<p>The Mt. Prospect School for Boys was a historic school at 90 Worcester Lane in Waltham, Massachusetts. It was a large Georgian Revival brick building built in 1923 to house an experimental boys&#39; school. The school was founded by Arthur Astor Carey , and was headed by Hugo B. Seikel. The school only operated for about ten years, after which the property was converted for use as a nursing home.</p><br>
<p>The school complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. Sometime thereafter it was demolished.</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 Moody Street Fire Station is a historic fire station at 533 Moody Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Built in 1890, it is one of two nearly identical fire stations designed by local architect Captain Samuel Patch.  It was built during the South Side&#39;s rapid development due to the growth of the Waltham Watch Company, and is an excellent example of Queen Anne/Romanesque Revival styling. It was gutted by fire in 1900, and reopened in 1901. The station underwent a with a new station built next door and connected to the existing station in 2019. On June 21, 2021, the fire station reopened after a nearly $10 million renovation.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</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>
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<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 Nelson F. Libby House is a historic house at 147–149 Weston Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. This -story wood-frame house was built in 1891 by Nelson Libby, who owned a woodworking firm that probably manufactured the architectural parts used in its construction. It is an imposing Queen Anne Victorian, with the characteristic array of projecting gables and porches, as well as a turret. One projecting gable section in front has small round-headed windows in the gable, and there is a recessed porch on the third level under another gable.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</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>
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<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 Phineas Lawrence House is a historic house at 257 Trapelo Road in Waltham, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1807-08 by Phineas Lawrence, member of the locally prominent Lawrence family, who had owned land in the northeastern part of Waltham since the 17th century. The house is a well-preserved example of Federal styling. The Lawrence properties were extensive, and included land that was used for the nearby Metropolitan State Hospital.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Newell D. Johnson House is a historic house at 428 Lexington Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built in 1894, and is one of the most elaborate Queen Anne houses in the city&#39;s Piety Corner neighborhood. It has an octagonal tower at one corner with a pyramidal roof, bands of decorative cut wood shingling, and fluted porch posts. Newell Johnson, a dentist, had thi house built on the site of the Sanderson House, one of the first to be built in the area.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Edwin C. Johnson House is a historic house at 177 Weston Street/8 Caldwell Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1847–53, and is a well-preserved example of transitional Greek Revival/Italianate styling. Its massing, with a center entrance, are indicative of Italianate styling, but it also has corner pilasters. The entry surround is Greek Revival, with sidelight and transom windows, and a dentillated pediment.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Richard Holbrook Houses are a pair of joined historic houses at 29 and 31 Heard Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Both are -story Greek Revival cottages, that once had detailed styling, which has since been lost or sided over. The two houses were built in 1844 by Richard Holbrook, a housewright, and are rare surviving examples of a once-common form. The houses went through separate ownerships until 1892, when Patrick Welch acquired the second after acquiring the first in 1886. He was probably responsible for building the central connecting section.</p><br>
<p>The houses were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</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>
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<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 -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 Harrington Block is a historic commercial and retail building at 376&ndash;390 Moody Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The three-story brick building was built 1884-85 by Charles Harrington, a local real estate speculator who was also employed by the Boston Manufacturing Company. It is one of the city&#39;s few Queen Anne commercial building, and is the oldest commercial building on Moody Street to escape major alteration. The ground floor originally housed retail establishments , while the upper floors were residential.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Nahum Hardy House is a historic house at 724 Lexington Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1845, and is a well-preserved local example of a Greek Revival side-hall house. It has a fully pedimented gable end, a full entablature with dentil-like peg moulding, and a single-story porch with Tuscan columns . The corner boards are pilastered. The house stands on land purchased by Nahum Hardy from Harvard College in 1839.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Jonathan Hammond House is a historic house at 311 Beaver Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built in 1785 by Jonathan Hammond, member of a prominent local family. The house has transitional late Georgian/early Federal styling, and is one of the more substantial houses of the period to survive in the city. It has also been owned by the Lymans and the Warrens, also locally prominent families.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It is now owned by Bentley University and houses some of its offices.</p><br>
