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94-96 Derby-33 Carlton inventory form Inventory No:SAL.3265 Historic Name:Ward, Frederick G. - Townsend, Capt. Moses House Common Name: Address:96-98 Derby St 33 Carlton St City/Town:Salem Village/Neighborhood:Derby Street Local No:41-62 Year Constructed:1805 Architect(s):McIntire, Samuel Architectural Style(s):Federal Use(s):Bakery; Multiple Family Dwelling House; Single Family Dwelling House Significance:Architecture; Commerce Area(s):SAL.HN: Derby Waterfront Historic District SAL.HO: Derby Street Local Historic District Designation(s):Local Historic District (12/17/1974); Nat'l Register District (05/17/1976) Building Materials(s): Wall: Brick; Brick Veneer; Brown Stone; Wood; Stone, Cut Foundation: Brick; 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: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 at 10:10 AM Derby Waterfront NRHD, 1974; Derby Waterfront LHD. 1976 FORM B - BUILDING Assessor's Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number Massachusetts Historical Commission Massachusetts Archives Building 41-62 Salem HO 3265 220 Morrissey Boulevard Boston, Massachusetts 02125 Town Salem Place (neighborhood or village) Derby Street 96-98 Derby Street Ward/Townsend House Residential ii ic Name Present Original f Construction 1805 See Bibliography* Form Federal - ect/Builder or Material: tion Granite and Brick Wall/Trim Brick/Brick, Brownstone, Wood Roof Not Visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures Major Alterations (with dates) Alterations made to facade (ca. 1870's-1880's, 1930's?, and ca. 1990's); third floor windows enlarged (late 19th-early 20th C) Condition Moved X no Good yes Date Recorded by: Susan Ceccacci and Dianne L. Siergiej Organization: Commonweal Collaborative Acreage Located on the same 3,957 SF lot with 94 Derby Street. Setting Set directly on sidewalk in a densely-settled, mixed-use neighborhood of pl8-20th century buildings. Date: July 1995 ( RECEIVES SEP 2 9 1995 v«ASS. HIST. COMM. BUILDING FORM ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION 96-98 Derby Street See continuation sheet. Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. Despite numerous alterations over time, this three-story, hip-roofed house retains Federal features that sustain its period appearance. Together with other houses of its period nearby on Derby Street, this large, Federal style brick house makes an important contribution to the early nineteenth-century character of the neighborhood. Federal elements include molded-brick eave molding, windows that diminish in size at ascending floor levels, brownstone string coursing at the first and second floor levels, splayed, brownstone window lintels, fanlight with tracery at the entrance, six-panel door, door surround with slim, delicately-reeded pilasters surmounted by impost blocks. The existing cap at the door frame replaced a more strongly-projecting, original, gabled cap, with heavier cornice and gable returns. Although it now reads as the facade, the asymmetrical five-bay, center-entry Carlton Street side of the building was originally a secondary elevation. The original, symmetrical, five-bay facade with a center, fanlighted entrance sheltered by a Federal-style entry portico faced Derby Street. f HISTORICAL NARRATIVE See continuation sheet. Explain its associations with local (or state history. Discuss the history of the building of the building and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community Include uses According to an inscription accompanying a photograph of this house in the collection of the Essex Institute, in 1664, a house belonging to Joseph Grafton occupied the lot on which the present house stands. That dwelling stood until sometime after 1702, remaining in the hands of members of the Grafton family. At some time during the 18th century, it was replaced by a another house owned by the Townsend family. Captain Moses Townsend (1760-1842) moved that earlier residence make way for the present one. In 1805, Dr. Bentley wrote: "Captain Townsend (is) preparing to remove his house in Derby street upon his Lambert house in Becket street to build upon his present lot." This house first appeared on Salem's tax rolls in 1806, taxed as a "new brick house" valued at $2,400. The son of Moses and Hannah (Lambert) Townsend, Captain Townsend was a ship master and later president of the Union Marine Insurance Company, agent of the Essex Marine Railway, and freguent town moderator. Townsend married Lydia Lambert (1767-1833), the daughter "erf •Js-seph and Mary Lambert, in 1785. After her death, he married a second wife, Martha. Although she survived her husband, she seems not to have remained in the house after his death in 1842. From about 1843 to 1851, the house belonged to Frederick Gamaliel Ward (b. 1810), the son of Gamaliel Hodges Ward. His son, the soldier of fortune General Frederick Townsend Ward (1831-1862), is believed to have lived in this BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES See continuation sheet. Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places; If checked, see attached National Register Criteria Statement form. INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Salem 96-98 Derby Street Area HO Form No. 32 65 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION (continued) A photograph taken in the 1870's or 1880's, when the property already housed a bakery, shows the house in its unaltered state. A subsequent photograph shows changes being made to the Derby Street facade. In that view, the western two bays of the ground floor of the Derby Street facade had been removed to allow construction of a one-story shop. This late nineteenth- century shop addition has recently been demolished and the facade has been restored. According to the 1897 Atlas, the original Derby Street main entrance survived the addition of the shop. It was obliterated between 1911 and the 1930's by the construction of the existing one-story, brick and porch structure that spans the eastern three bays of the Derby Street elevation. Windows with 6/6, double-hung sash are shown in late nineteenth century photographs of the house, suggesting they may be original. Existing third story windows, less square than those shown in old photographs, seem to have been lengthened. They appear to have previously contained 9-pane, dead lights. They now have 6/6, double-hung sash. Originally, a pair of interior chimneys were located at the ends of the Derby Street facade and near the north end of the Carlton Street elevation. Those on the west and north ends are visible today. