HomeMy WebLinkAboutNotice of Intent to Demo 738 Willow Street°,F_yAR TOWN OF YARMOUTH
1146 ROUTE 28, SOUTH YARMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS 026644451
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YARMOUTH HISTORICAL COMMISSION
NOTICE OF INTENT TO DEMOLISH A HISTORIC BUILDING
To be submitted to the YHC along with Demolition Permit Application
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Date of Application: Demolition: (circle one): Partial
Building Address: 738 Willow Street
South Yarmouth, MA 02664
Assessor's Map # 42 Parcel # 113 Year built: C 1800
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son Building is Considered Historic (check all that apply):
✓ Over 75 Years Old
✓ Located in the South Yarmouth/Bass River National Register Historic District
Listed on National Register of Historic Places
Resource for historic listings: Massachusetts cultural Resource Information System:
Property Owner: Cathy Andrews
Address: 1125 Elizabeth Street
Cityfrown: Williamsport State: PA Zip Code:T 17701
Phone#: 413-636-4266 Celt# 4.13-636-4266
_Email: andrewscc2@aol.com
Signature: _ Date: c
AgentlContractor: Architect: Mark Sangiolo
Address: 9 Skecheconet Way
Cityrrown: West Harwich
Phone#: 617-272-5402
_Email: archt@comcast.net
Signature:
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Reason for demolition request:
State: MA Zip Code: 02671
Cell# 617-272-5402
Date: I o - - Z
Historic elements have already been removed, incl. front roof & dormers. Crawl space
is shallow, structure is undersized & would be very hard to bring to -code-. Cat urine
Proposed reuse of property: n
3 BR home with apartment in loft of detac ed garage.
Description of structure to be demolished:
1656 sf Three-quarter Cape House to be demolished. (Detached garage will not be
demolished.)
Please include with application:
Color photographs of all sides of the structure being proposed for demolition
• Map showing location of property
• History of the building/property (if known)
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Scanned Record Cover Page
Inventory No: YAR.355
Historic Name: Bassett, Nathaniel Jr. House
Common Narne:
Address: 738 Willow St
City/Town: Yar rom
Villaga/Neighborhood; South Yarmouth Village, Bass
River;
Local No: 392,
Year Constructed: C 1800
Amhltectural Style(s): Cobnrial;
Use(s): Single Family Dwelling House;
Significance: Architecture;
Arse(s): YAR.H
Oesignation(s): Nat'l Register District (05129/1990);
Bulbding Materials: Wall: Wood. Wood Shingle;
Demolished No
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FORM B - BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston
in relation to nearest cross streets and
other buildings. Indicate north.
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Willow Street
In Area no. Form no.
Yarmouth
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138 Willow Street
erRodney S. Crowell
c. 1800
Wood shingles nailed
Exterior wall fabric over clapboard
Small early shed w/
Outbuildings (describe) I -chimneys 1 -car
garage.
Other features originally a h gagg that
over the years became a 3/4 Cape with
2 dormers added .to the front du ing
the Eastlake period. Missing from the
noperty are 2 boxna - I to the front
west, 1 connected to the east wing.
Altered Extensj_vf* I y Date 18 85 — _
Moved
5. Lot size,
Date
One acre or less ` x Over one acre}
Approximate frontage 75 feet
Approximate distance of building from street
SQ fee
6. Recorded by Sandra K. Creamer
Yarmouth Historical
Organization Survey
Date March 1980
7. Original owner (if known)
Original use
Subsequent uses (if any) and dates Casket company during the 18601s and 70's
8. Themes (check as many as applicable)
Aboriginal
Conservation
Recreation
Agricultural
Education
Religion
Architectural
Exploration/
Science/
The Arts
settlement
invention
Commerce
X industry
Social/
Communication
Military
humanitarian
Community development .
X Political —
Transportation
9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) {
A Yarmouth deed dated 1801, 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 tars. Anna Kelley 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, nox.Rht 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.
On 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. He was Isaac's grandson. Amos in turn sold it to Lysander
Baker 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 193� hurricane.
--SEE C011TINUATTON SHEET--
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.X. Society of Mayflower Descendants
pages 526, 552, 573 and 638
3. Barnstable County Deed Books: Book 15, pages 457 and 458; b. 1, p. 74,
b. 23, p. 214
4. Probate will title # 22832 - Betsy G. Crowell
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indicate each item an inventory form 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.
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Yarmouth Historical Commission
Deed Search for 738 Willow Street, South Yarmouth, MA
The house at 738 Willow Street, formerly known as 138 Willow Street, was built
prior to 1822, when Elisha Crocker conveys the property to Capt. Isaac Bassett.
The deed states there was a dwelling house on the premises. Capt. Isaac Basset is
a significant figure in early Bass River Village history. He owned the Grist Mill and
Mill Field adjacent to his property. These early deeds found were in the Re-
recorded deed section of the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds. The Barnstable
County Registry of Deeds burned in 1827 destroying all deeds. In that year, the
Selectmen from every town in the County went door to door re-recording any
available deed. These volumes are located in the back row of the Registry by town
name. In our case, Yarmouth 1, 2, 3, & 4. These deeds go back to the early 1790s,
and are quite incomplete. So, we have no grantee deed for Elisha Crocker, and the
dwelling house reported on the 1822 deed is older, but we don't know how old.