<p>The Ephraim Hammond House, also known as Cedar Hill, is a historic house at 265 Beaver Street in Waltham, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The two story wood-frame house was built in 1775, and is Walthams only side-hall Georgian house. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. In the 19th century it became part of the Cedar Hill estate of Cornelia Lyman Warren, after which it was donated to the Massachusetts council of the Girl Scouts of the USA in the early 20th century. The house was restored under the auspices of the Girl Scouts and Helen Storrow, an early leader of the girls scouting movement, and serves as one of the council&#39;s service centers.</p><br>
<p>The Henry C. Hall House is a historic house at 107 Crescent Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. This -story wood-frame house was built c. 1872–74 by Henry Hall, co-owner of a local pharmacy. The house has a mansard roof characteristic of the Second Empire style, with a -story tower topped by a truncated hip roof. The cornice of the tower and of the main house are both studded with brackets, as are the skirted roof lines above the building&#39;s projecting bays.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Hager–Mead House is a historic house at 411 Main Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built in 1795, and is one of the city&#39;s small number of 18th-century houses. It is five bays wide and two deep, with chimneys set in the ridge, and a center entry flanked by Doric pilasters and topped by a six-pane transom window and modillioned cornice. The house was built by Samuel Hager, a farmer from Watertown, who promptly sold it Stephen Mead, a blacksmith, in 1796.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Hagar–Smith–Livermore–Sanderson House is a historic house at 51 Sanders Lane in Waltham, Massachusetts. The -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 stories with a slate gambrel roof. This section, however, also began as a -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>
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<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 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 Fuller–Bemis House is a historic house at 41–43 Cherry Street in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1776, and is one of Waltham&#39;s few 18th century houses. It was built when the south side, where it is located, was still part of Newton. It was converted into a two-family structure in the 19th century. Its relatively plain Georgian styling sets it apart from the later 19th century housing that surrounds it.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</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>
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<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 -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 Frederick Flagg House is a historic house at 65 Fairmont Avenue in Waltham, Massachusetts. It is a -story wood-frame structure, four bays wide, with a rear roof sloping down to the first floor in a classic New England saltbox profile. The house was built in 1930 by Frederick Flagg, as a copy of the c. 1710 "Home Sweet Home" house in East Hampton, New York. The principal difference is that Flaggs replica has a more elaborate entry, framed by Doric pilasters and topped by a four-light transom and pediment. Its interior also replicates historic woodwork that was on display in New Yorks Metropolitan Museum of Art.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Elijah Fiske House is a historic house at 457 Lincoln Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The two story brick house was built c. 1801, and is one of only three Federal style brick houses in the city. It is five bays wide and four deep, with entrances on the western and southern facades. The entrances are slightly recessed in an opening with a fanlight top. Luke Fiske, the second occupant  was prominent in Waltham civic affairs, and was the first president of the Waltham Bank.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Henry N. Fisher House is a historic house at 120 Crescent Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with the asymmetrical massing typical of Queen Anne houses. It has a wraparound porch with turned posts, lattice railing, and a sunburst motif in the gabled pediment above the steps. The interior has well-preserved woodwork and marble fireplaces.</p><br>
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<p>The house was built c. 1881–86, and is a well-preserved Queen Anne Victorian on the city&#39;s south side. It was home for many years to Henry N. Fisher, who served as city mayor in the late 1880s, and was a foreman at the Waltham Watch Company.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</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 of 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 veranda that extends across the front. The veranda 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 Lenoir Dow House is a historic house at 215 Adams Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built in 1888, during the building boom of the 1880s on Waltham&#39;s south side. Built to house workers at the Waltham Watch Company, the house is a well-preserved Queen Anne Victorian, with an asymmetrical facade, hip roof topped by iron cresting, and a porch with ornate woodwork. Lenoir Dow, the first owner, was a machinist.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</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 a 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 with individualized architectural design. It was built by Rufus Lord, owner and builder of Lord&#39;s Castle, for $45,000.</p><br>
