{"nrhp_refnum":"89000677","name":"House at 9 White Avenue","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"9 White Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wakefield","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.51154141200004,"lon":-71.07143400799998,"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 single-family dwelling at 9 White Avenue in the Lakeside area of Wakefield, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, built in 1903-04 in the Georgian Revival style. It is a shingle-clad building on a lot of less than one acre.","why_significant":"The form calls it one of the best examples of rather high style Georgian Revival domestic building in the Lakeside area, well preserved and highly detailed. It was also the home and studio of Edward Gleason, a locally known landscape and portrait photographer. It is considered significant at the local level under criterion C.","narrative":"This shingle-clad house at 9 White Avenue in Wakefield's Lakeside neighborhood was built in 1903-04 and remains a dwelling. Its Georgian Revival design is described as one of the best high-style examples in the area west of Lake Quannapowitt, where similar houses were built as infill between 1890 and 1910 but were usually less well detailed. The boxy form has a high hip roof, a slight second-story overhang above a wooden stringcourse, and a bracketed oriel. The symmetrical three-bay front has a center entrance porch with paired colonettes, twin gable dormers linked by an oval window, and a veranda and side porch. The house was the home and studio of Edward Gleason, a photographer known for landscapes and portraits of children, who also commuted to a Boston office. It is recorded as retaining its original design, materials and setting, and as having no major alterations.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian Revival (also described as Colonial Revival)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Condition is described as good, with no major alterations and no outbuildings; present use is 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 02:13:01.241879-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/7/7908/63790807/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89000677.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000677/9a8a2e6081-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000677/9a8a2e6081-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_at_9_White_Avenue,_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_9_White_Avenue,_Wakefield_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790807","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_9_White_Avenue","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5914525"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/house-at-9-white-avenue-89000677/"}