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Inventory No: YAR.355
Historic Name: Bassett, Nathaniel Jr. House
Common Name:
Address: 738 Willow St
City/Town, Yarmouth
Village/Neighborhood: South Yarmouth Village; Bass
River;
Local No: 392:
Year Constructed: C 1800
Architectural Style(s): Colon al;
Use(s):
S ngle Family Dwelling House;
Significance;
Architecture;
Area(s):
YAR.H
Designation(s);
Nat'l Register District (05/2911990);
Building Materials:
Wall: Wood; Wood Shingle;
Demolished
No
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FORM B - BUILDING In'Area no
MA.SSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston
Yarmouth
Form no.
-492'
ass
138 Willow Street
nt ownerRodney S. Crowell
4. Map. Draw sketch of building location Architect
in relation to nearest cross streets and Wood shingles nailed
other buildings. Indicate north. Exterior wall fabric _over clapboard
Small early shed w/
Outbuildings (describe)1 chimney, 1 car
garage.
Other features Qriclinally_ a _J5_ Cape that
over the years became a 3/4 Cape with
2 dormers added to_ the front during
the Eastlake period. missing from the
property are 2barns - 1 to the front
west, 1 connected to the east wing.
Altered Extensively Date lggr
Willow
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Moved
5. Lot size.
Date
One acre or less x_ Over one acre'
Approximate frontage _ 75 feet
Approximate distance of building from street
-50i feet
6. Recorded by Sandra K. Creamer
Yarmouth Historical
Organization Survey
Date March 19$0
30M-5,�77
7. Original owner (if Known)
Original use
Subsequent uses (if any) and dates Casket company during the 1860's and 701s
8. Themes (check as many as applicable)
Aboriginal
Conservation
Recreation
Agricultural
Education
Religion
Architectural
Exploration/
Science/
The Arts
settlement
X invention
Commerce
X Industry
X Social/
Communication
Military
humanitarian
Community development
X Political
Transportation X
9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) {
A Yarmouth deed dated 1601, showed Nathaniel Bassett, Jr. as the owner
of this house.
The next owner, Isaac Bassett, a mariner, of Chatham, was born on May 20,
1776 and was married to firs. Anna Killey of Yarmouth in 1800. They had
nine children. Their fourth child, Mayo, who was born in 1809, had the
name Isaac added to Mayo by an act of the General Court in 1837. Another
son, Elnathan, born in 1815, was supposed to have been lost on the
passage from Philadelphia to Providence in September of 1838.
This family continued to have its share of tradgedy when the son, Isaac
Mayo, nought the house next door from, his father in 1839 and died the
following year and less than one month after his six month old son died.
Ori March 3, 1343, Isaac Bassett died at the age of 66 - three years
after his son and grandson were deceased.
In 1863 the heirs of I. Bassett sold the property to Amos Kelley for
$353.00. Fie was Isaac's grandson. Amos in turn sold it to Lysander
Baiter who carried on a casket making business from the very attractive
barn on the western front corner of the property.
The house itself was a half -Cape with clapboard siding and additions to
both sides of the main structure and there was also a barn connected to
the eastern wing of the house and which collapsed in the 1938 hurricane.
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10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records,
early maps, etc.)
1. Oral history and photos from Rodney S. Crowell
2. Yarmouth, Mass. Vital Records - R.I. Society of Mayflower Descendants
paces 526, 552, 573 and 638
3. Barnstable County Deed Books; Book 15, pages 45'i and 458; b. 1, p. 74;
b. 23, p, 214
4. Probate will title rr 22e32 - Betsy G. Crowell
5, 1858 Atlas
6. 1880 and 1907, Naps
INVENTORY FORM CONTINU 'ON SHEET Camomity Form No:
Yarmouth
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL Q� TSSION (B� River)
Office of the Secretary, Bo�con
operty Name:
Indicate each item on inventory foam which is being continued below.
The property also had a very lovely fence across the front. The present
owner, Rodney Crowell has some photographs of the property that were
taken while Lysander Baker lived there showing what a charming
homestead this once was.
Staple to Inventory form at bottom