Beacon Street Tomb, Wakefield, Mass.
Item
- Title
- Beacon Street Tomb, Wakefield, Mass.
- Description
- Photos show views of the tomb structure located on Beacon Street at the southern edge of Lakeside Cemetery. The granite ashlar Greek Revival style building was built around 1848 and has a pedimented gable on the south side supported by four Doric columns. The building was originally used to house caskets during the winter when the ground was frozen.
- Detailed entry in building survey, "The cultural resources of Wakefield", pD116
- The tomb is on the National Register of Historic Places
- Photos taken at 11:15 a.m. on Monday, June 30, 2008
- Contributor
- Institution: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
- Coverage
- Massachusetts--Middlesex (county)--Wakefield
- Creator
- Klapes, Jeffrey M., 1964-
- Date
- 06-30-2008
- Format
- image/jpeg
- Publisher
- [Wakefield, Mass. : The author]
- Subject
- Beacon Street Tomb (Wakefield, Mass.)
- Sepulchral monuments
- Tombs
- Cemeteries
- Lakeside Cemetery (Wakefield, Mass.)
- Type
- still image
- Photographs
- Original Format
- 5 photographs : digital, JPEG file, color
- Item sets
- Current Photographs of Wakefield
