{"nrhp_refnum":"84002614","name":"Foley, Michael, Cottage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"14 Emerson St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Stoneham","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.47965000000005,"lon":-71.09828999999996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-04-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small two-story, side-hall workers' cottage at 14 Emerson Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts, built around 1855 (date uncertain, based on map research) and still used as a residence.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a well preserved example of a typical shoemaker's house, tied to Stoneham's Irish population. It was the home of Irish shoemaker Michael Foley in the 1870s and of other shoemakers later. Its location near the Tidd Tannery and its modest form make it representative of local workers' housing.","narrative":"Built around 1855 at 14 Emerson Street in Stoneham, this tiny two-story cottage is a surviving example of the town's modest workers' housing. It has a side-hall plan and faces the street with its gable end. The house rests on a granite foundation, is covered in clapboards, and has a pitched roof, with simple window frames holding six-over-six sash. Michael Foley, an Irish shoemaker, lived here in the 1870s, and other shoemakers followed in later years. The house stands one block from the Tidd Tannery, in a neighborhood of similar one-and-a-half or two-story, gable-roofed houses with few decorative details, though the neighboring examples are less well preserved. The cottage was listed because it retains its location, design, setting, materials and workmanship, and because it illustrates the typical shoemaker's home associated with Stoneham's Irish community. The form records no major alterations and no move.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"none","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Present use is residential; the form describes the house as well preserved with no major alterations and not moved.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.710952-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/2/7921/63792102/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/84002614.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002614/9d681014eb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002614/9d681014eb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StonehamMA_MichaelFoleyCottage.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StonehamMA_MichaelFoleyCottage.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792102","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Foley_Cottage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6830354"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/foley-michael-cottage-84002614/"}