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HomeMy WebLinkAboutForm B 101 Rendezvous Lane Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. 12/12 FORM B − BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph Photo 1. 101 Rendezvous Lane, looking northwest. Locus Map Recorded by: M. Andrade, C. Hartfelder, V. Adams, T. Jonsson; PAL Organization: Town of Barnstable Date: February 2020 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 279/028 Hyannis BRN.S BRN.2509 Town/City: Barnstable Place: (neighborhood or village): Barnstable Village Address: 101 Rendezvous Lane Historic Name: Alice W. and Fred Levi Daggett House Uses: Present: Single Family Dwelling Original: Single Family Dwelling Date of Construction: Ca. 1909 Source: Walker 1910; BCRD 1909:293/575, 1910:303/203 Style/Form: Craftsman/ Bungalow Architect/Builder: Unknown Exterior Material: Foundation: Concrete Wall/Trim: Wood shingles/Wood Roof: Asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Shed, mid- to late 20th c.; Garage, late 20th c. Major Alterations (with dates): Windows replaced, late 20th – early 21st c.; North addition, early 21st c. Condition: Good Moved: no yes Date: Acreage: 0.63 acres Setting: The house is in the center of a roughly rectangular parcel on the west side of Rendezvous Lane surrounded by a manicured lawn dotted with trees. A paved asphalt driveway follows the south property boundary from the road to a garage near the west property boundary. Hedges and trees bound the property to the north, south, and west. Planter beds with flowering bushes and shrubs line the perimeter of the house. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BARNSTABLE 101 RENDEZVOUS LANE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 BRN.S BRN.2509 Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION The Alice W. and Fred Levi Daggett House, 101 Rendezvous Lane (ca. 1909, BRN.2509) is a west-facing, one-story, five-by- two-bay, rectangular, wood-frame house. The house is a Craftsman-style bungalow that retains many character-defining elements indicative of the style. The house has a hip roof surfaced in asphalt shingles, with wide, overhanging, boxed eaves. The walls are clad in wood shingles and rest on a concrete foundation. A brick chimney pierces the center ridge of the roof, and a one-bay shed-roof dormer pierces the center of the west roof slope. The east (facade) elevation is dominated by a one-story, five-bay-by-one-bay, enclosed porch that projects from the north two- thirds of the elevation. The porch has a front-gable roof with deep boxed eaves, decorative bargeboard, and triangular supports at the corners. Square piers resting on a wood-shingle-clad solid railing make up the porch’s structural system. The east (facade) elevation of the porch contains the entrance in the second bay from the south, with a single window to the south and three windows to the north. The porch’s side elevations each contain a single window opening. The porch windows are topped by a wide continuous molded entablature, and the piers are decorated with a wood applique in simple interpretation of a Doric capital. A rectangular, two-pane, multi-light window is in the porch’s gable and has a projecting semicircular sill supported by variously sized scroll brackets. The entrance is accessed by a short run of wood steps, flanked by vertical board-clad end piers, and contains a modern wood door in a plain wood surround. The south bay of the house’s facade is filled with a rectangular bay window that has a shallow splayed lintel, wood-shingle-clad walls, tapered casing, and a tall wood sill supported by paired scroll brackets. A rectangular, one-light, fixed, wood-frame window with an eight-light transom fill the bay window. A trapezoidal bay window supported by scroll brackets is in the east bay of the north elevation and is filled by three traditional-sized sash windows. Fenestration consists primarily of traditional size and small one-over-one and multi-pane-over-one, replacement vinyl sash set in plain wood surrounds. A one-and-one-half-story, two-bay-by-two-bay, wood-frame addition with multiple hip-roof planes extends northward from the north bay of the west (rear) elevation. A secondary, one-story, one-bay-by-two-bay, square, pyramidal hip-roof addition extends from the north elevation of the rear addition. The additions are clad in materials and filled with sash patterns matching the main block. The house is a good example of a Craftsman-style house in Barnstable that retains character-defining features, such as its bungalow form, wood shingle siding, decorative elements such as bargeboard and brackets on the porch, and bay windows. Alterations to the building are minimal, consisting of window replacement in the late twentieth to early twenty-first century, and construction of the rear additions in the early twenty-first century. A late twentieth century, one-story, two-by-one-bay, rectangular, wood-frame garage with a side-gable roof is southwest of the house and pierced by two retractable wood doors on its east elevation. A mid-to-late twentieth century, one-story, two-bay-by- one-bay, rectangular, wood-frame shed with a side-gable roof is immediately north of the garage and west of the house. