{"nrhp_refnum":"89000737","name":"House at 88 Prospect Street","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"88 Prospect St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wakefield","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.503900947000034,"lon":-71.08554256499997,"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 1½-story English Cottage Style dwelling at 88 Prospect Street, Wakefield, Massachusetts, built about 1913 and designed by local architect Harland O. Perkins. It has stucco walls and a tiled hip roof.","why_significant":"It is part of a unique three-house residential compound, with 90 Prospect Street and 127 Chestnut Street, designed for Elizabeth Boit and her family. Together the houses show the range of detailing the English Cottage Style allowed. Boit was a co-founder of the Harvard Knitting Mills and one of Wakefield's last manufacturer-estate builders.","narrative":"This house at 88 Prospect Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts, was built about 1913 as a single-family dwelling in the English Cottage Style. Local architect Harland Perkins designed it as a 1½-story stucco house under a tiled hip roof, with wide eaves on exposed purlins. The symmetrical facade has a center entrance beneath a cross gable with a jerkin head roof, flanked by recessed porches on heavy columns. It is one of three architect-designed houses in a row behind a fieldstone embankment, built after 1910 for Elizabeth Boit as a family compound that once included a landscaped court, greenhouses and a playhouse. Boit co-founded the Harvard Knitting Mills, which employed hundreds of Wakefield residents, and she also did civic work for the Wakefield Home for Aged Women. The houses are described as the last manufacturers' estates in town and the only ones remaining. The house is judged a good example of its style, with little alteration and good condition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Harland O. Perkins (architect)","architectural_style":"English Cottage Style","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Listed in good condition with no major alterations; used as a dwelling, with a garage, tennis court and cottage as outbuildings.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.415312-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/3/7907/63790703/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89000737.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000737/3308e7e0ec-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000737/3308e7e0ec-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WakefieldMA_88ProspectStreet.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_88ProspectStreet.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790703","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_88_Prospect_Street","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1631386"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/house-at-88-prospect-street-89000737/"}