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MAY 2 3 1989 110 FORM B- BUILDING AREA C FORM NO. MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSION STREET BOSION, MA 02116 219 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 Town Wakefield Address 35-37 Richardson Avenue Historic Name NA Use: Present row house apartments Original row house apartments DESCRIPTION - Date c.
1912-15 Source visual analysis Style Rational Revival Architect Exterior Wall Fabric shingles Outbuildings None Major Alterations (with dates) None Condition Fair Moved NA Date NA Acreage _ Uinder oneacre Setting two parallel buildings running lengthwise north and south UIM REFERENCE 19/329650/4707400 USGS QUADRANGLE Reading, Mass SCALE 1:25,000 Recorded by Architectural Preservation Associates Organization Wakefield Historical Commission Date March 1985 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) Along with the apartments at 38-49 Richards Avenue, these Rational Revival style buildings are among the first apartment rows built in Wakefield. They retain integrity of location, setting, design, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association and meet criterion Cof the NRHP at the local level.
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE other buildings within the comunite important architectural features and evaluate in terms of Richardson Avenue has several Rational Revival style buildings on it and this pair of row houses seems to be a later development than the row at 38-48. Stylistically less eclectic than the earlier row, these two have hipped roofs with wide eaves overhangs and exposed purlins. They are 2½ stories in height and focus their ornament around the paired porches with lattice supports beneath hipped roofs. As at #38-48, this pair has one story bays to add variety and volume to the simplicity of the Rational Revival style. High fieldstone foundations are typical in Wakefield during this period. They have become stylistic elements on their own.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the conmunity. Solon 0. Richardson laid out Richardson Avenue in plans made between 1890 and 1899 when he was dividing up his property in the center of Wakefield. His grandfather, Dr. Nathan Richardson, had received a large grant of property which he was given. The Dr. and his son, Dr. Solon O. Richardson, developed and manufactured Sherry Wine poa Bitters, a profitable business which Solon O. Richardson, the second, then sold in 1891.
Responding to the need for housing in Wakefield, Richardson moved his homestead west from Main Street, opened up Richardson Avenue and built the Richardson Block in 1901 on the Sk in 1901on tae former homestead site, thereby extending the town center on the west side of Main Street to match its extent on the east side. Richardson may have brought about a plan which had long been considered, ve brougne asout a plan for an 1866 plan filed by Cyrus Wakefield shows Richardson Avenue similarly laid out and lined with lots. These apartment rows were built about 1912, some of the first multiple family units to be built in Wakefield. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Middlesex Registry of Deeds, Plan Book 13 page 46; Plan Book 68 page 32; Plan Book 75 page 46; Plan Book 65 page 40. Eaton, Chester. Proceedings of the 250th Anniversary, Reading, 1896.
NPS Form 10-000 (8-85) United States Department of theInterior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number. Page Name State Wakefield MRA Middlesex County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review Cover 1. Beacon Street Tomb Substantive Revlew Entered in the National Reglatar 2. Beebe Homestead Entered Ir the National Register OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group 3. Boardman, E., House ant-rod in the dati nad legtater 4. Boit, Elizabeth, House Entered in the National Regleter 5. Building at 35-37 Richardson Avenue Enterad ths Nationad Jagiater 6. Building at 38--48 Richardsoterevenue in the National Regiater 7. Center Depot Entered in the Mational Register Eatnred 1o detiunal Jaclstas 8. Church--Lafayette Streets Historic District S 9. Common District 10.
Cowdry, Jonas, House Entered in the National Begister frKeeper fKeeper Date/Signature Bösh Surge 7/48 julanessageu 76/89 Attest /xeeper AulmAze 1/e/04 Attest Lkeeper SlmBgu 216/81 Attest Reeper( Zllou 1Bgen 7/6/09 Attest Ckeeper 7/6/86 Attest i Keeper HelueByu=/6/89 Attest LKeepex SelnuByu 2/6/89 Attest /Keeper AlluusBye 116/89 Attest Keeper Bethf Sauge 35/90 Attest AlelreyDser 7/6/89 //Keeper Attest UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY NAME: Buildings at 35--37 Richardson Avenue 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: 89000710 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: OTHER: N PDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: N N N COMMENT WAIVER: N 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 ./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 -35-37 RICHARDSON AVE c 2|9 Buldrysa735-37 Richouesen Arence waler-del MPA Ma Me 131 7658 37 6440% 38 350) C219 6325 6325 .39 33.
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,475Q So 387575 A29A A3IA 70 WATER 229 4550 9:00 70. 230 4550 FA23 4023 0062 AI9A A32 N33 1331 70. 231 A22 A34A 7e. FOSTER 63 233B 10835 21 233A 21465 So. A2I 50. 4850, 4921 4906, 50300 4722,4707. A37B 83.3 0465 ARNORY* # AI6A15 4149410 A1204700 235 66.35 236:237 100.5 S0. STREET 22,86 7635 7048 152.2 so. 36. 3o po 430, 4700 472 1973747621 24IA 240 48783 18248 REVISED 1987 2523A 230A 1004 1532 Conlo.linnh ..... STRA Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000300