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HomeMy WebLinkAboutForm B- 2 Irving AveInventory No:BRN.2095 Historic Name:Marchant,Hezekiah House Common Name:Hyannisport Country Club Tennis Professional House Address:2 Irving Ave City/Town:Barnstable Village/Neighborhood:Hyannis;Hyannisport; Local No:HYA-31; Year Constructed:C 1754 Architectural Style(s):No style; Use(s):Agricultural;Dairy;Other Recreational;Secondary Dwelling House;Single Family Dwelling House; Workers Housing; Significance:Agriculture;Architecture;Industry;Recreation; Area(s):BRN.AS Designation(s): Building Materials:Roof:Asphalt Shingle; Wall:Cedar Shingle;Log;Wood;Wood Shingle; Foundation:Stone,Uncut; Demolished No The Massachusetts Historical Commission (MHC)has converted this paper record to digital format as part of ongoing projects to scan records of the Inventory of Historic Assets of the Commonwealth and National Register of Historic Places nominations for Massachusetts.Efforts are ongoing and not all inventory or National Register records related to this resource may be available in digital format at this time. 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Commonwealth of Massachusetts Massachusetts Historical Commission 220 Morrissey Boulevard,Boston,Massachusetts 02125 www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc This file was accessed on:Monday,March 4,2024 at 3:05 PM FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph Assessor's Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number Topographic or Assessor's Map Recorded by: J. W. Gould Organization: Barnstable Historical Commission Date (month/year): August, 2009 266031 Hyannis Town: Barnstable Place: (neighborhood or village) Hyannisport Address: 2 Irving Avenue (off Marchants Mill Road) Historic Name: Hezekiah Marchant House; Julia's House Uses: Present: Tennis professional's residence Original: Farmhouse Date of Construction: After 1754 Source: After birth of Elisabeth, daughter of Hezekiah Marchant and Elizabeth (Crowell) Bassett, Yarmouth Vital Records 88. Style/Form: Full Cape Architect/Builder: Unknown Exterior Material: Foundation: Mortared fieldstone Wall/Trim: Cedar shingle Roof: Composition shingle Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: None Major Alterations (with dates): One and one-half story extension on east end; bay window on south side added October, 1898; kitchen extension and windows, c. 1910; major reconstruction, 1980. Condition: Much of original frame exists, with alterations Moved: no | X | yes 11 Date Acreage: Merged with golf course, 156 acres. Setting: On west side of mill pond, on grounds of country club with maintenance buildings south and west, 13th tee to the north. RECEIVED AU3 3 1 2009 MASS, HIST. COMM c INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 2 IRVING AVENUE, HYANNISPORT BARNSTABLE Area(s) Form No. Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. Use as much space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This full Cape Cod cottage rests on a T-shaped mortared fieldstone foundation. The core measures 26 x 38, with a one and a half story 10 x 20 gabled extension east, and a one story 16x19 kitchen ell to the rear (north). The exterior is clad in cedar shingle, with white trim. There are dentiled cornices on the facade. The centered entry door is framed by decorative pilasters with fluted capitals. The door itself is modem. To the right the two original bays are replaced by a large bay window on a dressed granite foundation, with full-sized 2 over 2 windows on each of three sides. The original central chimney and entry staircase have been replaced with a nineteenth century brick stack. There are two other brick stacks, one outside the east wing, another on the north ell. Most window frames date from early twentieth century, but the two windows on the north end of the kitchen wing appear to be much older, probably moved from the original core. Despite many alterations to the interior, early architectural details remain very much in evidence throughout the house. It has many floorboards measuring 18", and at least 10 original doors with Norfolk thumb latches. Door frames are beaded. The door frame into the southwest parlor/bedroom is unusually detailed. There are original wainscoting and chair rails in the hall and southeast parlor. The sills are original with mortise and tenon joints; many of the floor joists are half-logs, some with bark, and others sawn timbers. The floorboards are sawn and whitewashed beneath. There is a mortared fieldstone cellar about 20 x 15 beneath the west end, and another about 15x15 under the east extension. The kitchen wing interior has beaded woodwork, suggesting construction during the era of F.L Paine ca. 1910. It is one step down from the hall, through a narrowed doorway and reconstructed sill that suggests that earlier wider back door. The roof has sawn timbers supporting horizontal planks, some 20" wide. One wall of the attic has nineteenth century wallpaper. