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Home My WebLink AboutYHC Approval to Demo 46 Uncle Robert's Road 1995I TOWN OF YARMOUTH 11-46 ROCTI? 28 SO TI1 YARAIOU1-II MASSACIII'SEITS 02664 +451 Telephone (509) 99-2231. Fxi. 292 — Fax (508) 398-2 65 MEMO TO: Forrest White Building Inspector FROM: Jeanne Routhier Co-chair, Historical Commission SUBJECT: 46 Uncle Robert's Rd., Great Island, West Yarmouth DATE: May 17, 1995 HISTORICAL COMI\IISSIO\ In accordance with the Code of the Town of Yarmouth, Chap. 92, Historic Properties (demolition ordinance), the Historical Commission, in its public meeting on May 16, 1995, reviewed the request for approval of demolition of the house at 46 Uncle Robert's Rd., Great Island, West Yarmouth. Following discussion, during which members reported on their on -site visit to Great Island on May 12th, the Commission determined that the house is not a significant structure and therefore approves the request for demolition. Contractor Tracy Pratt, who was also present at the YHC meeting on May 16th, agreed with the Commission's recommendation that an attempt be made to salvage certain items still remaining in the house. JR:cl cc: Esther D. Ames, owner Tracy D. Pratt, Pratt Construction Co. Kin Thomas, Great Island Homeowners Association. 0 16 4" v== 1 1 E"c FAY z 1 1995 nn Application fi!' r i Permit to Build ' . r UPON FINAL APPROVAL MAP LOT FEE MUST ACCOMPANY THIS APPLICATION. DATE S 19 The undersigned hereby applies for a permit to build - dle414 &Jrk . -6- according to the following specifications 1. Name of property owner"� r�'` �S� L�� _S Tel. Address _ TOW19 OF YARMO 2. Name of Arch itect(if 3. Name of builder 4. License No. _42- t/(930 Tel. ffr Address Tel. __� c1'J�D Z� 5. Name of Mason Address 6. License No. 7. Construction address 8. Date of subdivision A roval Tel. n zone 9. Private dwelling Estimated Cost �S 10. Multifamily ❑ 2-0 11. Commercial ❑ 12.Other ❑ 4tt_ 13. No. of stories 14. Foundation — Full ❑ Half ❑ Crawl ❑ Slab ❑ 15. Materials — Wood ❑ Cement ❑ Other ❑ 16. Type of heat — Oil ❑ Gas ❑ Electric ❑ Other ❑ 17.Garage --1 ❑ 20 18. Swimming pool - Size 19. Storage shed — Size 20. Stove — Wood ❑ Coal ❑ 21. Size of lot: No. of feet front 22. Size of building. No. of feet front 23. Distance from nearest building: Front 24. Distance back from line or street 25. H.I.C.R. No. LOT RELEASED BY DO NOT WRITE IN THIS SPACE Type of room Kitchen Dining Rm. Living Rm. Bed Rm. Bath Deck Closed porch Family Rm. Sun room Garage Shed Alterations No. of feet rear No. of feet deep Signature No. of feet side No. of feet rear _ Ft. side Ft. side Rear lot line Side line 14 2M PLANNING BOARD Address Date (ea -1UZ I �l C/ _ / r /3 4e I "1 1.J W_11jW L.!• V./ 1 1\VI 1 1 rvmLL V i VLV 1x.n♦ 11 1 "d 1..r 1 V1. . tiI �r•r*.. r a �r� - .err ESTBER J.I. AIM P.O BOX 187 NORTH EASTON MA 02356 May 16,1.995 Yamnouth Kmkwkd Coum bsioa YaMUM&TOMHaR 1146 Mam Stet South YaMWtdk MA 02664 Dew Sits, As owttar of the Cary► Hom bcaW on Lot # 86 at 46 Uncle Robert's Road on Olad Um4 Wed Yaaxx* l = writing to con&m that Mr. Tracy D. PM of the Pratt Conti ruchan Co. in Cotttit has been desomated by me to sapwAw tk dmnohd tt of ft Cary Ho m, Pmvided that such de moron is P byYen' C,on Afar cow savant pv&uimints ( the arc&ct, engttt m and a fimigafim congmy) we paw real= with c nmdcrable regent" we arc umd& to ratm ft bouts to a astable stab. Si wm* youra, I& � I - axl_� Esther D. Ames (Mm Oliver F. Aates) ►�♦ TOTAL P.01 I'IY'1 I-1J'YJJC7KJ L 7- V-) rmLN'I 1 ",*\= V I Ur-u 1`RJR I m CF'7J I LnI I u A-mit 1 1 1 .J 1 WJJ 1 . UA Rom D. Amos P.O. Box 197 North Emto4 MA 02356 To Try+ D. Matt do GJU-LA- FAX 509-775-7635 Dcar Tracy, Here is *c copy of ft letter which I sit to the Yamonth Ifnt. COMMWM today. Marcy thants for yow h4- SY, S • Y A Father D. Amos TOWN OF YARMOUTH HISTORICAL I I J) ROUTF 28 SOUTH YARMOUTH MANSACHUSFTTS 02664-4451 COMMISSION Telephone (708) 31)8,2231. Ext_ 292 — Fux (';08) 398-2365 MEMO TO: Historical Commission (Members o ly) FROM: Connie Lobody, YHC Secretary(_ DATE: May 11, 1995 �' SUBJECT: Demolition request for 46 Uncle Roberts Rd., West Yarmouth Since this is the first demolition request which may kick in the procedures as outlined in the MGL, Chap. 92, Historic Properties, I am confirming in writing my telephone message of today on behalf of the YHC co-chairs, Elizabeth Antonellis and Jeanne Routhier. The members of the Historical Commission will meet at 3 p.m. on Friday, May 12th at the end of South Sea Street at the Great Island gate. Tracy Pratt of Pratt Construction will meet you and escort you to the house. (Since