<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 -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>95 Chestnut Street is a historic house located in Wakefield, Massachusetts. It is significant as an example of a well-preserved vernacular Greek Revival style house.</p><br>
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<p>The -story wood-frame house was built in 1849 for Joshua Whittemore, who in 1862 invented a crutch (having lost a leg in an accident in 1850) that was sold worldwide. The house&#39;s gable end faces the street, with return eaves and wide corner boards. The front porch is a later Stick Style addition, with pediments and sawtooth ornamentation.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The House at 39 Converse Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts, United States, is a well-preserved Queen Anne Victorian house. It was built c. 1880 as part of a real estate development along Converse Street. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof and cross gable. It features decorative shingle bands in sections on the second floor, and between the first and second floors. The L-shaped house has a second story projecting gabled section over a rounded projecting bay on the first floor.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>28 Cordis Street is a historic house located in Wakefield, Massachusetts. It is significant as a well-preserved example of the Greek Revival style houses built during the early to mid 19th century.</p><br>
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<p>It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof and a hip-roofed wraparound porch. Its main entrance is flanked by sidelight windows. It was built c. 1835–45, and features rare original fluted Doric columns supporting its porch.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 6, 1989, at which time it also featured a rare period fence; this feature has since been lost.</p><br>
<p>40 Crescent Street is a historic house in Wakefield, Massachusetts, and is significant as a particularly fine example of a Greek Revival style house.</p><br>
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<p>Built in 1839, the -story wood-frame house has a roof that is cantilevered over the front of the house, where it is supported by Doric columns. Doors and windows both have architrave surrounds, and both the front door and the side door have sidelight windows. The house was built by Abel Hutchinson, a shoemaker, and remains in the hands of his descendants.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 6, 1989.</p><br>
<p>The House at 26 Francis Avenue in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a Colonial Revival octagon house. The shingle-clad wood-frame house rests on a high fieldstone foundation, is 2 stories at its rear and 1-1/2 in front, and has the appearance of a square house with four square sections projecting diagonally from each of its corners. The house has a Craftsman/Bungalow-style hip-roofed dormer with diamond-paned windows, and its main entrance is oriented diagonally toward the corner, under a porch supported by round columns.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The House at 118 Greenwood Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a rare well-preserved example of a Stick-style house. The -story house was built c. 1875, and features Stick-style bracing elements in its roof gables, hooded windows, with bracketing along those hoods and along the porch eave. Sawtooth edging to sections of board-and-batten siding give interest to the base of the gables, and on a projecting window bay. The house was built in an area that was farmland until the arrival of the railroad in the mid-19th century.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The House at 20 Hancock Road in Wakefield, Massachusetts is an unusual Italianate house. Built in the 1860s or early 1870s, the two-story wood-frame house is only four bays wide, with the entry door in the leftmost bay. The house has some Italianate details, including dentil molding in the cornice, but is predominantly Greek Revival in character. It is possible this house was built as an outbuilding of the Beebe estate on Main Street, and moved to its present location when Hancock Street was laid out.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The House at 42 Hopkins Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is an excellent early example of an Italianate house. Built c. 1850, the -story wood-frame structure is an early example of balloon framing . It is three bays wide, with wide eaves and double brackets, corner pilasters, and a high granite foundation. Its front entry is sheltered by Colonial Revival portico added around the turn of the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</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 entrance. The house is 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 -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 above 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 -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 eight-sided 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 190 Main Street, also known as the William F. Young House, is a historic house at 190 Main Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. The exact construction date of the -story wood-frame house is uncertain: it follows a traditional three-bay side-hall plan, but was also extensively remodeled sometime before 1870 with Italianate styling, probably by William F. Young, a commuter who worked at a grocery firm in Boston. It has a round-arch window in the front gable end, and its porch features narrow chamfered posts topped by a flat arched frieze. The main entry portico is closed in, and it and the porch feature decorative brackets.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The House at 196 Main Street  is a historic house located at 196 Main Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts.</p><br>
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<p>The house was built in the 1840s or 1850s, probably for Hiram Eaton, member of a locally prominent family. The house is a well-preserved Greek Revival house, stories in height and five bays wide, with a side-gable roof pierced by three gabled dormers. It has a side-hall plan and its front porch is supported by delicately fluted columns, a rarity in the town for the period indicating means and sophistication.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 6, 1989.</p><br>