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Rendezvous Lane, historically named Water and Sunset lanes, led to Crocker Wharf at Salton Point on Barnstable Harbor and the mouth of Rendezvous Creek (Anderson 1981; Walker 1910). The land along the road and including Crocker Wharf was owned by the Crocker family until the early twentieth century. Prior to 1909, the present Parcel 279/027 (101 Rendezvous Lane) was on larger parcels of land that was owned by Albert F. and Laura M. Contant of Boston and Walter Tufts of Barnstable (BCRD 1909:293/575, 1910:303/203). In 1909 and 1910, Alice Wesley Daggett (nee Anglin) (1872–1930) purchased the parcel of land from the Contants and Tuft (BCRD 1909:293/575). Daggett was married to Fred Levi Daggett (1870–1958), both of Newton, MA, and kept house (BCRD 1909:293-575; Find A Grave 2008; Sampson & Murdock Co. 1931:363). Fred, a native of Maine, founded the Daggett Chocolate Company in 1891 as a small retail candy store in Chelsea, MA. In 1906, the company expanded to a six-story building on Lewis Wharf in Boston and later moved to multiple buildings in the Kendall Square area of Cambridge that were constructed as the company’s factory. By the early to mid-twentieth century, the company concentrated on the production of chocolate-coated candies and the production of fruit syrup and crushed fruits for ice-cream making (Kline et al. 2016). About 1909, after acquiring INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BARNSTABLE 101 RENDEZVOUS LANE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 BRN.S BRN.2509 the land, the Daggetts presumably had the Alice W. and Fred Levi Daggett House, 101 Rendezvous Lane (ca. 1909, BRN.2509) constructed as their summer residence, with the building first appearing on the 1910 map of Barnstable (Walker 1910). Harrison Kent of Barnstable purchased the property in 1919 from Alice Daggett, then of Marion, MA. Kent retained ownership until 1930 (BCRD 1919:364/227, 1930:476/540). Kent (b.1893) worked as a manager of a garage and resided in the house with Mary Alice Kent (b.1901) his wife, and Alice Stevens Kent (b. 1927) their daughter (U.S. Census 1930). The property exchanged hands twice in 1940 and twice in 1942, with the next long-term owners Andrew and Elizabeth Hunt of Haverford, PA, acquiring the property in 1942, presumably for use as a summer residence (BCRD 1940:569/70, 1940:569:514, 1942:592/58-59). In 1964, the Hunt family sold the property to Russell A. Miller (b. 1913), a native of Kingston, MA, who owned and operated the Barnstable News Store, 3220 Main Street (ca. 1915, BRN.1303) in Barnstable Village from 1947 to 1986 with his wife Argentina M. “Tena” Miller (nee Scagliarini; 1910–2002), an Italian immigrant who moved to Plymouth, MA, at the age of 1 (U.S. Census 1930; MA Obituary 2002). The Miller family retains ownership and permanent residency of the property at 101 Rendezvous Lane up to 2019 (BCRD 1964:1269/590; Barnstable Assessor 2019). BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Anderson, Patricia. Massachusetts Historical Commission Form A: Village Center, Barnstable MA (BRN.S). On file, Massachusetts Historical Commission, Boston, MA, 1981. Barnstable Assessor. Online Property Database. https://townofbarnstable.us/Departments/Assessing/Property_Values/Property- Look-Up.asp, accessed November 2019. Barnstable County Registry of Deeds (BCRD). Registry and Land Court Records. https://search.barnstabledeeds.org, accessed November 2019. Deyo, Simeon (ed.). History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts 1620-1637-1686-1890. New York, NY: Blake & Co., 1890. Find A Grave. “Fred Levi Daggett,” 2008. Find A Grave Memorial ID 25706406. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25706406/fred-levi-daggett, accessed March 2020. Kline, Laura, Melissa Andrade, Virginia Adams, and Wendy Frontiero. Daggett Chocolate Co. Area (MIT Buildings E17, E18, and E19), 40 and 50 Ames Street and 400 Main Street, Cambridge, MA. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Area/Complex Inventory Form. Form prepared for MIT. On file at MIT, Cambridge, MA. Massachusetts Obituary and Death Notice Archive (MA Obituary). “Argentina 'Tena' Miller, 91.” http://www.genlookups.com/ma/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/277, accessed March 2020. National Environmental Title Research, LLC (NETR). Historic Aerials of Barnstable, MA. 1938, 1969, 1971, 1977, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016. https://www.historicaerials.com/viewer, accessed November 2019. Sampson & Murdock Company. Newton, Massachusetts City Directory, 1931. Boston, MA, 1931. United States Bureau of the Census (U.S. Census). Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. (T626, 2,667 rolls). National Archives and Records Administration Washington, D.C., ancestry.com database. Walker Lithograph & Publishing Co. (Walker L&P). Map of Barnstable County. Boston, MA: Walker Publishing Co., 1910. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET BARNSTABLE 101 RENDEZVOUS LANE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 3 BRN.S BRN.2509 PHOTOGRAPHS Photo 2. 101 Rendezvous Lane, looking southwest. Photo 3. Garage and shed, looking west.