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Lynn
Massachusetts Historical Commission
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80 Boylston Street
Town-Winthrop
Boston, Massachusetts 0 2 1 1 6
Winthrop Highlands
Place ( n e i g h b o r h o o d or village)
107 Grovers Avenue
Address
N a m e Fales-Cottrell House
Historic
2-family
Use: Present
private residence
Original
C.1895
Date o f C o n s t r u c t i o n
Winthrop Atlases and directories
Source
Style/Form
Queen Anne/Colonial Revival, rectang.
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Architect/Builder
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Organization-
Modem shingles
applied c.1950's?
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less than one acre
Overlooks ocean and part of Grovers Ave's
interesting collection of stylish and substantial turn of the
century residences.
ARCHITECTURAL
Describe architectural
the
community.
DESCRIPTION
features.
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Evaluate the characteristics
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of this building in terms of other buildings
within
Overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, 107 Grovers Avenue represents a solid,straightforward foray into
mid 1890's Queen Anne /Colonial Revival design. Its boxy.rectangular 2.5 story, 4-bay x3-bay form
is enclosed by an intersecting gable roof. Its main facade is dominated by a full length front porch and
broad pedimented gable. The open front porch features square posts interspersed between
spool-work railings. The original main entrance retains its original multi pane front door and cornice
headed enframements. To the left of this door is an arched window containing colorful stained
glass.The second floor exhibits a square,projecting bay which intersetingly is not lined up with the
main entrance but staddles the space above and between the arched stained glass window and
main entrance. The second floor is overshadowed by the gable's deep.tab bracketed cornice.The
north wall features a large oval window with well molded enframements which presumably lights a
stairhall. In general.windows contain 2/1 wood sash.Steeply pitched gables rise above the side walls.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
Discuss the history of the building.
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Explain its associations
the building and the role(s) the owners!occupants
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with local (or state) history.
played within the
Include uses of
community.
Built in 1895,107 Grovers Avenue is one of the oldest homes on this thoroughfare. Its lot was part of
the City of Boston's land from 1869-1883. By 1886, its lot was labeled Parcel O, evidently owned by
the Winthrop Shore Land Co. This house first appears on the 1896 Winthrop Atlas labeled N.L.Fales.
During the late 1890's,Ira and Silas P.Fales lived here, (occupations?). By 1906,this house was
owned by Ada B.Cottrell, wife of Millard F. Cottrell, restaurant keeper.The 1914 Atlas lists an E.S.
Mylin as the owner but oddly.the Winthrop Directories do not list him. In fact no occupants are listed
for this house in Winthrop Directories right through the 1940's.
B I B L I O G R A P H Y and/or R E F E R E N C E S \
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Winthrop Maps/Atlases-1886,1896,1906,1914
Chelsea/Winthrop Directories-1893,1895/96,1897,1899,1901,1902/03,1904,1906,1908
Winthrop Directories-1911,1913,1916/17,1921,1924,1936,1942,1947
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