<p>The Moody Shattuck House is a historic house at 768 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The Queen Anne style house was constructed in 1885 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Moody Edson Shattuck, founder of the M.E. Shattuck Cigar & Tobacco Company, was born in Waterville, Vermont on May 9, 1835. In 1858 he arrived in Worcester, Massachusetts and purchased a cigar store in the Lincoln House block, moving to the Walker Building two years later. Over the next several decades he would continue to develop his cigar business. At one time, it was one of the largest in New England.</p><br>
<p>Moody Shattuck married Helen Augusta Prouty on January 12, 1863. He built the house at 768 Main Street in 1885. Moody Shattuck died April 10, 1892. His wife remained in the house after his death. Mrs. Shattuck died in 1907. Both are buried at the Worcester Rural Cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The Slater Building is an historic commercial building at 390 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The ten story building, built in 1907 by the Norcross Brothers, was the second skyscraper in the city . Framed in steel, the building is clad in granite stone on its first two floors, while the upper floors are faced in limestone. The upper two floors are set off from those below by a trim line, and have a recessed loggia framed by Corinthian columns.</p><br>
<p>In 1939 the building&#39;s interior systems were modernized by architects Frost, Chamberlain & Edwards, successors to the original designers, and then still tenants of the building.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is currently the 10th tallest building in Worcester.</p><br>
<p>The Elliot Smith House was a historic house located at 839 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 5, 1980. It was demolished in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The 2.5 story asymmetrical wood frame Queen Anne style house was built in 1889 for Elliot Smith, a local businessman who operated a wholesale grocery. Its porch featured elaborately turned posts and balusters, and the house was clad in wood shingles, including bands of decoratively cut shingles. There was an oriel stained glass window on the south wall. Smith lived in the house until his death in 1913. In 1945, the house was acquired by a veterans&#39; organization, and eventually became VFW post.</p><br>
<p>The Smith-Thaxter-Merrifield House is an historic house at 158 Holden Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built c. 1741 and probably altered in the late 18th century, it is one of the oldest houses in the city, and has only undergone minimal alteration. It is also a rare local example of a hip-roof central-chimney house. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Smith-Thaxter-Merrifield House is located in suburban northern Worcester, at the southeast corner of Holden Street and Stetson Road. It is a two story hip roof timber frame house, with a five bay facade, massive central chimney, and clapboard siding. The original south-facing facade is symmetrical, with a central entry flanked by pilasters and topped by a dentillated cornice. A two-story ell extends to the rear of the house (toward Stetson Road).</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of the house was probably built by Elisha Smith II not long after his arrival in the area (from Weston in 1741. He sold it to Benjamin Thaxter later in the 18th century, who probably enlarged it, adding the hip roof and the entrance surround. In 1849 the property was purchased by Deacon Alpheus Merrifield, and in 1866 it was acquired by James Libby. About 1915, Libby&#39;s heirs sold it to the Norton Company. Its only known subsequent alterations are the replacement of windows, in the early 20th century. At the time of its listing on the National Register in 1980, it was being used as child care facility, a role it had served since 1946. This type of house was fairly typical in Worcester in the late 18th and early 19th century; there are only three such houses left.</p><br>
<p>The Daniel Stevens House is a historic Second Empire house at 7 Sycamore Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built about 1865 for Daniel and Charles Stevens, it is a well-preserved local example of Second Empire architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Daniel Stevens House stands on the southwest side of Sycamore Street, a residential side street a short way south of downtown Worcester. It is a 2-1/2 story brick building, with a mansard roof providing a full third floor. It is three bays wide, with the outer bays consisting of projecting polygonal sections. The entrance is in the center bay, sheltered by a flat-roof porch with square posts and a bracketed cornice. The building corners are quoined in brick, and the windows are set in openings with shouldered brownstone lintels, and with brownstone sills connected to thin projecting brownstone stringcourses. The steep mansard slopes are pierced by elaborate dormers with bracketed gabled roofs.</p><br>
<p>Daniel Stevens was a native of Charlton who settled in Worcester in 1853 with his brother Charles and established business as painters. Their business was so successful that they built a large facility on Southbridge Street now known as the Stevens&#39; Building, and expanded into the manufacture of wooden architectural parts. The lived in a previous house at 7 Sycamore prior to the construction of this house, which was probably sometime between 1865 and 1870 (based on stylistic evidence and period maps). Charles Stevens moved out in 1880.</p><br>
<p>The D. Wheeler Swift House is a historic house at 22 Oak Avenue in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1879-80 to a design by the noted local architect Stephen C. Earle, it is a well-preserved example of Gothic Revival and Stick style design, which was home to a prominent business owner. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Swift House is located at the southeast corner of Oak and Kendall Streets in eastern Worcester, and is surrounded to the north, east, and south by buildings of the UMass Medical Center. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof, clapboard siding, and granite foundation. A rectangular section with gable top projects to the left (Kendall Street) side. It is a well-preserved example of Gothic Revival and Stick style design, with bargeboard and decorative apron in the main gable. The porch, which wraps around two sides of the house, has a low geometric railing, and bracketing that echoes the woodwork in the gables. In an unusual touch, the main entrance is set at an angle at the corner.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by architect Stephen C. Earle, a noted Worcester-based architect, and built in 1879-80. D. Wheeler Swift, a native of Falmouth, Massachusetts, was an inventor of envelope-making machines, eventually becoming an owner of companies that used such machines. By the end of the 19th century he was a director of the United States Envelope Company, formed by merging his company with several others.</p><br>
<p>The Frank J. Tyler House is a historic house at 240 Linden Street in Waltham, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1894, this 2-1/2 story wood frame house is one of Waltham&#39;s finest Queen Anne Victorians. It is particularly distinguished by its elaborate three-story tower, which has a conical roof and bands of decorative shingles. The main entry is framed on the left by the tower, and on the right by a polygonal bay that rises a full two stories, and is capped by a squared-off projecting gable. The gable tympanum is filled by a three-bay window and clad in decorative cut shingles. The main entry is sheltered by a porch supported by paired Tuscan columns. The paneled door is flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a transom window.</p><br>
<p>Despite its location in a fashionable neighborhood of the city and the relatively high quality of its construction, the house was used as a rental property, passing through a large number of nonresident owners until 1907. Frank J. Tyler, who subdivided his property and built it on speculation, was a Boston-based manufacturer of agricultural machinery.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, where it is listed at 238 Linden Street.</p><br>
<p>The Robert M. Stark House is a historic house at 176 Main Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. This 2-1/2 story house was designed by local architect George Strout, and built in 1890 for Robert Stark, a lawyer and local politician. At the time, the east side of Main Street had become a fashionable address for the upper middle class. The house has high quality Queen Anne style, including various projecting sections and gables, a three-story turret with conical roof, bands of decorative shingles, and windows of varying sizes and shapes with a wide variety of framing treatments.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>House Stark, one of the nine noble houses in the fantasy series Game of Thrones, is a reference to the Robert M. Stark House.</p><br>
