House at 380 Albion Street

House at 380 Albion Street
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	380 Albion St., Wakefield, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°29′32″N 71°5′8″W / 42.49222°N 71.08556°W / 42.49222; -71.08556
Area	less than one acre
Built	1910 (1910)
Architectural style	Bungalow/Craftsman
MPS	Wakefield MRA
NRHP reference No.	89000711 [1]
Added to NRHP	July 06, 1989

The House at 380 Albion Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is one of the finest Bungalow/Craftsman style houses in the town. It was built c. 1910 in a then-rural part of Wakefield that been annexed from Stoneham in the 1880s. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.^[1]

Description and history

Albion Street is a major local thoroughfare, running southwest from the center of Wakefield to the north side of Stoneham center. Number 380 is set on a parcel under 1 acre (0.40 ha) in size that abuts the present town line at the Green Street intersection. The parcel is fringed on its street-facing sides by a low field-stone retaining wall capped in concrete The house is a single story building with a shallow pitch roof that extend across a wraparound porch supported by Craftsan-style sloping square columns. The gables are decorated with latticework and there are decorated viga-like rafter ends embellishing the area. The building is roughly T-shaped, with three-part picture and casement window combinations at the front of the gable, and of the projecting side section. It has been extended to the rear, with a period garage attached on the right rear.^[2]

The Albion Street area was largely farmland in the 19th century, and was part of a large rural tract that Wakefield annexed from Stoneham in 1880. This house does not appear on a 1906 map of the area, which showed some development north of Albion Street. From stylistic evidence, its construction date is estimated to be 1910.^[2]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Wakefield, Massachusetts
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts

References

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