{"nrhp_refnum":"89000668","name":"House at 196 Main Street","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"196 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wakefield","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.513123963000055,"lon":-71.07355560699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-07-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half-story Greek Revival dwelling at 196 Main Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts, built between 1790 and 1810. It sits at a corner, faces west onto Main Street and overlooks the lake.","why_significant":"The house is a well-preserved example of Greek Revival design. It is one of three houses on the west side of Wakefield that keep an original porch of fluted Doric columns, and its detailing is equally fine. It is also tied to Hiram Eaton, a member of the prominent Eaton family.","narrative":"Located at a corner on Main Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts, this two-and-one-half-story, five-bay clapboard house overlooks the lake and faces west. Dated to 1790-1810 and still used as a dwelling, it was extended at the rear by two stories. It is a well-preserved example of Greek Revival design. Its original porch of fluted Doric columns survives, one of only three such porches on the west side of town, and the hand-carved orders suggest a wealthy, culturally up-to-date owner. A fluted door surround with sidelights, a wide frieze beneath the gable roof and a high-style side door surround with Ionic columns add to its character. The house may have been built for Hiram Eaton, a shoe cutter from the large Eaton family, early settlers who owned the town's leading nineteenth-century store and hotel. It was listed for its architecture, with significance at the local level.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Condition is described as good, and the house is in present use as a dwelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:02.201056-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/14/7909/63790914/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89000668.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000668/d4e8b292d3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000668/d4e8b292d3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_at_196_Main_Street,_Wakefield_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:House_at_196_Main_Street,_Wakefield_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790914","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_196_Main_Street","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5914038"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/house-at-196-main-street-89000668/"}