<p>Huntley, also known as Historic Huntley or Huntley Hall is an early 19th-century Federal-style villa and farm The house sits on a hill overlooking Huntley Meadows Park to the south. The estate is best known as the country residence of Thomson Francis Mason , grandson of George Mason of nearby Gunston Hall.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Upon the death of Masons grandfather George Mason on 7 October 1792, his father Thomson inherited a portion of the Gunston Hall estate. Around 1817, Masons father Thomson divided the property into two farms: Dogue Run farm for Mason&#39;s younger brother Richard Chichester Mason (1793–1869) and Hunting Creek farm adjacent to Mount Vernon for Mason.</p><br>
<p>After Masons marriage in 1817 to Elizabeth "Betsey" Clapham Price of Leesburg, Virginia, he began building Huntley as a secondary home against a hillside overlooking Hybla Valley and the Potomac River on his Hunting Creek tract between 1820 and 1825. Consistent with its counterpart Mason residences like Gunston Hall and Hollin Hall, Huntley was most likely named for Huntly Castle, an ancestral home in Scotland from Masons mothers side. Huntley never served as a permanent residence for Mason, who owned a number of houses in Alexandria including Colross, his chief homestead. Huntley was conveniently located along a gravel road from Alexandria. By 1834, Masons brother Richard built Okeley Manor on neighboring Dogue Run farm.</p><br>
<p>Twenty years after Masons death, his widow Betsey attempted to sell Huntley and its accompanying Hunting Creek farm in 1859. When she was unable to sell the property, Betsey transferred ownership on 7 November 1859 to her sons John "Frank" Francis Mason and Arthur "Pen" Pendleton Mason. Once the property was transferred to Masons sons, Huntley was held as security on a debt to a family friend, Dr. Benjamin King. On 7 December, they obtained a $13,000 loan, due for repayment on 1 January 1862, from Dr. King. Frank Mason rented Huntley to George W. Johnson, a Union sympathizer, for two years beginning on 1 August 1860. Under their agreement with Johnson, the Masons promised him $1,000 to put the farm in order. At the onset of the war, Pen Mason enlisted in the Confederate States Army.</p><br>
<p>During the American Civil War from December 1861 through February 1862, the 3rd Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment camped at Huntley, with their quartermaster and his wife residing in the mansion. Also during the war, the Masons defaulted on their loan, and Dr. King eventually acquired Huntley at a public auction on 12 June 1862. Despite Dr. Kings ownership, Johnson continued to reside at Huntley and worked the farm until February 1863. After the American Civil War, Johnson reported to the Southern Claims Commission that when Frank Mason and his mother Betsey traveled south before the war, the Masons left all of their servants and their servants children in Johnson&#39;s care without compensation.</p><br>
<p>Six years after Dr. King purchased the estate, Albert W. Harrison and Nathan W. Pierson from New Jersey assumed Huntleys title on 21 November 1868 and divided their claim in 1871. Harrison took ownership of the mansion and its supporting structures and Pierson acquired the rest. Following Harrisons death in 1911, Huntley came into the possession of his heirs. Richard Chichester Mason&#39;s descendants sold nearby Okeley Manor in 1916, ending Mason family ownership of any of the original Gunston Hall property.</p><br>
<p>During the 1930s, Huntleys property, along with other former Mason properties, was partially reassembled by entrepreneur Henry Woodhouse for the proposed George Washington Air Junction. The airport was intended to serve as a regional landing site for Graf Zeppelin airships, but the plans never came to fruition and Woodhouse lost the land by default. The last of the Harrisons died in 1946 and Huntleys mansion was sold to August W. and Eleanor S. Nagel. During the Nagels&#39; brief period of ownership, the couple commissioned Arlington architect Edward M. Pitt to make drawings of the mansion. Three years later, Huntley was sold to Colonel and Mrs. Ransom G. Amlong.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Huntleys mansion and its surrounding farm complex were constructed between 1820 and 1825 in the early Federal style. Originally built in the shape of an "H", the mansions central section rises three stories on the south and two on the north. For unknown reasons the east and west sides were built first and later joined in the center. Its brickwork is laid in a common bond. The mansions flanking wings, which are one story lower than the one-room central section, each consist of two rooms. The central gable is crowned by two rectangular interior chimneys which run parallel to the mansions roofline. The central gable also contains three bays with casements of nine panes each.</p><br>
<p>The second story of the central section is crowned by a mousetooth brick cornice that once marked the edge of the mansions clipped roof. The first floor central section is sheltered by a three-bay porch addition that links the pedimented wings. The mansions front entrance is framed by three-paned sidelights separated by slender reeded pilasters and surmounted by a fanlight with wooden tracery. The two bays which flank this entrance on the first floor porch have a four-over-four sash. The remaining windows on the ground and first floors consist of a six-over-six double hung sash. Set slightly into the brick of the house, the windows still consist mostly of their early glass, and single panel shutters vented by fixed louvers.</p><br>
<p>The mansions most notable architectural features are its one-bay pedimented wings. The wing elevation on the south includes a simple ground floor bay surmounted by the first floor windows which are set into recessed rectangular frames. The side wings are topped by pediments enhanced by a molded cornice and enclosing louvered lunettes. Windows on the east and west sides of the mansions wings are spaced irregularly. On the east side, two bays light the ground level and three bays break the wall of the first story.</p><br>
<p>The Nathan Sanderson II House is a historic house at 111 Lincoln Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The oldest portion of this house, a 1-1/2 story timber frame section, is said to date to c. 1698. It was moved to its present location c. 1816 by Nathan Sanderson II, son of Nathan Sanderson I, whose house is next door. It was extensively altered at the time, giving it an unusual five-bay front-gable Greek Revival appearance. A single story porch with fluted Doric columns spans the main facade, and the slightly-projecting central entry is flanked by sidelight windows. The house is one of several associated with the Sanderson family, who were early settlers of the area.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Piety Corner Historic District encompasses one of the oldest settled areas of Waltham, Massachusetts. It is centered on a major road intersection, the junction of Totten Pond Road with Lexington and Bacon Streets, and includes the city&#39;s largest single concentration of well-preserved 19th and early 20th-century houses. It extends south from Totten Pond Road along Bacon Street as far as Greenwood Lane, and along Lexington Street to Beaver Street. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Piety Corner area was first settled by English colonists in the late 17th century, when it became known as "Hosiers Corner" after an early resident. It acquired its present name because it was home to a number of ministers. None of the houses from the early settlement period survive in the district, although Walthams oldest house, the c. 1721 Hagar-Smith-Livermore-Sanderson House, is not far away. The district&#39;s oldest properties are the Federal style Sanderson-Bemis House (c. 1819-29, 380 Lexington Street) and the Jonas Clark House (c. 1825, 399 Lexington Street).</p><br>
<p>The focus of development in Waltham shifted south toward the Charles River in the 1820s with the establishment of the Boston Manufacturing Company, and the Piety Corner area saw relatively little development. In 1859, the Waltham Corporation of the New Jerusalem Church was founded for the many New-Church families in the area of Piety Corner. The following year in 1860, The Waltham New-Church School was founded to further support these local families. There was a surge in development when the Swedenborgian Church (which later became the Covenant Congregational Church) was built; its present English Medieval building was finished in 1879. By 1864, the school had grown too large for the space, so the Waltham New-Church school built two additional school buildings: Wilkins Hall and the Cottage. Both of these buildings are still in use today by Chapel Hill - Chauncy Hall School.</p><br>
<p>Shortly thereafter the ownership of the school was transferred to the New-Church Institute of Education. In 1912, the name of the school was changed to the Waltham School for Girls as the times showed a trend away from coeducation. The school continued to accept boys in the lower grades and since the boys did not take kindly to the school&#39;s name, the lower school became known as Chapel Hill in 1937. In 2010, The Covenant Congregational Church closed after serving the community for 150 years. In 2011, the Church was reconnected with the remainder of the campus that is now called Chapel Hill - Chauncy Hall School.</p><br>
