WI-567

Elijah Stanton Adkins House

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WI-567 1893,c. 1915 E. S. Adkins House Salisbury Private

Elijah Stanton Adkins (1849-1912), founder of the E. S. Adkins & Company, moved to

Salisbury from Powellville in 1892. After acquiring several parcels of land in and around

the intersection of the N.Y.P. & N. and Baltimore & Eastern Shore railroads, he located

his new business at the junction of the two rail lines, and his house was sited within a

few hundred feet of Mill No. 1 on the corner of North Division and Philadelphia streets.

On the corner lot, he financed the construction of a large Victorian frame house. The

relocation of the Adkins family and its business to Salisbury was commented on in the

Salisbury Advertiser on June 3, 1893:

Mr. E. S. Adkins has removed his family form Powellville to Salisbury. He is at present occupying the J. McLain Brown house pending the completion of his own, now in the process of erection, on Division street. Mr. Adkins' industries here are getting underway. The saw mills are running, and Contractor Thos. H. Mitchell is pushing to completion the work of putting in the machinery of the factory.

The outline of the Victorian house that E. S. Adkins financed appears on the

1904 Sanborn Insurance map. Similar to several dwellings on North Division Street, the

house was designed to face the corner with a center entrance oriented to the intersection

of the two streets and lateral wings extending to each side. By the time the updated map

was published in 1916, the Adkins house had been significantly redesigned and rebuilt,

clearly after E. S. Adkins's death in 1912.

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Distinctive for its long North Division Street fa<;ade, the five-bay, asymmetrically

planned house blends Victorian bay windows, bracketed eaves, and fishscaled shingled

walls with Colonial Revival Tuscan columns and hip roofed dormers.

The Adkins house remained in family hands through the transfer of interests to

Harry C. Adkins in 1920. The house and comer lot were maintained with the estate

holdings of Harry C. Adkins until 1980.

Maryland Historical Trust Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties Form

1. Name of Property (indicate preferred name)

historic Elijah Stanton Adkins House

other

2. Location

street and number 801 Nonh Division Street

city, town Salisbury

county Wicomico

3. Owner of Property (give names and mailing addresses of all owners)

name Kenneth B and Annette L MWer

street and number 801 North Qjyjsion Street

city. town Salisbury state MD

4. Location of Legal Description

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not for publication

vicinity

telephone

zip code 21801

coyrthm1se regjstey of deeds etc Wjcomjco Councy Cler)( ofCmirt liber 1736 foljo 397

city town Salisbury tax map 104 tax parcel 580

5. Primary Locatjon of Addjtjonal Data ___ Contributing Resource in National Register District ___ Contributing Resource in Local Historic District ___ Determined Eligible for the National Register/Maryland Register ___ Determined Ineligible for the National Register/Maryland Register ___ Recorded by HABS/HAER

___ Historic Structure Report or Research Report at MHT Other:

6. Classification

Category __ district

_x_building(s) __ structure __ site __ object

Ownership __public _x_private __ both

Current Function __ agriculture __ landscape __ commerce/trade __ recreation/culture __ defense __ religion _x _domestic __ social __ education __ transportation __ funerary __ work in progress __ government __ unknown __ health care __ vacant/not in use __ industry __ other:

tax ID number 05-000319

Resource Count Contributing

2

2

Noncontributing ____ buildings ____ sites

____ structures ____ objects ____ Total

Number of Contributing Resources previously listed in the Inventory

7. Description

Condition

excellent x_good

fair

deteriorated

ruins altered

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Prepare both a one paragraph summary and a comprehensive description of the resource and its various elements as it exists today.

The Elijah Stanton Adkins house stands at 801 North Division Street north of the Newtown Historic District in the City of Salisbury, Wicomico County, Maryland. The house is located on the northeast comer of the intersection of North Division and Philadelphia streets. Facing west, the principal roof of the two-and-a-half story, asymmetrically planned frame dwelling is oriented on a north/south a.xis.

Begun in 1893 and significantly altered around 1915, the two-and-a-half story, five-bay, asymmetrically designed frame dwelling is supported on a stretcher bond foundation with the exterior clad in a combination of plain weatherboards and fishscale shingles. The main block is covered by a steeply pitched hip roof with multiple gable roofed extensions. The roofs are sheathed with asphalt shingles. Attached to the back of the main block are a pair of two-story rear wings. Joining the house on the lot is a single-story, gable-front frame garage.

