15. Front Gambrel Type H—13 McKinley For more information: A variation which has no front overhang townofmaynard-ma.gov/resources/ NEW and features hip-roofed dormers. walkmaynard 16. Front Gambrel Type G—13 Roosevelt VILLAGE & Original roofing material was wood shingle, which combined with a shingled second MAYNARD’S story would have presented a highly textured Start Tour Here effect to the entire upper section of the house. Note the deep eaves and verge Points of Interest HILL boards (under the roofs) with splayed ends. *** SIDE TOUR *** Parking and Rest More New Village Housing Styles Stops HISTORIC Side Gable Type B—21 Garfield Street Optional Side WALKING TOUR #3 One of four in the village. Built as 5 rooms, Tour wood shingled, Craftsman in style, deep eves, paired hip-roof dormers. DISTANCE: 1.9 miles TIME: 1–1/2 hours Side Gable Type D—8 Garfield Street A simple rounded finial originally capped the turret on this five-room quaint three-bay by two-bay craftsman-style dwelling. Nice pen- dant decoration at roof peak. 19. Side Gambrel Type J—32 Parker Street 22. United Co-Op / Murphy & Snyder, Inc. Houses fronting Parker Street were more 7 Waltham St. Cross Gambrel Type K—3 Garfield St. decorative, in keeping with the tradition of Print shop started by Albert Murphy and Square house plan. Original off-center project- building distinctive houses on main thor- John Snyder in 1917. Moved to this location ing front porch now extends across the entire oughfares where they could be admired. in 1957 upon the purchase of the former façade. Decorative narrow windows with floral branch store of the United Co-op Society. tracery on each side elevation. 20. Joseph O’Brien House—27 Elm Street The print shop closed in 2003. Foursquare style house with Colonial Re- Four Square Single Type L—1 Garfield vival detailing built in 1905. Occupied for 23. Samuel’s Studio—8 Waltham St. One of two four-square houses in the village. many years by the family of Joseph O’Brien, Built in 1900. A photography studio from Tall pyramidal hip roof. Two bays wide and a spinner at the woolen mill. Magnificent 1935. A succession of restaurants occupied deep, giving it a cube shape. sweeping porch. 2-4 Waltham, last was La Petite Auberge. 21. William Parker House—9 Elm Street 24. Papermill Bridge—Waltham Street 17. Front Gable Type A—6 Roosevelt St. Built as a single family residence around A wooden structure was built across the Clad in both clapboards and wood shingles. 1800. Once mill management housing for fordway about 1840. Damaged by a flood in 18. Side Gable Type C—2 Roosevelt Street William Parker’s newsprint and wallpaper 1927 and replaced with the current bridge. manufactory (corner of Waltham and Parker 6 room house. A one-story porch rests on 25. Jarmo’s Auto Repair—5 Acton Street molded top posts. Porch fills the angle cre- Streets). Maps from 1870 show the house Once site of the Acton Street School, which ated by the two story projecting bay. Origi- standing alone on its hill overlooking the housed Maynard’s first public library. Torn nal detail included a balustrade atop the mill. The street was named for a massive down in 1902 and the present building SPONSORED BY THE MAYNARD porch roof. Note the front gable decoration. elm tree in the front yard. erected. HISTORICAL COMMISSION AND THE MAYNARD CULTURAL COUNCIL 1. Middlesex Family Laundry—49 River St. 5. Private residence—22 Walnut Street 9. Elmwood Street Sauna and Baths 11. Side Gambrel Style Type J— 38 Parker St. Early 20th century commercial building. Site Built in 1867. Note double porch and deco- 47-49 Elmwood Street The entrance is a variant due to corner loca- used by visiting carnivals and circuses until rative Victorian detail including verge boards Built after WWI by Vanni Vuori. One of five tion of the house. Oval window with four the 1920s. Building originally constructed as under the roof line. saunas in Maynard. Closed by 1980. Now a keystones dress up the gambrel end. an auto repair shop and garage. Became residential multi-family apartment. Fabric Care Center in 1958, an outgrowth of *** SIDE TOUR *** 12. Side Gambrel Style Type J—40 Parker St. Middlesex Launderers and Cleaners first 22 variations of this six or eight room house established in 1911. Private Residence—2 Oak St. American Woolen Company exhibit either paired gable or hip-roofed dor- Restored late-Victorian home built in 1895. Mill Worker Housing mers. Some have instead a wide shed dormer 2. Private residences—5-19 River Street Note central chimney and front door entry containing two windows. River Street established before 1865. Area details. The New Village contains 206 houses (150 settled by Finnish immigrant mill workers by singles and 56 duplexes), built beginning in 13. Six Housing Styles on Harrison Street the 1880s. 8-unit