<p>In the 1860s, a number of Second Empire mansard-roofed houses were built, as were two of Walthams finest Carpenter Gothic houses, at 326 and 356 Bacon Street. One of the citys most unusual houses was built in 1875: originally built as an octagon house, 361 Bacon Street was later truncated to its present odd shape. By the late 19th century the area was transformed into a fashionable upper-class residential area, as evidenced by a number of fine Queen Anne and Colonial Revival houses. Particularly fine examples of the first style are found at 326 Lexington (1888) and 395 Lexington (1891).</p><br>
<p>In 1960, the Piety Corner area was broken up to some extent by the construction of Totten Pond Road, a major roadway leading west from the junction. As a result, a portion of the historic area, near the junction of Lexington and Lincoln Streets, is now separated from the main area, and was listed separately as the North Lexington Street Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Pavilion Mountain is a mountain in the Marble Range in the South Cariboo region of the South-Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada, located northeast of the ranching and First Nations community of Pavilion and to the north of Marble Canyon and immediately south of Kelly Lake, which is the focus of Downing Provincial Park. The term Pavilion Mountain is also used to refer to the historic ranch and associated rangeland on the "bench" on the mountains southwestern side, and also to the road which traverses that benchland and the mountains western shoulder and is the route of the Old Cariboo Road. The switchback descent from the summit of the road was known as the Rattlesnake Grade and was an infamous stretch of the old wagon road. From a junction at the road-summit, a road leads east along the spine of the mountain to the peak, which is the site of a microwave relay and former fire lookout. The mountain&#39;s only named subpeak, Mount Carson, at 2005 metres , is southeast of the fire lookout and is named for the original owner of the ranch and was briefly misapplied as the name of Pavilion Mountain. Robert Carson was one of the first settlers in the region and whose sons later became prominent MLAs and provincial cabinet ministers. The north wall of Marble Canyon is essentially the southeast buttress of Pavilion Mountain.</p><br>
<p>To the east are the Trachyte Hills, to the north across Cut-Off Valley is the rest of the Marble Range, the highest summit of which is Mount Bowman and which includes the Edge Hills, which form the Fraser Canyon&#39;s east wall in that area, just as the rangeland of Pavilion Mountain forms the east wall in the area of Moran. South and southwest across the valley of Pavilion Creek and Pavilion Lake, which lies within Marble Canyon Provincial Park, is the Clear Range and east of it the broad basin and range-country of Upper Hat Creek, which has views northward to the summit of Pavilion Mountain and the north wall of Marble Canyon.</p><br>
<p>The North Lexington Street Historic District is a residential historic district at 508–536 North Lexington Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. It consists of a cluster of four houses and their associated outbuildings, built around the turn of the 20th century, and unusual for its state of cohesion and preservation given the busy nature of Lexington Street. Three houses  are Colonial Revival in styling, and 528 Lexington is an 1873 Second Empire house. The house at 508 Lexington was built in 1865 and extensively restyled in 1905; it retains some Italianate styling. Particularly rare in Waltham is the converted barn at 526 Lexington Street. This cluster of buildings was traditionally associated with the Piety Corner area, but is now separated from it by a significant number of more modern buildings.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Moody Street Historic District is a historic commercial district at Moody and Crescent Streets in Waltham, Massachusetts. It consists of eight commercial properties facing Moody Street as it runs south from the Charles River toward Newton. The area was developed between about 1880 and 1950, and is a reminder of the city&#39;s economic prosperity in that time. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>One of the most prominent buildings in the area is the Cronin&#39;s Landing complex, located at the north end of the district between Crescent Street and the river. This architecturally eclectic building was built in stages between 1879 and 1930, serving most notably as a department store. Predominantly Art Deco in its styling, it also has Panel Brick and Colonial Revival elements. It has been rehabilitated into residences on the upper floors and retail space on the first floor.</p><br>
<p>The building at the northeast corner of Moody and Pine Streets (240-254 Moody) is the only single-story building in the district. It was built in the 1930s, and features modern storefronts separated by ziggurat-style stone piers. Across Pine Street stands a two story Georgian Revival building (266-274 Moody), built c. 1900. It also has modern storefronts, with Doric piers in between, and an unaltered second story facade. At the southeastern corner of the district stands the four story brick Romanesque Revival building built for the Ancient Order of United Workers in 1887.</p><br>
<p>The southwest corner of the district is anchored by the Art Deco F. W. Woolworth building, built 1948-49; the storefront still shows evidence of its use as a Woolworth store, and is one of the citys finer examples of Art Deco styling. Next to this building stands the Lincoln building, a Romanesque Revival structure built in 1887 that once housed the Adams Department Store. A small modern brick building stands north of the Lincoln building, and does not contribute to the districts significance. The Hall building, a two-story brick Georgian Revival building, anchors the southwest corner of Moody and Crescent Streets, across Crescent Street from the Cronin building.</p><br>
<p>The Lyman Street Historic District is a historic district roughly encompassing Lyman Street between Church and Main Streets in Waltham, Massachusetts. Lyman Street was laid out in 1826 by Theodore Lyman, owner of The Vale, a country estate  just to the north. Residential development took place along the street roughly between 1840 and 1900, resulting in a series of fashionable houses in a variety of 19th century architectural styles on the west side of the street. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Lyman Street is a north-south road a short way east of Waltham&#39;s Central Square, extending from Main Street in the south to DeVincent Circle (junction with Beaver Street) to the north. About midway through its length, Church Street runs southwest toward Central Square. The historic district extends on the west side of Lyman Street from this intersection to Main Street, and includes five houses on the east side, roughly opposite School Street.</p><br>
<p>The oldest house in the district was built c. 1831, and is a Federal style farmhouse at 11 School Street. It originally faced Lyman Street, but was moved back and reoriented c. 1900 to make room for adjacent houses on Lyman Street. The house at 54-56 Lyman is a particularly fine example of Italianate architecture; 98 Lyman is a high quality example of Shingle style, designed by Henry Hartwell and built in 1886.</p><br>
<p>The Lawton Place Historic District is a historic district on Lawton Place between Amory Road and Jackson Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The district preserves some of the nation&#39;s oldest textile mill worker housing. The duplex houses located on the south side of Lawton Place were built c. 1815-17 by the Boston Manufacturing Company , the first mill to process textiles entirely under one roof. They were originally located at what is now the Waltham Common, and were moved to Lawton Place in 1889. On the north side stands a rowhouse that was built in 1889; it is the last instance of a type of row housing that was once commonly built for mill workers. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Lawton Place is a short street between Jackson and Amory Streets, a short way east of the Waltham&#39;s Central Square. On the south side of Lawton Place stand three wood-frame two-family residences, all vernacular structures with interior brick chimneys and brick foundations. They have symmetrical six-bay facades, with a pair of entrances in the center bays, sheltered by bracketed hoods. Single-story ells extend to the rear of each unit. On the north side of the street stands a rowhouse containing 12 units. It is also 2-1/2 stories in height, with a brick foundation, and paired entries under bracketed hoods.</p><br>
<p>Lawton Place was laid out in 1889, as a place to accommodate housing units of the BMC which were moved during the creation of Central Square. The units were built in about 1817 by the company, which had been founded in 1813. The backs of these buildings originally faced the Boston and Fitchburg Railroad, just north of the BMC mill complex, and served as models for the construction of worker housing in Lowell. The rowhouse on the north side of Lawton Place was built in 1889, and was one of the BMC&#39;s last worker housing units to be built. The land on which these buildings stand was part of the estate of George Lawton, a BMC executive.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel Harrington House is a historic house on Old South Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Now on the campus of Brandeis University, it houses the Rabb School of Continuing Studies. It was built in middle of the 18th century, and is one of the city&#39;s few houses to survive from that period. It remained in the Harrington family into the 20th century. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, where it is listed at 475 South Street.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Samuel Harrington House is located between Old South Street and South Street near the southeastern end of the Brandeis University Campus. It has a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof and large central chimney. A pair of ells, the first two-story and the second one, extend to its left, with a secondary entrance in the first ell.</p><br>