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE (continued) house as a child. Frederick Townsend Ward went to sea at the age of fifteen, later joined William Walker's in a misadventure in Nicaragua and travelled in Mexico. He fought with the French in the Crimean War, then went to China where he assisted the Emperor in suppressing the Taiping Rebellion by forming a small army and capturing the rebel stronghold. Ward then created the Ever Victorious Army, a well-drilled force of one thousand men, which continued to battle the rebels until Ward's death by enemy bullet in 1862. Ward was buried with great ceremony in a temple built in his honor in Sung-Kiang, China. By 1874, this house was owned by Charles Harrington, who was not a resident. At some time between the 1850's and 1874, another building was erected on the eastern end of the lot (the site of 94 Derby Street, Form No. 3266). In 1874, that building also belonged to Harrington and was apparently used as a shop. In the 1870's, part of the main house became a bakery which remained in operation as recently as 1958. The Sanborn map of that year indicates the remainder of the building was used as flats. It seems likely such was the case throughout its history as a bakery. C INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Salem 96-98 Derby Street Area HO Form No. 3265 BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Beers, D. G. & Company, Atlas of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1872. Hopkins, G. M. & Co., Atlas of Salem, Massachusetts, 1874. Inscription of historical information with Cousins, B3F7 photograph, Essex Institute Jordan, D. Salem Historical Commission, Inventory Form B. 1973. *King, Joyce, Research Report Derby Street, Historic Salem Inc., Salem, Massachusetts. Mclntyre, Henry C. E., Map of the City of Salem, Mass, 1851. Photographs, Essex Institute collection, 96-98 Derby, taken ca. 1870's-1880's (Cousins, B3F7)(Folder 30) Richards, L. J., Atlas of the City of Salem, Massachusetts...., 1897. Walker Lithograph and Publishing Company, Atlas of the Citv of Salem, Massachusetts, 1911. L ' 2. Town Street addressT Name . Use: original fc present /TJ-P^ C/QJJ£J3 Present owner 'Tftfri o^LL^ Cc Open to public Date ) & 8< Style Source of date SM.&S'. i. <J Architect Development of town/city Architectural reason for inventorying: Q^-^vvo iU-fl^u^e , /JXAJJA^J^ 1&I^L3/LX*J~ OR part of Area # 3C CONDITION Excellent Good (fair) Deteriorated Moved (^(iterejj) Added 4. DESCRIPTION FOUNDATION/BASEMENT: High Regular (£09} Material Qi^Ay^ZtL WALL COVER: Wood ~(£ricjs> Stone Other ROOF: Ridge Gambrel Flat (Hip Mansard Tower Cupola Dormer windows Balustrade Grillwork CHIMNEYS: C 2 3 4 (Sentej? End Interior Irregular Cluster Elaborate STORIES: 1 2^4 ATTACHMENTS: Wings Ell Shed PORCHES: 1 ($) 3 4 PORTICO Balcony FACADE: Gable end: Front/side Ornament Entrance: Side Front: Center/Side Details: •Xs. Windows: Spacing: (Rej^lar/Irregular Identical/Varied }-'"' Corners: Plain Pilasters Quoins Cornerboards 5„ Indicate location of building in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings hi* n 6. Footage of structure from street Property has feet frontage on street Recorder For Photo #. Date SEE REVERSE SIDx RELATION OF SURROUNDING STRUCTURE 1. Outbuildings 2. Landscape Features: Agriculture Open Wooded Garden: Formal/Informal Predominant features Landscape architect 3. Neighboring Structures___^^ Style: Colonial <^eae^l Greek Revival Gothic Revival Italian Villa Lombard Rom. Venetian Gothic Mansard Richardsonian Modern Use: <JSJsidentil^Commercial Religious Conditions: Excellent<!5ood) Fair Deteriorated GIVE A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF HISTORIC IMPORTANCE OF SITE (Refer and elaborate on theme circled on front of form) This was ©nee a fine, three story plus a hip roof, brick house with all the Federal period details. I .'any years ag© it was converted int© a bakery, and since that time a ©ne-story brick addition has been added t© the Derby wtreet facade with piazzas above; a triple decker has also been attached to the eastern end of the house. •'•he careful ©bserver may still see, however, the molded brick cornice, splayed reeded wind©w lintels and, ©n the west end, ©ne original entrance topped by a semicircul fanlight, ail similar details found on the Common and Chestnut Street houses, A picture at the Essex Institute shows the building when it was * first being altered; the main entrance with its fine portic© was still visble at that time. 'ihis house is rated high because it is said t© have been the birthplace ©f General -c'rederick Townsend Ward. Ward, the descendant ©f one ©f the first families in walem, first went t© sea when he was fifteen. After a few years, during which he r©se to positi©ns of authority aboard his ships he joined forces fer a brief time with »illiam walker in a misadventure in Nicaragua, travelled t® Mexic© and fought later in the Crimean Was in the French Army. In 1859 he landed in Shanghai, where f©r eight years the Chinese Emperor had been trying t© put d©wn the i'aiping *lebelli©n. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND/OR REFERENCE Ward, now twenty-seven years ©Id, soon ©ffered (for a price) t© form a small army ®f men t© capture the rebel "•trsngh.Qld. He succeeded in this first venture and s©on formed the Ever i£ict©ri©us Army, a well drilled f®rce af ©ne thousand men, which continued t@ carry the battle of the rebels until 1862, when he was killed by an enemy - bullet. Ward was buried with pomp in a temple built in his honor in China, and until the Japanese invasions ©f China during the 1930's incense | was burned oefere his grave each day. This house in which he was born in 1831 was built by his grandfather, Captain M@ses ^ownsend, about 1805. The ^aptain was a shipmaster and later the President of the Union Marine Insurance Cemapny. uoae relics connected with general vvard may be seen at the Essex Insitute. RESTRICTIONS Original Owner; peed Information: Book Number Page , Registry of Deeds [ FormB. 10M-6-71-049688