Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, Wakefield, Mass.

Title

House at 142 Main Street, Wakefield, Mass.

Description

Photos show the house located at 142 Main Street in Beebe Cove on the eastern shore of Lake Quannapowitt. Built in 1810 by noted architect Samuel McIntire of Salem, the Federal style house has several later alterations, including a cupola added between 1858 and 1865. The house was originally the home of the family of Lucius Beebe, and was known as the Beebe Estate or Beebe Farm. It was said to have had one of New England's first indoor bathrooms, with a bathtub "of monstrous proportions". The site was also once the location of the Derby-Beebe Summer House, a small elegant outbuilding also designed by Samuel McIntire. The summerhouse was later moved to Salem, Massachusetts, and is now owned by the Peabody Essex Museum.

Detailed entry in building survey, "The cultural resources of Wakefield", pA9

The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Photos taken at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, April 18, 2008

Contributor

Institution: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library

Coverage

Massachusetts--Middlesex (county)--Wakefield

Creator

Klapes, Jeffrey M., 1964-

Date

04-18-2008

Format

image/jpeg

Publisher

[Wakefield, Mass. : The author]

Subject

Beebe Farm (Wakefield, Mass.)

Architecture, Domestic

McIntire, Samuel, 1757-1811

Type

still image

Photographs

Original Format

4 photographs : digital, JPEG file, color