House at 95 Chestnut Street, Wakefield, Mass.
Item
- Title
- House at 95 Chestnut Street, Wakefield, Mass.
- Description
- Photos show the house located at 95 Chestnut Street on the north side of the street at the corner of Whittemore Terrace. The Greek Revival house with a Stick Style porch was built in 1849 by Joshua Whittemore. It is of wood frame construction and has a clapboard exterior. Whittemore was known for inventing in 1862 the "Whittemore Patent Elastic Crutch", which he manufactured in an outbuilding behind the house until 1885.
- Detailed entry in building survey, "The cultural resources of Wakefield", pD43
- The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
- Photos taken at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, May 5, 2008
- Contributor
- Institution: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
- Coverage
- Massachusetts--Middlesex (county)--Wakefield
- 95 Chestnut Street (Wakefield, Mass.)
- Creator
- Klapes, Jeffrey M., 1964-
- Date
- 05-05-2008
- Format
- image/jpeg
- Publisher
- [Wakefield, Mass. : The author]
- Subject
- Architecture, Domestic
- Joshua Whittemore House (Wakefield, Mass.)
- Type
- still image
- Photographs
- Original Format
- 5 photographs : digital, JPEG file, color
- Item sets
- Current Photographs of Wakefield
