{"nrhp_refnum":"84002527","name":"Buck, Charles, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"68 Pleasant St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Stoneham","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.47945265100003,"lon":-71.09288067899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-04-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Italianate house at 68 Pleasant Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts, built around 1880 for businessman Charles Buck. The architect is unknown.","why_significant":"The form describes it as a good example of a traditional Italianate house with an intact setting in the town's original settlement area. It is also tied to local businessman Charles Buck and sits on the early town center site where the first meeting house and school stood. It is stated to meet criterion A.","narrative":"Built around 1880 at 68 Pleasant Street in Stoneham, this two-story house follows the traditional Italianate form. It has a three-bay facade with a center entry flanked by bay windows, double entry doors under a porch linking the two bays, a steep pitched roof, twin interior chimneys, and windows with projecting lintels and 2/2 sash. Aluminum siding covers the walls, yet the house keeps an intact setting on a hilly terraced lot with a granite retaining wall. It was home to Charles Buck, a Stoneham businessman from the Civil War years until the 1890s, who ran a wholesale hide business in Boston and kept a meat and provision store in Central Square. The property once belonged to the Gould family, and the town's first meeting house (1726) and school (about 1718) were built on this site. Its architecture, its link to Buck, and its early town center location support its listing under criterion A.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Used as a private residence; the exterior has been sided in aluminum, and a weathered clapboard barn stands at the rear.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:56.634519-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/93/7914/63791493/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/84002527.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002527/83d44267ce-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002527/83d44267ce-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Buck_House,_Stoneham_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Buck_House,_Stoneham_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791493","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Buck_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5075859"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/buck-charles-house-84002527/"}