{"nrhp_refnum":"84002619","name":"Fuller, Enoch, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"72 Pine St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Stoneham","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.475667042000055,"lon":-71.09798533899993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-04-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story octagonal house at 72 Pine Street in Stoneham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, built around 1850 for Enoch Fuller. The architect is unknown.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is Stoneham's best preserved and most elaborate mid-nineteenth century octagon house, with integrity of location, design, setting, materials and workmanship. It is the best detailed of three Stoneham octagons and appears to use interlocking timber construction rather than standard stud walls. It is listed under criterion C.","narrative":"Built around 1850 at 72 Pine Street in Stoneham, this eight-sided clapboard house is regarded as the town's most elaborate and best preserved mid-nineteenth century octagon. It rises two stories to a low pitched roof with a central cupola. A one-story verandah with chamfered posts, pendant drop brackets and a cut baluster rail wraps the whole building, and both street sides have entries with full-length glazed side lights and transoms. Inside, a flying staircase rises in the central stairhall. The house sits on a large elevated corner lot. It was built for Enoch Fuller, reportedly a friend of P.T. Barnum who admired Barnum's octagon in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Fuller lived there only briefly, and by 1858 it served as a boarding house. By 1874 it belonged to a shoe tip manufacturer. The structure appears to use interlocking timber construction, a technique also seen in Wakefield octagons. It was listed for its architectural significance and integrity.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Octagon","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Recorded in 1979 as a private residence, used as a residence originally and at that time, 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 02:11:57.316008-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/30/7911/63791130/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/84002619.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002619/b365978ac3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002619/b365978ac3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Enoch_Fuller_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:Enoch_Fuller_House,_Stoneham_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791130","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Fuller_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5379296"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/fuller-enoch-house-84002619/"}