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693 MAY 2 3 1989 PORM B -BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSION SIREET BOSTON, MA 02116 AREA B 126 NRN Town Wakefield Address Street eete& the Railroad Historic Name Center Depot FORM NO. 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 Restaurant Original Bailroad Depot DESCRIPTION Date 1900 .
Source Visual analysis style Queen Anne Architect NA Exterior Wall Fabric Clapboard outbuildings None Major Alterations (with dates) Windows filled, east facade altered new .entry, east(c.1920) -Condition Fair Moved NA Date NA Acreage Lessthan one acre Setting Parallel to tracks on north side not oriented to street. DIM REFERENCE 19/330080/4707430 USGS QUADRANGLE Beading, MA SCALE 1:25,000 Recorded by Architectural Preservation Associates Organization Wakefield Historical Commission Date March 1905 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Center Depot is a well preserved example of its type and is associated with the railroad lives that abetted the development of Wakefield as an industrial center during the third quarter of. the 19th century.
The building retains integrity of location, setting, design, materials, workmanship, feeling and association, and meets Criteria A and C of the NRHP on the local level. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community. This one story, clapboard depot building c. 1870-73 is dominated by its slate hip roof, which deeply overhangs the walls, offering shelter to waiting passengers. The roof is supported on deep braces, which are fixed to regularly spaced paneled pilasters, decorated with scalloped trim, probably a replacement of original trim. An octagonal bay window with colored glass panes on the southeast elevation was probably used by the ticket agent, and a baggage platform at the southwest are typicaliof railroad structures of the period.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. The coming of the railroad in 1844-45 helped to change South Reading from a thinly settled agricultural community to a fast growing industrial center and commuter suburb. The Center depot was located south of the junction of the Boston and Maine Branch to Salem, (1850), now abandoned, and the Branch to Danvers (1853-4). A depot at this site is not shown until the atlas of 1874, but a structure may have been erected here before that date. Rail transportation was responsible for industrial diversification and -expansion in South Reading.
The lines served by this depot were used by the Wakefield Rattan Co., manufacturers of rattan, reed and wicker oroducts, which became the town's largest single employer, and producer of its most valuable product. The company was established in 1856, after the lines were laid. The L.B. Evans shoe manufacturing - also took advantage of the lines when 'it located its factory nearby in 1894. The increased work force required by industrial development promoted residential expansion near the lines. Middle class suburban neighborhoods also grew, somewhat further from the lines, to house commuters to Boston. Until the coming of rail transportation, town growth was slow, but between 1840 and 1855 the town doubled the figure of the twenty five previous years, and it continued to boom in the 1860s and 70s. Maps 1857, 1874, Wakefield Center Depot. Eaton, William. History of Wakefield.
Wakefield, 1944. NPS Form 10-000 (8-06) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number - Page OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Wakefield MRA Middlesex County. MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review Cover 1. Beacon Street Tomb Substantive Revlew Entered in the Natlonal Reglatsr 2. Beebe Homestead Entered Irthe Natiunal Register 3. Boardman, E., House antrred in the iat1otal Jeglater 4. Boit, Elizabeth, House Entered in the National Regiater 5.Building at 35--37 RichardaAvenue Nationad Jagister 6.Butlding at 38--48 RichardsoteAdenue the National Register 7. Center Depot Entered in the National Begister Eo.turet 10 satiunel Joclstaz 8. Church--Lafayette Streets Historic District S 9. Common District 10.
Cowdry, Jonas, House Entered 1n the National Begister JrKeeper fKeeper Date/Signature Bittf Surge 7/48 Tulunesyage 7/6/89 Attest /eeper ulumBya 7/6/04 Attest Lkeeper HilmuBgan 716/87 Attest Kxeeper Zlelnur13gan 7/6/84 Attest LKeeper AllmsBzen 7/6/86 Attest LKeeper XheemByu02/6/89 Attest keeper SlebmByu216/89 Attest /Reeper Allusbsen 7/0/59 Attest JrKeeper Attest Betf Saunge 36/20 /Keeper Attest AelruyAser 7/6/89 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY NAME: Center Depot MULTIPLE NAME: Wakefield MRA 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: 89000693 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: N OTHER: N PDIL: N N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: N N COMMENT WAIVER: N V ACCEPT RETURN REJECT 7/6/89 DATE Entered In the National Register ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: RECOM./CRITERIA REVIEWER DISCIPLINE DATE DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/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 description UTMS _boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION sketch maps _USGS maps _photographs OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date presentation B 126 57 Watter St Certer Depit Walefield MRA,Ma B 126 57 WATER ST SCALE: I"=80' 18 A6G 603$ 386483 BCGESeS 75.3 SKETCH "A" Scale 1'= 40!
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