FORM B - BUILDING Assessor's number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
Massachusetts Historical Commission 6B-46 Hudson 281; 282
Massachusetts Archives Building
220 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, MA 02125
Photograph
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Roll Negative (s)
VI 17-18
Recorded by A. Forbes, consultant
Organization Bolton Historical Commission
Date (month/year) April, 1998
Town Bolton
Place
(neighborhood or village)
Address 84 Sampson Road
Historic Name Charles H. White House
Uses: Present dwelling
Uses: Original dwelling
Date of Construction mid-19th century
Source maps; visual evidence
Style/Form no style
Architect/Builder unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation parged brick or fieldstone
Wall/Trim wood clapboard
Roof asphalt shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures mid-late 19th C. two-story barn
Major Alterations (with dates) 20th C: rear addition; recent entry bay on S. end; exterior chimney (see text)
Condition fair to good
Moved [X] no [ ] yes Date - N/A
Acreage 4.8 acres
Setting Close to road in area of recent houses; fields and meadows to rear.
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BUILDING FORM
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
This house is a long 2 1/2-story, one-room-deep, side-gabled, relatively astylistic building with a cross-gabled, two-bay-wide forward projection on its north end. The windows are a mixture of 2-over-2- and 2-over-1-sash, with flat surrounds. Two newer 1-over-1's flank the twentieth-century exterior chimney on the front of the cross-gabled bay. A porch on square, chamfered posts with saw-cut brackets spans most of the front of the house, ending in a one-story enclosed bay at its north end. An entry in the main wall under the porch is apparently original--it has a four-panel door and a pair of very narrow 5-pane sidelights, with panels below. The house trim, characteristic of the latter third of the nineteenth century, includes unboxed eaves, narrow cornerboards, and a sillboard.
A major alteration to the building is the recent gable-roofed entry bay on the south end, which has a new 6-panel door and wooden steps with turned balustrade. A modern wood deck abuts the rear of the house.
Just south of the house is a large barn (#282) of the gable-front "New England" type, built into the south-facing hillside. Clad in vertical-board, it has an interior-mounted vertical-board rolling door with a pair of 6-over-6-sash windows above it in the gable peak. A long two-story, shed-roofed stanchion bay spans the south side of the building; two large wagon openings are positioned in its lower story. The main part of this barn retains its slate roof; the roof of the south shed-roofed section is asphalt shingle.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community.
The position of this house, almost directly opposite the site of the mid-nineteenth-century sawmill and turning lathe of Joel and Joab Barnard, suggests that it might have had a connection with that enterprise at one time (see Form #100--962 Main Street). Although the appearance of the house indicates that it was built around the middle of the 1800's, a house belonging to "C. Wheeler" is shown here on the 1831 map. Further research will be necessary to determine which of the many members of the large Wheeler family this was. Further investigation, probably through deed research, of the owner shown on the 1857 map is needed, as well, as it appears to be "L. Sameras", a name that is not found in any Bolton records.
By 1870 the property belonged to Charles H. White (1835-1903), a Civil War veteran of the Massachusetts Fifth Regiment, who, like many returning soldiers, may have acquired it shortly after his return from the war. At the time of his death the farm, which he called "Mountain View Farm" for the view west to Mt. Wachusett that is still visible today, spanned covered acres.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Maps and atlases: 1857 (L. Sameras); 1870 (CH White); 1898 (CH White).
Bolton vital records.
Bolton street directories, in The Hudson Directory, various years.
[ ] Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
If checked, you must attach completed National Register Criteria Statement form is attached.
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