<p>The House at 1 Morrison Avenue is one of a few Tudor Revival houses in Wakefield, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house has a hip roof with a copper crest, central dormer, and a larger projecting gable section on the left. The single story porch wraps around two sides of the house, and features a high gable over the front stairs which is decorated with bargeboard and half timbers. It was built c. 1890 on land that had been acquired and subdivided by J.S. Merrill and Charles Hanks as part of the major Wakefield Park subdivision.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The House at 20 Morrison Road in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a well-preserved Colonial Revival house. The -story wood-frame house originally had a semicircular portico, a relative rarity in Wakefield. The porch has turned balusters, and the three roof dormers have pedimented gable ends. The house was built about 1890 on land originally part of the large estate of Dr. Charles Jordan, that was developed in the 1880s as Wakefield Park.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The House at 32 Morrison Road in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a well-preserved, architecturally eclectic, house in the Wakefield Park section of town. The -story wood-frame house features a gambrel roof with a cross gable gambrel section. Set in the front gable end is a Palladian window arrangement. The porch has a fieldstone apron, with Ionic columns supporting a pedimented roof. Above the front entry rises a two-story turret with conical roof. The house was built c. 1906–08, as part of the Wakefield Park subdivision begun in the 1880s by J.S. Merrill.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The House at 2 Nichols Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts, is a well-preserved, architecturally eclectic house built in the 1890s. The -story frame house has elements of the Tudor Revival, Queen Anne, and Shingle styles, and is one of two identical houses built by local builder Berndt Heurlin. It has a hip roof, but transverse gables, one of which has a rounded bay, giving it a Queen Anne feel. The foundation exterior is fieldstone, and there are several stained glass windows.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The house was also the childhood home of the renowned Swedish-American artist, Magnus Colcord Heurlin (July 5, 1895 – March 10, 1986). Colcord Heurlin attended the Fenway School of Illustration in Boston, MA, where he studied under Harold Mathews Brett (1880-1955), the director of the newly opened school. Heurlin began illustrating covers for pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s and later joined the WPA Federal Arts Project, creating two murals for the Bedford Elementary School in Westport, CT. But he is best known for his vivid, oil-pastel depictions of Alaskan natives and early settler life in northern Alaska.</p><br>
<p>The House at 509 North Avenue in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a small Greek Revival cottage. The single story wood-frame house was built c. 1848 and moved to its present location c. 1869. The house is three bays wide and one deep, and exhibits very simple Greek Revival styling, including a boxed cornice and simple door and window surrounds. This house was probably built on land subdivided from holdings of ice companies working on nearby Lake Quannapowitt. Its earliest documented resident was listed in the town&#39;s 1869 directory as a shoemaker.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The House at 52 Oak Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is one of the most elaborate Colonial Revival houses in the Greenwood section of town. The -story wood-frame house was built in the 1890s. It has significant Queen Anne styling, including a turret and wraparound porch, but porch details such as the multiple columns on paneled piers are Colonial Revival in style, as are the hip-roof dormers. The house was built by Henry Savage, a developer with ultimately unsuccessful plans to develop the Greenwood area residentially in the 1880s.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The House at 8 Park Street, also known as the Dr. Joseph Poland House, is a historic house at 8 Park Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1852 for Dr. Joseph Poland, who only briefly practiced in the town. The house is in a vernacular Italianate style, with a two-story ell on the rear and a porch on the right side. The house has elongated windows with entablatured surrounds. The porch and front portico are supported by turned columns with bracketed tops, the building corners are pilastered, and there are paired brackets found in the eaves and gable ends.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The House at 18 Park Street, also known as the Clarence A. Van Derveer House, is a historic house at 18 Park Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. The -story Craftsman/Bungalow style house was built in 1922 by Clarence A Van Derveer, a real estate broker who lived next door and subdivided his lot to build this house. It has classic Craftsman features, including exposed rafters under extended eaves , and paneled porch pillars and rails.</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 -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 swan-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 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 at 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 factory workers health care, 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 designed by local architect Harland Perkins. They were situated in an estate compound on the summit of Cowdrys Hill, that included three residences, formal gardens, a playhouse, and a 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 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 7 Salem Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a transitional Greek Revival/Italianate style house built c. 1855–57. The -story wood-frame house has a typical Greek Revival side hall plan, with door and window surrounds that are also typical to that style. However, it also bears clear Italianate styling with the arched window in the gable, and the paired brackets in the eaves. A single-story porch wraps around the front and side, supported by simple square columns. Its occupant in 1857 was a ticket agent for the Boston and Maine Railroad.