{"nrhp_refnum":"89000695","name":"House at 28 Wiley Street","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"28 Wiley St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wakefield","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.49730886900005,"lon":-71.04662534699997,"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 small brick house at 28 Wiley Street in Wakefield, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, dated 1765? and 1780-1840, built in a Federal Vernacular style and still used as a residence.","why_significant":"The form argues the house is either an unusual pre-Revolutionary brick dwelling or the surviving brick addition to an earlier wooden house that is now lost. Either way it is a well-preserved example of the Federal style that keeps its integrity of location, setting, design, materials, workmanship, feeling and association. It also relates to the long-established Wiley family of the neighborhood and to Dr. Ernest Tyzzer, an early cancer expert.","narrative":"Set into a hillside on a minor road in Wakefield, this small brick house is dated 1765? and 1780-1840 and is still a residence. It is one and one half stories under its east half, but its western half rises a full two and one half stories because of the slope. The kitchen sits at ground level. The plan follows the traditional Georgian/Federal form of five bays with a center entrance under a gable roof, and the Federal door surround has three-quarter-length sidelights and a portico that may be later. Its age is uncertain. Brick buildings were not common in the area before the Revolution, so the brick section may have been added to an earlier wooden house between 1790 and 1850, and the original wooden house has apparently been demolished. A 1765 map labels the site Nat. Wiley's old house. The Wiley family lived in the neighborhood from before 1672, and Dr. Ernest Tyzzer, an early cancer expert, lived here in 1927. The house is valued locally as a well-preserved Federal example.","period_of_significance":"1765? & 1780-1840","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal Vernacular","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Present use is residential; condition is described as fair. Two noncontributing outbuildings are listed: a 1 1/2 story barn with attached shed, and a one-car garage with porte cochere.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.899564-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/13/7907/63790713/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89000695.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000695/3c31fc7ffc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000695/3c31fc7ffc-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WakefieldMA_28WileyStreet.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_28WileyStreet.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790713","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_28_Wiley_Street","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5914199"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/house-at-28-wiley-street-89000695/"}