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$FORM B - BULDNG Assessor's number USGS Quad Area(s) 1'01'111 Number Massachusetts Historical Commission 56 150 Marlborough \ostoo, Massachusetts 02116 Town Ma r1hmough Place (neighborhood or village)$

1 FORM B - BULDNG Assessor's number USGS Quad Area(s) 1'01'111 Number Massachusetts Historical Commission Marlborough \ostoo, Massachusetts Town Ma r1hmough Place (neighborhood or village) _ Prospect HiJ Address 72 Jefferson Street S.H. Howe/B.A. Corbin sole Historic Name factol) and Koehler Heel Plate Factory Uses: Present manufacturing Original shoe-related mauufacturing.l.; Date of Construction 1':arly 1890's Source Sanborn maps Style/Form Architect/Builder utilitarian unknown Exterior Material: Foundation brick Wall{frim brick, wood, synthetic siding Roof not 'lisible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures at west end' storage tanks, large one-story storehouse Major Alterations (with dates), modern shedroofed addu on facade, 2-story addu Send w COHug. metal extensions. 2-stOlY brick & wood addn linking hrick fac~ & wood-frame N\V building. Most windows replaced. Condition f.. a..... ir. _ Moved [Xl no [ ] yes Date N/A, Acreage 1 4acres n -corded by Anne f.:nrbes Organization for Marlboro Hist ComDl-._ Date _. 3/ Setting South side of Jefferson along fanner Marlboro Branch of Fitchburg RR; opposite parkjball field Parking lot in fronl

inventory FORM CONTNUATON SHEET Marlborough Massachusetts Historical Commission Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Property Community Area(s) Kelleher Field

2 inventory FORM CONTNUATON SHEET Marlborough Massachusetts Historical Commission Boston, Massachusetts Property Community Area(s) Kelleher Field Form No. y 915 u -.,.' ' j J.?'.~,~~. "._~.-" ~~.::.t:::~.:;:~~:~~-::..fi!":l~.":'.,_,.,!,,<_.. "'" '.~ "y:'.,.:.-"';');":;;,~~,,,,"... ~ ~ ~--'-..f<

PARKS AND LANDSCAPES FORM VSUAL/DESGN ASSESSMENT [J see continuation sheet Describe topography and layout. Note structures such as bandstands, gazebos, sheds, stone walls, monuments, and fountains.

3 PARKS AND LANDSCAPES FORM VSUAL/DESGN ASSESSMENT [J see continuation sheet Describe topography and layout. Note structures such as bandstands, gazebos, sheds, stone walls, monuments, and fountains. Note landscaping features such as formal plantings, agricultural plantings, and bodies of water. fpossible, compare current appenrarrce with original. Kelleher Field is a roughly triangular park of about nine acres, stretching from Jefferson to Fremont Streets. A football/baseball field occupies its main, center section, and a modern playground with wooden structures and benches is located in the west corner, at Jefferson and Hudson Streets. The park's most significant structure is the rare surviving concrete-block grandstand, which lines most of the Jefferson Street edge of the property. Although it has been altered somewhat by the addition of a raised wooden section over the center rear seats, and by modern decorative concrete openwork panels that screen the eight large windows along the street elevation, the grandstand is otherwise largely unchanged. The flat plane of the street wall is articulated by vertical and horizontal concrete bands, and punctuated by the eight large windows, each with 32 panes visible through the concrete screening. The main entrance to the field is through a central archway in the grandstand, located beneath a shallow-peaked gable, where the year "1939" appears in a circular concrete panel. nside the arched passage, double-leaf glass-and-panel doors on either side still open into the space beneath the seats.,! Flanking either end of the grandstand, facing the street, is a small, freestanding wood-frame ticket booth. A chain-link fence rings the field. At the north edge along Fremont Street is a set of wooden bleachers, backed by a fieldstone retaining wall. The only other structures in the park are located at the southeast end, where a chainlink backstop stands in front of a modern concrete-block food stand. HSTORCAL NARRATVE ] see continuation sheer Discuss history of use. Evaluate the historical associations of the landscapelpark wiin the community. This recreation facility, located as it is in the densely-populated center part of the city, was the subject of great civic pride when it was opened in 1939 as Ward Six Park. From the latter part of the nineteenth century through the early twentieth, baseball had been played on the open land of Prospect Hill north of Brimsmead Street, on what came to be known as the Prospect Hill Ball Grounds. By the 1930's, residential development was progressing northward on the hill, however, Mildon Street was opened for new house lots, and the city developed this southern portion of the old Tayntor family farm for a new ball field. With its new concrete grandstand that accommodated 1200 people, it was considered "one of the most modem and outstanding venues in the area." (Centennial '90.) n about 1980, to honor two-time mayor Frank H. Kelleher, the park was renamed Kelleher Field. BBLOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES: Maps and atlases: Sanborns from 1912 (Prospect Hill ball grounds). The Marlborough Enterprise. 10/30/39. Centennial ' Marlborough Dept. of Public Works: records and photos. [ ] Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. f checked, YOl must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.

form H - PARKS AND landscape FEATURES Massachusetts Historical Commission...oston, Massachusetts 02116 USGS Quad [Marlboro Area(s) Form No. Forms within _Y Town.

