{"nrhp_refnum":"89000687","name":"House at 38 Salem Street","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"38 Salem St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wakefield","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.50890739500005,"lon":-71.06769551099995,"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-story, five-bay Federal-style house at 38 Salem Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts, dated 1835 by the Woodbury List, though local historians believe it was built about 1810. It has clapboard walls with brick end walls and a hip roof.","why_significant":"The house is described as a well-preserved late Federal example with unusual features for Wakefield, namely a hip roof and brick end walls. It is considered one of the more high-style Federal houses in town. It retains integrity of location, setting, design, materials, workmanship, feeling and association, and meets criterion C at the local level.","narrative":"This two-story, five-bay house at 38 Salem Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts, represents the late Federal style. It has clapboard walls, brick end walls, a hip roof and two interior chimneys, a sign it was built late in the Federal period. The door surround has slim pilasters with entasis, a low entablature with a compressed frieze, and three-quarter-length sidelights. Windows sit high under a boxed cornice. Unlike most rural houses of its era, it faces north toward the road rather than south. A rear one-to-one-and-a-half-story ell dates to about 1820-1830. The Woodbury List gives 1835 as the date, but town historians believe the house was built about 1810. An early occupant was Elizabeth Bryant, a successful tailor who married selectman James Walton. The house is valued as one of the more high-style Federal buildings in Wakefield and for its well-preserved integrity, and it remains a dwelling in good condition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Condition is described as good, and the building 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 02:13:01.846822-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/37/7907/63790737/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89000687.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000687/881b2ce1ca-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000687/881b2ce1ca-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WakefieldMA_38SalemStreet.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_38SalemStreet.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790737","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_38_Salem_Street","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5914292"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/house-at-38-salem-street-89000687/"}