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On 11 May 1822, Elisha Crocker of
Brewster in consideration of $261
paid by Capt. Isaac Bassett
conveys property bounded as
follows ...East by Rowland Lewis;
Southerly by William Tear;
Westerly by Isaac Bassett's other
land. "with the dwelling House
and out houses on the same."
(BCRD, Yarmouth Town Deed Bk.
4:43)
On 25 September 1863,
Christopher Crowell of Yarmouth
in consideration of $8 paid by
Amos Kelley conveys "...all the
right, title and interest that I have
in the estate of my late grandfather Isaac Basset and all privileges there."
(BCRD, County Deed Bk. 75:457)
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On 9 February 1864, Amos Kelley in consideration of $225 paid by Lysander Baker,
conveys ...a certain piece of land on the road leading from B & F Matthews store
to Polly Bakers, ...bounded as follows ...on the south by said road; on the west by
the heirs of late Nehemiah Crowell; on the North by the heirs of the late Rowland
Lewis; on the East by Isaiah Shermans land, together with all the Buildings
thereon standing.
(BCRD, Deed Bk. 84:208)
On 15 September 1886, Lysander
Baker in consideration of $500 paid
by Hebron M. Baker, conveys ...a
certain tract of land, bounded as
follows ...on the South by the town
road; on the West by land of
Benajah Crowell; on the north by
land of William Eldridge and
Benjamin Bray; on the East by land
of Isaiah Sherman, together with the
Dwelling House and outbuildings
thereon standing.
(BCRD, Deed Bk. 170:202)
On 7 August 1912, Hebron M. Baker
in consideration of $1 paid by Anna
G. Baker (Niece, daughter of brother
Edward G. Baker) conveys ...a tract of land in South Yarmouth Lower Village,
bounded as follows ...beginning at the Northwest corner of the premises in the
line of the main road and in the line of Mary H. Baker (widow of Isaac M. Bassett);
then runs Easterly by the road about ten rods to line of heirs of Allen Lewis; then
runs Southerly to land of the heirs of Lewis & Isaac Studley to Joseph Chases line;
then runs Westerly by Chases line to the line of Mary H. Baker's land; then runs
Northerly to first bound.
(BCRD, Deed Bk. 321:334)
[Lysander Baker died intestate at Bass
River in February 1906, leaving a
surviving widow, Abby K. Baker, who
died intestate in Yarmouth Mary
1922, their four children are: Addie
F.B. Willard, Clara B. Long, Edward G.
Baker, and Hebron M. Baker. Addie
F.B. Willard died March 1912 in
Attleborough, MA, testate, her will in
real estate being; in equal shares to
her mother, Abby K. Baker, to her
niece Grace A Baker, ow of Attleboro
Falls, MA, her brother Hebron M.
Baker, to Hebron in trust for Edward G. Baker, and to Hebron in trust for Clara B.
Long. Said will provided that if either of said beneficiaries of said trust shares
should not be alive at the end of ten years from the date of said will, the trusts
were to end and the trustee was instructed to distribute their shares equally
among the other mentioned beneficiaries. Clara A. Long, alias Clara B. Long, died
August 1919, intestate, leaving no husband or lineal descendants surviving but her
mother, Abby K. Baker and two brothers Hebron M. Baker and Edward G. Baker.
Said Abby K. Baker died intestate May 1922 as stated above, leaving two sons
Hebron & Edward. Said Hebron M. Baker died intestate in June 1931 in Attleboro
Falls, MA, leaving a surviving widow, Edith A. Baker who died intestate in Attleboro
Falls in 1942, and a daughter Grace A. Baker of Attleboro Falls, MA, who was her
only child. Said Edward G. Baker died in Yarmouth in June 1945 intestate, leaving
him surviving his widow, Anna G. Baker, the affiant, but no lineal descendants.]
(BCRD, Deed Bk. 678:487)
On 7 June 1967, Anna G. Baker conveys to Rodney S. Crowell and Mildred L.
Crowell, husband & wife both of 138 Willow Street, Yarmouth (Bass River)
bounded on the South by Willow Street, a town way; on the West by land now or
formerly of Ann Wolfe; on the North by land or formerly of William Eldridge and
by land now or formerly of Charles Henry Davis; on the East by land formerly of
Charles M. Brown.
(BCRD, Deed Bk. 1368:187)
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On 20 May 1993, Mildred L. Crowell in consideration of $1 paid by Gayle Elizabeth
Tighe, their daughter, conveys ...Reserving to the Grantor a life Estate for her own
Exclusive use and enjoyment. Bounded on the South by Willow Street, a town way;
on the West by land now or formerly of Ann Wolfe; on the North by land now or
formerly of William Eldridge and Charles Henry Davis; on the East by land now or
formerly of Charles M. Brown. My husband Rodney S. Crowell, died on April 8,
1993, and at the time of his death there was no divorce.
(BCRD, Deed Bk. 8595:232)
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