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STATE OF VERMONT AGENCY OF DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION Preserving Vermont's historic, architectural and archeologica! resources January 6, 1989 Jerold Wallman, Librarian Pawlet. Public Library School Street Pawlet, Vermont 05761 RE: Nathan Allen House, Pawlet Dear Mr. Wallman: Enclosed is a copy of the National Register of Historic Places nomination for the Naihan Allen House in Pawlet. This property has recently been listed in the National Register. We hope this information will be useful for you to have in the library files. If you have any questions about the nomination, please feel free to contact me. Sincerely, Elsa Gilbertson Architectural Historian Enclosures Officc location: 58 East State Street (802) 828-3226 Mailing address: Pavilion Building Montpelier, Vermont 05602 TEXAS Lamar County Ragland House Paris MRA 208 5th St., SW Paris 10/26/88 88001922 Rodgers—Wade Furniture Company Paris MRA 401 3rd, SW Paris 10/26/88 88001919 St. Paul's Baptist Church Paris MRA 454 2nd, NE Paris 10/26/88 88001928 Trigg, W. S. and Mary, House Paris MRA 441 12th St., SE Paris 10/26/88 88001924 Wright, Edgar and Annie, House Paris MRA 857 Lamar Paris 10/26/88 88001929 UTAH Morgan County Mormon Flat Breastworks Utah War Fortifications MPS Address Restricted Porterville vicinity 10/27/88 88001943 Summit County Echo Canyon Breastworks Utah War Fortifications MPS Address Restricted Echo vicinity 10/27/88 88001942 VERMONT Orange County Thetford Hill Historic District Roughly Rt. 113 and Academy Rd. Thetford 10/27/88 88002134 Rutland County Allen, Nathan, House VT 30 Pawlet vicinity 10/27/88 88002069 Washington County Joslin Farm E. Warren Rd., 1.5 mi. E of jet. with Bridge St. Waitsfield 10/27/88 88002058 STATE OF VERMONT AGENCY OE DE VELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS MONTPELIER, VERMONT 05602 DEPARTMENTS OF: Economic Development 828-3221 Housing & Community Affairs 828-3217 Solid Waste Management 828-3245 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (802) 828-3211 DIVISIONS OF: ELBERT G. MOULTON, SECRETARY Administration 828-3231 Historic Preservation 828-3226 Vermont Travel Division 828-3236 Film Bureau 828-3236 Vermont Life Magazine 828-3241 September 23, 1988 Carol Shull, Chief of Registration National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Department of the Interior Washington, D.C. 20240 Dear Ms. Shull: Enclosed please find the National Register nomination form for the following: Nathan Allen House Pawlet, Rutland County, Vermont This property is being submitted under the Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended in 1980, for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places. Sincerely, DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION / / c - Eric Gilbertson Director/State Historic Preservation Officer EG/elm Enclosures STATE OF VERMONT AGENCY OF DE VELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS MONTPELIER, VERMONT 05602 DEPARTMENTS OF: Economic Development 828-3221 Housing & Community Affairs 828-3217 Solid Waste Management 828-3245 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (802) 828-3211 DIVISIONS OF: ELBERT G. MOULTON, SECRETARY Administration 828-3231 Historic Preservation 828-3226 Vermont Travel Division 828-3236 Film Bureau 828-3236 Vermont Life Magazine 828-3241 September 23, 1988 Max L. and Christine R. Crossman P.O. Box 5 6 Pawlet, VT 05761 Re: Nathan Allen House Pawlet, Vermont Dear Max and Christine Crossman: We are pleased to inform you that the National Register nomination for the Nathan Allen House has been submitted to the National Park Service in order that the property may be considered for entry in the National Register of Historic Places. Notification of acceptance of the property will follow. Please feel free to contact us if any further information is desired. Sincerely, DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION Eric Gilbertson Director/State Historic Preservation Officer EG/clm STATE OF VERMONT AGENCY OF DE VELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS MONTPELIER, VERMONT 05602 DEPARTMENTS OF: Economic Development 828-3221 Housing & Community Affairs 828-3217 Solid Waste Management 828-3245 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (802) 828-3211 DIVISIONS OF: ELBERT G. MOULTON, SECRETARY Administration 828-3231 Historic Preservation 828-3226 Vermont Travel Division 828-3236 Film Bureau 828-3236 Vermont Life Magazine 828-3241 September 23, 1988 Mark Blucher, Executive Director Rutland Regional Commission P.O. Box 965, The Opera House Rutland, VT 05701 Re: Nathan Allen House Pawlet, Vermont Dear Mr. Blucher: We are pleased to inform you that the National Register nomination for the Nathan Allen House has been submitted to the National Park Service in order that the property may be considered for entry in the National Register of Historic