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MAY 2 3 1989 684 FORM B- BUILDING AREA A FORM NO. MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 75 Town Wakefield Address 19-21 Salem 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 2 family dwelling Original 2 family dwelling DESCRIPTION -Date1765-1795 Source Merrill & Woodhury l1sts Style Georgian Vernacular Architect possibly Iosenh Gould Exterior Wall Fabric claphoard outbuildings attached 1 story garage non-contributing (this century) Major Alterations (with dates) 2 story addition with porch to west house, 2% story addition north to east nouse, door hoods (1920s) condition Good Moved NA Date NA Acreage Less. than one acre Setting faces south on old row. UTM REFERENCE:19/329950/4708110 USGS QUADRANGLE Reading, MA SCALE 1:25,000 Recorded by Architectural Preservation Associates Organization Wakefield Historical Commission - Date March 1985 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (1f applicable) This is an unusual 18th century 2 family house and a good example of Georgian/ Federal vernacular design.
A later owner, the Evans family, was involved in Wakefield's cottage industry of shoemaking in the late 19th c. The building 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. These two early joined houses have been much altered and added to, but retain. their unique bond, massing, and the narrow proportions of vernacular Georgian and Federal building. The two story gable roofed west house has asymmetrical window placement and the plainest of door surrounds, which may have been altered when the ell was added. The two story, gambrel roof east house appears to have lost its original details , and have gained an Edwardian hoor hood.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. These two houses, connected as early as 1795, were owned by two different people, Elizabeth Sweetser owning the west house and Joseph Gould, PFobotle fhae botn hautee waee 2oa wheete gntin betwesh 2965 ad 1795. ° self made carpenter and wheelwright" robable that both houses were constructed by him between 1905 and 1795 1g Inhis account book he referred tohis five houses. The dwelling was later the home of Charles A. Evans, Civil War veteran, and of Percival A. Evans, a director of the family shoe manufacturing company, L. B. Evans, which had begun just west of here in a house at about 9 Salem Street, and now moved to 28 Pleasant Street. The Evans family continued to manufacture shoes on this street in the late 19th century.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES 1795 J. Green Directory 1920, Percival B. Evans 1. Woodbury, Ruth. "Old Houses of Wakefield", A Driving Tour, 1976. NPSForm10-000- (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 Date/Signature 31. House at 19--21 Salem Street Entered in the National Register freporn AeloreBzun +/6/84 Attest 32. House at 190 Main Streetnturst 1n (ha sat1onal Sogister peeporiluseySage 216184 Attest 33. House at 193 Vernon Street Entered in tha Natlonal Register faeepo silmBzu 7/6/89 Attest 34. House at 196 Main Streetintered in th9 Natlonal Register JkeepereloneBgun 216/89 Attest 35.
House at 2 Nichols Street Entered in tha National Register Freoper AelureByen 21689 Attest 36.Houseat 20 HancockRoadintered 10 tba Na!1 mal Rogtater faopor Delurepgen 7/0/09 Attest 37. House at 20 Lawrence Street Entered in the - entoona Ropta teepr elaruBSzu >16/89 Attest Entered 1o the 38. House at 20 Morrison Road snera te eta afteper ulore Byun 7/6/89 Attest 39. House at 21 Chestnut Street Entered in the Natiopal Register Fkeeper AelorenBgan 16/69 40.
House at 22 Parker Road Entered 1a tha Natlopal Beglstax fikceper StelorenBgu ,16/89 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 19--21 Salem 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: 89000684 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: OTHER: NPDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: N N N COMMENT WAIVER: N LACCEPT RETURN REJECT 2/6/89DATE Entered in the Mational Begisten 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 verbal boundary descriptio -UTMS boundarv justificatio ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION sketch maps USGS maps photographs OTHER COMMENTS presentation Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date HH.
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RYVE E4 10850 763.85 E512400 204.08 14200 E6 58 59 1500m E 8700 (11 30 60A 44920 ;(73517 12265 187445 72 128.73 73 11,961 MAIN C5.n0 524( 9750 14845 0785 65 64 97.05 66 66A ROCHEL N890 9096 70 67 Es 4942 694 SALEN 103A 93 04494:3195 5100:5095 32956227 3908.5) 74C E 748= 62.11 5753 .744 5059 :%6 98 5560 450094004540 2 9435 5300- 241 55.0 69.73 PEARZ 109 5279 5008 .88085 11/ Emramei2o 56242 PARISH 75.95 120 23264 212.65 0/0 5: 7192 /12IA BRYANT BLI" 112 113 50 50.* 30.°S* 114 |15 10509 3205 2222 4620g 7922 122 9260 4700 123° 7100 SE 9100 124 STREET 82.36 16 117 LRULI Ja5311 185 -57. 7650 62,15 7650 624: 10585 7475 125 126 -574 STREE- 9995 3301e 19] 21.5 4432 1274y 5972 1273)= Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000300