4 form H - PARKS AND landscape FEATURES Massachusetts Historical Commission...oston, Massachusetts USGS Quad [Marlboro Area(s) Form No. Forms within _Y Town. ] [9i5-- _--_--_~ Marlborough Place (neighborhood or village) _ y ): Prospect HiJJ Address effe [son Street Historic Name Kelleher Field/Ward Six Park.- Ownership: [] private [X] public Type of Park or Landscape Feature (check one): [ ] park [ ] green or common [ ] garden [ ] boulevard/parkway [X] other hal1 field [ ] farm land [ ] mine or quarry [ ] training field Sketch Map Draw a map of the area indicating properties within it. Number each property for which individual inventory forms have been completed. Label streets, including route numbers, if any. A ttach a separate sheet if space is not sufficient here. ndicate north. Date of Construction 19_3_9 _ Source town records Landscape architect ll~n_k_d_owd~ _ Location of Plans _ Dot applicable Alterations/ntrusions (with dates} _!A ge.neral upgrading. addition of Recorded h~y Organization Date A_n_n_e_r~s, consultant for Marlboro His! Carom 3Ll SL95 playground; concrete-block..window screen panels on grandstand. Condition.._._.._fa_i... r/.,...go_o_d _ Acreage approxi1uate1y 9 acres n primarily residential neighborhood Setting at iotersectiod of Jefferson and Hud- -son Streers..and loob to Fremont Turn-ofs..; the centuj:)! industrial buildings opposite

BULDNG FORM ARCHTECfURAL DESCRPTON [ ] see continuation sheet Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.

5 BULDNG FORM ARCHTECfURAL DESCRPTON [ ] see continuation sheet Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. This large factory/storage building at the west end of Jefferson Street was once two buildings. original portion, built in the early 1890's, is a long rectangular two-story brick, flat-roofed building, 1 with a large three-story square tower abutting the northwest comer. (See Section A on sketch map). f Although the old wire-glass windows of the main block have been replaced, the new sash is set into the original double- and triple-unit segmental-arched openings. The four that line the west end of the upper story facade are unusually low in proportion. The windows of the tower, two bays on each side, appear to have their original 6-over-6-sash. n recent years, brick, wooden, corrugated metal and synthetic-sided additions have been made to the north front, and east and west ends of the building. The latter now links it to a long one-story wood-frame building with a shallow-pitched roof (Section B), its gable-end facing north toward Jefferson Street. That building, clad in synthetic siding over its original wood shingles, has triple nine-light windows along the long sides. A hip-roofed ell abuts its northwest comer, and a shed-roofed ell extends to the rear. ts HSTORCAL NARRATVE [ ] see continuation sheet ( Explain history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. nclude uses of the building, and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. / This factory complex is one of the rare surviving illustrations in Marlborough of a smaller satellite plant --three, in fact--of a larger manufacturing company. n the early 1890's, after the large S.H. Howe Shoe Company had expanded under the management of Louis P. Howe, it acquired this parcel of former Tayntor/Howe farmland, and built the brick building. Although by 1894 S.H. Howe was operating four major factories in the West Village (the "Diamond A, F, a", and "M"), this was their first building to have the advantages of a railroad siding location. ts original function is not known, but by 1906 it was used as a warehouse, as was a newer building just to the east. The large square tower at the northwest comer of the brick building was used for tank storage. n about 1910, Jefferson Street, which had formerly ended well east of this parcel, was extended past ( a new 1906 roundhouse on the site of today's 36 Jefferson. (t was extended through to Hudson Street about twenty years later.) Shortly thereafter, B.A. Corbin & Son acquired most of S.H. Howe, (see Form #117), and converted the brick building to a cut sole factory, storing leather in the east warehouse. At about the same time, the Koehler Manufacturing Company, which had moved into the former "Diamond a" plant at the comer of Howland and Chestnut Streets, built the one-story westernmost building for a heel plate factory. During the 1920's the brick building became the Frye/Corbin Box Company, a satellite business jointly formed by Corbin and the Frye Shoe Co. to make shoe boxes. They used the large east warehouse to store paper for the boxes. By 1929 the Koehler Company was manufacturing miners' lamps at their main factory, and was using the former heel-plate building for storage. BBLOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES [] see continuation sheet Maps and Atlases: Sanborns from Marlborough Directories. Marlboro Historical Society: Moineau photo collection. [ ] Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. f checked, a completed National Register Criteria Statement form is attached.

I I Marlborough I H 191

I I Marlborough I H 191 FORM B - BUILpING Assessor's number I I Massachusetts Historical Commission I 69-467 USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number I I I H 191 Town Ma rlborough Place (neighborhood or village) Address 11 VVashington (JuJrt