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Home My WebLink About0107 SEA VIEW AVENUE (5) ��moo Y Town of Barnstable TME Barnstable Historical Commission 200 Main Street, Hyannis, Massachusetts 02601 ,, ST,,XIM : (508) 8624786 Fax (508) 8624725 y M m www.town.bamstable.ma.us FD Mpl� September 26, 2007 Board of Directors, Wianno Club Thomas Swan Jr., President 220 Boylston St., #1215 Boston, MA 02116 Jack Thomson, General Manager Wianno Club 107 Sea View Avenue Osterville, MA 02655 s RE: Tiffany building, Wianno Club Cottage Gentlemen: The Barnstable Historical Commission wishes to express to you concern for the deteriorated condition of one of your most notable buildings,the Tiffany Building. As the Wianno Club website notes, all of the Wianno Club buildings have retained their original charm and character and are significant in Cape Cod's architecture, sufficiently so, that they have been accepted to the National Register of Historic Places. Our historic building description file (Form B) on file with the Massachusetts Historical Commission notes that Tiffany building was constructed in 1879 and ....... "is one of the most outstanding and certainly the most whimsical examples of the Queen Ann style erected during Iffilanno's early years." The Tiffany building is recognized by the National Register both individually, and as part of the Wianno National Register District. We have included a copy of the inventory with this correspondence for your information. The Tiffany building is an important part of the history and character of the Wianno Club and Osterville; it is a building of distinction and note, and its present dilapidated condition is of great concern to the community. We note that in the past, the Wianno Club has explored the possibility of significant alteration to the building, and even perhaps demolition. Please note that significant alteration to the historic character or demolition of a building listed on the National Register, is an automatic referral to the Cape Cod Commission. We request that the Board of Directors of the Wianno Club explore the possible re-use and restoration of this signature building that is so strongly associated with the history and architecture of the Wianno Club. If we can be of assistance, please contact us °through the town office listed above. Sincerely Nanc�Clrk Chairman Ruth Weil, Director, Growth.Management Department, Town of Barnstable Sarah Koryeff, Historic Preservation Specialist Corr Fox, Chief Regulatory Officer Cape Cod Commission 3225 Main St Barnstable Village, MA 02630 Carol Allen, Ch. Osterville Historical Society Susan McGarry, Executive Director, PO Box 3 155 West Bay Road Osterville, MA 02655 Brona Simon, Executive Director Massachusetts Historical Commission Massachusetts Historical Archives Building 220 Morrissey Boulevard Boston, MA 02125 Thomas Perry, Building Commissioner 200 Main Street, Hyannis, MA 02601 I FORM B - BUILDING AREA FORM NO. iASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 162/24 0VC : 66 91 30 BOYLSTON STREET 30STON, MA 02116 --nf----- - - R,..- Town Barnstable (0sterville/Wianno ) Address 71 Sea View .Ave. Historic Name The Cones then Tiffany Use: Present Wianno Club guest Gotta - Original residence DESCRIPTION Date 1879 ate panel o bi 11g Source Regis ry of Bee s 2, 141-3 style Queen Anne Arch'i tect unknown Sketch Map: .Draw map showing property's location in relation to nearest. cross streets and/or Extertor.Wal1 Fabric shingle igeographi*cal featur'es.' Indicate:all buildings between inventoried property and nearest Outbuildings none intersection(s). .Indicate north ` Major Alterations (with dates) ' interior remodelings Condition poor Moved no Date Acreage included in Wianno Club land U.0 v �k Setting residential sPasi .e resort area part of Wianno Historic Distri Photo ##130-1-C66 UTM- REFERENCE Recorded by Barbara Croshy USGS QUADRANGLE Organization Barnstable Historical Com. SCALE Date January 1980 reiri Red 19Q:7 NATIONAL REGISTER .CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) See National Register Criteria Statement Form . attached ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE, .,Des.cribe -important architectural features and evaluate in. terms of other buildings within the