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Inventory Na: YAR,488
Historic Name: Akin, David K. Store
Common Name:
Address: 1363 Bridge St
CityfTown: Yarmouth
VillegelNeighborhood: South Yarmouth Village; Bass River
Local No: 2' Y 0 5
Year Constructed: c 1830
Archltect(s):
Architectural 5tyle(5): No style
Use(s): Post Office; Single Family Dwelling House; Speciality
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Significance: Architecture; Commerce; Politics Government
Area(s): YAR.H: South Yarmouth - Hass River Historic District
Deslgnatlon(s): Nat'l Register District (5/29/1990)
Building Materlats(s): Wall: Wood Shingle; Wood
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FORM B - BUILDING 1n Area no. Form no.
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston y
in relation to nearest cross streets and
other buildings. Indicate north.
Old Main Street
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Exterior wall fabric "ide food shin ;lee
Outbuildings (describe) Old saltbox, shed
Other features U.-nly po,ted fa•ont porch.
6/6, 916, ?/? lrindolrs. Small back e-xtem;ion
leadinr• into 1pr[7e outshot frith chimney.
A� reci R Date
Moved % Date
5. Lot size:
One acre or less x Over one acre.
Approximate frontage oSr
Approximate distance of building from street
5'
6. Recorded by� T)n- '11- c3+ - --
Organization ,•:, , A; -nr r,1l `ter-i:A�r
Date I ga-nt P"Eb?r'C)7Q-- _--
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7. Original owner (if known) David I'_. _'!kin
Original use Jewelry store
Subsequent uses (if any) and dates
See text
6. Themes (check as many as applicable)
Aboriginal
Conservation
Recreation
Agricultural
Education
Religion
Architectural
Exploration/
Science/
The Arts
r settlement
invention
Commerce
-x _ Industry
social/
Communication
X_ Military
humanitarian
Community development rgr
Political
Transportation
9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above)
This tiny building, one of three with inseparable history, is representative of nuch
that is unusual about Yarnouth history and more specific about the history of Bass
River, where it is located. The fect that it was moved before 1900 and that it was
one of a number of buildinus to find their way to Bridle Street in a never endin^'
replen isluient of rtrticture, for t'het rtreet, seems to point out som.athinET interesting
about the area and the town. 1.'his is , namely, the early versatility with which
people moved buildin o -- up said down B .ss --liver and acrocc the field, on .;now, ice
and rollers - and ]Iow they Ceencd to never eve up on this constantly productive
thorough -- fai-r. All over towm buildings were beinC moved and "adaptively reused"
long before that term was coined. On Bride Otreet wdlero traffic moved up and do -inn,
across the south isle of the Cape activity never ceased.
For instance, this building, or its companion an the river side, (form # 238), ;,as
one, probably first located on Pleasant Street, near water. There it vas David K. ld-i^'s
jewelry store a p-rt of which acted for a tine, as Alexander Hillnan'w tailor shop.
Aften4ards it was moved to Bridge Street and became the Post Office, where letters,
at the turn of the century cost 121 cents; and still later if became the dvellin!
house of Urialw Sears.
Hoeg old this structure is and h_ov old the ones on either side of it are is debatable,
for there is not enouji infor;-ition on th-m. ':tlwa,t can bo ,uesoed, is that they have
all three been moved from different locations nearby and have I\mctionod well on
Bridge Street.
Prescntl� all three building:: belo_1, to ~obert I?eeta and are wzsed or unused, an an
antique shop. put in the pa-t xa•-'eric'_: '.. Ba-her, (: ee form 7' 234), 0-41-d a liver`-
10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records,
early maps, etc.)
A. "Old Naker Village", Iwo. 39, r. 7 z, rrence Jenkins, Yarmouth Port, 1915
B. Deed Bool: 352, P. 49, Barnstablc Prob`te
C. "Yesterday's Tide", -Florence Baler, 1941
?1. 1880 "tla,3 of Barnstable County, `talker, Boston
E. Forms 7I 234, 238, 23Jly.
INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET
MASSACHUSMS HISTORICAL C(MffSSION
Of£ice of the Secretary, Boston
Caremmity : Form No: :
�3a.., :i.gg�r i�"7
Property Name:
Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below.
on the spot and before that the land :•ras probably olmed by a Kelley. Today on Bridge
Street there are only a half dozen older buildin-s vhere originally there were,
perhaps a dozen and a half. Places line 3'.anton Crot:ell's carria4e shop and underts':-�r's
establishment, .Cohn Larkin's otore, David Lkin's offices, the toll house, teleCranh
office and Dr. ,cones' office are no longer there. They were the centers of busine ;s
and social activity from the early 1C30's when the first bridue was built acroos t:ie
river, but they have been replaced at various. times, by ne•;*er buildings and di.fferan'
pu_*Toses. Loo:ins;,; of the yt::eet now, the history is hard to see. it is difficult to
visualize the open buoy road ctretchinC across the life blood with ancient housez
that no Ion, er e:-.ist.
Staple to Inventory form at bot"-)m