FORM B - BUILDING Assessor's number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number

Massachusetts kstorical Commission I 57-155F I I Marlborough I K 202

80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Town Marlborough

Place (neighborhood or village) _

Address 7 Walnut Street

Historic Name Thomas Iackson House

Uses: Present DweJ)jng

Original Dwe1ling

:Date of Construction __ c_a_l~8

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Source Maps; style

;:-"~~,..:' Style/Form Mansard cottage

Architect/Builder possibly H K W Andrews,
builder

Exterior Material:

Sketch Map Foundation brick

Draw a map of the area indicating properties within
it. Number each property for which individual WaUffrim wood clapboard and 'tdrop"
inventory forms have been completed. Label streets, siding
including route numbers, if any. Attach a separate Roof asphalt shingle
sheet if space is not sufficient here. Indicate north.
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures _

neeec5'O [" Pf!Je...

Major Alterations (with dates)_-----_

1 112-stoxyrear additjon, clad in drop-sidjng,

wjth wood exterior stair and deck

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Condition good

Moved [X] no [ ] yes Date __ N_/A _

Acreage less than one acre

'corded by Anne Forbes Setting In area of mostly 1860's-'70's wood.

Organization for Marlboro Hist Carom frame houses Vacant lot to north

Date 4130194
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ARCHITECfURAL DESCRIPTION [ ] see continuation sheet

Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings
within the community.

This little house is one of Marlborough's most well-preserved examples of a prevalent house-type
of the 1860's-early '70's, the two-story mansard cottage, one variant on the Second Empire style.
Many square- or rectangular-plan examples were built in Marlborough, including the house to the
northwest (originally on the same lot), but this one is somewhat unusual in its L-plan arrangement. )
The roof has a concave flare, and is pierced on all sides by gabled dormers with scrolled applied
ornament over the windows. The main entry is in the rear section, accessed by way of a wraparound )
porch on square posts. (The posts are apparently 20th-century replacements; the porch itself, which
originally only spanned the area in front of the door, was extended across the facade some time in
the 1920's.) The door is the double-leaf, glass-and-panel type with a pair of round-headed lights,
with a moded surround. The cornices are adorned with paired, sawcut brackets.

A large polygonal bay window is situated at the front end of the facade, and a second one projects
from the south side. The windows are 2-over-2-sash, with molded surrounds and high projecting
lintels.

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE [] see continuation sheet

Explain 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.
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It is not certain for whom this house was originally built, and further research will be needed to
determine whether it was owned by the senior Thomas Jackson, the younger, or both. It is certainly
significant, however, for its association with an important late-nineteenth-century Marlborough builder
and with the owners of a large family business which manufactured state-of-the-art equipment for the
shoe industry for over forty years.

Probably constructed in about 1871, in 1875 the house was owned by carpenterlbuuilder H.K.W.
Andrews, owner of the house to the northwest at 165 East Main Street, and may have been constructed
by him. (See Form #201). By 1879 it was the home and property of Thomas Jackson, who
manufactured lasts for the New England and Canadian shoe industry at his Marlborough Last Co.,
established in 1860. His factory, which was burned twice, was located on Lincoln Street, first on the
site of the state Armory, and by 1885 in the older, rear section of the complex at 293 Lincoln Street
(MHC #187; see Form #119.) He was succeeded in business, by his son, Capt. Thomas E. Jackson,
and the company was still operating in 1910 under Edward S. Morse and Oscar Gleason.

The younger Thomas E. Jackson (1848-1944) also had a distinguished military career. He first served
in the Jackson Guards in Albany (1868-1869), and in 1873, when Co. E. of the Mass. 6th Regiment
relocated to Marlborough, he joined it. He was the commander of Co. F, 6th Mass. Infantry, which
went from Marlborough to serve in the Spanish American War in 1898. He was promoted to Major
in 1908.

BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [] see continuation sheet

Bigelow.
Hurd, D. Hamilton. History of Middlesex County. Mass. 1890.
Maps and Atlases: Beers, 1875; Walker, 1889; Sanborns.
Marlborough directories.
Marlborough Historical Society: People File.

[X] Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, a completed
National Register Criteria Statement form is attached.
Massachusetts Historical Commission Community Property Address
80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Marlborough 7 Walnut Street

Area(s) Form No(s).

K 202

National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form

Check all that apply:

[ ] Individually eligible [ ] Eligible only in a historic district

[x] Contributing to a potential historic district [] Potential historic district

Criteria: [x] A [] B [x] C [] D

Criteria Considerations: []A []B []C []D []E (]F []G

Statement of Significance by __ F_o_r_be_s~/~Sc_h_u_le_r _

The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here.

The Thomas Jackson House meets Criteria A and C of the National Register as part of a
district in the East Main/Middlesex Square area. The property is associated with a business
owner of a shoe related industry and with a well known local builder. The mansard cottage is
one of Marlborough's most well preserved examples of this prevalent house type. The property
retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association.