~ JOSEPH WILLIAMS HOUSE ~
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Samuel Stow in 1803

Built ca 1660

Photo taken by John Buczek 2000

Photo taken in early 1900

Stow/Williams/Temple House
Massachusetts Historical Commission
80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Additional information by Anne Forbes, consultant to Marlborough Historical Commission, 6/19/95:

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION.
The theory that the rear, southeast-facing wing predates the rest of this house is intriguing; an interior inspection may prove that this two-story section dates to the second quarter of the eighteenth century, or perhaps earlier. The main house, abutting the front end of the wing, faces northeast toward the road. It is a 2 1/2-story, two-room-deep building, four- by two-bays, with a large chimney located just off-center, behind the roof ridge. Although its proportions are typical of the second half of the eighteenth century, (it may, in fact, have been built after the 1766 marriage of Anna Stow and Joseph Williams), much of its surviving detail is typical of the Greek Revival period, and would post-date 1830. The main entry is through an enclosed vestibule, which has two 4-panel doors with applied moldings, one on each side, and a long 6-over-9-sash window on the front. Spanning the facade on either side of the vestibule is a hip-roofed porch, now on square posts, with an echinus-molded cornice. The roof of the porch continues over a long, onebay extension aligned along the southeast side of the main house and northeast end of the wing, ending again over an open porch at the southwest end of the wing. The windows here are a mixture of types. Long 6-over-9-sash on the first story facade are typical of the Greek Revival period, as are the 6-over-6's at the second story. Some later 2-over-2-sash appear on the southeast side. Some trim has been lost to the synthetic and asphalt siding presently on the house, but a boxed cornice with echinus molding and returns adorns the roof line. Indicative of an earlier date, however, the roof does not overhang the gable ends.

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