community. Tiffany is one of the most outstanding, and certainly the most whimsical, example of the Queen Anne style erected during Wianno's early years. It is a 2 1%2 story structure that faces a gambrel end with a long, slopping lean-to to the street. A porch with large, arched openings, that appears to be a later addition, extends across much of the. front facade. The exterior is enlivened in typical fashion with decorative shingle types and by windows with multi-pane sash. The front facade has some distinctive carvings. In a large square beside a second floor gothic-type window is carved a new moon and a full sun with rays and the date, 1879, carved in the center of the sun. On the porch pediment is a square in which is carved a pine branch with pine cones. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played. in local or state -history and how the building relates to the development of the community. See continuation sheet BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Registry of Deeds Atlas - 1907, 1880 map Osterville Vol I 1988 Paul Chesbro Who ' s Who in New England, A.N. Ma.rqui.s & Co, Chicago 1916 Barnstable Patriot , September, 1948 8/85 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community: Form No: MASSACHUSETTS HI STORI CAL CCYM SS I ON B a r n s t a b l e(0 s t e r v i l e 66 91 Office of the; Secretary, Boston Property Name: The Cones "Tiffany" Indicate each' item on inventory form which is being continued below. Historical 'Significance: William Lloyd Garrison, Jr. (1838-1909), son of the abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison, came to Osterville with his family to the 1873 Cotocheset House (162/24), the most popular local hotel of the period, which drew summer visitors from New England and an extensive area beyond. Mr. Garrison, a wool merchant and investment broker, interested himself in village affairs and was instrumental in the building of the Osterville Public Library (117/75.1) in 1881. The Garrisons decided to build a summer home at this most desirable location. In August, 1879 his wife, Ellen Wright Garrison (1840-1931), purchased land adjacent to the hotel, (lots 1 & 2, block 5, section one, on the 1873 Osterville Land Co. plan 32/143) from Parkman Dexter of Boston. Mr. Dexter was in the wool and cotton business for 25 years, later an official in the West End Street Railway Co. In November the foundation was laid and this house built by Daniel Crosby and Charles Daniel with Maine lumber.which was carted from the West Barnstable railway station by Scudder, West &.C.o: of Osterville. Daniel Crosby was a well known boat builder in the village and_Charles. Daniel was.a ship carpenter. from-. ., ; Scotland married to an Irish girl, CAtherine!(.Kate)_Morris, who had been.employed=by.:..:; the Garrisons in their Brookline home. The.Daniels.were moved to the village Permanently-by the Garrisons-to work 1bri;the.•family in-building '.and:maintaining.the. various houses they.-built in the Wianno area.for their own;use -and as.lodging:houses!:: : Joseph W..Tallman, Sr., who had moved from-Cotuit to work with Mr. Daniels,,was the mason. The Garrisons always gave names to the houses and this first house was called ' "The Cones". In 1891 the Garrisons sold the house to Mary L. Tiffany of New York City and her son, Henry D. Tiffany, of Portchester, NY, husband of Eleanor Gordon Tiffany. According to the Barnstable Patriot of December 8, 1891 the Tiffanys had Charles Daniel "repairing and enlarging the cottage". In 1.9 16.the Cotocheset House was acquired by members of the Wianno Yacht Club who formed a new private . organization, the Wianno Club, which was to include the hotel, the yacht club and a golf club. That same year Mr. and Mrs. Tiffany sold this property to Henry B. Day, who, as treasurer of the executive committee of the Wianno group, transferred the title to the Wianno Club. It is still in that ownership as a guest house. Mr. Day was a banker with the Day Trust Co., which after several mergers in recent times, is now Fleet Bank. On August 27, 1948 Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948), American jurist, diplomat and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1930-1941) died here while in residence as a guest. The