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0I 6 0 1303 704 PORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 AREA C FORM NO. : 196 - Iown Wakefield Address 48 Meriam Street Historic Name Samuel Gould House 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 original dwelling DESCRIPTION Date _c.
1735 Source Proceedings of 250th Anniversar: Style Georgian Architect NA Exterior Wall Fabric clapboards outbuildings garage-noncontributing this century Major Alterations (with dates)porch en north; mansard roof profile added on east; dormers added on south - this century condition Fair Moved NA AcIeage Date 1zracres NA setting faces south at end of drive off Meriam Street DIM REFERENCE USGS QUADRANGLE SCALE 19/329880/4705600 Boston North, Mass. 1:25,000 Recorded by Architectural Preservation Associates Organization Wakefield Historical Commission Date March 1985 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) A well preserved example of an early 18th c. house, this is the sole remaining 1½ story gambrel roofed Georgian house in Wakefield. It retains integrity of location, 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. The gambrel roof with its two interior chimneys identifies the early construction date of this 1½ story house. It is five bays wide and the door surround has been altered. It is now broad with half length sidelights and probably dates from the 1830s-50s. Window surrounds on the second floor are plane, those on the first floor have moldings. This is the only remaining 1½ story, Georgian, gambrel roofed house in Wakefield. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. This house was built about 1735 by Samuel Gould.
The Gould family came to the area before 1700 settling south of Crystal Lake, then known as Smith's Pond, within the borders of Reading and Stoneham. which was farmed into the 19th c. but with the coming of the steam railroad in 1845 the complexion of South Reading changed. Settlement increased in this area of Greenwood, although its immediate neighborhood was not developed until the 1940s. With the railroad tracks being laid out, Main Street was moved from the west of this house to the east, its farmland divided for development and today it can easily be missed as it is between a row of houses and the railroad tracks. In the 1880s Dr. Horatio M. Meriam owned the hous.e and planted specimens of evergreens and flowers from all over the world in the yard and tagged them with their Latin names.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Eaton, Chester and Warren Eaton Proceedings of the 250th Anniversary Reading, 1896. Merrill, Morrison. Wakefield's Old Houses, Ms., 1951. Wakefield Historical Society, Vertical Files, Greenwood. Maps of 1030 (appears), 1057 (appears), 1074 (H. Newcomb). Directory of 1874. NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number. Page OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Wakefield MRA Middlesex County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review Date/Signature 11. Cowdry, Nathaniel, House Entered 1n the HKeopor AelreeDse 7/0/69 National Beglater 12. Emerson--Franklin Poole House 13. Flanley's Block 14.
Goodwin, Captain--James Cust'is House Substantive Reviet Attest LKoeper delaseBgun z/0/89 intered 1p Watlunai Bogister Attest Extered 1. LKooper AulmeAzu 7/6/89 derhuniu .ig later Attest JmKeeper sutko Sage P/90 Attest 15. Gould, Samuel, House Entered in the Keeper AelouBgu 710/89 National Register Attest 16. Green, Capt. William, House Entered 1n the Wational Begiater 17. Green, Deacon Daniel, Housered in tha dZeglatar /Keeper AubmntBgun 1/6/89 Attest Lkeeper AhhreBzun 7/6189 Attest 18. Greenwood Union Churchateredin the National Regietez LKeeper Aelmutga 7/6/89 Attest 19. House at 1 Morrison Avenue / Keeper AlbuSgun 716/89 Entered 1a the Natlonal Registez Attest 20.
House at 1 Woodcrest Drive LKeeper Alelurebzu 16/89 mtore?E 11a Ãabdutra Attest UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY NAME: Gould, Samuel, House 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: 89000704 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: N OTHER: N PDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: N COMMENT WAIVER: N C ACCEPT RETURN REJECT 7/6/89 DATE Entered in the Mational Begiater 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 USGS maps photographs presentation OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date [ |96 48 Meriann 87.
ivil, Hese Walefield MNA NA Ma 48 MERIAM STREET 20 C33 14596 241. 3 3,88 ACREs: 10515 C43 15600 7030 10759, 178 A 251 C44Arés IC45 wim 5384 100 9380 '9616A9: CIOB 1000 61.01 14.8 75.79 59/5 139. 4 A 9100 % A1.6 STREE T0. 4 13000 g ESA 146.95 106 1 14857 5810222 : 151.04 111.0 5 16482 1210 18733 6E 177.50 75.98 +:6D K 6/45 7 C42 134.10 15300 100.32 1125% C4/ 7506 100.00 2.TT C29 7505 131.72 C28 C30 10732 S, T. 73.00 7500 (1911) 46177m 7376 22,11 C37 7875 13.13 C 36 10974 PT >300 761 10065 8548$ e faer CII 6502 C12 6600 a5 59 100 CC13 165.59 10422 155.10 CI4A 10838 13.60 CI5A 10391 L7I.SI 11954 C/7 18009 12195 160.30 13/09.51 191.51 C35 9138 n208 C34 10.00 7115 CZ2A 9288 + 400- 11.23 C2I c28 le iBTT9 790 7297 Luce STRELT 741.95 93,0 HAI 16544 A0EA5A% 288A 126/3 6F 2.06 ACPES RALROAO 66.0 8000 45,00 68.00 66.0 69.0 $265 18200xq.+ MERIAM. 100 6280 100 C7 6200 100.
C6 6300 L00. 05 6200 MBTA C3 C2 51.60(5 C/ Je31 2350 T.To M952: C4 BOTA' FZBAE F27Aa Fº=29A F01095 ) 10075 %) 15/61 56.25- see 142.00 NIVW C196 - N SCALE:1"=80' 35 36311 9475 13.25 .155. 148-68 30000 36 NOTE:LOT NUMBE'S WIT: REFERTO FELLS HI 13d deed 1t5 49750 37 23 186 30300 38 212. 10450 39 109. 130- 14550 112. 163 B58 40 To1e.TS Ep E +2 uA v. 4IB 9800 155% 14860 41 TéC Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000300