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MAY 2 8 1989 742 FORM B - BUILDING AREA D FORM NO. MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 329 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 Town Wakefield Address One Prospect Street Historic Name Deacon Thomas Kendall Homestead Use: Present dwelling Original dwelling DESCRIPTION Date pre-1750 and late 18th c.: Source Wakefield's Old House style Federal Architect NA Exterior Wall Fabric clapboards None Outbuildings Major Alterations (with dates) single car garage at eastside attached to ho by breezeway & 1 story encl. norc off E.
wali Tearly 1900s) condition _ - Good DIM REFERENCE 19/329100/4707800 USGS QUADRANGLE SCALE 1: Reading, Mass 25,000 Moved Acreage NA DateNA Under one acre Setting on corner lot surrounded by 5 hedge/huge maple dominates No. corner of lot - approx. 75' fronti on Prospect St. & Set Back Appro: 40 from sheet line. Recorded by Architectural Preservatior Associates "Organization Hakefield Historical Date March, 1985 Commission NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENI (1f applicable) - Although Federal in appearance, this house contains some elements from an earlier structure which was burned in 1786. Nonetheless, it is a well preserved example of an early Federal period 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. rhis 5 bay, 2½ story house has the exterior stylistic hallmarks of the Federal style as it looked in Wakefield from c.1790-1810. The house does, however, have unusual features which may be the result of its having been reconstructed c.1786 reusing materials of an older building. It has a large central chimney which is considered the oldest feature of the house dating from mid-17th c. Characteristic of early Federal nouses in Wakefield is the lack of eaves returns in the gable end. Perhaps from an earlier period are the window surrounds visible on the west and several on the north facades which have finely carved moldings, corner blocks cee singaadesom and project slightly from the plane of the facade. Later surrounds are the simpler, flat surrounds.
Windows on the north facade are relatively large with 6/6. sash. They meet the frieze in typical Federal style. The much smaller windows on the south facade second story appear to be HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE building,relates to the development of the community. Deacon Thomas Kendall whose homestead was built here before 1750 was among the earliest settlers in Reading, coming from Lynn. He was a First Parish Deacon and Selectman, and according to Eaton, he was very influential in the town until his death in 1681. His wife Rebecca died in 1703. The next well-known owners of the house were the James Emersons. Mrs. Emerson died in a fire in 1786 and town historian Ruth Woodbury suggests this was the time at which the house was reconstructed. The Emerson family and its descendents lived in the house and farmed the diminishing holdings through much of the 19th century.
They continued to occupy the house into the As well as a farmer, James E. Emerson was listed as a shoe cutter 1874 Directory. In 1860 Emerson was listed as owning 7 acres mowing and tillage on Elm St., a barn 5 acres of pasture and meadow. The gradual break up of the farm began c. 1848 when Emerson St. was a private way laid out into house lots. One of the last Emersons to live in the house was Miss Lois Emerson who died in 1902. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Wakefield Historical Society, Vertical Files, Ruth Woodbury notes. Eaton, Lilley, Genealogical History, Boston, 1874. Tax Lists of 1850, 1860. Maps of 1830, 1857, 1874, 1889, 1906. Directories of 1869,1974,1906. NPS Form 10-000 (8-66) 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 61. House at 8 Park Street Entered in the National Regiater 62. House at 88 Prospect Street Ent-red in tue Matto0al Begistor 63. House at 9 White Avenue intered 1nthe Matlonal Begistez 64. House at 90 Prospect Street Entere 1a tbe Nattonal Begistar 65. House at 95 Chestnut Street intered in the National Regiater 66. Item Building Entered 1o the Nationai Beglatar 67. Jordan, Dr. Charles, House intered in the National Register 68. Kendall, Deacon Thomas, House Entered 1n tha National Reglater 69. Lakeside Cemetery Chapel 5o++rn2 1: +. Natiouna 3eeisteE 70.
Lynnwood antered in the National Begister Date/Signature fkeoper AeluAgun 1/6/89 Attest Hreoper AulaurDgu 716/89 Attest Ú Reeper AulreAgau 2/6/89 Attest VKeeper AelouZgen Attest VReeper AelmuBgen 7/6/89 Attest CReeper AleliuDgen 216/89 Attest 7/6/89 Attest |Reeper AelmuBzui 16/89 Attest Hkeoper AulruBgen7/6/89 Attest preeper Klmutye16185 Attest UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY NAME: Kendall, Deacon Thomas, House 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: 89000742 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 V ACCEPT RETURN REJECT 7/6/89 DATE Entered in the Mationei Registet 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'329 1 Prospect st.
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