<p>The Gilbert Colburn House is a historic house at 110–112 Crescent Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The two-story wood-frame duplex was built c. 1870, and is a nearly intact example of an Italianate house built for Waltham Watch Company workers. The main facade is symmetrical, with a pair of entrances at the center, each with its own ornate scrolled hood. They are flanked by a pair of two-story projecting polygonal bays with apron panels.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</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 -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 -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 -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 -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 -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 the 1950&#39;s, when Cedar Hill Lane (just west of Linden Street) was laid out. The house was sold for a nominal amount to make way for other homes, then 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>Set in a residential area of predominantly recent twentieth century houses, this imposing center-entrance Italianate has been moved and has "lost-rear: ells. It nonetheless retains most of its original features; it is characterized by its wide overhanging eaves with paired brackets and deep corner returns on the gable ends. The prominent gabled dormers have similar deep corner returns. There is a cornice across the entire facade and paneled corner boards. The windows have simple corniced heads and the entrance has a transom and sidelights. The semicircular entrance porch with Tuscan columns and the two-story rear ell with a doorway with sidelights and an elliptical fanlight are Colonial Revival additions. The house is on a cement foundation, testimony to the fact that it was moved relatively recently.</p><br>
<p>This house was built in 1851 by Charles Harrington for Frances and Joseph Andrews. Harrington worked at the Bleachery but nonetheless also managed to be one of Walthams important nineteenth century builders. In 1845 he purchased from George Lyman a large tract of land that extended from Beaver Street halfway to Main Street on either side of what is now Linden Street. He then laid out and constructed half of Linden Street (the Town built the rest) and built three houses, producing what could be considered one of Walthams first suburban developments (see also 209 Linden Street form). Harrington believed that houses should be set well back from the street in order to give them "plenty of breathing room" and to provide wider avenues for travel (Waltham Free Press-Tribune, June 1, 1888). This house was originally located back about where the circle of Cedar Hill Lane is now, on a lot that was 3.9 acres.</p><br>
<p>The Andrews were apparently members of the New Jerusalem Church and moved to Waltham from West Roxbury in order to join the Swedenborgian congregation centered at Piety Corner (see 379 Lexington Street form). In the late 1850s Joseph Andrews was one of the leaders of the Church.</p><br>
<p>The Elias Boardman House is a historic house at 34 Salem Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Built in 1790, 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 1790 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 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 executives 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. The home was listed for sale on September 16, 2021, for $1,990,000 and sold on November 4, 2021, for $2,750,000 to leading technology and Real Estate entrepreneur Marc Trachtenberg.</p><br>
<p>The Jonas Cowdry House is a historic house at 61 Prospect Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Built, 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 -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>A house built by Cowdry&#39;s father, Nathaniel, in Wakefield is also on the National Register of Historic Places.</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 -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 in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Built about 1760 and enlarged around 1830, it is a good local example of Greek Revival architecture, which was owned by a prominent local businessman and civic leader. 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>
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<p>The Captain Goodwin–James Eustis House is located west of downtown Wakefield, at the junction of Elm and Prospect Streets. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a cross-gable roof, and mostly clapboarded exterior. It has a main block with a four-bay gabled facade, and a two-story section on the left side that is suspected to be of older construction. The main block&#39;s entrance is in the center-right bay, and its gable is fully pedimented, with a flushboarded central tympanum. The side ell is fronted by a single-story shed-roof porch, with round columns and a spindled balustrade.</p><br>
