Completion Report: Restoration of the Captain William Smith House
1985. Completion Report: Restoration of the Captain William Smith House. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, North Atlantic Preservation Center. Boston, Massachusetts
Minute Man National Historical Park protects 970 acres in and around the Massachusetts towns of Lexington, Lincoln, and Concord, commemorating the opening battle in the American Revolutionary War. This report details the restoration of the Captain William Smith House. The restoration of the Captain William Smith House, built in ca.1692-93, represents the house as it appeared on April 19, 1775. Based upon the architectural evidence found during the inves~igation of the structure conducted in 1980, tpe house had gone through four, if not five major remodelings in its lifetime. The addition of a lean-to along the north wall may have been the first change to occur. Certainly ca.1758, when the ancestral property was sold by Nathaniel Whttemore, the house had undergone its first major change. This remodeling lasted throughthe struggling years of the American Revolution and into the early days of the new republic. About 1828, another remodeling of the structure took place which lasted until the turn of the century. Between 1900 and 1910, the building underwent an extensive alteration which surviv.d until ca.1956 when a final assault upon its exterior and interior architectural features took place effecting the changes that were inherited by the National Park Service when it purchased the property in 1975.
- Type
- Published Report
- Date of Issue
- 1985-01
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, North Atlantic Preservation Center
- Units
- MIMA , NER
- Keywords
- completion report, day labor, repairs, Revolutionary War, William Smith