{"nrhp_refnum":"92001659","name":"Haven, Wilbur Fiske, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"339 Pleasant St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Malden","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.42797943000005,"lon":-71.07597126499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-12-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story wood-frame Second Empire (Italianate/Mansard) mansion at 339 Pleasant Street, Malden, Massachusetts, built about 1866-1867 by local carpenter/contractor George Hanson Fall for Boston hardware merchant Wilbur Fiske Haven.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an exuberant, well-crafted example of a mid-1860s mansion-scale Second Empire residence, one of the earliest of the style in Malden. It is also significant for its social history, having housed doctors' offices and funeral homes, and for a 1989 adaptive reuse restoration.","narrative":"Built around 1866-1867, this wood-frame mansion at 339 Pleasant Street in Malden was constructed by local carpenter George Hanson Fall for Wilbur Fiske Haven, a well-to-do Boston hardware merchant. It rises two and a half stories from a granite basement to a slate-covered mansard roof, with octagonal bays, a porte-cochere, quoins, brackets and arched dormers. Inside, a curving mahogany stair, plaster cornices and early 1900s mantels survive despite later use as doctors' offices and two funeral homes between 1929 and 1988. A 1989 restoration added a matching rear ell and returned the house to good condition. The property is considered important as an early local example of the Second Empire style, which first appeared in Malden around 1865, and as a notable adaptive reuse. It also reflects the growth of a Victorian neighborhood near the railroad and the later 'Doctor's Row' along Pleasant Street.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1866-1942","architect_builder":"George Hanson Fall","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Second Empire","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Restored in 1989 and in good condition; used as corporate headquarters of a general contracting firm after serving as funeral homes from 1929 to 1988.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:05.0191-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/51/7960/63796051/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/92001659.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001659/ec7fa45f72-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001659/ec7fa45f72-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wilbur_Fiske_Haven_House,_Malden_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:Wilbur_Fiske_Haven_House,_Malden_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796051","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Fiske_Haven_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8000187"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/haven-wilbur-fiske-house-92001659/"}