House at 15 Lawrence Street

Historic house in Massachusetts, United States
United States historic place
House at 15 Lawrence Street
House at 15 Lawrence Street
42°30′37″N 71°4′14″W / 42.51028°N 71.07056°W / 42.51028; -71.07056
Arealess than one acre
Built1870; 154 years ago (1870)
Architectural styleQueen Anne
MPSWakefield MRA
NRHP reference No.89000682 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 06, 1989

The House at 15 Lawrence Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a well-preserved Queen Anne house with a locally rare surviving carriage house. It was built in the early 1870s, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]

Description and history

Lawrence Street is located north of downtown Wakefield, extending east from Main Street toward Vernon Street at the southern end of Lake Quannapowitt. This house stands on the north side of the westernmost block, its lot fringed by low retaining walls, with granite posts flanking the driveway entrance. The house is 2+1⁄2 stories in height, with a front-facing clipped gable roof, and an exterior finished in a combination of wooden clapboards and decorative cut shingles. It is basically rectangular in plan, with a single-story hip-roofed porch extending across the front and around part of the left side. The porch features turned posts, a decorative valance, and turned balustrades. Second floor windows are topped by shallow gables, and there is a round-arch window in the gable above. The original carriage barn stands behind the house, also exhibiting original Queen Anne styling.[2]

Lawrence Street was laid out in 1857, but was not platted for development until 1874, a boom period of development in Wakefield. James Emerson, owner of one of the city's largest shoe factories, partnered with another businessman to build out the street's lots. Emerson's family homestead (now demolished) stood at the corner of Lawrence and Main Streets, as did its first shoe factory. The house was written up in a local newspaper for its architecture in 1894.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ a b "NRHP nomination for House at 15 Lawrence Avenue". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-02-04.
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