{"nrhp_refnum":"89000679","name":"House at 15 Wave Avenue","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"15 Wave Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wakefield","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.51116061600004,"lon":-71.07008251599996,"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-a-half-story Italianate dwelling at 15 Wave Avenue in Wakefield, Massachusetts, built between 1875 and 1883 on a slight rise near Lake Quannapowitt.","why_significant":"The house is presented as a well-preserved example of high-style Italianate design, notable for its elaborate front porch with lacy jig-saw cut woodwork. It also reflects Wakefield's growth in the late 1870s and early 1880s, when new housing was built for a growing industrial work force and the town became a rail-connected suburb of Boston.","narrative":"This Italianate house at 15 Wave Avenue in Wakefield, Massachusetts, was built between 1875 and 1883 and still serves as a dwelling. It stands two and a half stories high with its gable end to the street, a three-bay side-hall layout and an L-shaped plan. Its most distinctive feature is the front porch, with lacy jig-saw cut work, pillars, brackets and turned drops. Other details include shell-carved paired brackets under the roof, rope molding, double arched gable windows and footed sills. The house was listed for its architectural quality and its retained integrity. It also illustrates Wakefield's growth after the Panic of 1873 and the death of Cyrus Wakefield, when the town regained industrial strength and new houses were built for a larger work force. Wakefield was also becoming a suburb with good rail links to Boston. The house originally sat next to Henry Haskell's shoe factory, reflecting the local pattern of shoe shops beside homes.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Currently used as a dwelling; condition described as fair, with three windows filled in at an unknown date and a non-contributing garage from about 1920.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:12:59.830251-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/18/7910/63791018/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89000679.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000679/86420141c6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000679/86420141c6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_at_15_Wave_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_15_Wave_Avenue,_Wakefield_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791018","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_15_Wave_Avenue","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5913977"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/house-at-15-wave-avenue-89000679/"}