<p>The land on which the house stands was bought by Robert Harrington in 1684. The first firm documentary evidence of the houses existence dates to 1793, but stylistic evidence suggests it was built in the late First Period, c. 1730. It was likely built by Roberts son Samuel as a wedding present for his son, also named Samuel. The house served briefly as an inn, as South Street was at the time a major road leading to the Post Road (now United States Route 20). The last Harrington to own the property died in the 1960s.</p><br>
<p>The Hagar–Smith–Livermore–Sanderson House is a historic house at 51 Sanders Lane in Waltham, Massachusetts. The 2-1/2 story wood frame house was built in several stages, and is considered to be the city&#39;s oldest surviving structure. Its oldest portion, now an ell attached to the main block, may have been built as early as 1716 , although architectural evidence suggests a date in the mid-18th century. This structure is attached to a larger main block that is now 2-1/2 stories with a slate gambrel roof. This section, however, also began as a 1-1/2 story structure, built in the 1780s. The house reached its current proportions in the mid-19th century, which is when it received its Italianate styling. The house has long been associated with a number of families prominent in the affairs of the town.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Gale–Banks House is a historic house at 935 Main Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. This farmhouse was built c. 1798, and is one of the finest Federal style houses in the city. It is also significant for its association with Waltham native son, Governor of Massachusetts, and general of the American Civil War, Nathaniel Prentice Banks, who purchased it in 1855 and made it is home until his death in 1894. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Banks House is located on the north side of Main Street (United States Route 20), west of Waltham center and in an area that has significant commercial development. It is a two-story wood frame structure, five bays wide, with a hip roof, clapboard siding, and two interior brick chimneys. It has a distinctive narrow hip-roof dormer, with windows facing north and south, at the apex of its roof. The main entrance is sheltered by a porch supported by fluted Doric columns and topped by a balustrade.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1798 by Jacob Gale, when the surrounding area was mostly farmland that had been in his family since the 17th century. It remained in the Gale family until 1855, when it was purchased by Nathaniel Prentice Banks along with 20 acre of land. Banks was a Waltham native who worked as a child in the mills of the Boston Manufacturing Company, and was by the 1855 a prominent politician, having served as speaker of the state house of representatives. In 1857 he was elected Governor of Massachusetts, serving three one-year terms. He then served in the American Civil War as a general in the Union Army. After his death in 1894, the property was subdivided. The building now houses professional offices.</p><br>
<p>The Daniel French School is a historic school building at 38–40 Common Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Built in 1847 by a prominent local educator, it is a well-preserved example of vernacular Greek Revival architecture, and is important for the role it played in Waltham&#39;s 19th century educational environment. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It is now a residential duplex.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Daniel French School is located on the west side of Common Street, which extends north from Waltham&#39;s Central Square. It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, oriented with its front facing north and presenting a side gable to the street. The building corners have paneled pilasters, and the roof is pierced on both sides by three gabled dormers. The two first-floor windows on the street-facing facade may be replacements for the original school doors, done c. 1860 when the building became residential.</p><br>
<p>The building was built by Daniel French, an educator whose students (when he first began teaching in Boston) included Charles Francis Adams, Jr. He moved to Waltham in 1842, where he first served as principal of its high school. He established a private school in 1844, building this structure in 1847 for that endeavour. He stopped teaching in 1858, selling the building the following year to William Clark, a grocer. Clark converted it into its present use as a residential duplex.</p><br>
<p>The Eastern Middlesex County Second District Court is a historic courthouse of the Massachusetts District Court at 38 Linden Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Built in 1938-40, it is one of three Art Deco buildings in the city, and its most fully realized example of the style. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>The Eastern Middlesex County Second District Court is located on the north side of Linden Street, just north of Main Street (United States Route 20) in eastern Waltham. It is a two-story building, built out of yellow brick with cast stone trim, set on a raised foundation. A pavilion projects slightly from the center of the main facade, with a flight of steps leading to the entrance, flanked by tall stone "shoulders" with distinctive ram&#39;s head lamps. The pavilion has three tall bays, demarcated by cast stone pillars, with window openings filled with glass bricks, and the main entrance with heavy double doors at the center. The pavilion is topped by a pyramidal roof with skylight. The interior lobby space has mosaic tile walls.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by Charles R. Greco, a Cambridge native, whose firm provided designs for a number of area courthouses and armories. This courthouse was built 1938-40, and was the first major expansion of the Eastern District court, which had previously sat only in the courthouse in East Cambridge. It is Waltham&#39;s most elaborate example of Art Deco architecture.</p><br>
<p>The East Main Street Historic District is a small residential historic district in Waltham, Massachusetts. It encompasses part of an area that was, before the 1813 construction of the Boston Manufacturing Company further west, developing as a center of the community. Because of the company&#39;s economic influence, the center was more fully developed further west, and East Main Street became a fashionable area for upper class housing. The four houses on the south side of East Main Street between Townsend Street and Chamberlain Terrace are a well-preserved remnant of this later period. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Lyman Reed House, at 436 Main Street, is the oldest of the four houses. Built in 1844, it is one a few temple-front Greek Revival houses in the city. It has a full suite of high-style Greek Revival features, including pilastered corner boards, a full entablature, and full-length windows on the first floor of the main facade. The newest of the houses is the Charles P. Nutting House at 446 Main Street. Built c. 1900, it is a Colonial Revival structure with significant Queen Anne and Shingle style elements. Its gambrel roof sweeps down to the first floor, where it covers a verandah that extends across the front. The verandah has a fieldstone skirt and piers, with a round arch entry.</p><br>
<p>The other two houses are both Italianate in style. The Francis Blanchard House, at 428 Main Street, was built c. 1850-54, and has Greek Revival features, including a pedimented gable end facing the street and corner pilasters, but it also has a typically Italianate round-arch window in the gable. The George W. Chamberlain House at 418 Main Street (built about the same time) is more strongly Italianate, with a projecting gable roof that has paired brackets and a crowning belvedere. Greek Revival elements include flushboard siding and corner pilasters.</p><br>
<p>The Dunbar–Stearns House is a historic house at 209 Linden Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. This -story wood frame house was built c. 1846 by Peter Dunbar, and was originally Greek Revival in character. It had a fully pedimented gable, with a single-story porch that was supported by columns that apparently wrapped around the building. The house was purchased in 1892 by Joseph Stearns, who had the house completely remodeled to achieve its present Queen Anne styling. It was enlarged to the sides by incorporating the area of the side porticos, a turret was added to the front, and the pedimented gable was covered with decorative shingle styling. Interior alterations into the new style were equally extensive.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Company F State Armory, also known as the Waltham State Armory, is a historic armory building at Curtis and Sharon Streets in Waltham, Massachusetts. Built in 1908, it is locally notable for its Georgian Revival architecture, and as the citys only armory building. It was among the last of the states armories to be built to individualized architectural design. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The building is vacant.</p><br>
