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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE

This small, late cape Cod type house is distinguished by its enclosed entrance vestibule supporting a classical pediment, a Colonial Revival addition. Although the building has Central chimney, the height of the roof identifies it as a later example of this traditional building mode. Note the house retains its original six over six windows, except for the west front room, which may have served as the formal parlor and hence subject to a ???? 1900 enlargement of the window panes. The shingles are not original and cover corner plasters which support the cornice returns in each gable end. These details, and the orientation of the gable end towards the street, give the house its Greek Revival styling. If the 1874 map is accurate, however, the house may actually have been turned sideways ?? the street sometime after 1874.

The house appears to have belonged to the Burgess family for much of its history, beginning with Baldwin B. Burgess in 1848. Burgess was an engineer by profession. It appears that around 1870 he sold the house to Mrs. Margaret McEnroe, who lived here with her son Matthew, an employee of Baker's livery business. By 1903, the house again belonged to the Burgess family, in this case Emma E. Burgess who sold it to the present family in 1924.

Rockland Directories, 1884,1909.                                   Town of Rockland Assessor's Office                                Abington Directory, 1867                                                      Map of Abington,1848.                                                   Map of Plymouth County,1857.                                       Atlases of Plymouth County, 1874, 1903

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