustrade. The balusters have been preserved and are stored in�the cellar. . With.the exception-of this--porch, the brick modillion cornice and the elongated window, (all on the south side,) the • exterior of the house is thought to have been altered very little. The south doorway has an Adamesque eliptical fanlight and the sidelights, extending to the dado,_have alternating arcs and ovals forming the tracery for the pattern of leading. The six panel door is a replacement, but is a reproduction of the original and inthe proper style. The west -, entrance has a Greek pediment withmodillion cornice and two Tuscan columns. . There is a six panelled door surmounted by a round -headed -fanlight with radiating spokes. A similar doorway exists on the east side. The interior has remained intact, with the exception of one chimney piece, and is noted for its beautiful woodwork. Throughout there is evidence of McIntire's hand as a designer and carver in the splendid beaded and dentiled cornices and handsomely carved chimney pieces. Each floor has four rooms with the exception of the ground . , floor which has the addition of .the one room kitchen-ell to the rear. on the west side there is a hall and staircase in addition to the main entry on the south side. The main hall is an impressive entrance. The cornice is magnificently carved with a rope motif surmounted by modillions with a rosette design. This is continued to the third floor. The staircase itself has an unusual double feature, one side leading from the rear of the main hall, and each terminates in a handsome volute at ground floor level. The stringers are carved with double volutes. , The two south parlors are particularly notable for their delicately carved woodwork. • The south-west parlor has an elegant large balled cornice surmounted by fluted modillions. The central panel of the chimney piece is adorned with a beautiful McIntire basket of fruit and over the reeded engaged columns are flanking panels ornamented with sheafs of wheat. Form No. 10-300a (Rev.10-74) UNITED STA TES DEPART MENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY-- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 7 PAGE 2 Original shutters survive throughout the house and in the south-east parlor the chair rail is carved with rich Chinese fretwork. Here, the chimney piece is carved with an oval medallion framed with bead work and the fireplace surround is framed with a diamond pattern molding. Most of the upstairs rooms have equally fine features. • Fi-1700-1799 GNIFICANCE D AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE --CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW ORIC JARCMEULUGY-PREHISTORIC -COMMUNITY PLANNING _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE _RELIGION 99 _ARCHEOLOGY-HISTOflIC _CONSERVATION _LAW _SCIENCE 99 ✓AGRICULTURE _ECONOMICS _LITERATURE _SCULPTURE 99 &RCHITECTURE _EDUCATION _MILITARY -SOCIAVHUMANITARIAN 99 -ART _ENGINEERING _MUSIC _THEATER 99 _COMMERCE _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _PHILOSOPHY _TRANSPORTATION _COMMUNICATIONS _INDUSTRY -POLITICS/GOVERNMENT -OTHER(SPECIFY) JNVENTION SPECIFIC DATES 1809 BUILDER/ARCHITECT attributed to Samuel McIntire STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The Woodbridge House, 1809, is significant as an extremely well preserved Federal mansion attributed to Samuel McIntire, Salem's most famous architect. Hamilton Hall and the Pierce Nichols House are two great examples of his work in Salem. Most of the exterior remains unaltered and the maginficent interior woodwork is substantially intact (as discussed extensively in Section 7) . The land on which the house stands was inherited by Thomas March Woodbridge from his father, Dudley, who died in 1799. From tax records, the house appears to have been built on the property in 1809. Thomas Woodbridge (1765-1841) owned a tannery in Salem and was elected a member of the Salem School Committee in 1810. • After Woodbridge's death, the house passed through many hands including the Society for.the Preservation of New England Antiquities. It is now maintained by the Custodians-.of Woodbridge House under the auspices of the Children's Friend and Family Service Society of the North Shore, Inc. • MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Essex Registry of Deeds, Salem, Massachusetts Kimball, Fiske, Mr. Samuel McIntire, Carver. The Architect of Salem. , The • Essex Institute, Salem, MA,1940 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY less than 1 acre UTM REFERENCES A W1314,41 s 6O L4 ,711.014,4,01 al , _J III 1 1 1 1 1 , J I I I I i ZONE W I AI TIN I I. , I I NORTHING ZONE CASTING NORTHING C I I I I D LLJ L-L_I I I I I I I , III I VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE CODE COUNTY CODE STATE CODE COUNTY CODE • ®FORM PREPARED BY NAME/TITLE Christine Boulding, Assistant Survey Director, by Ray Chalifour ORGANIZATION DATE Massachusetts Historical Commission February 1975 STREET&'NUMBER— ' 7 L E 40 Beacon Street 61r—/ter—!470 CITY OR TOWN STATE Boston Massachusetts 02108 ®STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: NATIONAL_ - STATE - LOCAL_ As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966(Public Law 89-665).l hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. 