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Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, Wakefield, Mass.

House at 48 Meriam Street, Wakefield, Mass.

Item

Title
House at 48 Meriam Street, Wakefield, Mass.
Description
Photos show views of the house located at 48 Meriam Street on the east side of the street. The house has a long, thin lot extending along the railroad tracks. Built around 1735 by Samuel Gould, the Georgian home has wood clapboards, a gambrel roof, and two interior chimneys. Dr. Horatio M. Meriam, for whom Meriam Street is named, lived in the house in the 1880s and planted an extensive garden of exotic trees and flowers on the property.
Detailed entry in building survey, "The cultural resources of Wakefield", pC14
The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Photos taken at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 17, 2008
Contributor
Institution: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
Coverage
Massachusetts--Middlesex (county)--Wakefield
48 Meriam Street (Wakefield, Mass.)
Creator
Klapes, Jeffrey M., 1964-
Date
07-17-2008
Format
image/jpeg
Publisher
[Wakefield, Mass. : The author]
Subject
Architecture, Domestic
Samuel Gould House (Wakefield, Mass.)
Type
still image
Photographs
Original Format
3 photographs : digital, JPEG file, color