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MAY 2 3 1989 130 FORM B.- BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSION, MA 02116 AREA D Town Wakefield Address 23 Avon Street Historic Name NA FORM NO. 293 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/Offices Dwelling original DESCRIPTION Date c. 1855 Source Map of 1857 Style_ Italianate Architect NA Exterior Wall Fabric clanboards Garage, noncontributin outbuildings. C.
1940s Major Alterations (with dates) one and two story additions on north c.190 condition Fair Moved DateNA Acreage _ Inder one acre Setting faces south on raised lot behind granite embankment UIM REFERENCE USGS QUADRANGLE SCALE 19/329600/4707635 Reading, Mass. 1:25,000 - Recorded by Architectural Preservat Associates OrganizationWakefield Historical Commission Date March 1985 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) A well preserved and very high style example of Italianate design, this house stands out among a number of similarly styled houses in the surrounding neighborhood. 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 very high style Italianate house in an area of town where a number of fine Italianate houses were built and remain. It was originally T-shaped in plan with its gable end to the street, a common house plan from the Greek Revival period onward. It is 2% in height and has a wide eaves overhang supported on paired, scrolled brackets suggesting Italian villas. Windows have cornice are footed. The one story wing porch has panelled pillars as supports and scrolled brackets. The arched gable window HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how building relates to the development of the community. Avon Street was laid out in 1848 on land owned by the heirs of Lemuel Sweetser, who had lived on Main Street and owned a large section of land stretching from Main to North Avenue.
Sweetser was a shoe manufacturer who was influential in the Baptist Society and in the founding of the South Reading Academy. Within a decade of his death in 1835 the town's population was growing rapidly. Between 1840 and : 1850 it grew by 900, and the addition of Avon Street to the town center provided house lots for many new residents. Opened during a period of relative prosperity, Avon Street was built up with high quality homès which helped shift the balance of development of finer - e daydiopnene oe liner residences towards the west side of town, a situation which continued warda ne ves thoughout the second half of the 19th century. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Middlesex County Registry of Deeds, Plan Book 5, Page 57. Hurd, D. Hamilton, (ed.). History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, vol II, Philadelohia, 1890. Maps of 1857 (M. Bolles), 1874 (Oliver Perkins), 1889 (S. A.
Clough). NPS Form10-900 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 Section number Page Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Wakefield MRA Middlesex County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review 41. House at 23 Avon Street, Date/Signature - red in tha National Reglste keper Thluuepyu 7/6/89 Attest 42. House at 23 Lawrence Streetintered in the FReoper dhlnueByan 216/09 Natlonal Register Attest 43. House at 25 Avon Street Enternd 15 detad sglst= -keopor LleluBgen +/6/59 Attest 44. House at 26 Francis Avenuentered in the /Keeper_ AlilouBger16/69 datlonal Registez Attest 45. House at 28 Cordis Street intered 1n tha utod 92ato/ Keeper LlelnByen 7/6/69 Attest 46. Houseat28WileyStreet e-1e2ad 4r21 = teaper AlamBsu 1/6/89 Attest 47.
House at 30Sheffield Road Entered in the Satooa 1n st0 clateoper Allo Bzu/6/09 Attest 48. House at 32 Morrison Road intered 1o tha Natlonal Begtstet Keeper_ SuluDyiu 7/6/89 R.*ar»" 10 49. House at 38 Salem Street Nari ai Attest =Lkeoper AlmuByen 7/6/89 Attest 50. House at 380 Albion Street itorn?
15 aatiusiw /Keeper Sebre Byu 116/59 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 23 Avon 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: 89000730 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 7/6/67 DATE Entered in the National Regiater 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 D 293 23 Arm 8t.
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