The west (main) elevation is an asymmetrical five-bay, ell-shaped front with a projecting two-story, two-bay pavilion on the north side. The pavilion is defined by a single-story, three-sided bay window with nine-over-one sash windows. The second floor is lighted by nine-over-one sash windows as well. The gable end has an enclosed pediment with a paired set of six-over-one sash windows. The tympanum is framed by a boldly bracketed eave. The entrance is located in the recessed wall, which is sheltered on the first floor by a Tuscan columned, wraparound porch. The entrance bay of the porch is defined by a cross gable with a bracketed eave. Stretching between the Tuscan columns is a rectangular baluster handrail. The six-panel front door is framed by a boldly detailed surround with neoclassical pilasters framing four-over-four sash sidelight windows. To the south of the entrance bay is a tripartite series of windows with a twelve-over-one center window and six-over­one flanking sash. The second floor is marked by a tripartite window above the entrance bay with a twelve-over­one center sash flanked by six-over-one side windows. Nine-over-one sash windows marked by adjacent two bays, and each opening is flanked with louvered shutters. The roof is marked by a pair of hip roofed dormers sheathed with wood shingles and fitted with six-over-one sash windows.

The south gable end is a two-bay elevation with an interior/exterior stretcher bond brick stack rising through the center of the wall. Nine-over-one sash windows light the first and second floors. The first floor is sheltered by a continuation of the Tuscan columned porch, which is entered through fully glazed French doors to the side of the chimney stack. The gable end is trimmed with a bracketed eave, and quarter round windows light the attic.

The north side of the house is defined by rows of nine-over-one sash windows which light the first and second floors. An interior brick stack pierces the roofline.

The east (rear) wall is dominated by two, two-story, rear wings which extend from either end of the main block. In between the two wings is a two-story, shed roofed infill distinguished by banks of nine-over-one and six-over-one sash windows. The north service wing is extended farther east by a single-story gable roofed section.

The interior of the house was not seen.

Standing behind the house is a single-story, gable-front frame garage sheathed with weatherboard siding. Board doors pierce the south (main) wall.

8. Significance Period

1600-1699 1700-1799

x 1800-1899 1900-1999 2000-

Areas of Significance

_ agriculture _ archeology x architecture

art commerce communications

_ community planning conservation

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Check and justify below

economics education

_ engineering entertainment/

recreation _ ethnic heritage _ exploration/

settlement

health/medicine _ performing arts _ industry _ philosophy

invention _ politics/government _ landscape architecture religion

law science literature _ social history

_ maritime history _ transportation _ military other:

Specific dates Architect/Builder

Construction dates 1893

Eva!uation for:

___ National Register ____ Maryland Register -~x __ not evaluated

Prepare a one-paragraph summary statement of significance addressing applicable criteria, followed by a narrative discussion of the history of the resource and its context. (For compliance projects, complete evaluation on a DOE Form - see manual.)

Elijah Stanton Adkins (1849-1912), founder of the E. S. Adkins & Company, moved to Salisbury from Powellville in 1892. After acquiring several parcels of land in and around the intersection of the N. Y. P. and N. and Baltimore & Eastern Shore railroads, he located his new lumber business at the junction, and his house within a few hundred feet at the comer of North Division and Philadephia streets. On the comer lot, he financed construction of an large frame dwelling that combined Victorian and Colonial Revival architectural features. The relocation of the Adkins family and its business to Salisbury was commented on in the Salisbury Advertiser on June 3, 1893:

Mr. E. S. Adkins has removed his family from Powel/ville to Salisbury. He is at present occupying the J. McLain Brown house pending the completion of his own , now in process of erection, on Division street. Mr. Adkins' industries here are getting underway. The saw mills are running, and Contractor Thos. H Mitchell is pushing to completion the work of putting in the machinery of the factory .1

The outline of the Victorian house that E. S. Adkins financed appears on the 1904 Sanborn Insurance map.2

Similar to several dwellings on North Division Street, the house was designed to face the comer with a center entrance facing the intersection of the two streets, and lateral wings extending to each side. By the time an updated map was published in 1916 the Adkins house had been significantly redesigned and rebuilt, clearly after E. S. Adkins's death in 1912.

