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Salem Historical Commission
120 WASHINGTON STREET.SALEM,MASSACHUSETTS 01970 For Office Use Only
(978)619.5605 FAX(978)740.0404
APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS
Pursuant to the Historic District's Act (M.G.L. Chapter 40C) and the Salem Historical Commission Ordinance,
application is hereby made for issuance of a Certificate of Appropriateness for:
❑ New Construction 0 Moving 0 Reconstruction
❑ Alteration
❑ Demolition
Painting 0 Sign 0 Other
District: ❑Derby Street r ❑Lafayette Street >McIntire
❑Washington Square
Address of Property. 8 12-
Name of Record Owner(s): U Cf Me 0 ne5
Owner Mailing Address: Cl'lmomt-
Descri tion of Work Pro osed
Please type orPmff clearly:Attach ad&ftollal sheets, as 1lecessary.
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Name of Applicant: ❑Owner ❑Contractor ❑Tenant OOther:
Signature:
Date: _
Tel. #: E-mail Address:
Certificate will be mailed to the owner unless otherwise indicated here:
Certificate should be mailed to: Name
Mailing address: City:-- Y State:_Zip:
ATTACHED DOCUMENTATION
An application will not be considered complete unless all work items are thoroughly described and the application
includes all information needed for the Commission to make a determination.
Failure to submit a com Mete a lication ma , result in a continuation to a inure meetin .
Recommended information includes:
/ Photos of existing conditions, taken from all public ways
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Site plan showing location of improvements
Elevation drawings of the existing conditions and proposed improvements
Drawings of details and other special conditions,including profiles
Description,photographs, and/or catalog cuts of proposed materials (please bring to the
meeting product samples, if appropriate)
Dimensions Q.v. height of fence, size of pickets and posts, etc.)
l Paint color samples, if a plicable(no less than 2"x2')
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Location and size of all mechanical equipment, such as transformers, HVAC equipment,
electrical service and meters, and proposed screening
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6/1/2018 Massachusetts College of Art and Design Mail-Fwd:Preliminary findings and paint ideas for 13 Chestnut St Salem
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MASSAC14USETTS COLLEGE Suzanne Barnes<sbarnes@massart.edu>
OF MT AND DESIGN
Fwd: Preliminary findings and paint ideas for 13 Chestnut St Salem
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NMK<nmkiefer@gmail.com> Tue, May 29, 2018 at 12:15 PM
To: sbarnes@massart.edu
NMK
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From: "Jennifer L. Rousseau"<jenniferlrousseau@gmail.com>
Date: May 8, 2015 at 6:46:53 AM EDT
To: "Nicholas M. Kiefer" <nmkiefer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Preliminary findings and paint ideas for 13 Chestnut St Salem
Good find!We should print this and the one about the doors(including garage)all being the same color and
bring them to the meeting.
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On May 8, 2015, at 6:14 AM, Nicholas M. Kiefer<nmkiefer@gmail.com>wrote:
Check out the recommended door colors again.
NMK
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From: Sally Zimmerman <szimmerman@historicnewengland.org>
Date: March 4, 2015 at 2:02:08 PM EST
To: Jennifer Rousseau <jenniferlrousseau@gmail.com>, Nic Kiefer
<nmkiefer@gmail.com>
Subject: Preliminary findings and paint ideas for 13 Chestnut St Salem
Hi Jennifer and Nic-
When requests for help with paint come in, I always like to do a little digging
around in old maps and on Ancestry.com to see if I can parse out possible
timelines for changes in old houses, so what I see is summarized below along
with some ideas on paint color. I also always check the Mass. Historical
Commission's MACRIS database for any inventory forms on file. MHC has the
form for the house at http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?Mhcld=SAL.1050 if you
haven't already seen it.
I'm sure you were provided with background information but just to try to put
some possible dates on various changes to the house, based on its architectural
character from the images you provided, I would guess the projecting bay above
the front door was probably added about 1854,when the original owner, Mrs.