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The House at 19–21 Salem Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is an unusual 18th-century two-family residence. It is composed of two different houses that were conjoined c. 1795. The left house has a gabled roof and asymmetrical window placement, while the right house has a gambrel roof and an early 20th-century entry hood. It is probable that both houses were built by Joseph Gould, who occupied the eastern of the two houses, between 1765 and 1795. Despite subsequent alterations, the Georgian/Federal styling of the building remains apparent.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The House at 38 Salem Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a late Federal period house. The -story wood-frame house is believed to have been built c. 1810, and has locally unusual features, including brick side walls and a hipped roof. Its twin slender chimneys are indicative of late Federal styling. The front entry is topped by an entablatured with a compressed frieze, and is flanked by three-quarter sidelight windows.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The House at 113 Salem Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a rare well-preserved example of a 19th-century shoemaker&#39;s shop. The -story wood-frame house was built in the 1840s or 1850s, and was originally the shoe shop of David Nichols, who lived at 103 Salem Street. Its early form, with the high-pitch, gable roof, is readily recognizable despite later alterations and additions. These types of buildings were once common in the town, where shoemaking was a home-based cottage industry.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The House at 13 Sheffield Road in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a well-preserved Craftsman/Bungalow style house. The -story house was built c. 1918 out of fieldstone with a stucco exterior. The roof has extended eaves with exposed purlins, and a large cross-gable section on the right side. Strapwork on the walls give the house a Tudor Revival appearance. The subdivision in which it was built was laid out in 1916 in an area known as Cowdrey&#39;s Hill, after an early settler.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The House at 30 Sheffield Road is one of the more creative early 20th-century Craftsman style houses in Wakefield, Massachusetts. The -story house was built predominantly of fieldstone and finished in stucco, and was one of the first houses built in the Sheffield Road subdivision. The main body of the house as a gable roof, with two cross-gable sections facing front sheltering porches set on heavy columns. The entry is in the center of the front facade, topped by a small gable end, and with a small pergola in front.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The House at 54 Spring Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a well-preserved Queen Anne Victorian house. The -story house was built c. 1889–90, and is most notable for its detailed shingle work. The house has an L shape, with a porch that wraps around the front and right side, into the crook of the L. The windows are topped by shed-roofed hoods with cut shingles, and there are bands of decorative shingle work filling the north side gables.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The House at 193 Vernon Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a late Federal-style house, built. c. 1840. The -story wood-frame house is a rare local example of a three-wide four-deep construction. It has a main entrance on the front facade that has sidelights and a pedimented entablature that were probably added later, and also has a side entrance with a Federal-style transom and sidelights. A late 19th-century barn stands behind the house, a reminder of the area&#39;s agricultural use.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The House at 12 West Water Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a rare local example of a Second Empire house. The wood-frame house was built around 1860, and has two full stories, and a third beneath the mansard roof. It is three bays wide, with a wide double-door entry, and a porch across the front with elaborately decorated posts. The house may have been built by Cyrus Wakefield, owner of the Wakefield Rattan Company, and sold to a company employee. A later owner was George Cox, who owned a billiard parlor in the town center.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</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 -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 -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 -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 House at 28 Wiley Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is an unusual Federal or Georgian style house. It is built of brick, a rare construction material in pre-Revolutionary Wakefield. It appears to have been built as an addition to another house, which has since been destroyed. Built into a hill, it presents 1.5 stories in front, and 2.5 stories in back. It has a tradition five bay main facade with a central door, which was embellished with a Federal style surround sometime after its initial construction. The house was probably built for a member of the Wiley family.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The House at 1 Woodcrest Drive in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a well-preserved late 18th-century Federal-style house. Built c. 1789, the -story timber-frame house has a typical five-bay front facade with center entry, and two interior chimneys. The doorway is framed by a surround with -length sidelight windows and flanking pilasters, topped by a modest entablature. It has two bake ovens, and its interior walls were originally insulated with corn cobs.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</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 Dr. Charles Jordan House is a historic house at 9 Jordan Avenue in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Built c. 1885, it is one Wakefield&#39;s most elaborate Queen Anne Victorian houses. The -story wood-frame house is unusual for having a hipped roof; it also has a tower in the northwest corner, and a porch with Italianate pillars brackets. The house was built by Dr. Charles Jordan, a local physician and pharmacist with extensive land holdings in the area.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 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>
