WA-II-756

Architectural Survey File

This is the architectural survey file for this MIHP record. The survey file is organized reverse-

chronological (that is, with the latest material on top). It contains all MIHP inventory forms, National

Register nomination forms, determinations of eligibility (DOE) forms, and accompanying documentation

such as photographs and maps.

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Last Updated: 03-12-2004

MARYLAND IDSTORICAL TRUST NR-ELIGIBILITYREVIEW FORM

Property Name: 51 -53 South Main Street Inventory Number: WA-II-756 ------~~~~~

Address: 51 -53 South Main Street Boonsboro Maryland

Tax Parcel Number: __ 7~8~6 __ Tax Map Number: __ 6~0~1

Project: Boonsboro Streetscape - W A960A2 l Agency: Maryland State Highway Administration

Site visit by: John Milner Associates. Tnc. Staff: no X yes

Name: Kerri Culhane and Rachel Mancini Date: June 1999

Eligibility recommended x Eligibility not recommended

Criteria:_xA ___B _x c._x D Considerations: -A --B-C --D-E ---F-G -X. None

Is property located within a historic district? _ no _lL yes Name of district: Town of Boonsboro

ls district listed? _lL no _yes

Documentation on the property/district is presented in: Boonsboro Streetscape Alternate US 40: MD 68 to fust o(Mousetown Road Washington County. Maryland. SHA Report 215 (JMA 1999) and Final Report: Architectural and Cultural Survey o(Boonsboro and Clear Spring MD (Mueller 1992).

Description of Property and Eligibility Determination: (Use continuation sheet if necessary and attach map and photo)

No. 51-53 South Main Street is a one-and-one-half-story, side-gabled, brick, detached double house. Recently remodeled, the three chimneys that appeared in the 1992 survey have been reduced to one. The house consists of a three-bay (53) and a four bay (51) section. The brick is laid in a five-course American bond. The windows in 51 are longer than those of 53. All of the windows are 1/1 replacement sashes. The one-story, four-bay, hip-roofed porch has turned posts and sawn brackets. The roof and the two gable dormers over 51 are all asphalt-shingle-clad. The two single-leaf doors have transoms. Behind 51 is 3: one­story gable-roof ell with a shed addition. There is a small, twentieth-century frame shed-roofed garage off the northeast comer_ of the house. The house dates to the early to mid-nineteenth century. The house is a contributing resource to the Town of Boonsboro Historic District.

Prepared by: Kerri Culhane, John Milner Associates, Inc., VA

MARYLAND IDSTORIC Eligibility recommended Eligibility not recommended __ Criteria: _A B _A .-B _C D _E F _G _None

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-PRESERVATION VISION 2000; THE MARYLAND PLAN STATEWIDE HISTORIC CONTEXTS

I. Geographic Region:

Inventory No. WA-Il-756

___ Eastern Shore ___ Western Shore ___ Piedmont

(all Eastern Shore counties, and Cecil)

X Western Maryland

(Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Prince George's and St. Mary's) (Baltimore City, Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Harford, Howard, Montgomery) (Allegany, Garrett and Washington)

II. Chronological/Developmental Periods:

___ Rural Agrarian Intensification X Agricultural-Industrial Transition

___ Industrial/Urban Dominance ___ Modem Period

A.D. 1680-1815 A.D. 1815-1870 A.D. 1870-1930 A.D. 1930-Present

___ Unknown Period ( __ prehistoric __ historic)

ID. Historic Period Themes:

___ Agriculture - X Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Community Planning

___ Economic (Commercial and Industrial) ___ Government/Law ___ Military ___ Religion ___ Social/Educational/Cultural ___ Transportation

IV. Resource Type:

Category: Building Historic Environment: Village Historic Function(s) and Use(s): DOMESTIC/multiple dwelling Known Design Source: none

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SITE NUMBER: WA-II-756 ADDRESS: 51-53 South Main Street, Boonsboro, MD OWNER/LOT NUMBER/ACCESS: private BUILDING DATE: mid 19th century? pre-1877

51-53 South Main Street is a west-facing, horizontally massed,

one-and-a-half-story, six-bay, brick, freestanding, double house.

The building, which is set directly at the public-right-of-way and

an alley, rests on a stone foundation. The brick is laid in a

common bond and is painted red. The structure has a side-gable,

tin roof with two, endwall brick chimneys and one interior brick

chimney. A eastlake, flat-roof porch extends across the facade of

the house and protects the entrances. The doors appear to have

been replaced in the 1960s. Fenestration includes double-hung,

one-over-one sash windows with wood sills and lintels. Three of

the windows are rectangular in shape, while two (in the

southernmost bays) are square. There is a detached frame garage in

the back.

A building of similar configuration is indicated on the 1877

map of the town. Each of the Sanborn maps of Boonsboro (1897-1940)

show the same structure, which is numbered 256 and 257 Main Street.

The building is within the Western Maryland Geographic

Organization, the probable Development Period of Agricultural-

Industrial Transition, and falls within the Historic Period Theme

of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Community Planning.

Prepared by Julianne Mueller, July 1992

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