Elizabeth King, died and the house was purchased by the next owner, Sarah
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Neal. Your historical image, of the McIntire church, shows the side porch with
brackets possibly from that time or from the ownership of Dr. Thomas Kittredge,
who was living in Salem by 1875 but apparently would not have purchased the
house until after Mrs. Neal's death in 1884. That porch could have been added
in 1884-5, consistent with providing Dr. Kittredge an "office"entrance,
depending on how the house is configured inside. Or it could date from the time
of the bay addition, around 1854. The room over the side porch looks
contemporaneous with it or could have been enclosed from an open second
story porch at some later date. It was not uncommon for porches to be enclosed
and for rooms to be constructed over existing lower story porches.
Looking at the atlas plate from 1897 (attached), it's clear that there was an
attached stable on the house and certainly, the owner following Mrs. Neal, Dr.
Kittredge, would have required ready access to transportation in carrying out his
work. The stable could, however, have been built at any time prior to 1897. 1
was able to locate a nice tribute to Dr. Kittredge from the time of his death in
1923 (attached).
The house next passed to Dr. and Mrs. Kittredge's daughter, Rosefair(b. 1881)
who was married, also in 1923, to William Foster Rogers of Chelsea. The
MACRIS form indicates the garage on the property was built between 1915 and
1925, and it seems probable that the stable was demolished and the garage
built around the time of Rosefair's marriage. The latticed windows and tapered
exterior chimney on the rear wall would seem also to date from that transition in
ownership. Mrs. Rogers died in 1963, so presumably the house changed hands
again at that time.
So, on to paint. The standard approach for Federal to Greek Revival houses like
13 Chestnut Street is for three colors to be used: a body color for the
siding/clapboards, an off-white or toned shade of the body color for the trim
(which is all of the woodwork other than clapboards or sashes/shutters) and a
third color, black or very dark green,for the window sashes (i.e. the movable
parts of the window), shutters and doors. The whites of the time were much
less bright than modern whites, and the typical exterior colors available were
yellow ochres, grays, tans, and similar"stony"or earth shades. So your house
could go from all white with black shutters and doors to a stony gray with cream
colored trim and black(or dark green)sashes (shutters to remain black) and
doors. You can consider a different color for the door, but I imagine the farther
you stray from the typical dark shades doors were generally painted, the more
push back you may get from the Salem Historical Commission. But as long as
the door color is dark, it may be fine to suggest something more colorful. Keep
in mind that you would be painting all of the doors(even the garage doors) in
the same shade, so a very striking color may be too much as it's repeated
around the property.
I don't know if you have a particular brand of paint in mind, but we can work
from a number of paint lines without trouble (Ben Moore, California, Sherwin
Williams are the most common). In the Ben Moore colors, some ideas you can
take a look at are below.
Warm Gray:
Body HC-105 Rockport Gray
Trim Sailcloth or Navajo White
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Gray:
Body HC-168 Chelsea Gray
Trim Navajo White
Gray Green:
Body 1537 River Gorge Gray
Trim Sailcloth or Navajo White
There are of course many, many other possibilities. Let me know what you think
and we can talk more about this. On door colors, Ben Moore's Essex Green is
the standard dark green; Fine Paints of Europe's"Classic European Enamel
Colors"-such as Delft Blue, Wine Red, Navy Blue-are possible. I think if you
want to go with a lighter blue on the door, we should think through which doors
are suitable for that and which might stay black, and also how the particular blue
for the doors will work with the body color.
So there are some early thoughts. Give me a call or email when you have more
of a sense of directions on this.And absolutely we should coordinate so the
difference between body and trim is clear, something that the now-all-white
house obscures and which is very important to the overall effect of the three-
color approach.
Thanks!
Sally
Sally Zimmerman
Senior Preservation Services Manager
Historic New England
185 Lyman Street,
Waltham, MA 02452
617 994 6644
szimmerman@historicnewengland.org
<Atlas plate Kittredge 1897 GM Hopkins Essex Cty.docx>
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