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<p>The Waltham State Armory is located on Walthams west side, at the southwest corner of Curtis and Sharon Streets. Its main block is two stories with a full basement, and there is a rear extension of a single story, also with basement. The main facade has a central projecting entry pavilion, with a recessed entryway set in a segmented archway. Narrow vertical windows are placed symmetrically on the facade, and a parapet rises above the roofline. The buildings corners have brick quoining. The interior had a firing range in the basement, an assembly room and drill hall on the main floor, and offices and a library on the second floor.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in 1908 to a design by Hartwell, Richardson & Driver, architects whose commissions included several of the citys prominent buildings. In addition to the high quality of its materials and workmanship, it is the last of the states armories to be built to individualized architectural design. It was built by Rufus Lord, owner and builder of Lord&#39;s Castle, for $45,000.</p><br>
<p>The Francis Buttrick House is a historic house at 44 Harvard Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Built before 1852, it is one of a small number of temple-front Greek Revival houses in the city. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>The Francis Buttrick House stands in a densely built residential area west of downtown Waltham, on the east side of Harvard Street between Charles Street and Harvard Places. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and exterior clad in a variety of finishes. Its principal distinguishing features is the massive two-story Greek Revival portico, with four fluted Doric Columns (one a modern replacement) supporting a full entablature and pedimented gable. The front facade has full-height windows, with the main entrance in the leftmost of three bays. A series of ells extend the building to the rear.</p><br>
<p>The house was built sometime before 1852; at the time of its listing on the National Register in 1989, it was one of four surviving temple-fronted houses in the city. It was originally located a short way to the south, facing Charles Street, and was moved to its present location in the 1860s by Francis Buttrick, who apparently used it as a rental property.</p><br>
<p>The Josiah Beard House is a historic house at 70 School Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Built about 1844, it is a well-preserved local example of a side-hall Greek Revival house. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>The Josiah Beard House stands near the center of Waltham, on the south side of School Street just east of its junction with Church Street. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gable roof and clapboarded exterior. It has paneled corner boards with a distinctive spade detail at the top, a full entablature, and a fully pedimented gable end. The main facade is three bays wide, with the entrance in the leftmost bay. Its single story porch is supported by fluted Doric columns, and runs across the front of the house and partway along the right side.</p><br>
<p>The 2-1/2 story wood frame house was built in 1844, and is a well-preserved local example of Greek Revival styling. Joseph Beard, the probable builder, was prominent in local politics, and may have played a role in the invention of the bottle cap. He served as a town selectman, and as a representative in the state legislature. A later owner of the building moved it to its present location in 1888; it originally faced School Street on a large lot, and was moved within the lot to facilitate its subdivision.</p><br>
<p>The E. Sybbill Banks House is a historic house at 27 Appleton Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Built in 1892, it is an excellent local example of vernacular Queen Anne styling. It was built for E. Sybbil Banks, the spinster daughter of Nathaniel Prentice Banks who was also a prominent local civil servant. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>The E. Sybbill Banks House stands in a densely built residential area just east of downtown Waltham, on the west side of Appleton Street just north of its junction with Central Street. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and exterior finished in a combination of wooden clapboards and shingles. Prominent Queen Anne features include the front porch, which has turned posts and balusters, and a spindled valance; these details are repeated on the rear porch, and similar valances are found projecting over angled windows. Palladian windows adorn the front-facing main gable, and a crossing secondary gable.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1892 for E. Sybbill Banks, the spinster daughter of Nathaniel Prentice Banks, a Governor of Massachusetts and general in the American Civil War. Banks was active in local theater, and served as postmistress in Somerville. She was one of the first women to receive a pension from the federal government. This house was her home until 1910. It is the best preserved of several similar houses built in the Appleton Street area around the same time.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Andrews House is a historic house at 258 Linden Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Built in 1851, it is one of the city&#39;s oldest examples of Italianate architecture, and was one of the first houses built in Linden Street. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>The Joseph Andrews House stands in a residential area just east of the campus of Bentley University, on the west side of Linden Street between Floral Drive and Linden Circle. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. It has Italianate styling, featuring wide eaves with paired brackets, paneled corner boards, and an entry framed by sidelight and transom windows.</p><br>
<p>The area that is now Linden Street was developed by Charles Harrington, who acquired land from the Lyman Estate 1845, and laid the street out through its middle. Harrington built this house about 1851 for Joseph Andrews, an elder in the local Swedenborgian Church; it was one of three houses he built on the street. It was originally set well back on a lot of nearly 4 acre. That land was subdivided in 1950, when Cedar Hill Lane (just west of Linden Street) was laid out. The house was moved forward in its lot, removing its rear wings in the process. Prominent owners of the house include a superior court judge and the owner of Boston-based maker of agricultural implements.</p><br>
<p>The Elias Boardman House is a historic house at 34 Salem Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Built in 1820, it is one of the citys most elaborate examples of Federal period architecture. It was built by Elias Boardman, and was dubbed Boardmans Folly for its extravagance. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>The Boardman House stands in a residential area northeast of downtown Wakefield, at the southeast corner of Pleasant and Salem Streets. It is a three story wood frame structure, five bays wide and five bays deep, with a hip roof and interior chimneys. The third floor windows, in a typical Federal period twist, are smaller than those on the lower two floors. The building corners have slender pilasters rising to a full entablature and modillioned cornice. It has en elaborate entrance surround, with sidelight windows, pilasters, and a corniced entablature. Above the entrance is a Palladian three-part window that is probably a later addition. The interior follows a central hall plan, and has a particularly fine carved central staircase.</p><br>
<p>This large Federal style house was built in 1820 by Elias Boardman, a builder who had worked extensively in Boston. The houses decorations were so extravagant for what was then rural South Reading it was dubbed "Boardmans Folly". The stylistic elements are more typical of those found in the more sophisticated settings of Boston and Salem.</p><br>
<p>The Elizabeth Boit House is a historic house at 127 Chestnut Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>Elizabeth Boit, co-founder of the Harvard Knitting Mills, also built on the west side, creating an estate compound on the summit of Cowdry&#39;s Hill that included three residences, formal gardens, a playhouse, and greenhouse. All three residences, 88 and 90 Prospect Street, and 127 Chestnut Street (1910-1913), were designed in the English Cottage style by Wakefield architect Harland Perkins. The stucco structures have red tile roofs, recessed entries, exposed purlins, and irregular fenestration. This, the main house is 2-1/2 stories in height, with an angled three-part layout, and is oriented toward the courtyard formed by the three buildings.</p><br>
