FORM B BUILDING Assessor s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 06-03 Town: Dartmouth New Bedford South Photograph Place: Address: 219 Jordan Road Historic Name: T. Russell Uses: Present: single family home Original: same Date of Construction: 1720 (1680 in Tax Database) Source: stylistic Style/Form: Colonial Cape Cod Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: stone Topographic or Assessor's Map see continuation sheet Wall/Trim: wood shingle Roof: wood shingle Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: None Major Alterations (with dates): saltbox rear addition, dormers, ca. 1990 Condition: Good Moved: no X yes Date Acreage: 17.8 Setting: rural residential, wooded, stone walls Recorded by: Richard M. Casella Organization: Historic Documentation Co., Inc. Date: 2008 Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.
Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This is a 1-1/2 story center chimney Colonial Cape Cod house, five bays wide, with a 1-story wing. According to the present owner it was altered about 1990 when the six front-gable roof dormers (three front, three back) were added and the back wall was extended about eight feet under an extension of the main roof to give the house the present saltbox form. First floor windows are all wood 12/12 in their original openings with wood storms. Second floor windows are all 6/6 wood windows. The front entrance door is wood with 6 flat panels typical of the period and possibly original. The door surround has narrow projecting pilasters with crown moldings, a 4-light transom window, and a narrow projecting cornice. Corner and frieze boards on the house are narrow as are the window casings. Windows are capped with splayed lintels. The siding and roof are wood shingled. The stone foundation extends under the wing, which is set back halfway from the front of the house. The wing has a centered entrance door and single window consisting of a large multi-pane fixed sash, not original. The square brick chimney has a band of corbelling at the top. Rubble stone walls define the house lot and surrounding fields, now overgrown. HISTORICAL INFORMATION: 1856 Map: House shown with name "T. Russell 1871 Map: House shown with name "D. Smith" 1895 Map: Map inconclusive Tax Card, 1 st Entry: 5/27/1914, Arthur W. Smith, Book 407 Page 492 BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Walling, Henry F., Map of the Town of Dartmouth, Bristol County, Mass.1856. Beers, F. W., Atlas of Bristol County, Massachusetts. New York: F.W. Beers & Co., 1871 Walling, Henry F., Map of Bristol County, Massachusetts. 1895. Town of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, Tax Assessor's Record Cards. Continuation sheet 1
LOCATION MAPPING USGS Topographic Map New Bedford South Quadrangle 1941, Revised 1948 Dartmouth Tax Assessors Map Continuation sheet 2
ARCHIVAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT(S) ATTACHED: Continuation sheet 3
ARCHIVAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT(S) ATTACHED: Continuation sheet 4