house may have been designed by Horace Frazer of Chapman and Frazer, Boston, who designed a number of buildings in the area and later owned another William Lloyd Garrison house, the 1888 "Old Hundred" (140/151), which he had moved to Wianno Ave. from Seaview Ave. in 1901. Massachusetts Historical Commission Community Property Address 80 Boylston Street Ostervi-lle 71 Sea View Ave Boston,Massachusetts 02116 OVC 66 91 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: fJ Individually eligible ❑ Eligible only in a historic district ❑ Contributing to a potential historic district ❑ Potential historic district Criteria: ® A 9 B ® C ❑ D Criteria Considerations: 0 A ❑ B . ❑. .C, 0 D O. E ❑ F ❑ G Srateri%ent of by The criteria that are checked in th`e above sections must be justified here.. . As one of the: earliest large•.cottages . built~.in this noted area by an outstanding family of the period and its use for many years as . part-:of the operation of a well known private club this bu.ilding is eligible under criteria .A, B and C �i09 A C R ■ [ 11 ■ O ♦ I A i % A lif. d•d O so 17 ' w'o•Rtf pd•Ilr`_ _ NO p7i•►Y� Idd•W� • J •1 wi to 4, ti •THIRD•rLOO¢•PLAN• rmST•rLDM-PLAN• ?� a� •acwu �'•`^`e� •TI rFANY•COTTAGE.• TI f PAN Y'COTTAGE- 1� i/ 6 T ..i.. :. IN 161 IMIo•d� I I I/ •SLCOND•rLO08•PLAN• e� r •Ti r rANY•COTTAGE;• 1: s c 1, i a 11 ■ o 1 1 A S S A ox• ' R �Nf. It•� 0 �iQ.ILM• . f0 17 assess - w'o•RO led.l►r it I`✓ ill � 3z J ♦Iwzzw y N •Tt112D•rL.002•PLAN• "CALe� •TI FFANY•COTTAGE• •TI FfANY•COTTAGE.• \I \1 i i/ 6 O v . - Ni.ld� 11-p•1F1 C I '3rtOND•rL002•PLAN- -Ti r rANY•COTTAGE- C� Town of Barnstable �TME Barnstable Historical Commission 200 Main Street, Hyannis, Massachusetts 02601 , „s,;,BLE. ; (508) 862-4786 Fax (508) 862-4725 MA88 www.town.bamstable.ma.us 9 ibg9. �10rso�+► September 26, 2007 Board of Directors, Wianno Club Thomas Swan Jr., President 220 Boylston St., #1215 Boston, MA 02116 Jack Thomson, General Manager Wianno Club 107 Sea View Avenue Osterville, MA 02655 RE: Tiffany building, Wianno Club Cottage Gentlemen: The Barnstable Historical Commission wishes to express to you concern for the deteriorated condition of one of your most notable buildings,the Tiffany Building. As the Wianno Club website notes, all of the Wianno Club buildings have retained their original charm and character and are significant in Cape Cod's architecture, sufficiently so, that they have been accepted to the National Register of Historic Places. Our historic building description file (Form B) on file with the Massachusetts Historical Commission notes that Tiffany building was constructed in 1879 and ....... °is one of the most outstanding and certainly the most whimsical examples of the Queen Ann style erected during Wianno's early years." The Tiffany building is recognized by the National Register both individually, and as part of the Wianno National Register District. We have included a copy of the inventory with this correspondence for your information. The Tiffany building is an important part of the history and character of the Wianno Club and Osterville; it is a building of distinction and note, and its present dilapidated condition is of great concern to the community. We note that in the past, the Wianno Club has explored the possibility of significant alteration to the building, and even perhaps demolition. Please note that significant alteration to the historic character or demolition of a building listed on the National Register, is an automatic referral to the Cape Cod Commission. M �+ { i We request that the Board of Directors of the Wianno Club explore the possible re-use and restoration of this signature-building that is so strongly associated with the history and architecture of the Wianno Club. If we can be of assistance, please contact us through the town office listed above. Sincerely Nancy ClVrk, Chairman Ruth Weil, Director, Growth Management Department, Town of Barnstable Sarah Korjeff, Historic Preservation Specialist Dorr Fox, Chief Regulatory Officer Cape Cod Commission 3225 Main St Barnstable Village, MA 02630 Carol Allen, Ch. Osterville Historical Society Susan McGarry, Executive Director, PO Box 3 155 West Bay Road Osterville, MA 02655 Brona Simon, Executive Director Massachusetts Historical Commission Massachusetts Historical Archives Building 220 Morrissey Boulevard Boston, MA 02125 Thomas Perry, Building Commissioner 200 Main Street, Hyannis, MA 02601 4-ORM B - BUILDING AREA FORM NO. 162/24 OVC : 66 191 iASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 0 BOYLSTON STREET 30STON, MA 02116 Town Barnstable (Osterville/Wianno) Address 71 Sea View .Ave Historic Name The Cones then Tiffany ` Use: Present Wianno Club quest. cott - Original residence DESCRIPTION Date 1879 _ -_- - — date anel o b itd Source Regispry of Bees 1�Tg2 , 141- ... Style Q :r. ueen Anne �" "�.