Places. Notification of acceptance of the property will follow. Please feel free to contact us if any further information is desired. Sincerely, DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION Eric Gilbertson Director/State Historic Preservation Officer EG/clm STATE OF VERMONT AGENCY OF DE VELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS MONTPELIER, VERMONT 05602 DEPARTMENTS OF: Economic Development 828-3221 Housing & Community Affairs 828-3217 Solid Waste Management 828-3245 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (802) 828-3211 DIVISIONS OF: ELBERT G. MOULTON, SECRETARY Administration 828-3231 Historic Preservation 828-3226 Vermont Travel Division 828-3236 Film Bureau 828-3236 Vermont Life Magazine 828-3241 September 23, 1988 Board of Selectmen Town Offices Pawlet, VT 05761 Re: Nathan Allen House Pawlet, Vermont Gentlemen : We are pleased to inform you that the National Register nomination for the Nathan Allen House has been submitted to the National Park Service in order that the property may be considered for entry in the National Register of Historic Places. Notification of acceptance of the property will follow. Please feel free to contact us if any further information is desired. Sincerely, DI VATION Eric Gilbertson Director/State Historic Preservation Officer EG/clm NM Fen* 10-*00 OMB Mo. 1024-001$ CW2» Sxplrot 10-31—97 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service For NFS um only National Register of Historic Places received Inventory—Nomination Form date entered See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms Type all entries—complete applicable sections 1, Name historic Nathan Allen House (preferred) s • ••; A'.-«-üvl J; <v' ' ! •' - .. , • - and or common Fat<3^-C*e-Mars House 2. Location street & number Vermont Route 30 N/Ar not for publication 1 ' .*v- t.*.»- city, town Pawlet vicinity of i-ït* , state Vermont co«1® 50 county Rutland code 021 3. Classification Category Ownership Status Present Use district public occupied agriculture museum buildlng(s) v private unoccupied commercial park structure both X work in progress educational x private residence site Public Acquisition Accessible entertainment religious object N/A- In process . x yes: restricted government scientific being considered - yes: unrestricted industrial transportation • «<>• no military other: 4. Owner of Property name m^ and Christine R. Crossman street & number p. p. Box 56 city, town Pawlet N/A- vicinity of state Vermont 05761 5. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Office of the IQwn Clerk street & number N/A M Xtl city, town TWipi state Vermont 05761 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Vermont Historic Sites and tlti® Structuras Survey has this property been determined eligible? yes no <*•«• 1977 . federal state county local depository for survey records VoyWT|t- frvr H-is+nrin Preservation 7. Description Condition Chock one Check one «tient deteriorated unaltered _x_ original site rui is X altered . moved date v . fair unexposed Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance Located on the hill-flanked bottomland of the agricultural Mettawee River valley," • the Nathan Allen House and two related outbuildings form the nineteenth-century architectural core of a now-subdivided dairy farm complex. The transitional Federal-Greek Revival style (c. 1834), two-and-one-half story house of marble-triitmed brick construction carries a slate-shingled gable roof with rebuilt quadrant chimneys. The symmetrical five-bay main (east) eaves facade includes a sidelighted central entrance and enlarged first-story window openings. The entire three-bay south gable elevation was rebuilt in 1983. A smaller-scaled brick ell and a wood- framed wing are attached to the rear (west) and north elevations, respectively. Standing southwest of the house are an extended wood-framed, gable-roofed horse barn and a small shed. Although allowed to deteriorate in recent decades, the house retains essentially its historic character and is currently undergoing a comprehensive rehabilitation for adaptive use as medical offices. The Nathan'Alien House - is situated about one mile north of Pawlet village in the valley of the northward-flowing Mettawee River. The relatively flat bottomland expands to about one-third mile in width in the vicinity of the house, which stands near its east margin while the river follows the west edge. Mostly forested hills rise above the 600-foot elevation of the valley; so-called Scott Mountain ascends steeply to 1600 feet on the west side and the gentler slopes of Town Hill reach ^300 feet on the east side. The valley remains predaninently agricultural in character. A series of farm- steads occupies the bottomland, being mostly active ccnmercial dairy farms. Their building complexes are comprised of both connected and detached buildings of various types. The buildings are surrounded by cropland and pastures, the