Mr. Pratt referred to it as "the Cory house", I am enclosing pg. 64 from _Old Homes & Gathering Places.) Also enclosed for your information is a copy of the Demolition Delay Ordinance referred to above. If you receive this in time, I would suggest your reviewing it, noting particularly the definition of "significant building" and 92-3 on Procedures. c1 encs. ak 1-5 house is the third on the same land since the hest time and was passed to Joshua Freeman AVell, maternal grandson of Zadok and seventh t direct line from Yelvertort's son, Thomas. hua was a well known and beloved poet and npo'ser, author and horticulturist who developed ancestral home into a mecca for garden lovers. rn in 1866, he graduated from Wilbraham idetny and taught school for a number of years. was the author of eight books, several of them children. rre is a wonderful picture of "Creltholme' as it -ked in the late nineteenth century in E.G. •rvs book, A Trip Around Cape Cod, c 1898. In it see a turret on the front roof, and to the left the house a tower with a widow's walk, both of ich were destroyed, along with the original roof the 1928 hurricane. From his vantage point in turret and widow's walk Joshua viewed a pan- tma of ocean and land originally acquired ,in the Indian Massantampaigne in 1639. For isideration of an "ox chain, a copper kettle, a ester porringer, an English coin and a few ;ikets, Yelverton Crow (later Crowell) was allowed the land he could walk over in an hour. And a area extended from Eel Pond to South Sea d to the Mill stream beyond Englewood and -lonial Acres, including Great Island. ;hugs wife. Florence Hathaway Crowell, deserves me attention here because she was a noted iger and activist in the womans suffrage move- �nt. Born in 1856, she lived for 96 years and was \-ays civic minded. In the 1898 record of Town eeting, it is noted that Mrs. Crowell was the first ) man to rote in the Town of Yarmouth, follow - the enactment in 1895 of a state law allowing )men to vote in local elections. ;8 South Sea Avenue 1825 alf Cape, modified cording to Daniel Wing, in hisbook West Yarmouth 'ouses and the evidence of old and new maps, its house probably belonged to John Bangs. r. Bangs was born in Brewster on June 5, 1791, id according to the Vital Records of Yarmouth, moved to South Sea Avenue between the years S23 and 1826, it was there that the last two of his %e children were born, and where he operated .i establishment that made lamp black. This busi- ess was near the salt works of Gorham and iekiel Crowell at the Great Island fence. his house features mortise -tenon nine -over -six nd six -over -six windows, an outside chimney, entil work under the cornice and ells on either .de of the house leading into a summer kitchen. GREAT ISLAND The first records of Great Island occur in the early days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, in the middle of the seventeenth century. At that time the early settlers from Plymouth were establishing themselves along the north shore of Cape Cod, in Sandwich, Barnstable and Yarmouth. Yelverton Crow, later Crowe and Crowell, was among those settlers who had come from England to Plymouth in 1635 and settled in Yarmouth in 1639, buying a large tract of land along the south shore from the Indians, who called these parts near Lewis Bay the "South Seas." Great Island was part of this terri- tory where Yelverton settled and his family grew and multiplied for over 200 years. Charles B. Cory, a gentleman from Boston who was early on a conservationist and protector of bird and animal life, purchased the Island in 1883 as a summer home, a game preserve and center for his studies of wild life. What is known today as the Cory house on the Island he made into a summer home, greatly enlarging it by many alterations and additions. It was reputedly the oldest house on the Island, built in about I749 by a Crowell and lived in by Crowells until the house and Island were purchased. Charles Cory died in 1921, and the Island was eventually sold by Cory's friend, the steel magnate Henry B. Phipps, to Malcolm Chace of Providence, Rhode Island for twenty thousand dollars! Over the years other families have come to summer on the Island but it remains essentially a private place today, owned by the Chace family. At the southern tip of the Island, on a high prom.. ontory, stands the Point Gammon Lighthouse and the keeper's cottage, both built of stone in 1816. They still stand today although the light- house was abandoned in 1859 and replaced by the much stronger Bishops and Clark' light in Nantucket Sound. Point Gammon Lighthouse, Great Island