{"nrhp_refnum":"89001493","name":"Building at 202-204 Charles Street","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"202--204 Charles St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waltham","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.37253520200005,"lon":-71.24623697299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-09-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A wood-frame, multi-family apartment building at 202-204 Charles Street in Waltham, Massachusetts, built around 1913 as a rental property. Its architect is unknown.","why_significant":"The building is argued to be a link with Waltham's intensive turn-of-the-century residential expansion, which took the form of multi-family dwellings. It is also a good example of the Colonial Revival style with its important detailing intact despite recent aluminum siding. It is considered to meet criteria A and C.","narrative":"Built around 1913 on a densely settled residential street in Waltham, 202-204 Charles Street is a wood-frame apartment building with a double entrance and a Colonial Revival design. Its front facade has a two-tier projecting porch flanked by octagonal bays, with fluted Tuscan columns, turned balusters and fluted Doric pilasters at the corners. Dentils mark the cornices over the center second-floor windows and the entrance, and the flat roof has a deep cornice with modillion blocks. Aluminum siding was applied around 1987, but the detailing remains intact. Henry Milesky, who lived elsewhere on Charles Street, owned the building, which was always rented. Tenants in 1923 included a conductor, a buckle maker, a commercial artist, a foreman and several linemen. The building was listed because it reflects Waltham's turn-of-the-century growth in multi-family housing and is a well-preserved example of Colonial Revival architecture among smaller, plainer neighbors.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition described as good; currently in use as multi-family residential, as it was originally. Aluminum siding was added around 1987.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:12:59.8186-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/60/7915/63791560/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001493.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001493/cd40113445-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001493/cd40113445-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waltham_MA_Building_at_202-204_Charles_Street.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:Waltham_MA_Building_at_202-204_Charles_Street.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791560","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_at_202%E2%80%93204_Charles_Street","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4986549"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/building-at-202-204-charles-street-89001493/"}