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MAY 2 3 1989 FORM B - BUILDING 13 MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSION STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 AREA D Town Wakefield Address 25 Avon Street Historic Name FORM NO. 296 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 Original Dwelling Dwelling DESCRIPTION Date c.
1889 Source Map of 1889 Style Queen Anne Architect _ NA Exterior Wall Fabric Shingle & Clapboard outbuildings Carriage house, contribut 1889 Major Alterations (with dates) None Condition Fair Moved NA DaeNA Acreage Under one acre Setting faces south on large tulip tre shaded lot DIM REFERENCE 19/329530/4707630 USGS QUADRANGLE SCALE Reading, Mass. 1:25,000 Recorded by Architectural Preservation Associates Organization Wakefield Historical Date Commission March 1985 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (1f applicable) A well preserved example of the Queen Anne style, the details of this house are an interesting mixture of both Shingle Style and Queen Anne design. The house 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 one of the most exuberant nueen Anne houses in Wakefield. Rather than picking and choosing among motifs and architectural elements, the designer of this house used practically everything available to give a visually active exterior and interesting interior volumn to the building. Both Shingle style and Queen Anne style are used. Under the hipped roof, the Shingle Style elements are the rounded, single-covered forms: the dormer roof, the shingled brackets, the projected or recessed rounded bays. Queen Anne are the south and west porches with their arched openings and sunburst spandrel designs. The floral relief on the porch pediment and the use of stained glass windows are Queen Anne elements intended to add tactile and coloristic complexity.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. Avon Street was laid out in 1848 on the land of Lemuel Sweetser by his heirs. It did not get built up densely all at once, but a few houses in the 1850s were joined each decade by several more. This house was built in the late 1880s on a lot owned by Oliver Perkins who was a dealer in provisions and lived elsewhere on Avon Street. Perkins became a rather substantial landowner in Wakefield Park buying and selling property on the West Side as it developed. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Maps of 1874 (lot of Oliver Perkins), 1889 (A. G. Walton). Directory of 1874. NPS Form10-000- (6-06) United States Department of the Interior NationalPark Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approvei No. 1024-0018 Section number.
Page Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Wakefield MRA Middlesex County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review Date/Signature 41. House at 23 Avon Street Natlonal Registe rod in etat theeper tle Bga 7/6/89 42. House at 23 Lawrence Street.ntered in the 143. House at 2 Avon Street Entersd 1; *14 Hatca 6la032 (keoper AhlmeBgan =16/69 Natlonal Begister Attest Hteeper LlelneBgen 7/6/89 Attest 44. House at 26 Francis Avenueintered in the / Keeper AllouaBge16/09 datlonal Registe Attest 45. House at 28 Cordis Street intered in vauteral aetataf Keeper Alelnyen 7/6/89 Attest Ent.r.? 1: 46. House at 28 Wiley Street NatJcaai : - keper 1/6/69 Attest 47. House at 30 Sheffield Road Entered in the atoa Rogr0cdkeopor Alle Bzu/662 Attest Entered 10 the 48. House at 32 Morrison Road Natlonal Begtstaf Keeper AiluBgiu z16/89 49. House at 38 Salem Street Narl zu 50.
House at 380 Albion Street trrnt astiuan Attest =hkeeper khuBye 116/8 Attest rheeper Lulrer Byur 216/69 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 25 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: 89000731 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 VACCEPT RETURN REJECT 1/6/89 DATE Eptered in the Hational Registen 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 verbal boundary descriptio UTMS boundary justificatio ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION _sketch maps _USGS maps photographs OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date _presentation D 296 25 Avon St Wakefielel MRAMa .- CHESTNUT.:: 134 5200 6075 1030ô36 11212 11072 A1459 03-5 I8 2625 127.
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