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE The house is reputed to have been built by Hezekiah5 Marchant (1713-92), bom in Yarmouth to Samuel* Marchant (Abishar, John2"1) and Joanna3 Gage (Benjamin2). He is supposed to have come to Hyannis Port in the early 1730s. In 1742 he married a Yarmouth widow Elizabeth4 (Crowell) Bassett (d. 1795), daughter of Seth3 Crowell (Thomas2, Yelverton1), and widow of Daniel Bassett. All of his children were born in Yarmouth, including the last, Elisabeth, on 26 Feb. 1754, so the house was built after that date. He is buried in South Street Cemetery at the west end of Hyannis, with his wife and son James. There is no probate record for Hezekiah, and it is supposed that the house was inherited by his eldest son James6 Marchant (1743-1813). BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Revision of form B by Laurie Snowden, 1981 area form A 31. Barnstable County Registry of Deeds: deeds 209/54, 253/253, 298/325, 372/499-501, 381/28; probates Record vol. 37, pp. 47-50, #1875, 9956, 10341, 12428, 18561, 27551. Town of Yarmouth vital records 36, 88, 175,180 Town of Barnstable vital records. Site visit by Robert Frazee 10 Aug. 2009 Simeon Deyo, ed.. History of Barnstable County (1890), 125, 382,414-415. Amos Otis, Genealogical Notes (1888), 49. Walling map 1858 "N.Marchanf. Walker Atlases 1880, p. 20 "N.Marchant"; 1910 p. 26 "C.B.Marchanf. Paul Herrick and Larry Newman Old Hyannis Port (1968) 3,14,16, 33, 35. Larry Newman in Seven Villages of Barnstable, 138,145. Barnstable Patriot INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET 2 IRVPNG AVENUE, HYANMSPORT BARNSTABLE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Areais) Form IN v. Historical Narrative, cont'd (1): James Marchant married three times, to Lydia Hatch, Martha Lovell and Huldah Cobb. Huldah (perhaps daughter of Ebeneze:4, b. 1755) was mother of 13 of his 15 children. In his will of 1813 (Probate Records Vol. 37, pp. 47-50) he left the east half of the house, with half of the wash room, cellar, kitchen, fireplace and oven to his wife Huldah. then on her death to his son Freeman. The west half, with the half of the other things, he left to his seven unmarried daughters Martha, Abbigail, Lydia, Sarah, Racheal and Tirzah until they were married. The last of these, Tirzah, who kept a store in Centerville, died unmarried in 1888, with no real estate (Probate 9956). His eldest son James Jr. was given the right to buy the east half. It would appear that James Jr. had built his own house nearby, but this has disappeared.. Freeman Marchant (1793-1866) married Abigail6 Scudder (1795-1876; David5, Eleazer4, Ebenezer3, John2"1), and had at least five children: Edward Delavan (1822-39), Francis Freeman (1825), Ellen D. (1826-70), Agnes (1832-49), Abbie S. (1835-81). The brothers James, Freeman and Crocker Marchant (1785-1844) owned and operated large saltworks here after 1800. Newman locates them near the Marchant house, the mill pond, and at the 16th, 17* and 18 fairways. In Squaw Island creek Freeman built a pink-sterned schooner Dart, and a long wharf. Freeman opened a hotel in the village (at Marchant Av.) in 1830, and later built the Tower House hotel. He ran a dry-goods and lumber store until 1834, took took over the store from his sister Tirza in 1837, and was partner of Frederick Scudder in a store until 1860.. He was an active reformer in the temperance movement, treasurer of the county peace society and secretary of the anti-slavery society. There is no probate for Freeman, nor any descendants, and his property appears to have reverted to the eldest brother James. The youngest son Crocker married in 1816 to Amelia Lovell, by whom he had three children, Celia F., Henry C. and Horace. Crocker, a ships carpenter built schooners and coastal vessels near the boat wharf, among them the brig Celia, named for his daughter. He left half of his house to his son Henry in common with his wife Amelia with life