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Organization for Marlboro Hist Carom frame houses Vacant lot to north
Date 4130194
BUILDING FORM
This little house is one of Marlborough's most well-preserved examples of a prevalent house-type
of the 1860's-early '70's, the two-story mansard cottage, one variant on the Second Empire style.
Many square- or rectangular-plan examples were built in Marlborough, including the house to the
northwest (originally on the same lot), but this one is somewhat unusual in its L-plan arrangement. )
The roof has a concave flare, and is pierced on all sides by gabled dormers with scrolled applied
ornament over the windows. The main entry is in the rear section, accessed by way of a wraparound )
porch on square posts. (The posts are apparently 20th-century replacements; the porch itself, which
originally only spanned the area in front of the door, was extended across the facade some time in
the 1920's.) The door is the double-leaf, glass-and-panel type with a pair of round-headed lights,
with a moded surround. The cornices are adorned with paired, sawcut brackets.
A large polygonal bay window is situated at the front end of the facade, and a second one projects
from the south side. The windows are 2-over-2-sash, with molded surrounds and high projecting
lintels.
Probably constructed in about 1871, in 1875 the house was owned by carpenterlbuuilder H.K.W.
Andrews, owner of the house to the northwest at 165 East Main Street, and may have been constructed
by him. (See Form #201). By 1879 it was the home and property of Thomas Jackson, who
manufactured lasts for the New England and Canadian shoe industry at his Marlborough Last Co.,
established in 1860. His factory, which was burned twice, was located on Lincoln Street, first on the
site of the state Armory, and by 1885 in the older, rear section of the complex at 293 Lincoln Street
(MHC #187; see Form #119.) He was succeeded in business, by his son, Capt. Thomas E. Jackson,
and the company was still operating in 1910 under Edward S. Morse and Oscar Gleason.
The younger Thomas E. Jackson (1848-1944) also had a distinguished military career. He first served
in the Jackson Guards in Albany (1868-1869), and in 1873, when Co. E. of the Mass. 6th Regiment
relocated to Marlborough, he joined it. He was the commander of Co. F, 6th Mass. Infantry, which
went from Marlborough to serve in the Spanish American War in 1898. He was promoted to Major
in 1908.
[X] Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, a completed
National Register Criteria Statement form is attached.
Massachusetts Historical Commission Community Property Address
80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Marlborough 7 Walnut Street
K 202
The Thomas Jackson House meets Criteria A and C of the National Register as part of a
district in the East Main/Middlesex Square area. The property is associated with a business
owner of a shoe related industry and with a well known local builder. The mansard cottage is
one of Marlborough's most well preserved examples of this prevalent house type. The property
retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association.