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Nomination for House at 18A and 20 Aborn Street

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,415 words across 8 pages, filed in 1989. Reproduced in full, word for word.

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The nomination, in full

Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

676 MAY 2 3 1989 FORM B - BUILDING AREA A FORM NO. MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 62 TownWakefield Address 18A and 20 Aborn Street Historic Name NA Photo (3"x3" or 3"x5", black and white) Indicate address of property on back of photo. Staple to left side of form. Sketch Map: Draw map showing property's location in relation to nearest cross streets and/or geographical features. Indicate all buildings between inventoried property and nearest intersection (s). Indicate north Use: Present dwelling and barn Original dwelling plus garage DESCRIPTION Date c. 1883-88 Source Birds' eye view and atlas, 188 Style_Queen Anne Architect NA Exterior Wall Fabric clapboard/shingle outbuildings double carriage barn with living quarters above-contributing (c.1888) Major Alterations (with dates) - None Condition Good Moved NO Date N/A Acreage .

* One acre Setting Set on rise behind fieldstone retaining wall, carriage barn rear. Extensive grounds and driveway. UIM REFERENCE USGS QUADRANGLE SCALE 19/329770/4708540 Reading, MA 1:25,000 Recorded byArchitectural Preservation Associates Organization Wakefield Historical Commission Date March 1985 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) This house is one of the best-certainly the biggest-example of high style Queen Anne Architecture in this neighborhood. It retains integrity of location, setting, design, materials, workmanship, feeling and association, and meets criterion C of the NRHP on the local level. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community. Probably the largest, grandest Queen Anne house in this neighborhood, this rambling structure extends along the crest of a small hill.

It is composed of two major elements, a cross gabled 2½ story structure enterec through an extended porte-cochere, and a 2 story gable roof element entered through a high porch linking the two. The massing is as varied as it can be; the second story overhangs the first, there are porches, oriels, bays, and jogs, all keeping the form moving. The surface is as lively; a narrow board and batten frieze, ornamented bargeboards, gable ornaments of flowers and thistles, brackets, an exterior chimney, Nutting framed windows and balustrades make for a complex composition. The carriage barn with apartments above for the servants carries out the same thematic elements as the house. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. Aborn Street is named for John G.

Aborn, a shoe maker whose house stood on the corner at Main Street. Born in 1822, he achieved business success and a position of community leadership. In 1844 he went to live in the now demolised Main Street house of John White as an assistant, married the boss's daughter, built a house of his own on his father in law's property, and went into his business. On Aborn's retirement, the firm was taken over by his assistant, Henry Haskell, whose house and shoe factory stood in 1889 on the south side of Wave Ave. the firm's specialties shoee. Arter whlters death, nis heirs opened Aborn Street, dren's appears on the 1857 map), and White Ave., which appears on the 1889 9, and watte were ladies' map. Aborn himself developed parts of the Junction district in the 1860s and 70s.

Aborn and surrounding streets became the home of substantial middle classes, some of whom commuted to Boston by train, but the majority were local business men and craftsmen, amny of them, like Aborn and Haskell, working in the shoemaking trades. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Mrs. Asby Atlas 1874 land of J. white's Heirs Atlas 1889 Mrs. Asby Eaton, Chester and Warren Eaton. Iwo-Hundredth Anniversary of the Ancient Town of Redding, Reading, 1896. #17 1899 Pearson J. Clifton Nail Manufacturer NPS Form 10-900- (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 Section number Page Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Wakefield MRA Middlesex County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review 21. House at 11 Wave Avenue Entered in tha National Register 22.

House at 11 Salem Street Entered 1m Natlonal Beglater Date/Signature facopor AllreBgu /6/84 Attest Lkeeper fubnefBgan 716/09 Attest 23. House at 118 Greenwood Street Entered in the National Begister (Keeper 24. House at 12 West Water Street Attest Keeper Yntered in tbe Natlonal Register AeloresBya+16/89 Attest 25. House at 13 Sheffield RoadEntered in the National Register /Keeper AulourBgen=16/89 Attest 26. Houseat 15 Chestnut Street Entered 1p the Wat1oral Hoslutox(Reeper AelurBzu216/89 Attest 27. House at15 Lawrence Avenuentered in the National Registez (Keeper NelresByu716/69 28. House at 15 Wave Avenue Enteral 10 ch9 Na:1o0al 8061ut32 Attest Ikeaper AelmelDjen2/6/89 Attest 29. House at 18 Park Street Entered in the Mational Register 6 keeper Attest ZulrusZyuzte/84 30.

House at 18A and 20 Aborn Street Keeper Tr t.A 10 th9 Natingai Rs, Attest UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY NAME: House at 18A and 20 Aborn Street MULTIPLE wakefield MRA NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Middlesex DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: 5/23/89 6/22/89 DATE OF PENDING LIST: 6/06/89 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 7/07/89 REFERENCE NUMBER: 89000676 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: OTHER: N PDIL: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: N N N COMMENT WAIVER: N V ACCEPT RETURN REJECT 7/6/8% DATE Entered In the National Register ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: RECOM./CRITERIA REVIEWER DISCIPLINE DATE DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR ./N CLASSIFICATION _count _resource type STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION FUNCTION historic current DESCRIPTION architectural classification materials descriptive text SIGNIFICANCE Period Areas of Significance--Check and justify below Specific dates Builder/Architect Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) summary paragraph completeness clarity applicable criteria justification of areas checked relating significance to the resource context relationship of integrity to significance _justification of exception other BIBLIOGRAPHY GEOGRAPHICAL DATA acreage UTMS verbal boundary description boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION sketch maps OTHER COMMENTS _USGS maps photographs presentation Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date A62 18A-20 Aborn Ave Waloteld MRA ^ 13557 3A 22 7833 4519 16.

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DI9A 13180 : 0245 12.5 WHITE D14 13570 D13 79 2 85.73 54.03 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000300