Distinctive for its long North Division Street fa<;:ade, the five-bay, asymmetrically planned house blends Victorian bay windows, bracketed eaves, and fishscale shingled walls with Colonial Revival Tuscan columns and hip roofed dormers.

The Adkins house remained in family hands through the transfer of interests to Harry C. Adkins in 1920.3

The house and comer lot were maintained within the estate holdings of Harry C. Adkins until 1980.4

1 Salisbury Advertiser, 3 June 1893. 2 Sanborn Insurance Map, 1904, microfilm at the Nabb Research Center of Delmarva History and Culture. 3 Wicomico County Land Record, JCK 121/189, 28 December 1920. 4 Wicomico County Land Record, AJS 936/290, 3 January 1980.

Maryland Historical Trust Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties Form

Name Elijah Stanton Adkins House Continuation Sheet

Number__§__ Page 1

Elijah Stanton Adkins House 801 North Division Street Salisbury, Wicomico County, Maryland

Chain of title Map 104. Parcel 580

1736/397

3/14/2000

MSB 1532/12

2/29/1997

14111369

6/27/1994

Scott A. Michlin

to

Kenneth Bruce Miller Annette Louise Miller

James E. Andrews Martha Andrews

to

Scott A. Michlin

James C. Andrews

to

James C. Andrews Martha Andrews

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Maryland Historical Trust Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties Form

Inventory No. WI-567

Name Elijah Stanton Adkins House Continuation Sheet

Number__§__ Page 2

MSB 1266/471

10/2/1991

1211/596

AJS 936/290

11311980

JCK 121/189

12/28/1920

Clara R. Zoellner & Thomas L. Lilly as Trustees of the Martha Jean Zoellner Trust

to

James C. Andrews

Martha Jean Zoellner

to

Clara R. Zoellner and Thomas L. Lilly as Trustees Item No. 2

Maryland National Bank, Trustees of the Estate of Harry C. Adkins

to

Martha Jean Zoellner Whereas by the Last Will and Testament, proved on 2/13/1951, JAH 3/585, Harry Adkins constituted and appointed Baltimore National Bank and his wife Hilda L. Adkins executors

Fred P. Adkins, et al., Edna S. Adkins, E. Dale Adkins, Jessie Graham Adkins, Samuel F. M.Adkins, Wilsie A. Adkins, Minnie R. Adkins, Edna Adkins Elderdice, John M. Elderdice

to

Harry C. Adkins

Maryland Historical Trust Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties Form

Name Elijah Stanton Adkins House Continuation Sheet

Number _JL Page 3

FMS 8/376 James Cannon and wife, Lydia R. Cannon

to

3/711892 Elijah S. Adkins $1042.19 lots or tracts of land

FMS 1157 Isabella Humphreys

to

12110/1885 James Cannon $500 4 Yi acres

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9. Major Bibliographical References

Corddry, Mary U., JOO Years of Looking Ahead, privately printed.

Salisbury Advertiser, 3 June 1893.

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Wicomico County Land Records, various volumes, Wicomico County Courthouse.

10. Geographical Data

Acreage of surveyed property Acreage of historical setting Quadrangle name

Y, acre \Ii acre

Verbal boundary description and justification

Quadrangle scale: .;..1=:2'-'-4=0_,,_00,,___ ___ _

The metes and bounds of this property are coincidental with the current boundary of the lot.

11. Form Prepared by

name/title

organization

street & number

city or town

Paul B. Touart, Architectural Historian

Private Consultant date 10/24/2001

P. 0. Box 5 telephone 410-651-1094

Westover state Maryland 21871

The Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties was officially created by an Act of the Maryland Legislature to be found in the Annotated Code of Maryland, Article 41, Section 181 KA, 1974 supplement.

The survey and inventory are being prepared for information and record purposes only and do not constitute any infringement of individual property rights.

return to: Maryland Historical Trust DHCD/DHCP 100 Community Place Crownsville, MD 21032-2023 410-514-7600

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