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2 Andover St inventory form Inventory No:SAL.1615 Historic Name:Beckford - Whipple House Common Name: Address:2 Andover St City/Town:Salem Village/Neighborhood:Central Salem Local No:26-600 Year Constructed:1739 Architect(s): Architectural Style(s):Colonial Revival; Federal Use(s):Multiple Family Dwelling House; Single Family Dwelling House Significance:Architecture Area(s): SAL.HD: Federal Street SAL.HJ: Chestnut Street Historic District SAL.HU: McIntire Historic District Designation(s):Nat'l Register District (08/28/1973); Local Historic District (03/03/1981) Building Materials(s): Roof: Asphalt Shingle Wall: Wood; Wood Clapboard Foundation: Granite; Stone, Cut The Massachusetts Historical Commission (MHC) has converted this paper record to digital format as part of ongoing projects to scan records of the Inventory of Historic Assets of the Commonwealth and National Register of Historic Places nominations for Massachusetts. 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Commonwealth of Massachusetts Massachusetts Historical Commission 220 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125 www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc This file was accessed on: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 1:49: PM FORM B - BUILDING NRDIS 8/28/73: LHD 3/3/81 Assessor's Number USGS Quad 26-600 Salem Area(s) HU Form Number 1615 Town Salem Place (neighborhood or village) Central Salem Address 2 Andover St. Historic Name Beckford-Whipple House Uses: Present Multiple-Family Dwelling Original Single-Family Dwelling Date of Construction 1739; after 1788 Source Tolles Style/Form Federal Architect/Builder Exterior Material: Foundation Granite Wall/Trim Wood Clapboard Roof Asphalt Shingle Recorded by Leslie Donovan Organization Salem Planning Department Date (month/year) 2/96 Outbuildings/Secondary Structures Garage Major Alterations (with dates) 20th Century Colonial Revival portico, west porch and Palladian window Condition Excellent Moved x no yes Date Acreage Less than 1 Acre Setting Setback from street in 18th & 19th Century residential area Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. BUILDING FORM 2 Andover Street, Salem ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION see continuation sheet Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. The Beckford-Whipple house is an unusual example of an asymmetrical Federal style building with Colonial Revival alterations. Both Federal and Colonial Revival style buildings are well represented in the Mclntire district and another excellent example of a Federal building with Colonial Revival alterations is found at 328 Essex Street. According to Tolles, 2 Andover Street may contain structural framing from as early as 1739. It is a three-story, clapboard structure, four bays in width, rising to a ridge-hip roof. The main block is approximately square in plan, three bays deep with a one story side (W) ell, a two-story rear ell, and a one-story rear ell. Two central brick chimneys, one on the south elevation and one on the north elevation, rise from the main block. The facade is notable for its irregular fenestration with the enclosed entrance portico set in the second bay. The balustraded portico, with a denticulated cornice is framed with fluted pilasters and holds a paneled wood door with traceried sidelights. Above the portico there is a modified Palladian window, with similar sidelights and a round arched fan over the center sash. The windows on the facade are shuttered and hold 6/6 sash. The Beckford Street (E) elevation has a central entrance topped by a semi-circular fanlight. Two 20/6 sash are found to the north of the entry. Typical sash are 6/6 on secondary elevations. The one story ell on the west elevation is one bay wide and has a one story porch partially enclosed with wood lattice, and detailed with classical columns, and a modillion cornice. There is a one-story enclosed bay at the rear of the porch. The two-story rear ell may have been built in two sections. The south section has a flat roof and the north section is a lean-to. There is also a one story lean-to parallel to Beckford Street. The side porch detail, the portico and Palladian window are Colonial Revival, and Tolles has postulated that the main block was probably enlarged to its current massing shortly after Ebenezer Beckford acquired the property in 1788. The building is set back at least 20 feet on Andover Street and sits at the sidewalk along Beckford. A wood fence with large ball finials on the posts encloses the yard in front of the house, but it changes to a solid plank fence with bead molding along Andover St. extending to the west property line. There is a similar wood plank fence and gate along Beckford Street. A wood picket fence continues beyond the garage at the rear of the property along Beckford Street. To the north of the main house there is a two bay detached clapboard garage facing Beckford Street. It is one-story with a concrete floor and typical 20th-century wood overhead garage doors with a top row of glazed panels. The garage sits on a lot that formerly held a house. The garage lot was vacant on the 1911 map. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE X see continuation sheet Discuss the 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. Deed research from HSI indicates that the first mention of a house on this lot appears in a 1739 deed from John and Rebecca Beckford to their son John Beckford Jr. The property included a dwelling house and 27 poles of land John Beckford, Jr., shoreman, died in 1788, leaving the house and land to his son Ebenezer, a Salem merchant. The present lot at 2 Andover Street continued in the ownership of Beckford's descendants until 1826 when it was sold to Henry Whipple for $3,700. The Whipple family held the property until 1943 and it has continued to be owned as a single property in the 20th century. However by 1913, the property included a lot immediately to the north, that borders on River Street and had bese occupied by a house, formerly 29 Beckford Street. INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community Salem Property Address 2 Andover St. Massachusetts Historical Commission Massachusetts Archives Building 220 Morrissey Boulevard Boston, MA 02125 Area(s) HU Form No. 1615 2 Andover Street had originally been part of a lot of land conveyed from Thomas Trusler upon his death in 1654 to his wife and had several subsequent owners. As early as 1655 that parcel had a house on it. but according to Perley's accounts that house was located northwest of 2 Andover Street, closer to the North River. Tolles indicates that a major portion of the structural framing for 2 Andover Street may date from as early as 1739, when John Beckford, Jr. may have built a house. A mortgage from 1776 mentions houses and other buildings on land owned by Beckford indicating additional buildings had been built by that time. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES X see continuation sheet Bailey, Joan. Prepared for Historic Salem, Inc. 2 Andover Street House Report. June 26, 1967. Cousins, Frank and Riley, Philip M. The Colonial Architecture of Salem. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1919. Massachusetts Historical Commission. Historic Resources Inventory: Salem. Perley, Sidney. History of Salem. 3 Vols. Salem, MA: 1924. Reardon. Elizabeth K. Salem Historic District Study Committee Investigation. Typescript, 1968. Salem City Directories. 1836-1970. Tolles, Bryant J. Architecture in Salem. Salem: Essex Institute, 1983. Hopkins, G. M. Atlas of Salem. Philadelphia, 1874. Mclntyre, H. Map of the City of Salem Philadelphia, 1851. Phillips, James Duncan. Map of Salem about 1780. Based on Research by Sidney Perley and the accounts of Colonel Benjamin J. Pickman and Benjamin F. Browne with additional information assembled by Jones Duncan and Henry Noyes Otis. Salem: James Duncan Phillips, 1937. . Part of Salem in 1700. From the research of Sidney Perley. Assembled by William W. K. Freeman. Salem: James Duncan Phillips, 1933. Richards. L. F. Atlas of Salem. 1897. Walker Lithograph and Publishing Company. Atlas of Salem. Boston, MA: 1911. Maps INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET SALEM 2 Andover St MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 SAL.HD, SAL.HL, SAL.HU SAL.1615 Supplemental photograph by Patti Kelleher, Salem Department of Planning & Community Development, March 2017 RECEIVED JUN 20 2017 MASS. HIST. COMM. FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston In Area no. Form no. Town So\evn Address £ ^C\kt^ ^&K.Q.\ Name 3>gJ&&& & - ^S&^g, Present use ^gSA KOV^O0. mwmm\\\m\\ ii 4. Map. 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