{"nrhp_refnum":"89000684","name":"House at 19-21 Salem Street","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"19--21 Salem St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wakefield","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.508698828000036,"lon":-71.06927090699998,"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 pair of joined 18th-century houses forming a two-family dwelling at 19-21 Salem Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts, dated 1765-1795 and possibly built by Joseph Gould.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an unusual 18th-century two-family house and a good example of Georgian/Federal vernacular design. It also notes a later owning family, the Evanses, who were involved in Wakefield's late 19th-century shoemaking industry. It is argued to meet criterion C at the local level.","narrative":"Two early houses joined together make up this two-family dwelling on Salem Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Dated between 1765 and 1795, the pair faces south on an old row of houses. The west house is two stories with a gable roof, and the east house is two stories with a gambrel roof. Both have been altered, including later additions and 1920s door hoods, yet they keep their unusual connected form, massing and narrow vernacular Georgian and Federal proportions. By 1795 the houses were owned separately by Elizabeth Sweetser (west) and Joseph Gould (east), a self-made carpenter and wheelwright who probably built both. Later the property was home to members of the Evans family, who ran a shoe manufacturing company on the street in the late 19th century, part of the town's cottage-industry shoemaking. It was listed for its architecture, as an unusual two-family house of local importance.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"possibly Joseph Gould","architectural_style":"Georgian Vernacular","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Condition described as good; present use is a two-family dwelling, with an attached one-story garage that is non-contributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:00.862175-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/11/7908/63790811/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89000684.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000684/236a7d95d0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000684/236a7d95d0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_at_19_Salem_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_19_Salem_Street,_Wakefield_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790811","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_19%E2%80%9321_Salem_Street","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5914061"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/house-at-19-21-salem-street-89000684/"}