<p>This house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, for its architecture, and for its association with Elizabeth Boit. She was one of the first highly placed female executive in the male-dominated management ranks of textile firms of the period, and is believed to be the only woman in a top executive position in the United States textile industry in 1923. She pioneered improvements in worker conditions, offering health care to factory workers, and providing bonuses based on company profits. The compound she built at Chestnut and Prospect Streets is the only surviving estate of Wakefield&#39;s leading business executives.</p><br>
<p>The Jonas Cowdry House is a historic house at 61 Prospect Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Built c. 1833, the Federal style wood frame house is three bays wide and four deep, a significant local variant to conventional Federal style architecture. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>The Jonas Cowdry House is located on the north side of Prospect Street, just west of Nichols Street, in what is now a residential area of northwestern Wakefield. The house is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, three bays wide and four deep, with a side gable roof. The brick chimney rises at the ridge line in the center, with the main entrance located in the leftmost bay. The entrance is flanked by sidelight windows, and topped by a Federal style entablature.</p><br>
<p>The Cowdry family was one of the first to settle the area in the 17th century, which was originally part of Reading. The hill north of what is now Prospect Street became known as "Cowdrys Hill". Two of William Cowdrys descendants built houses on Prospect Street about 1833. This one was built by Jonas, while another similar was built 98 Prospect by Aaron. The area remained in Cowdry family hands until about 1900. This house is one of the finest surviving examples of 3/4 architecture in the town.</p><br>
<p>The Nathaniel Cowdry House is a historic house at 71 Prospect Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Built about 1764, it is one of Wakefield&#39;s oldest buildings, built by a member of the locally prominent Cowdry family, who were early settlers. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>The Nathaniel Cowdry House stands on the north side of Prospect Street, a busy through road in a residential part of northwestern Wakefield. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a rubblestone foundation, side gable roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. It is five bays wide, with a small shed-roof projection on the left side known regionally as a "Beverly jog". A slightly larger gabled ell projects to the right side. The main entrance has a simple Georgian surround with wide pilasters and a corniced entablature. Interior features of the house include original batten doors with leather strap hinges, and a plaster ceiling.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1764, probably on the site of the house of Nathaniel Cowdrys ancestor William, one of the areas early settlers. The house was originally three bays wide and four deep, a local variant to typical Georgian design, and was later extended to be five bays wide. The house remained in the Cowdry family until 1866, and owned farmland in the area until about 1900; next door to this house stands the Jonas Cowdry House, built by Nathaniel&#39;s son in about 1833.</p><br>
<p>The Emerson–Franklin Poole House is a historic house at 23 Salem Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Built about 1795, it was in the 19th century home to Franklin Poole, a locally prominent landscape artist. Some of its walls are adorned with the murals drawn by Rufus Porter. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>The Emerson–Poole House stands in a residential area northeast of Wakefield&#39;s downtown area, on the north side of Salem Street between Main and Pleasant Streets. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof, clapboard siding, and two asymmetrically placed chimneys. The main facade is also slightly asymmetrical. A mid-19th-century porch with modest vernacular Italianate features extends across the full width of the front, and additions project to the side and rear of the original structure.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1795 by Elias Emerson, who sold it to Timothy Poole, a house painter. It was the birthplace in 1808 and home of locally prominent painter Franklin Poole, who captured many historically significant scenes of Wakefield in the mid-19th century. The house is also important for the murals of Rufus Porter, an important itinerant muralist, painted on its walls, and as a well-preserved local example of Federal period architecture.</p><br>
<p>Flanley&#39;s Block is a historic commercial building at 349–353 Main Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts, US. Built about 1895, it is a well-preserved local example of late 19th-century Italianate commercial architecture. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>Flanleys Block is located on the west side of Main Street, near the northern end of the business district and just south of the towns major civic buildings. It is a three-story brick structure with Italianate styling, including a flat roof with an extended modillioned cornice. The main facade, facing east, has storefronts on the ground floor, with plate glass windows and recessed entrances. It retains significant Italianate features, including an extended cornice and smaller round-arch windows. The latter are set by pairs in recessed arches, where each pair is topped by a small round window. Second- and third-floor windows are grouped pairs inside recessed panels with round-arch tops. The third-floor windows also have round-arch tops, with rondels above each pair in the panel. Medallion motifs are located at the outer bays of the facade on the third floor.</p><br>
<p>The building was originally built in 1895 by John Flanley, a local furniture salesman. Flanley, a Wakefield native, joined the firm of Gammers and Trow in 1866, and eventually took over their business. Goods he sold included furniture, bedding, carpet, and wallpaper. In 1918 the building was adapted for use by the local branch of the International Order of Odd Fellows.</p><br>
<p>The Captain Goodwin–James Eustis House is a historic house located at 1 Elm Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts.</p><br>
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<p>The 2-1/2 story house was built c. 1760 by Captain James Goodwin, and was subsequently added onto by James Eustis and other families who have lived there after. The town records were destroyed in the late eighteenth century and thus the oldest map to show the house is 1790. The house features Greek Revival styling throughout, likely the work of Eustis, who moved to the area in 1827, and operated a shop out of the left-side ell.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 2, 1990, where it is listed as the "Captain Goodwin–James Custis House".</p><br>
<p>The House at 18A and 20 Aborn Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a historic house and carriage house with elaborate Queen Anne styling. It was built in the mid-1880s, and is one of the most ornate houses in the neighborhood. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>Aborn Street is located northeast of downtown Wakefield, and is a short street in a residential neighborhood just east of Lake Quannapowitt. The house is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, set on a rise above a fieldstone retaining wall. It has irregular massing typical of the Queen Anne period. Its main part has a rough L shape, but it is studded with porches, bay windows, and an extended porte cochere. Several architectural details appear in several places, including gable sections that project slightly over the main wall surface below, and vertically laid trim below some of the cornices. The former carriage house, which has been fully converted for residential use, carries through some of these details.</p><br>
<p>Aborn Street was originally part of a larger property owned by John Aborn, a shoemaker who lived in a house west of this one on Main Street. Aborn and his father-in-law John White owned a successful shoe factory. Aborn&#39;s heirs laid out Aborn Street and adjacent White Street in 1857, and the area was developed in the 1860s and 1870s as a residential area for local middle-class businessmen and tradesmen. Based on map records and stylistic analysis, this house was probably built in the mid-1880s.</p><br>
<p>The House at 6 Adams Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is one of the best examples of Shingle style architecture in the town. It was designed by Boston architect Robert Pote Wait and built in 1885-86 to be his own home. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>6 Adams Street stands in a residential area west of Wakefield center, on the south side of Adams Street, a short cul-de-sac off Chestnut Street. It is set on a wooded parcel about 1.3 acre in size. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a cross-gabled roof configuration and wooden shingled exterior. The shingling is cut in a number of different ways, including waves, diamond patterns, and straight. The roof extends to the top of the first floor and has a flared eave which is shingled below the gable ends. Upper level windows are set in openings framed by shutters, with a bracketed shelf at their bases. Most windows are sash, with the upper sashes featuring diamond panes. The entry is set under a recessed porch, with shingled posts flaring at the top to support the overhang.</p><br>
