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Lewis Pickle Factory LEWIS PICKLE FACTORY LINCOLN HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION [email protected] 2012 LEWIS PICKLE FACTORY: INVENTORY FORM B Lewis Street and Lewis Pickle Factory (1870) Location: Between Lewis Street and the railroad in Lincoln, Massachusetts Period of Construction Represented: 1870 Significance: Architecture; Industry Massachusetts Historical Commission: For guidance on the use of these files as well as access to additional files on historic properties in Lincoln and Massachusetts–including more detailed individual inventory forms on each of the buildings located within the Lewis Street Area–go to: http://mhc-macris.net/ “It Began With a Pickle” Video: For a related video of a 2011 presentation by Jack MacLean on the development of Lincoln’s commercial area, go to: hhtp://lincolntv.pegcentral.com/player.php?video=dd90a84d143a901ee635b4a1bb65cdc5 For a study of the buildings in the Lewis Street Area, see: http://www.scribd.com/doc/109656885/Lewis-Street-Historic-Area-Lincoln-Massachusetts FORM B - BUILDING Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 95 27 0 Maynard O 276 MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD Town: Lincoln BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Place: (neighborhood or village) Photograph Lewis Street West and south façades from Lewis Street Address: 20 Lewis Street Historic Name: Lewis Pickle Factory Uses: Present: business and residential rental Original: pickle factory and tenements Date of Construction: 1870 Source: Assessors’ Records of period Style/Form: Victorian Eclectic commercial Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: stone/cement Wall/Trim: wood Topographic or Assessor's Map Lincoln Rd Roof: most slate; asphalt shingles on apartment end Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Also on the lot is a c. 1912 house at 26 Lewis Street, LIN.277 Major Alterations (with dates): General shoring up and improvements in 1920 Condition: poor Moved: no |X | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.5 acres Setting: The Lewis Pickle Factory borders the railroad Codman Rd tracks that served as the impetus for its construction here. Situated on a side road off of the town’s main road (Lincoln Road), it is the oldest building within a small village of commercial buildings, church, and apartments/ condos/ Recorded by: John C. MacLean houses that now form the town’s commercial center. Organization: Lincoln Historical Commission Date (month / year): June 2008 Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LINCOLN 20 LEWIS STREET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 O 276 _X__ 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: Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. While it once stood next to another elongated pickle factory off of the railroad tracks, the Lewis Pickle Factory is today architecturally unique in the context of the town’s extant buildings. One of very few nineteenth-century industrial buildings in the town, and the only one that is still surviving, the vernacular Victorian Eclectic commercial building relates in terms of community development to the nearby 1870 Second Empire Wyman-Cook House (LIN.279) at the corner of Lincoln Road and Lewis Street and the adjoining gambrel-roofed 1884 Cook Brothers House (LIN.278), but it had also related to other nearby buildings constructed south of the railroad during 1869 and the 1870s (see 1875 map) which are no longer standing, including two other pickle factory buildings. Immediately to its east, the c. 1912 gambrel-roofed two-family Blodgett-Rooney House (LIN.277) is also located on the same lot as the Lewis Pickle Factory, sitting on the site of an earlier building associated with the Lewis Pickle Factory. Situated on a rise on the south side of the railroad tracks to Boston, the elongated pickle factory design runs perpendicular to the tracks, featuring a two-family tenement at the south (or southwest) end of the building, towards Lewis Street. The 2½ -story tenement and attached elongated pickle factory to its north has a gabled roof running north to south along its entire length, broken on the west side by a protruding gabled extension above the tenement. It retains a slate roof over the pickle factory proper, but most of the roof above the tenement/apartment section is now asphalt shingled. The gabled south façade of the tenement, fronting on Lewis Street, is sided in wooden shingles, with partly asymmetrical fenestration of one-over-one windows on the first floor and two-over-two windows on the second floor. There is a set of three one-over-one windows in the attic, with the center window larger than the two side windows. The entrances for the tenement section and for the factory section are on the west façade. Here, the tenement’s protruding 2½ - story gabled side-hall section is clad in clapboards rather than shingles. The gabled section has a center window in the attic, three equally spaced windows on the second story, and spaced below them are two windows and a doorway, the doorway set to the left (north). The tenement fenestration follows that of the south façade, with one-over-one windows on the first story and two- over-two windows in the second story and attic. The doorway is fronted by a gabled porch with simple bracketed posts, as well as lattice work on the north side of the entry porch. To the north of the tenement, the west façade of the factory section is also clad in clapboards. Extending out from near the center of the factory section is a one-story hip-roofed enclosed entrance, with a pair of six-over-six windows (typical of ones used by R. D. Donaldson c. 1920) on its west elevation and a door on the north side of the entryway. A garage bay is located to the south of the protruding entryway, and two garage bays are to its north. While the current garage doors would be more recent, at least some of these three bays may date to the use of the building as a town barn beginning in the 1920s. North of these garage bays there is a twelve-over-twelve window, while an oversized three-pane window with a series of lights above is next to another entrance at the north end of the west façade. On the east side of the building, the roof extends the full length of the tenement and factory, broken by a chimney above the tenement section. The tenement is clad in clapboards, while this side of the factory is clad in flush boards. The asymmetrical windows of the tenement repeat the pattern of one-over-one windows on the first floor and two-over-two windows on the second floor, while an unadorned doorway is set at the north end of the tenement section. The factory section includes two additional doorways and a mixture of windows in its fenestration. Continuation sheet 1 INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LINCOLN 20 LEWIS STREET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 O 276 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 transformative power of the coming of the railroad is part of the history and lore of America. In 1844 one of those rail lines, the Fitchburg Railroad, came to Lincoln—initially linking the town with Charlestown, with separate transportation going from Charlestown across the Charles River to Boston. In 1848 the eastern terminus of the line was extend directly into Boston, while the railroad had extended west to Fitchburg by 1846, with lines continuing along northern Massachusetts and into New Hampshire and Vermont by 1850. For agricultural Lincoln, the railroad would bring a new means of transport for wood and some agricultural products to the Boston market; in time, it would bring some Boston businessmen to the town, and the development of country estates in the community. It also brought an end to the stagecoaches that had traveled through the town, and it changed the way mail and various goods came to the community. At the same time, the railroad station was placed away from the historic center of the town, in an area of open fields with no buildings around it. A new village ultimately would develop around the railroad depot, and that small village would become the town’s commercial center. It is, however, perhaps surprising that it was not until 25 years after the railroad came to town that the first building was constructed around the Lincoln station. For Lincoln, the coming of the railroad did not result in a corresponding commercial development; when limited commercial development finally came, it related to the town’s small-town agricultural character. The 1870 Lewis Pickle Factory was highly representative of the community through its role of supporting a local agricultural economy—providing a locally based market for agricultural products from Lincoln and surrounding towns. Aside from the station facilities north of the tracks, the first building to be constructed in the area of the railroad was the 1869 Underwood Pickle Factory, soon followed by the 1870 Lewis Pickle Factory facilities and the 1870 mansard-roofed Wyman-Cook House (LIN.278), as well as the Denham-Smith House that is no longer standing, all located on the south side of the tracks, along a private way that would become known as Lewis Street.
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