tenancy, and on her death divided equally among the three (Probate #1875). Celia died shortly later of TB, unmarried at age 20, the same week that Henry's wife Hannah died of the same disease. The house and four acres were inventoried at $600, and sold to his brother's partner Frederick Scudder. James Jr. (1781-1848) married Content Lovell (1787-1876), by whom he had 14 children. Known as Deacon (of Hyannis Baptist church), he was town selectman from 1828-30, and ran the stage line to Sandwich. His will left all of his property to his wife, and after her death equally divided between his sons Lewin and Nelson. Lewin also got the property received by his sisters Anna and Tirzah, and Nelson got his father's share in the grist mill. His daughters again got the west half of the building until they married. This suggests that he was occupying a newer house, for the maiden aunts still occupied the west half of the old homestead. In 1852 the dwelling and 30 acres were inventoried at $810, and his half of the grist mill at $125. Lewin (1815-98) appears not to have married, or had children. He left his homestead to his niece and housekeeper Jeanne T. Chipman of Hyannis Port (Probate 12428; no inventory). The Hezekiah homestead was occupied by the younger son Nelson G. Marchant (1825-90). He ran a dairy farm here. His marriage to Mary Loring (1819-1901) produced two sons, dairyman Charles B. Marchant (1858-1938) and Orlando W. (1868- 1941). His will divided the estate between the two sons (Probate 10341; no inventory). In 1893 Orlando quitclaimed the house and 40 acres to his brother Charles (209/54). Charles went west in 1888 to do cattle farming in Washington Territory, but returned to continue his father's dairy farm for a decade. In Oct. 1898 he added the bay window to the front. In 1901 he leased 30 acres (without the building) to Dr. Joseph J. Herrick of Springfield and Rev. Ezra Allen Slack of Brookline for $200 a year (Deed 253/253). They were co-founders of the Hyannisport Club in 1897, selling their property to the club in 1909 for $14,000. That year Marchant leased the 30 acres to the Hyannisport Club for $400 a year (298/325), to which 25 more were added in 1912 (372/499) to make 18 holes cossible. In 1921 he sold the land to the club. INVENTORY FORMS CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 2 IRVING AVENUE, HYANNISPORT BARNSTABLE Areafsl Form iv AS Historical Narrative, cont'd (2): In 1979 Julia Angier Ewing died at the age of 31, daughter of Gilman Angier of Newton and Sarah Edith Weston of Hyannis. S*c had been married for less than a year to Frederick Berthold Ewing of St. Louis. In her memory the Angier family restored the house in her memory, hence the name "Julia's House". It has been the residence of the tennis oro of the club for three decades. (Richard Stimson in 1968-99). Additional Photographs: Marchant House from South Marchant House from North Community Property Address 2 IRVING AVENUE, HYANNISPORT, BARNSTABLE Area(s) Form No. National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: X Individually eligible • Eligible only in a historic district X Contributing to a potential historic district O Potential historic district Criteria: XA XB XCXD Criteria Considerations: • A • B • C • D • E • F • G Statement of Significance by James W. Gould The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. The Hezekiah Marchant House is eligible for National Register status under two criteria: A. It is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad pattern of history: The saltworks that were constructed by the Marchant brothers after 1800, continuing through the War of 1812. The ownership of the neighboring grist mill on Hall's Creek. The construction of small seagoing ships like the schooner Dart (ca. 1840). The owner leased his land for the first layout of the Hyannisport Golf Club (1897). B. Its association witth the life of the leading citizen of Hyannis Port in the early nineteenth century. Freeman Marchant (1793-1866). He was the leading storekeeper and hotel keeper, as well as salt maker, shipbuilder, and leader in civic associations of temperance, anti-slavery and peace. r MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 MHC INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MHC Inventory scanning project, 2008-2009 MACRES No. fti^ 2^15~ MHC INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MHC Inventory scanning project, 2008-2009 MACRISNo. