{"nrhp_refnum":"89000742","name":"Kendall, Deacon Thomas, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"One Prospect St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wakefield","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.50572153600007,"lon":-71.07951776199997,"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 2½-story, five-bay clapboard dwelling at One Prospect Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts, in the Federal style. It dates to before 1750 with late 18th-century reconstruction, and it was recorded as the Deacon Thomas Kendall Homestead.","why_significant":"The house is considered a well-preserved example of an early Federal period design in Wakefield, though it incorporates elements of an earlier structure burned in 1786. Its large central chimney is thought to be the oldest feature, dating from the mid-17th century. It is also tied to Deacon Thomas Kendall, an early settler, and to the Emerson family, who farmed the land through the 19th century.","narrative":"One Prospect Street in Wakefield holds a clapboard house that looks Federal from the outside but carries traces of an older building. It has five bays, two and a half stories, and no eaves returns in the gable ends, a trait of early Federal houses in the town. Its large central chimney is regarded as the oldest part, dating to the mid-17th century. Some window surrounds have finely carved moldings and corner blocks, probably from an earlier period, while smaller second-story windows on the south side look Georgian in proportion. The site is linked to Deacon Thomas Kendall, an early Reading settler from Lynn who served as deacon and selectman until his death in 1681. Later the James Emerson family owned it. A fire in 1786 killed Mrs. Emerson, and the house was probably rebuilt then, reusing older materials. The Emersons farmed shrinking land here through the 19th century. The house is valued as a well-preserved local example of early Federal design.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Recorded in good condition and in use as a dwelling; a single-car garage and enclosed porch were added in the early 1900s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:00.834033-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/49/7907/63790749/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89000742.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000742/23b7767500-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000742/23b7767500-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deacon_Thomas_Kendall_House,_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:Deacon_Thomas_Kendall_House,_Wakefield_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790749","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deacon_Thomas_Kendall_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5245040"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/kendall-deacon-thomas-house-89000742/"}