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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE

Although a full pediment in each gable end manifests influences of the Greek Revival style on this house, Italianate style ornamentation clearly predominates. The architrave moldings around the windows are the clearest expressions of that style, although the posts supporting the veranda are part of the same idiom. Apparently this was constructed as a double house, for an entrance is located in each of the symmetrical wings.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE 

The 1874 map lists William Washburn as the owner of the house. Washburn was a shoe leather cutter who in the 1867 Directory is listed as renting out rooms on  Central Street. While based on early maps it can only be demonstrated that the house was constructed between 1857-1874, stylistic evidence dates the house from the early 1860's. The Wash Burns lived here as late as 1884, but there were different owners in 1903. Mrs.  Beal's owned the property in that year, and by 1910 it belonged to Charles L. Garfield, a shoe treer.

Rockland Directory, 1884, 1909                                           1910 Tax Valuation                                                  Abington Directory, 1867                                                Map of Plymouth County 1857                                    Atlases of Plymouth County, 1874,1903