[MassHistPres] Historic Outbuildings Survey and Documentation

[Dennis De Witt]

Carriage House to Auto House is one example of a study of a somewhat less common building type.  

Here are two other examples from the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum:

Water Works Pumping Stations in Massachusetts & Rhode Island 1870-1920,
It lists, and often has a picture of, every known steam powered waterworks pumping station that exists or existed in the state.  You would be surprised how many towns had one.  Quite a few survive without their smokestacks — repurposed and perhaps not recognized — or worse, moldering.

Boston’s Five Aqueducts.  
It shows every gatehouse, aqueduct bridge, and other surface structure along the Cochituate, Sudbury, Wachusett, Weston, and Hultman Aqueducts.  That is a lot of unusual little buildings, and some large multi-arch structures, often in unexpected and occasionally remote places, distributed across more than a dozen towns and cities between Boston and Lake Wachusett.

Dennis De Witt
Brookline


> On Mar 19, 2025, at 12:33 PM, Kristi Chase <KristiChase at post.harvard.edu> wrote:
> 
> I used this book frequently for the typology of garages when I was still working. I wished there had been more information on urban carriage houses and stables.
> 
> There are so many small buildings constructed for specific purposes that don't have the drama of larger structures but are important to our history for what they say.
> 
> I am looking forward to seeing what information you discover.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 8:21 AM Dennis De Witt via MassHistPres <masshistpres at cs.umb.edu <mailto:masshistpres at cs.umb.edu>> wrote:
>> This is perhaps not the format you are thinking of, but it is a well done study intended to raise community awareness:
>> 
>> Carriage House to Auto House: a Guide to Brookline's Transportation Buildings to 1940 (Roger Reed and Greer Hardwicke, 2002)
>> 
>> I could find only one copy listed on line at $75 and this poor cover pic.
>> 
>> <carrriage house to auto house_.jpg>
>> Dennis De Witt
>> Brookline
>> 
>>> On Mar 18, 2025, at 4:48 PM, Sarah LaValley via MassHistPres <masshistpres at cs.umb.edu <mailto:masshistpres at cs.umb.edu>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Is anyone aware of examples of targeted studies of historic secondary structures (carriage houses, barns, garages, etc)
>>> I'm espeially interested in projects where the scope was focused on most critical or otherwise limited (perhaps by year built, use, etc.)  since funding is not available to complete this in the entire community
>>> I'm working on an RFP and would love to see any examples you may be aware of.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks very much-
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sarah I. LaValley, AICP
>>> Assistant Director
>>> Northampton Office of Planning and Sustainability
>>> City Hall, 210 Main Street, 2nd Floor
>>> Northampton MA, 01060
>>> www.northamptonma.gov/plan <http://www.northamptonma.gov/plan> 
>>> 413-587-1263
>>> 
>>> 
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