<p>The area where the house was built is known as Wakefield Park, and was planned as a subdivision of upper middle class residences. It was completed in 1886 to a design by Boston architect Robert Pote Wait, whose residence it became. Subsequent owners Grace and Hubbard Mansfield hired Charles Wait to design modernizations to the building, including the provision of heat, gas lighting, and plumbing. Hubbard Mansfield was one of Wakefield&#39;s first town planners.</p><br>
<p>The House at 21 Chestnut Street is one of the best preserved Italianate houses in Wakefield, Massachusetts. It was built c. 1855 to a design by local architect John Stevens, and was home for many years to local historian Ruth Woodbury. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>The house is set on the north side of Chestnut Street, a residential street running east-west between North Avenue and Main Street, the town&#39;s major commercial thoroughfares. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a side gable roof and clapboard siding. The main facade is three bays wide, with a gable above the central gable, making room for a round-arch two-part window. A single-story hip-roofed porch extends across the front facade, supported by paired columns. The porch roof and main roof both sport paired brackets.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1850, not long after Chestnut Street was laid out (1847). It is one of a series of Italianate houses on the street, and was designed by John Stevens, one of the few architects known to be working in Wakefield in the 19th century. Prominent residents of the house include Nathaniel Dearborn, a Boston printer active in the local militia and as a trustee of Lakeview Cemetery, and Ruth Woodbury, one of the town&#39;s best-known historians.</p><br>
<p>The House at 15 Lawrence Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a well-preserved Queen Anne house with a locally rare surviving carriage house. It was built in the early 1870s, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>Lawrence Street is located north of downtown Wakefield, extending east from Main Street toward Vernon Street at the southern end of Lake Quannapowitt. This house stands on the north side of the westernmost block, its lot fringed by low retaining walls, with granite posts flanking the driveway entrane. The house is 2-1/2 stories in height, with a front-facing clipped gable roof, and an exterior finished in a combination of wooden clapboards and decorative cut shingles. It is basically rectangular in plan, with a single-story hip-roofed porch extending across the front and around part of the left side. The porch features turned posts, a decorative valance, and turned balustrades. Second floor windows are topped by shallow gables, and there is a round-arch window in the gable above. The original carriage barn stands behind the house, also exhibiting original Queen Anne styling.</p><br>
<p>Lawrence Street was laid out in 1857, but was not platted for development until 1874, a boom period of development in Wakefield. James Emerson, owner of one of the citys largest shoe factories, partnered with another businessman to build out the streets lots. Emerson&#39;s family homestead (now demolished) stood at the corner of Lawrence and Main Streets, as did its first shoe factory. The house was written up in a local newspaper for its architecture in 1894.</p><br>
<p>The House at 20 Lawrence Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a complex residential structure with elements of Queen Anne, Stick style, and Colonial Revival style. Built about 1880, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>Lawrence Street is located north of downtown Wakefield, extending east from Main Street toward Vernon Street at the southern end of Lake Quannapowitt. This house stands on the south side of the westernmost block. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frames structure, with an L plan, cross-gabled roof, and exterior finished in a combination of wooden clapboards and decorative cut shingles. Portions of the exterior have applied Stick style decorative woodwork. The wraparound porch, Colonial Revival in style, has been partially enclosed. The main gable is filled with two-slope wooden shingles, a common feature of area 1880s houses.</p><br>
<p>Lawrence Street was laid out in 1857, but was not platted for development until 1874, a boom period of development in Wakefield. James Emerson, owner of one of the citys largest shoe factories, partnered with another businessman to build out the streets lots. Emersons family homestead (now demolished) stood at the corner of Lawrence and Main Streets, as did its first shoe factory. This house was probably built about 1879 or 1880 by Edwin Miller, the son of Henry F. Miller, a local piano manufacturer. The younger Miller continued in his fathers business, and was active in local politics, serving in the state legislature for one term.</p><br>
<p>The House at 23 Lawrence Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a good example of a late 19th-century high-style Colonial Revival house. Built in the late 1890s, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>Lawrence Street is located north of downtown Wakefield, extending east from Main Street toward Vernon Street at the southern end of Lake Quannapowitt. This house stands on the north side, at the northwest corner with Pleasant Street. It is a 2½-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Its front facade, facing Lawrence Street, has a round corner bay and a wraparound porch supported by paired columns atop paneled piers. The main gable is filled with a Palladian window. The facade facing Pleasant Street has a single-story rounded bay with a small central window abouve a panel with a swag at the center. The roof on this side is pierced by two large cross gables, each with half-round windows at their centers.</p><br>
<p>Lawrence Street was laid out in 1857, but was not platted for development until 1874, a boom period of development in Wakefield. James Emerson, owner of one of the citys largest shoe factories, partnered with another businessman to build out the streets lots. Emerson&#39;s family homestead (now demolished) stood at the corner of Lawrence and Main Streets, as did its first shoe factory. This house was built in the late 1890s, based on style and period maps, and probably replaced an older house that was recorded as standing here in 1857.</p><br>
<p>The House at 556 Lowell Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a high style Queen Anne Victorian in the Montrose section of town. The 2.5 story wood frame house was built in 1894, probably for Denis Lyons, a Boston wine merchant. The house is asymmetrically massed, with a three story turret topped by an eightsided dome roof on the left side, and a single story porch that wraps partially onto the right side, with a small gable over the stairs to the front door. That porch and a small second story porch above are both decorated with Stick style woodwork. There is additional decoration, more in a Colonial Revival style, in main front gable and on the turret.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The House at 22 Parker Road is one of a few high style Colonial Revival houses in Wakefield, Massachusetts. The 2.5 story wood frame house is estimated to have been built in the 1880s. It has a hip roof, corner pilasters, and gable end dormers, the center one having a swans-neck design. The main facade is divided into three sections: the leftmost has a rounded bay with three windows on each level, and the right section has a Palladian window configuration on the first floor, and a pair of windows on the second. The central section has the front door, sheltered by a porch that wraps around to the right side, flanked by sidelights and topped by a fanlight. Above the front door is a porch door flanked by wide windows and topped by a half-round window with Gothic style insets.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The House at 88 Prospect Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is one of three houses in the family compound of Elizabeth Boit. Built in 1913, the compound of which this house is a part is the only estate of one of Wakefield&#39;s major industrial figures to survive. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>Elizabeth Boit, co-founder of the Harvard Knitting Mills, was one of the first highly-placed female executive in the male-dominated management ranks of textile firms of the turn of the 20th century, and is believed to be the only woman in a top executive position in the United States textile industry in 1923. She pioneered improvements in worker conditions, offering health care to factory workers, and providing bonuses based on company profits. The compound she built at Chestnut and Prospect Streets, on the summit of Cowdrys Hill, is the only surviving estate of Wakefields leading business executives.</p><br>
<p>Boits three houses were all designed by local architect Harland Perkins, and were set in an estate compound on the summit of Cowdrys Hill that included three residences, formal gardens, a playhouse, and greenhouse. All three residences, 88 and 90 Prospect Street, and 127 Chestnut Street (1910–1913), were designed in the English Cottage style. The stucco structures have red tile roofs, recessed entries, exposed purlins, and irregular fenestration. This house is 1-1/2 stories in height, with its entry facing west, set under a cross-gable roof section with a clipped gable. There are recessed porches on either side, supported by heavy columns.</p><br>