apartment built c. 1900. Private Residence—15 Summit St. 1903. All streets were named for Republi- Gambrel Duplex Type M—1-3 Harrison 1890. Another beautifully restored Victorian. can presidents except for Cleveland Street One of 25 vertically divided houses, each with 3. Mill Chimney Stack and Gate House – which has no houses facing it. A typical two six-room dwellings. Dutch Colonial Re- Clocktower Place (driveway entrance 6. Lorenzo Maynard House house sits on a 4000-5000 sq. foot parcel. vival style featuring distinctive porch hoods off Walnut Street) 7 Dartmouth Street Thirteen different styles of houses were supported with massive scrolled brackets. Original red brick chimney built in 1886 was Built between 1875-1879. Second Empire built and are designated as Types A-M. The 207’ in height and presently serves many cell style, typical of wealthy industrialists. Promi- village was built on the old Mahoney and Front Gambrel Type G—2 Harrison St. antennas. A second stack of yellow brick nently sited overlooking the mill. Lorenzo Reardon farms and boasted a private sewer Single family Dutch Colonial Revival style (1916-1956) was 200’ tall. was the town’s first treasurer, also postmas- system. Each house had pine flooring, a house. None still retain their original lower ter in 1862. The house was divided into cold water tap, a toilet in the cellar, and no clapboard and upper shingle siding. There are The gate house (c. 1880), a small round one- apartments by 1915. Mansard roof. central heat. Houses were rented to mill 21 Dutch Colonials in the New Village. story brick building, is located halfway along employees for $3-6 per month. They were the entrance driveway by the pond. The wa- 7. Maynard Carriage House later sold at auction in 1934. All of the Cross Gable Type E—7 Harrison Street ter from the millpond was converted into 9-11 Dartmouth Street (behind #13) original houses still exist, most with up- Thirteen versions of this style built with infi- mechanical power to run pulleys and belts Same style as #7, a fancy carriage house dated modifications. nite variety in the village. Some are L-shaped that powered the looms. Note the massive heavily planted with oaks, maples, and beech in plan and some are an off-center T-shape. gear wheels to the right of the gatehouse. groves. Street originally called Beechmont The New Village Extension (1918) contains Cross Gable Type F—8 Harrison Street Avenue. A greenhouse and gazebo were about 50 houses. Demars, Forest, and Note the roofline that sweeps down and ex- Mill building #9 (along the right side of the located nearby. Front vestibule replaces the extensions of Arthur, Roosevelt, and tends along the façade for front porch shelter. entrance driveway before the chimney) was original carriage door entrance. Now a two- McKinley Streets are all part of the New built in 1900, housing the boiler room. family, converted about 1915. Village. Most homes have fewer decorative details than the original New Village con- Side Gambrel Type I—9 Harrison Street Mill building #5 on the left, built in 1902, 8. Coolidge School—12 Bancroft Street struction. One of seven examples distinguished by a had the largest woolen mill loom capacity in bold overhanging front gambrel wall dormer Built in 1906. Inner wood door surrounds in the center of the facade. the country at the time. It contains 421,711 and transom are original. First called Ban- 10. Cross Gable Style Type E—36 Parker St. square feet of floor space. croft School, built for $20,482. The 1909 Best preserved house in the New Village,, Front Gambrel Type H—10 Harrison St. featuring the last remaining original pendant 4. Mission Evangelical Congregational second floor addition solved a perpetually Similar to Type G houses but larger. Eight and spire ornament spearing the gable end of Church—19 Walnut Street leaking first story roof. Renamed Calvin rooms, nearly square in plan. Center chimney the roof. Also exhibits the last surviving bal- The church was organized in 1903 by a and central door flanked by windows. ustrade detail atop the porch. small group of Finnish residents. Corner- Did You Know? stone laid in 1913. The bell presented in Much land on Maynard's Hill was purchased by 14. Side Gambrel Type J—11 McKinley St. This project is funded in part by a grant from 1935 by the American Woolen Company real estate developer Carl F. Monks at the turn of Another well-kept Type J single. Tuscan col- the Maynard Cultural Council, a local agency was the original curfew bell used at the mill. the 20th century. Monk laid out Bancroft, Chan- umns support an entablature which provides dler, Dartmouth, Elmwood and Fairfield Streets. which is supported by the Massachusetts shelter to the main entry. The area is also called Monk’s Hill. Cultural Council, a state agency.