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LOCATION µ. y STATE Massachusetts CO`L'I99ex TOWN Salem 1 STREET AND NUMBER 3. PHOTO REFERENCE PHOTO CREDIT JDAT NEGATIVE FILED AT Pierson 1974 Salem Historical Commission 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION. ETC. interior detail, second floor, south west room #5 GPO 932_009 ix ' � I t i i if UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TH.E INTERIOR FORM I0.30I A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 16/7 2' NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) 1. NAME • COMMON AND/OR HISTORIC NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) Woodbridge House Thomas March Woodbridge Hse 2. LOCATION STATE COUNTY TOWN Massachusetts Essex Salem STREET AND NUMBER 3. PHOTO REFERENCE PHOTO CREDITGATE NEGATIVE FILED AT Pierson 1974 Salem Historical Commission 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. interior detail, south west parlor ,#3 GPO 932-009 Ij � I 111 I tiYl�� J . ♦y 'aN4'af '"R , .I.fl e. t tiY z ��yy WV A. 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NORTH ARROW 3.UTM REFERENCES • yy i I j I J_ -71 ;PSR i G S i _-- --- OL: Ci— ,J c. • Form No. 10-301 IRe, 10-741 - UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED " NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES • PROPERTY MAP FORM ATE ENTERED • SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- ENCLOSE WITH MAP EENAME HISTORIC Thomas IIarch Woodbridge House AND/OR COMMON Woodbridge House LOCATION CITY.TOWN Salem VICINITY OF COUNTY Essex STATE mA MAP REFERENCE SOURCE United States Geological Survey SCALE 1:24,000 DATE 1970 REQUIREMENTS ,TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS - 1. PROPERTY BOUNDARIES • 2. NORTH ARROW - 3. UTM REFERENCES • NI ERGfI �y1 S /'—F�j(/J'� Wit 2) o Coo," 111 n `V �.. ■r ��--�, / ice.: J �.. a, - a' u Pr75iers b: 8:,NI Tom — � { } � urs AY 32'30.. Pete .•v -�''�� F ]v'ck POin([ �Krb e uwood .: �� I 3 V �1 - r� l i� .Park HLbJ�.h � c �� _ Lobsters Tuck Gott CaUlse o Adv . Rocks Pt _ _BEVERLY °'tt HARBOR Thomas March Woodbridge . HoUse �..- .� Sal.emr MA ak e. y� F'6rt- _ . UTM reference: �F ��elan✓i "� �� '�� Q�� / c $� o . u� i �� t 19/344860/4710440 _ Fidai 1 A �•dtYaJ) 11 71 �L -�TR� �❑ re z ��i� � Flet �!�'. .. �. w�/ ve - =`��_ �R X5 V 0 Salem Ter anal W/har / �1� i�� M — rs J• J t I f - THE THOMAS MARCH WOODBRIDGE HOUSE - In Time and Place The Thomas March Woodbridge House at 48 Bridge Street, _. , now the home of the Children' s Friend and Family Ser- vice Society, is a fine example of Federal period brick ar- chitecture. Built in 1809-10, at the height of Salem' s global trade, and attributed to Samuel McIntire, (master craftsman) it reflects in location and style the emerging trends of- rhe - during its Golden Era. Salem and Bridge Street in the early 1800s Political and economic events at the time of the Ameri- can Revolution and immediately thereafter, catapulted Salem into a leading port with trading routes to all corners of the earth. Salem merchants amassed phenomenal fortunes which they soon displayed in stately mansions, beautiful churches and impressive public buildings. No longer content to live near the hustle and bustle of waterfront activity, these merchants gravitated to the interior sections of the town where more de- sirable land still existed. Initially it appeared that three new fashionable resi- dential areas would develop as a result of the construction p "boom" taking place. Chestnut Street was laid out in 1796, and in rapid succession wealthy merchants bought up land and lined the street with impressive mansions which they filled with possessions acquired in their.^travels. The land around the Salem Common witnessed a similar transformation. Until 1802, the Common self had been an undeveloped tract of open landr used %various purposes among them the training of the militia. •Feeling the need for an improved training ground, a group of gent-le:, en raised Thomas March Woodbridge House page 2 neC.455G.r� ,.,to level the CommonJ^and enclose the,area with a wooden fence and four arches designed by Samuel McIntire. Around the Common, renamed Washington Square, another imposing neighborhood of mansions grew up. _ Bridge Street was the third area slated for development. In 1788 a bridge finally replaced the ferry that had connected Salem with Beverly for more than a century. As Benjamin F. Browne explained in his Youthful Recollections of Salem written in 1869, "It furnished an incentive to improvements and added to the value of estates in that section of town. " However, the expected buildin&never materialized. Mr. Browne refers -: ., five acres of land on the west side of Bridge Street that "had been surveyed and laid out in building lots, but no building was on them. It is understood that be- fore there was any building in Chestnut / reet, a number of /c gentlemen _, who afterwards built there, contemplated building on this land, but could not agree upon a price. " Mr. Wood- bridge was not involved in this controversy