<p>Lynnwood is a historic house at 5 Linden Avenue in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Built c. 1858, it is one of the town&#39;s finest examples of Stick style architecture. It is a -story wood-frame structure with an L-shaped cross-gable configuration; its features include deep eaves supported by arched brackets, and a -story tower topped by a hip roof with triangular dormer windows. Its eaves have brackets with pendants, and its windows have surrounds with drip molding.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. S. O. Richardson House is a historic house at 694 Main Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts, United States. Built in the late 1830s, this wood-frame house is one of the finest Greek Revival houses in Wakefield, and was the home of Dr. Solon O. Richardson, a locally prominent physician and real estate developer. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>The Richardson House is located at the southeast corner of Main and Summer Streets in northern Wakefield, just east of Lake Quannapowitt. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with Greek Revival styling, distinctive for being five bays wide while presenting a gabled roof end to the street. It has a particularly elaborate Greek Revival entry treatment, deeply recessed, with flanking sidelight windows and fluted pilasters, and a transom window above. The front gable has a window at its center, which is topped by a dummy fanlight.</p><br>
<p>This house was probably built in the late 1830s, and originally stood just off Main Street near where Richardson Street now runs. It was built by Dr. Solon O. Richardson, son of the inventor of Richardsons Sherry Wine Bitters, and is where his son, also named Solon, was born in 1841. Solon O. Richardson Sr. was also trained as a doctor, but he continued his fathers successful business, developing new packaging and marketing for the product, which made him quite wealthy. He was active in the towns civic life, founding Richardsons Light Guard, a militia company, in 1851.</p><br>
<p>The house was moved in the late 19th century by Solon Jr. to make way for development of Richardson Street on part of the family estate.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Thomas Simpson House is a historic house at 114 Main Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. It is a -story timber-frame house, in a local variant of Georgian style that is three bays wide and four deep, with a side gable roof. Its primary entrance, facing west toward Lake Quannapowitt, has sidelight windows and pilasters supporting an entablature, while a secondary south-facing entrance has the same styling, except with a transom window instead of sidelights. The core of this house was built by Dr. Thomas Simpson sometime before 1750, and has been added onto several times. It was restyled in the Federal period, when the door surrounds would have been added.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>South Reading Academy is a historic former school building at 7 Foster Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts, US. Built in 1828–29 for the First Baptist Church, the building has served as a religious school, public high school, clubhouse, and commercial space. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>The South Reading Academy is located on the west side of Foster Street, a short street in the center of Wakefield that runs parallel and west of Main Street. It is a -story wood-frame structure, three bays wide, with a front-facing gable roof. The main facade, facing east, is symmetrically arranged, with the entrance centered in a recess that is framed by pilasters and an entablature. The front gable is fully pedimented, with a decorative shingle pattern at its center.</p><br>
<p>The academy was built c. 1828&ndash;29 for the First Baptist Church as an academy and meeting house, and was one of the earliest of its kind. It was originally located on Academy Hill, where the Lincoln School was later built. The Baptists used it until 1847, when the town acquired the building for use as a public high school. The town stopped using it as a school in 1871, and in 1891 it was moved to its present location, where it has served over the years as home to a chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic, a Methodist church congregation, and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. It was severely damaged by fire in the 1970s, but was restored for use as a commercial building.</p><br>
<p>The William Stimpson House is a historic house at 22 Prospect Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. The -story timber-frame house was built sometime before 1795, probably by William Stimpson, son of the local doctor. It has conservative Federal styling, most notably due to its central chimney rather than the more typical twin chimneys of the period. The building&#39;s internal layout and two kitchen fireplaces suggest that it was built as a two-family residence.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Daniel Sweetser House is a historic house at 458 Lowell Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. The -story timber-frame house was built sometime before 1795, probably for Daniel Sweetser, who then occupied the property. It is a conservative Federal style house with two interior chimneys, and is one of the towns better preserved rural properties of the period. Its most notable resident was James Mansfield, the towns first postal letter carrier.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Michael Sweetser House is a historic house at 15 Nahant Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. The -story timber-frame house was built c. 1755 by Michael Sweetser, an early settler of the area. It is traditionally Georgian in character, although its front door surround was added during Greek Revival period of the mid 19th century. One of the house&#39;s 19th century occupants was Paul Hart Sweetser, one of the founders of the Massachusetts Teachers Association and a locally active politician.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
