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MAY % 0 150J 721 FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON SIREET 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. AREA D 253 -Wakefield Address 6 Adams Street Historic Name NA Dwelling Dwelling FORM NO. 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 Original DESCRIPTION Date c. 1885 Source Current owners (Adams) and Assessor's records Style Shingle Style Architect Robert Pote Wait Exterior Wall Fabric. Shingles None Outbuildings Major Alterations (with dates) _ .... None Condition Fair NA Moved Date Acreage 1.36 acres NA Setting Faces north on low lot hidder from street view.
DIM REFERENCE USGS QUADRANGLE SCALE 19/328530/4707400 Reading, Mass. 1:25,000 Recorded by Architectural Preservati Associates Organization Wakefield Historical Commission Date March 1985 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (1f applicable) Part of a planned suburban development call Wakefield Park, this - house represents perhaps the best example of the Shingle Style in Wakefield and features some interesting Colonial Revival detailing - as well. The house retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association, and meets criterion Cof the NRHP on the local level. ARCHITECIURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community. This is perhaps the best example of the Shingle Style in Wakefield. It has a deep gable roof with a transverse gable above 1½ stories.
The exterior of the house, in what may be called its original color scheme, is covered in shingles in various patterns from waves to sawtooth. Shingles now cover all the major architectural features, unlike the purely decorative use of shingles in the Queen Anne Style. Brackets, watertable, alike, are shingled. Twin entry columns, diamond sash and an ornament rail, unique in Wakefield, are Colonial Revival features often found in the Shingle Style. 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 designed and built by Robert Pote Wait, a partner in the firm of Pote & Cutter, Architects, of Boston, as his own residence in 1886-87. After his death, the house was purchased by Grace and Hubbard Mansfield in 1907. They, in turn, hired architect Charles R.
Wait to modernize the house by adding a furnace, gas lighting and town water. Hubbard was an early town planner in Wakefield who was known to schedule time in the library every Wednesday night to study planning and discuss issues with Wakefield citizens. Grace Mansfield was a poet who established the Mansfield Class for Bible study at the Universalist Church. As early as 1855 plans were filed in Middlesex County Registry to develop the land southeast of Cowdrey's Hill. Wakefield was entering its phase of population expansion introduced residential community. By then 100 acres had been assembled for develop- ment as Wakefield Park. Promotional literature for the development pointed it out as a planned street layout which included this small Adams Street.
The architectural achievement of this house and its upper middle class owners typify the expectations held for Wakefield Park and its residents. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Wakefield Historical Society, Vertical Files. Maps of 1830, 1856, and 1874 for land development. Dana Sawyer, Wakefield resident, interview. Middlesex County Registry of Deeds, Plan Book 7, Page*30, Nov 1855. 1910 Directory, Hubbard Mansfield Rec. Teller (National Union Bank, Boston) NPS Form 10-800- (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 Street 51. House at 39 Conversentezed in the Mational Beglster Date/Signature fKeeper AulamBgun 1/6/89 52.
House at 40 Crescent Street Attest HReeper MeloeBgu 1/0/89 Entered in the National Register 53. House at 42 Hopkins Street Enterer 10 t5- 1 respor tulmuDzu 2/0/69 JatiuJai Jer1.+ Attest 54. House at 5 Bennett Street 1 Keeper AulueByun 216/89 Enteredin tha Attest Natlonal Begtster 55. House at 509 North Avenue Entered in the / xeeper AelurDyan 216/09 National Register Attest 556. House at 52 Oak street subutaciira Hortordakeeper Beth frurge 7/4/89 Attest 57. Houseat54Spring Streftd in the National Begister fixetper AelaneByen 116/89 Attest 58. House at 556 Lowell Street Entered 1n the Matlonal Begtater fooopor AelmuAyan 1/6/59 Attest 59. House at 6 Adams Streety Entéred in the National Begister Jecoper Nelansja 1/6/89 Attest 60.
House at 7 Salem Street Entered 1o tha National Begister fakcopor AelomByun 4/k/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 6 Adams 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: 89000721 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 COMMENT WAIVER: N LACCEPT RETURN ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: REJECT 7/6/84 DATE Entered in the National Register 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 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 $253 Heise 6 Adams St Wakofiell MRN D253 6 ADAMS ST.
SCALE: 1"=80' 20 PROSPECT 112.00 23A 23 69.61 38.00 9200 14065 31A39 100.00 13% 87.66 823B M.58 7A 156.28 00. 10.00 8 142.75 °432 180. 6 12552 14277 95.23 166.3 75.00 24 29570 116.39 8A 120.05 36960 289.19 19752 AVE. 195.5 316 164.42 143.89 170. 6A 10313 ADAMS 76.63 165- 175. 238.36 21.56 16 128 20124 12C. 26291 26 57. 163.5 13 65.42 20170 200.25 14 161.74 15050 14A 15 12710 11413 27 20611 22498 72 85, 85 100 PRISON 80 84 82A 84 AVE 150.01 70 44 7690 83 11760 84 11760 OC gIA 9425 8874 150 40 gl 11250 98.38 7678 107.30 108. 84. 84. 49.1 60 OB 150 2308 86A 60. 8499 84.91 112.
7667 87A 88 37 120.70 11340 8400 8400g g OA 12655 SUMMIT 94 95 10 051 16200 16680 645 60 60 145.0 1007 80.2 75 1125 37.5 110 111 112 8175 68.25 113 /114 117 115 116 2 52.65 11189 11217 14463 11788 58 18104 13719 14747 712 70 7525 338 75 112.75 920 375 103 92.65 75 75 75 75 94.5 123 an gAHO =.25 124 125. 126 127 128 869 75 129 20.23.0 :STNUT 42640 33A 167ACRES 43.77 120° 1806 41.18 580 11330- 25EA 25 25F 143:8 3812 5794 10202 145.06 64. 56682 1000 $ STREET 160 3 29A 11760 1746 29 15340 28 935 -52 V3BACAES 100.39 10565- 30 42691 ! 368.41 31 159.45 STREET 94955 TEMPLE EMMANUEL 180.99 46.68 843 65 167.17 -1717 051 96 28 801 11784 70 15 65.
119 118 11380 #1240 75 76 150 120 10820 15154 130 131 121 69 90- 12000 99 2803 7783 133 TOWN 5880 11470 50 AVE- 8/88 135 85.21 10984 95 134 136 7730 18894 9025 126 38 95 STEDMAN 8708 80 146 147 148 08 8654 6500 6500 7385 65 80 75 167 6400 169 04+0 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000300