<p>The House at 90 Prospect Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is one of three houses in the family compound of Elizabeth Boit. Built in 1913, the compound of which this house is a part is the only estate of one of Wakefield&#39;s major industrial figures to survive. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>Elizabeth Boit, co-founder of the Harvard Knitting Mills, was one of the first highly-placed female executive in the male-dominated management ranks of textile firms of the turn of the 20th century, and is believed to be the only woman in a top executive position in the United States textile industry in 1923. She pioneered improvements in worker conditions, offering health care to factory workers, and providing bonuses based on company profits. The compound she built at Chestnut and Prospect Streets, on the summit of Cowdrys Hill, is the only surviving estate of Wakefields leading business executives.</p><br>
<p>Boits three houses were all designed by local architect Harland Perkins, and were set in an estate compound on the summit of Cowdrys Hill that included three residences, formal gardens, a playhouse, and greenhouse. All three residences, 90 and 88 Prospect Street, and 127 Chestnut Street (1910-1913), were designed in the English Cottage style. The stucco structures have red tile roofs, recessed entries, exposed purlins, and irregular fenestration. This house is 1-1/2 stories in height, with its entry set under a cross-gable roof section with a clipped gable. There are recessed porches on either side, supported by heavy columns.</p><br>
<p>The House at 11 Wave Avenue in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a well-preserved example of Queen Anne/Stick-style architecture. Built between 1875 and 1888, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>Wave Avenue is located north of downtown Wakefield, and is a two-block residential street just east of Lake Quannapowitt. This house is set on the south side of the street, facing north on a lot that slopes down west toward the lake. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. It is basically L-shaped, with a cross-gable roof and a porch in the crook of the L. It has Stick style decoration in its gable ends, with Queen Anne window hoods and bands of wavy cut shingles on the second floor. Its front porch is supported by square columns with brackets and a decorative valance.</p><br>
<p>The land on which this house was built previously belonged to Thomas Emerson, owner of one of Wakefield&#39;s major shoe manufactories, located downtown at Main and Yale Streets. Emerson was also active in local politics, serving in many town offices and in the state legislature. Emerson died in 1871, and his heirs laid out Wave Avenue for development. This house was built sometime between 1875 and 1888, based on analysis of period maps. Residents of this area included both the management and workers of local shoe factories.</p><br>
<p>15 Wave Avenue is a well-preserved Italianate style house in Wakefield, Massachusetts. It was built between 1875 and 1883, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 6, 1989.</p><br>
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<p>Wave Avenue is located north of downtown Wakefield, and is a two-block residential street just east of Lake Quannapowitt. This house is set on the south side of the street, facing north on a lot that slopes down west toward the lake. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a front-facing gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. A two-story ell projects to rear, offset slightly to the left side. Its main facade is three bays wide, with the entrance in the leftmost bay. A single-story porch extends across the front supported by square posts with jigsawn brackets and valances. The front gable houses a pair of round-arch windows, and the roofs extended eaves are studded with paired decorative brackets.</p><br>
<p>The land on which this house was built previously belonged to Thomas Emerson, owner of one of Wakefield&#39;s major shoe manufactories, located downtown at Main and Yale Streets. Emerson was also active in local politics, serving in many town offices and in the state legislature. Emerson died in 1871, and his heirs laid out Wave Avenue for development. This house was built sometime between 1875 and 1883, based on analysis of period maps. Residents of this area included both the management and workers of local shoe factories, and one shoe factory, that of Henry Haskell, stood at the foot of Wave Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The House at 9 White Avenue in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a well-preserved transitional Queen Anne/Colonial Revival house. Built about 1903, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>White Avenue is located northeast of downtown Wakefield, and is a short street in a residential area just east of Lake Quannapowitt. This house stands on the north side of the street, facing south on a lot that slopes west toward the lake. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a hip roof, with two gable-roof and clapboarded exterior. Its roof has dormers bracketing an oriel window in front, and a normal gabled dormer to the side; these gables are decorated with jigsawn Queen Anne woodwork. The house is three bays wide, with a center entrance sheltered by a porch supported by paired columns, with jigsawn valances. The porch extends to an open veranda to either side.</p><br>
<p>White Avenue was originally part of a larger property owned by John Aborn, a shoemaker who lived in a house west of this one on Main Street. Aborn and his father-in-law John White owned a successful shoe factory. Aborn&#39;s heirs laid out White Avenue and adjacent Aborn Street in 1857, and the area was developed in the 1860s and 1870s as a residential area for local middle-class businessmen and tradesmen. This house was built about 1903, and its first long-term owner was Edward Gleason, who moved here from Aborn Street. Gleason was a prominent local landscape and portrait photographer, who also kept an office in Boston. Gleason is credited with most of the photographs depicted in the 1893 book Wakefield; its Representative Business Men and Points of Interest.</p><br>
<p>The Item Building is a historic commercial building at 26 Albion Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Built in 1912, the single story brick building serves as the headquarters of The Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield&#39;s main community newspaper, and is a well-kept example of early 20th century commercial architecture.</p><br>
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<p>The building is located at the southwest corner of Albion and Foster Streets, one block west of Wakefield&#39;s central business district. It is a single-story brick building, with a granite foundation, brick and cast stone trim elements, and a flat roof. The Foster Street facade is four bays long, with an entrance in the leftmost bay, while the Albion Street facade is eight bays in length. The first five are original, while the latter three are a mid-20th century addition. An angle at the corner originally provided the main entrance, but has now been bricked over and replaced by a window. A Craftsman-style shed-roof hood remains over the window. The main entrance is now in the fifth bay under a metal marquee. The fenestrated bays of the building were originally pairs of plate glass with granite sills, demarcated by brick piers. These bays have now been largely filled with brick and pairs of sash windows.</p><br>
<p>The Wakefield Daily Item began publishing in 1895, and was the first local newspaper in New England that had its own printing facilities. In 1912, Harris M. Dolbeare, the publisher, had this building constructed to house its newsroom and printing operations. The building was enlarged by three bays along Albion Street in the mid-20th century.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 6, 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Deacon Thomas Kendall House is a historic house at One Prospect Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. This timber frame, -story five-bay house has Federal styling, but its massive central chimney indicates that parts of the house likely predate the Federal period, and in a style that predates 1750 . The house is believed to have suffered fire damage in 1786 and been reconstructed at that time, incorporating salvaged materials. Its exterior trim exhibits several different styles, that on the north and west sides more finely carved. The second-floor windows on the south side are smaller and set near the eaves, a typical colonial period feature. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Deacon Thomas Kendall was an influential member of the community, serving as a selectman, commissioner, and deacon of the church for 36 years. He and his wife, Rebecca, had 10 children, and when she died, at the age of 85, she had 175 grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The Kendalls were among the earliest settlers of the Reading area (of which Wakefield was a part until the 19th century). The house was owned for much of the 19th century by the Emerson family, who also owned it at the time of the 1786 fire.</p><br>