<p>The ell of the house was probably built c. 1760 by Captain James Goodwin, and was subsequently added onto by James Eustis and other families who have subsequently lived there. The town records were destroyed in the late eighteenth century and thus the oldest map to show the house is 1830. The present main block was likely the work of Eustis, who moved to the area in 1827, and operated a shop out of the left-side ell. Eustis was active in civic affairs, serving as a town selectman, insurance agent, and auctioneer. His descendants subdivided the farmland associated with the house for development.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel Gould House is a historic house at 48 Meriam Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Built c. 1735, it is one of the oldest houses in Wakefield, and its only surviving period -story gambrel-roofed house. It was built by Samuel Gould, whose family came to the area in the late 17th century. It has had modest later alterations, including a Greek Revival door surround dating to the 1830s-1850s, a porch, and the second story gable dormers.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Deacon Daniel Green House is a historic house at 747 Main Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. It is a -story wood-frame house, with a gable roof and clapboard siding. It was built early in the Federal period , and is one of a few surviving examples of a local architectural variant, three bays wide and four bays deep. The house was occupied by Deacon Daniel Green in 1785, who moved to South Reading , from Stoneham.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</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 -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 -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 380 Albion Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is one of the finest Bungalow/Craftsman style houses in the town. It was built c. 1910 in a then-rural part of Wakefield that been annexed from Stoneham in the 1880s. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>Albion Street is a major local thoroughfare, running southwest from the center of Wakefield to the north side of Stoneham center. Number 380 is set on a parcel under 1 acre in size that abuts the present town line at the Green Street intersection. The parcel is fringed on its street-facing sides by a low field-stone retaining wall capped in concrete The house is a single story building with a shallow pitch roof that extend across a wraparound porch supported by Craftsan-style sloping square columns. The gables are decorated with latticework and there are decorated viga-like rafter ends embellishing the area. The building is roughly T-shaped, with three-part picture and casement window combinations at the front of the gable, and of the projecting side section. It has been extended to the rear, with a period garage attached on the right rear.</p><br>
<p>The Albion Street area was largely farmland in the 19th century, and was part of a large rural tract that Wakefield annexed from Stoneham in 1880. This house does not appear on a 1906 map of the area, which showed some development north of Albion Street. From stylistic evidence, its construction date is estimated to be 1910.</p><br>
<p>The House at 23 Avon Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is one of the town&#39;s finest examples of Italianate. It was built about 1855, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>Avon Street is a residential street running east–west between Main Street and North Street, both major north–south through streets, which serve the downtown and railroad corridor respectively. Number 23 is a -story clapboarded wood-frame structure with a T-shaped plan, set on a lot fronted by a low granite retaining wall. It has a cross-gabled roof with wide eaves with paired corner brackets, an Italianate hallmark, and windows with corniced lintels and footed sills. The main facade is three bays wide, with the entrance in the left bay, sheltered by an enclosed gable-roof vestibule. A segmented-arch window is set in the gable. A two-story sections extends to the left at a recess, and is fronted by a single-story porch with paneled square posts and brackets at the eave. A 20th-century garage stands at the rear of the property.</p><br>
<p>Avon Street was laid out in 1848 on the former estate of Lemuel Sweetser, a local shoe manufacturer. This house was built about 1855, as part of a trend in which high-quality upper-class housing was built to the west of downtown Wakefield. It is one of the finer examples of high-style Italianate architecture in the town.</p><br>
<p>25 Avon Street is a historic house, and is significant as one of the more elaborate Queen Anne Victorian houses in the town of Wakefield, Massachusetts.</p><br>
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<p>The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1889, and has a combination of Queen Anne and Shingle Style features. Shingled elements include window bays, both projecting and recessed, while the porches are decorated with a clear Queen Anne flair, including arched openings and a floral design in the gable end of the front porch.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 6, 1989.</p><br>
<p>The House at 5 Bennett Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts, is also known as the Wakefield House for Aged Women, and is one of the largest houses in Wakefields Junction District. The original part of the house was built sometime between 1875 and 1881, with Italianate styling. It was probably built for an executive of the Wakefield Rattan Company. In 1894 the house was purchased by the Wakefield House for Aged Women, a charity established by local Protestant churches, and significantly expanded. During this major alteration some of the houses Italianate details were copied, and a Queen Anne style porch was added.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The House at 15 Chestnut Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a well preserved high style Colonial Revival house. It was built in 1889 for Thomas Skinner, a Boston bookkeeper. The -story wood-frame house is topped by a hipped roof with flared eaves and a heavily decorated cornice. A porch extends across the front of the house, which is supported by paired turned columns. Above on the porch is a low railing with paired pillars  topped by urns. The front door is flanked by Ionic pilasters, then sidelight windows, and then another pair of pilasters.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
