{"nrhp_refnum":"89000669","name":"Sweetser, Daniel, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"458 Lowell St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wakefield","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.51690834100003,"lon":-71.05846466599996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-07-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2½-story, five-bay Federal-style house at 458 Lowell Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts, dated to 1780 and still used as a residence.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of Wakefield's best preserved rural Federal houses, with several local design variations. It was also the home of Col. James Mansfield, the town's first rural postal carrier. It is considered significant at the local level under criteria A and C.","narrative":"Built around 1780 on Lowell Street in Wakefield, this clapboard house is regarded as one of the town's best preserved rural Federal homes. It rises two and a half stories under a low-pitched roof, with five bays and a center entrance. The doorway has fine pilasters with delicate entasis, an entablature with a heavy cornice, and three-quarter-length sidelights. The boxed cornice has no returns, which might suggest early construction, but the two interior chimneys appear only in houses from late in the Federal period locally. Paired windows in the outer bays follow local practice. Daniel Sweetser was living here in 1795, though the house may have been built for him. Its best-known occupant was Col. James Mansfield, the first rural postal carrier in town. The property lay within the Montrose neighborhood, named after the 1850 railroad branch opening. A late-1800s rear ell is the main alteration.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is residence; condition is excellent externally at the front.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.898273-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/24/7916/63791624/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89000669.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000669/c4d5015239-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000669/c4d5015239-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WakefieldMA_DanielSweetserHouse.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:WakefieldMA_DanielSweetserHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791624","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Sweetser_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5218873"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/sweetser-daniel-house-89000669/"}