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Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, Wakefield, Mass.

House at 23 Salem Street, Wakefield, Mass.

Item

Title
House at 23 Salem Street, Wakefield, Mass.
Description
Photos show the house located at 23 Salem Street on the north side of the street near the Common. Built around 1795, the Federal vernacular style house is clad in asbestos shingles. An Italianate porch and two story ell were added in the 1850s or 1860s. The house was built by Elias Emerson, who later sold it to Timothy Poole, whose son Franklin Poole, a local artist, was born in 1808.
Detailed entry in building survey, "The cultural resources of Wakefield", pA76
The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Photos taken at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Contributor
Institution: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
Coverage
Massachusetts--Middlesex (county)--Wakefield
23 Salem Street (Wakefield, Mass.)
Creator
Klapes, Jeffrey M., 1964-
Date
04-15-2008
Format
image/jpeg
Publisher
[Wakefield, Mass. : The author]
Subject
Architecture, Domestic
Type
still image
Photographs
Original Format
3 photographs : digital, JPEG file, color