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MAY 2 3 1989 718 FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 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 AREA FORM NO. D 241 Town Wakefield Address 39 Converse Street Historic Name NA Use: Present Dwelling Original Dwelling DESCRIPTION Date c. 1880 Source Atlas of 1889 style Queen Anne Architect Exterior Wall Fabric shingles, clapboards Outbuildings None Major Alterations (with dates) None Condition Fair Moved NA DateNA Acreage _ Under one acre: Setting Faces south on raised lot behind embankment. UTM REFERENCE 19/328600/4707150 USGS QUADRANGLE Boston North, Mass.
SCALE 1:25,000 Recorded by Architectural Preservation Associates Organizationwakefield Historical Commission Date- March 1985 * NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) A well preserved Queen Anne style house whose details suggest imagination and unconventionality on the part of its designer, this house was probably built during speculative development of Converse St. in the 1880s. 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. This is a spirited Queen Anne house with high visibility on its lot. It is 2½ stories in height, has a hipped roof and traverse gable.
The roof peak in a most unusual configuration has a louvered opening and a shed roof dormer with a contemporary - sunburst fanlight. A patterned shingle band runs between the first and second along with a rope molding stringcourse. Fish scale pattern shingles are used over the second floor windows and between windows on first floor too. garrison overhang.' This house does not follow the conventions of its time closely. Rather it seems to have been the work of an inventive designer/builder. A shell mosaic at the frieze on the east is a contemporary ornament seen on at least one other 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 section of Converse Street was laid out by 1875 when it appears on the map of that date, but no houses àre recorded as being on it.. Responding to the increasing population this area began developing in the 1870s and by the 1890s was in full swing. Much of the farm land along Converse was bought up by the Wakefield Building and Real Estate Association which laid out the lots, financed the houses and- even provided plans for new owners. This house may be an example of their development. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Wakefield Historical Society, Vertical Files, "West Side". Maps of 1875 (Converse Street but no houses), 1889 (G.H. Teague), 1906 (H. Teague). NPS Form10-000 (8-86) United States Department of theInterior 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 51. House at 39 Converse Street Entered in the datlonal Beglster Date/Signature fReoper AilmBgun 1/6/89 Attest 52. House at 40 Crescent Street Entered in the National Begister 53. House at 42 Hopkins Street Boterer 1c 5- satt.Je Isr1.t HReeper elouByu 110/89 Attest 1 resper 2/6/89 Attest 54. House at 5 Bennett Street Intered in tha /Keeper LulauByu 2/6/09 Attest Natlonal Register 55. House at 509 North Avenue Entered in the / Keeper AelourPze 21619 Matlonal Register Attest 456. House at 52 ok sereet subutaniize, fortondakcopes Bes Faurge 7/4/89 Attest 57. House at 54 Spring Street atered in tha Natlonal Register funotper Aelanepyen 7/6/89 Attest 58. House at 556 Lowell Street Entered 1n the Nattonal Begtatar foopor AelmulZyan 1/6/59 Attest 59.
House at 6 Adams Street Entered 1n the National Register Axcoper Nelarspga 1/6/89 Attest 60.
House at 7 Salem Street Entered 1o tha Natiozal Begister fikeoper AelouDyan 2/6/09 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 39 Converse Street 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: 89000718 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 LACCEPT 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 DESCRIPTION current 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 USGS maps photographs presentation _sketch maps OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date -DZ41 34 convase House at 39 Converse S7 Walcofiele MRt,Ma / 140- .58 6 .
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119 118 11380 11240 75. 75 150. 10820 120 75 1174 131 11354 9337 N. CARLETON CIVIL ENG'R 39 CONVERSE ST. D 241 N SCALE:I"=80' 36841- 94955 TEMPLE EMMANUEL 31 1000 TEMP EMM 7783 2803 121 69 90 99 31B 12000 133 TOWN 5880 11470 39 50. AVE. BS 21 88- 50 135 10984 134 7730 136 18894 9025 126 38 95 STEDMAN 8708 65 146 147 8654 6500 80 148 6500 73 85 I1O 167 6400 92 70 168 5300 75 35 63.. 26 62.75 75 169 9440 125.5 75 4669893 48 100. Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000300