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Photograph of Church-Lafayette Streets Historic District
Photograph by Frank O. Branzetti, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Church-Lafayette Streets Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 18 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

One of 1,353 National Register listings published here for Middlesex County · listed in 1989 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Listed as. Church--Lafayette Streets Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Roughly Church St. from Lafayette St. to North Ave., Wakefield
  • When was it listed? July 1989
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Wakefield MRA
  • National Register reference number. 89000757 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

98 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Church-Lafayette Streets Historic District between 2003 and 2020, burning about 119 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Recreation and ceremony28
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Smoking12
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSAUGUS
23 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlLYNNFIELD
1 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSAUGUS
5 August 2016Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire ControlSAUGUS

Every fire recorded in Middlesex County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Church-Lafayette Streets Historic District: 6 past producers, 4 producers, 2 plants, 1 occurrence. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ferro Ceramic Grinding--WakefieldSilicaPlant
Austin Hastings--Woburn, Ma.IronPlant
Saugus DepositIronOccurrence
Drinkwater QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kay Locke Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
New England Crushing CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Philip DrinkwaterSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Marlborough Plant/Polishing PlatesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Richardson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Roma Stone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Middlesex County

Maps showing this location

18 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Meeting House of the Second Parish in Woburnunder 500 feet1990
Suell Winn House0.1 miles1989
Deacon Thomas Kendall House0.1 miles1989
Goodwin, Captain-James Custis House0.2 miles1990
William Stimpson House0.2 miles1989
Temple Israel Cemetery0.2 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 89000757 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Middlesex CountyAll 1353 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.