• - Archi test unknown Sketch .Map: Draw map showing property's location In. rel atio,n. to nearest.cross streets and/or Extertor Wall Fabric. s.hing'le �ge:ographi:cal features. Indicate.:.al1 buildings between inventoried. property and nearest. Outbuildings none. :. ;intersection(s). :Indicate .north II Major Alterations (with dates) *- qt interior remodelings Condition boo - F UJ Moved no Date _ Acreage included in Wianno Club la ��Nn�U.0 SaV k Setting -residential seaside racnrt `> p.N area part of Wianno Historic Dist Photo #130-1-C66 UTM REFERENCE Recorded by Barbara .roclhy USGS QUADRANGLE Organization Barnstable Historical Co SCALE Date January 1980 rev; sea _l QQ7 IATIONAL REGISTER .CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) See National Register Criteria Statement Form . attached kRCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE. ..Des.cribe 'important architectural features and evaluate in. terms of )they buildings wi thi.n 'the community, Tiffany is one of the most outstanding, and certainly the most whimsical, example of . the Queen Anne style erected during Wianno's early years: It is a 2 1/2 story structure. that faces a gambrel end with a long, slopping lean-to to the street. A porch with . large, arched openings, that appears to be a later addition, extends across much of the front facade. The exterior is enlivened in typical fashion with decorative shingle types and by windows with multi-pane sash. The front facade has some distinctive carvings. In a large square beside a second floor gothic-type window is carved a new moon and a full sun with rays and the date, 1879, carved in the center of the sun. On the porch pediment is a square in which is carved a pine branch with pine cones. HISTORICAL`SIGNIFICAN.CE Explain the role owners playe.d::in local or state history and how _ahe Dui 1 di ng rel ates. to the development of -the community,-... See continuation sheet BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Registry of Deeds Atlas - 1907, 1880 map Osterville Vol I 1988 Paul - Chesbro Who ' s Who in New England, A.N. Marquis & Co, . Chicago 1916 Barnstable Patriot, September, 1948 8/85 � Communi Property Address Massachusetts I3'istorical Commission �' 80 Boylston Street Osterville 71 Sea View Ave Boston,Massachusetts 02116 mN OVC 66 91 Natjonal Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form OD Check all that apply: D Individually eligible C7 Eligible Qn_ly in a historic district C1 Contributing to a potential historic district 0 Potential historic district Criteria: ® A - CY B ® C 0 D Criteria Considerations: 0 .A 0 B .. ..C7 .C 0. D E CJ F G Statement of Significance by The criteria that are cbecked in the above seciiaas must be ju of ed bete. . As one of the- earliest large-,cottages . built-An this noted area Dy an outstanding family of the period and its use for many years as part :of the operation of a well known private club this building is eligible under criteria A, B and C 7/92 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Corrmamity: Form No: MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL Ca IISSION Barnstable(Ostervile 66 91 Office of the; Secretary, Boston Property Name: The Cones "Tiffany" Indicate each' item on inventory form which is being continued below. Historical 'Significance: William Lloyd Garrison, Jr. (1838-1909), son of the abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison, came to Osterville with his family to the 1873 Cotocheset House (162/24), the most popular local hotel of the period, which drew summer visitors from New England and an extensive area beyond. Mr. Garrison, a wool merchant and investment