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET 2 IRVING AVENUE, HYANNISPORT BARNSTABLE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form Ne 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 . INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 2 IRVING AVENUE. HYANNISPORT BARNSTABLE Area(s> Form No Additional Photographs: FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 294 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02108 cross streets and other buildings or geographical features. Indicate north. \ Recorded by Laurie P. Snowden Organization Barnstable Historical Commission Date July. 1981 Area Form no. Barnstable (Hyannis Port) s Off Marchants Mill Rd,.. Hvannls Port ic Name Hezeklah Marchant House riginal Homestead resent Commercial Property hip:0 Private individual Private organization Hyannisport Golf Club Pub1ic riginal owner Hezeklah Marchant PTION: Date C. Late 1730 's Source Beglstry of Deeds-Barn Cty. Style Georgian (Full Cape) Architect Exterior wall fabric wood shingles wooo. clapboard Outbuildings Major alterations (with dates) Exterior retmnd el fid 1Q80. new roof and exterior Moved Date Approx. acreage Setting Private residential area (Staple additional sheets hf ) ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within community) The Hezekiah Marchant House has undergone numerous alterations since it was constructed in the late 1730's. The main doorway is sided by decorative pilasters with the original moldings along the outside trim of the house. The house has three chimneys, with one fireplace in active use, (two of the fireplaces are no longer visible). The rear ell of the house was the original kitchen. In the keeping room, the wainescoting is visible. The original borning room with its two doors is now part of a bathroom and closet. The floor boards in many rooms measure 18" in width. Additionally, the house features one set of ship's stairs, located in the back hallway. The original front stairway has been torn down to HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (explain the role owners played in local or state history Cont» and how the building relates to the development of the community) Hezekiah Marchant was born in Yarmouth on May 27, 1713. He was the third of four sons born to Samuel and Joanna (Gage) Marchant. His brothers were Samuel, born October 17, 1711; Nathaniel, born December k, 1709; and Lemuel, born Jan 27t 1715* All of his family were farmers and lived in Yarmouth throughout their lives. In the early 1730's, Hezekiah came to Hyannis Port. Records which determine the ownership of the original land upon which Hezekiah built his homestead were apparently destroyed In the 1827 Barnstable County House fire. In 17^2 Hezekiah married Elisabeth Crowell Bassett, the widow of Daniel Bassett. She had a son, Daniel, by Bassett, born August 2, 1736. Elisabeth is believed to have grown up in Yarmouth with Hezekiah, she being the daughter of the Honorable Seth Crowell. Elisabeth bore Hezekiah three children; James, born August 5, 17^3• ' James was married three times to Lydia Hatch, Martha Lovell, and Huldah Cobb, he fathered fifteen children, two of his sons being Freeman and Crocker who owned and operated large salt works In Hyannis Port. Hezekiah II was born August 28, 17^9. he married Deborah Hamblen in 1768. She bore him six children, Thankful (1770), Lydia (1772), Josiah (1773), Sally (1777), Deborah (1780) and Mlcah (1782). It is believed that Hezekiah I sold David Hinckley the land on which to build his homestead and grist mill. Hezekiah died in 1792, and his wife Elizabeth died in 1795. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Registry of Deeds-Barnstable County Barnstable County Atlas 1858, 1880, 1907 Deyo, Simeon, History of Barnstable County. Massachusetts, 1890. Otis, Amos, Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families. 1888. 20M-2/80 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Indicate each item on inventory form which Community: Form No: Barnstable (Hyannis Port) Property Name : Hezekiah Marchant '. is being continued below. Architectural Sig. Cont. make a recessed hallway. The exterior of the house is constructed of shingles and clapboard. The entire foundation of the house was built using native stone. The original doors and thumb latches still exist in many of the rooms. There is a large bay window, believed to have been added by Charles Marchant in the late 1880's. Recently the house has started to experience a complete renovation.