and proceeded ahead in constructing his brick mansion on his nearby land. Mr. Browne comments on the structures .. "The brick house in Bridge street Csic] would have been a stately and elegant house. in any part of town, but seemed out of place in this almost vacant street. As was said of another such house, in another such place, 'that it looked as if it had strayed from some populous city and stopped in the country to take an airing. "' Federal Architecture in Salem and the Thomas March Woodbridge House„ The house which Woodbridge did build in 1809-10 remains t Thomas March Woodbridge House ' page 3 today, no longer alone on Bridge Street, and only minimally altered from its original Federal appearance. The Salem Federal style which it represents er_d for whichlNe c.y is me%- � &owc� today, was the product of a fortuitous combination of x- circumstances Vat, the dawn. of the nineteenth century. Three elements combined in time and place: , the wealth from the foreign trade produced the necessary climate in which the talent of Samuel McIntire and the imported Adamesque taste could flourish. Samuel McIntire (1757-1811). grew up in a faiily of carpenters, and unlike the emerging "architects" of the era. such as' Charles Bulfinch of Boston, McIntire remained essentially an artisan/craftsman throughout his life. His sensitivity to scale and proportion, and the delicacy of C0.tv�� his woodg; rendered his buildings among the most outstanding of the period. While Bulfincb and others studied current English trends in architecture firs$ hand on the "Grand Tour," McIntire and other craftsmen relied heavily on architectural design books which became increasingly available. ' His work transitions from Georgian to Federal following the popularity of the work of the Adam brothers in England and its importation to the new nation. The Federal style in Sodem owes its interpretation in large part to McIntire and the influence of such buildings as the Gardner-Pingree House (1804-05, 128 Essex Street) , the Jonathan Hodges House (1805, 12 Chestnut Street), and Hamilton Hall (1805, 9 Chestnut Street) . Following design books and cognizant of the work of others such as Bulfinch, MuIntire' s designs in the Federal style represent a somewhat conservative and slightly provincial interpretation _ Thomas March Woodridge House Page 4 of proportions, and delicacy of interior details. Typical } features Common in these designs, and preserved in the Thomas March Woodbridge House, are a symmetrically arranged three story,, hip-roofed facade with a central entrance, attenuated proportions, and a reduction and flattening of the three-dimensionality of Georgian moldings and trims. The focus of the facade is the central entrance with its elliptical fan- light and sidelights and, missing from the Woodbridge House today but evident in the early photo shown here, the columned portico with delicately rendered classical trim. Interiors no longer feature walls of panelled woodwork as in the Georgian period, but delicately carved and applied decorations in the classical motifs, displayed on chairrails, graceful staircases, chimney pieces and cornices. McIntire' s sheaf of wheat, swags, roaette� and baskets of fruit grace the interior of the Wood- bridge Mouse today as they do many other Ahouses in Salem. Though the Golden Age of Salem came to an end within a decade of the completion of the Woodbridge house, the sophistication and beauty introduced during thisserve as lasting monuments to the accomplishments of the merchants and the creators of Federal Salem. Carolyn Tolles� i4executive Secretary 0 Historic Salem Inc. and a f'.,,��=`__.._+„r of 1-hP ('t" •7tia...-�_i�n�„i27I� 'HfId'""�'am�-�y�-'eFV2EE Elizabeth Wheaton, * c-�li of the Salem Historical Corv,mts>ion J of Is Friend-and-Famil- �e ---- ----- -y° Dose=a�#t=appears=teda3c Rli o mar:M i�odbridg�HRSise-,_home. vt,e, a n�gamily— Thomas March Woodbridge House as it appears today. Hoar-vf the Children's Friend and Family Service Society she 1955, the building is cXf�a" s�QQoc�Ced by --- —'' by a sub-committee of the Societyhthe Preservers of Woodbridge House. Ebutograph courtesy of Bryant F. To11es, Jr. Se%kN Q�bOT s WftN_ r ^ South westAchomney,piece with detail of sheaf of wheat This delicately Ck�6ra(pey. 4o.r\or carved woodwork is typical of McIntire's interior decoration.. Photography by Samuel Chamberlp. , Woodbridge House west door with prototype from W ,\liuMPain's Practical House Carpenter, 179+. The use of pattern books such as Pain's became a common means by which local builders could adapt their designs to changes in architectural fashions. Photographs courtesy of the Fssex Institutep. Salem. Thomas March Woodbridge Houser before 1920. This early photograph shows the house brfore alterations removing thenfront portico a cel w aloe gnbr-aase. Photograph courtesy of the Fssex Institute. Salem. s . Nin ; 4 j��r }��.yi�+f(f rl��lit t ,,:`1 t .�F•. .t; is �iu�ylt�v u, ' t _v it TT .i • t //qq�� ( \ ',r C�' / 1 y e h��1yt ,�x x1u , t1u ' q`iw +]G7 t,_:t i�a• � a �. so )m 'Y i��L -r1 ��yt tiityae7q ?rY ,y'u.NC�ty 1 r Yl1i.`,`. 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