broker, interested himself in village affairs and was instrumental in the building of the Osterville Public Library (117/75.1) in 1881. The Garrisons decided to build a summer home at this most desirable location. In August, 1879 his wife, Ellen Wright Garrison (1840-1931), purchased land adjacent to the hotel, (lots 1 & 2, block 5, section one, on the 1873 Osterville Land Co. plan 32/143) from Parkman Dexter of Boston. Mr. Dexter was in the wool and cotton business for 25 years, later an official in the West End Street Railway Co. In November the foundation was laid and this house built by Daniel Crosby and Charles Daniel with Maine lumber which was carted from the West Barnstable railway station by Scudder, West & Co. of Osterville. Daniel Crosby was a well known boat builder in the village and Charles Daniel 'was,a.ship;carpenter from Scotland married to an Irish girl, Catherine (Kate) Morris,iwho.-had :bleen employed by the Garrisons_ in their Brookline home. The Daniels were:-moved,to..the village. permanently,by 'the:Garrisons .to work for.:the family in.building:,and:maintaining the various houses they built in the Wianno area for their:owii,_: se.and°at:lodging houses.: :. Joseph W. Tallman, Sr., who had moved from Cotuit to..work with Mr: Daniels, was the mason. The Garrisons always gave names to the houses and this first house was called "The Cones". In 1891 the Garrisons sold the house to Mary L. Tiffany of New York City and her son, Henry D. Tiffany, of Portchester, NY, husband of Eleanor Gordon Tiffany. According to the Barnstable Patriot of December 8, 1891 the Tiffanys had Charles Daniel "repairing and enlarging the cottage". In :�916 the Cotocheset House was acquired by members of the Wianno Yacht Club who formed a new private organization, the Wianno Club, which was to include the hotel, the yacht club and a golf club. That same year Mr. and Mrs. Tiffany sold this property to Henry B. Day, who, as treasurer of the executive committee of the Wianno group, transferred the title to the Wianno Club. It is still in that ownership as a guest house. Mr. Day was a banker with the Day Trust Co., which after several mergers in recent times, is now Fleet Bank. On August 27, 1948 Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948), American jurist, diplomat and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1930-1941) died here while in residence as a guest. The house may have been designed by Horace Frazer of Chapman and Frazer, Boston, who designed a number of buildings in the area and later owned another William Lloyd Garrison house, the 1888 "Old Hundred" (140/151), which he had moved to Wianno Ave. from Seaview Ave. in 1901. :St'anlP to TnAra-ntnry 4rnrm .,* AugustT25 1,988 n war r at�rtot 'i�ytY" ''tin. �. C - �'9 �i�'•w.'� ��f. x ��F�� ty y�4hi •1, .5'✓m 1r .- rYY. - WIFFAIVI' HOUS,Ev Considered th'e'��sr��{�� k outstanding exam le of ' mot w6 Icalan�1;most y y > P ueeb tinne 1 stru � t t earlydaysof,Wiann ctures� �`` o,'Tiffany'House on Sea Yle �` �r 'been d x w-.4venue may have g e ed bYM RFace Fraser ay s Iliteci,v r s�� the,ne �,r �� Boston�arc r hodesi ned .Oboring Cotochessef Fioiise�and su' ' }� �4 h, Via 'a }«r mmeredthe-area i r r ric r x k fmre,s C} z 4 1 DO f( Z wY ,°k Ra. t a" r "� �� any House,powiised, y ; `�i f` ' r� guest cottage f t: scant 46 feet hom the wat` >�z or The Wialo Ctub;is a when Oster'ville was<becofantucket�Soundand wasbu�t18�9 rable* iltas r s' r+ mpg ya desi u *resorts s r ;+J 1 R , ,a jwellmg for"Ell V nBh Gaag rnson(Mrss-horn w d Gamson Jr ,who sold it to�lVl0. 7 f� t a zfromTewY'orlc` rJ ity,aCarvediinto the sc�uaie pane braYr �wfdowt Ws>�� rch4iskthe date 1879Arq,,was at�Tiffan Aopse a coFn mot¢,on th �rHughes c}uef,Nsuce,of the U SAS " sine Co � siEvans?r . TJ Y � �.died�Aug�27 1948x " Tiffany�Tlouse u a 21/2,story structute'that }a long,�slopllig-lean to to f, + ? ,a gambrel end wlcr �i . � � ,the UP �r The,porchy with itslarge£arche'd '' enirigs appears to be a la[er addition ` " g�z'��r �t° facade sThe exterior is4covered "F � ieztends across much of th decoranve a x- f r ows are multi pane sashes?�Ecjec[ic is> shingle t pes aadtlie` ` iffany'Houses ands woMused for the sty^^Te' >s trr+3r s a s eems 1riOSt flpprnOPIlaIe �v � � �} z �C_ L> ,