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MAY 2 3 1989 12 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. AREA D 287 Town Wakefield Address 21 Chestnut 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 UIM REFERENCE 19/329540/4707550 USGS QUADRANGLE SCALE 1:25,000 Reading, Mass. Use: Present Original DESCRIPTION Date c. 1850 Source Visual Analysis & Ruth Wvoodbury Style Italianate Architect Jobn Stevens Exterior Wall Fabric.
Claoboard outbuildings- Garage noncontributing early 1900s Major Alterations (with dates) _ None Condition Excellent Moved "NA Date NA Acreage Under_one acre- Setting Faces south on raised lot with two iron horse posts in front. Recorded by Architectural Preservatio Associates Organization Wakefield Historical Commission Date March 1985 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) One of the best preserved examples of high style Italianate design in Wakefield, this house was designed by local architect John Stevens. It retains integrity of location, design, setting, 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 one of the best-preserved Italianate houses in Wakefield.
It is also one of the highest style examples. It is two stories in height and three broad bays wide. Its gable roof ridge is parallel to the street, an intersecting gable on the south facade contains a pair of Italianate arched windows flanked by smaller pair at each side. First floor windows are full length with 4/4 sash. The door surround is an eared architrave design with full length etched glass sidelights and a transom. A one story verandan runs across the south facade. It is supported on slender paired colonnettes. Paired brackets ornament the eaves and the porch. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. Chestnut Street was laid out in 1847 between Main Street and North Avenue. It was fairly quickly built up judging by the number of Italianate style houses on its blocks.
John Stevens, one of the few recorded architects working in Wakefield in the 19th c. was the architect of this house. Stevens was working in S.Reading between 1847 and at least 1871. Among other buildings, he designed the present Town Hall which was originally the High School of 1871 and the Town Hall of 1868 given to the town by Cyrus Wakefield. Nathaniel Dearborn who was living here in, the 1870s was a printer, born in Boston in 1814 who began working in New York and later set up Boston's foremost type printing establishment. He published the American Textbook of Letters and in 1846 moved to South Reading where he was active in the He died in 1891. The house was for many years owned and occupied by Frank T.Woodbury, a physician on the Board of Health and Ruth Woodbury,Wakefield's well- known historian.
She is part of a strong tradition in Wakefield begun by Lilley Eaton and continued by many of his descendants and other residents who documented and recorded the town's history, its better known residents, events and buildings. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Middlesex Registry of Deeds Plan Book 7 Page 30. Wakefield Historical Society. Vertical Files, Ruth Woodbury correspondence. Maps of 1874 (N.S.Dearborn), 1889 (Mrs. L.S.Dearborn), 1906 (Lucy S. Dearborn). NPS Form 10-000- (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB ApprovelNo. 1024-0018 Section number Page Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Wakefield MRA Middlesex County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review Date/Signature 31. House at 19--21 Salem Street Entered in the National Register Meopor AelruBzun 7/6/84 Attest 32.
House at 190 Main Streetn,grut 1n tha Nat1onal Sulster feoper ilueyBgu 2/6/84 Attest 33. House at 193 Vernon Street fropos sebuBzun 1/6/89 Entered in the Natlonal Register Attest 34. House at 196 Main StreetEntared in thg Natlonal Register pkeeporlelmuByun 2/6/79 Attest 35. House at 2 Nichols Street Entered in tha National Register ,F'keoper AeluneByea 71689 Attest 36. House at 20 Hancock Road Entered 10 the Na:1 cal Rogtatar preopoz eluruyigu 7/0/89 Attest 37. House at 20 Lawrence Street tatored in tha fkeeperLilarZgun >10/59 ational Register Attest Entered 1n the 38. House at 20 Morrison Road sareet 1e eta oKeoper uloresBojun 7/6/89 Attest 39. House at 21 Chestnut Street Entered in the Feopor Aelore Bgan 7/619 National Register Attest 40.
House at 22 Parker Road Entered 1a tha Natlopal Bogister fikeeper SlelorenBgun ,16/89 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 21 Chestnut Street 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: 89000727 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: - SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: N COMMENT WAIVER: N ACCEPT RETURN REJECT 7/5/84 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 UTMS _verbal boundary description boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION sketch maps OTHER COMMENTS USGS maps photographs presentation Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date D 287 21 Chestmut St.
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