TARTARIA MAPS Wakefield · a catalogue study 7 places, arranged by recorded date Edition 2026-10-09.1 Explore a selection of the city's released records in chronological order. Compare buildings, surviving details, and the source material behind each date. This automatically assembled study is a starting point for your own exploration. A remote or manually navigated catalogue study. The order follows recorded dates, not a pedestrian route; nearby regional places may be far apart. No walking duration is estimated. Check each place's actual location and visitor rules. A catalogue pin does not grant entry or confirm present access. Use the atlas record and linked sources to plan a visit. Automatically assembled catalogue study. Where text is drawn from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 applies to that text (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Wikipedia article and contributor links are included with each applicable stop. Passages may be excerpted or abridged and include additional editorial date context. Other sources and original observation prompts retain their own terms. Catalogue study: no walking route or distance is estimated. This text guide works without a network connection after you download it. Map links, external sources, and browser narration may require connectivity. No map tiles or audio recording are included. 1. HOUSE AT 21 CHESTNUT STREET House at 21 Chestnut Street Recorded year (source inventory): 1850 · Building Catalogue point: 42.50333333, -71.07472222 CHAPTER The House at 21 Chestnut Street is one of the best preserved Italianate houses in Wakefield, Massachusetts. It was built c. 1855 to a design by local architect John Stevens, and was home for many years to local historian Ruth Woodbury. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The year is the source inventory’s recorded inception date. Construction start, opening and later alterations may have separate dates in the linked article. LOOK FOR Choose one visible architectural detail. Compare it with another place in this study, then follow a source to check what its date describes. ACCESS Catalogue location only. Confirm current access and the observation point before travelling. RECORD CONTEXT The year is the source inventory’s recorded inception date. Construction start, opening and later alterations may have separate dates in the linked article. ATLAS RECORD https://tartariamaps.com/?city=wakefield-ma&candidate=Q5914119&detail=1 SOURCES Wikipedia · article and contributors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_21_Chestnut_Street Wikidata · Wikidata Q5914119 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5914119 2. HOUSE AT 190 MAIN STREET House at 190 Main Street Recorded year (source inventory): 1856 · Building Catalogue point: 42.51361111, -71.07416667 CHAPTER The House at 190 Main Street, also known as the William F. Young House, is a historic house at 190 Main Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. The exact construction date of the 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house is uncertain: it follows a traditional three-bay side-hall plan, but was also extensively remodeled sometime before 1870 with Italianate styling, probably by William F. Young, a commuter who worked at a grocery firm in Boston. It has a round-arch window in the front gable end, and its porch features narrow chamfered posts topped by a flat arched frieze. The main entry portico is closed in, and it and the porch feature decorative brackets. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The year is the source inventory’s recorded inception date. Construction start, opening and later alterations may have separate dates in the linked article. LOOK FOR Choose one visible architectural detail. Compare it with another place in this study, then follow a source to check what its date describes. ACCESS Catalogue location only. Confirm current access and the observation point before travelling. RECORD CONTEXT The year is the source inventory’s recorded inception date. Construction start, opening and later alterations may have separate dates in the linked article. ATLAS RECORD https://tartariamaps.com/?city=wakefield-ma&candidate=Q5914029&detail=1 SOURCES Wikipedia · article and contributors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_190_Main_Street Wikidata · Wikidata Q5914029 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5914029 3. HOUSE AT 7 SALEM STREET House at 7 Salem Street Recorded year (source inventory): 1857 · Building Catalogue point: 42.50838333, -71.07062222 CHAPTER The House at 7 Salem Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a transitional Greek Revival/Italianate style house built c. 1855–57. The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house has a typical Greek Revival side hall plan, with door and window surrounds that are also typical to that style. However, it also bears clear Italianate styling with the arched window in the gable, and the paired brackets in the eaves. A single-story porch wraps around the front and side, supported by simple square columns. Its occupant in 1857 was a ticket agent for the Boston and Maine Railroad. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The year is the source inventory’s recorded inception date. Construction start, opening and later alterations may have separate dates in the linked article. LOOK FOR Choose one visible architectural detail. Compare it with another place in this study, then follow a source to check what its date describes. ACCESS Catalogue location only. Confirm current access and the observation point before travelling. RECORD CONTEXT The year is the source inventory’s recorded inception date. Construction start, opening and later alterations may have separate dates in the linked article. ATLAS RECORD https://tartariamaps.com/?city=wakefield-ma&candidate=Q5914468&detail=1 SOURCES Wikipedia · article and contributors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_7_Salem_Street Wikidata · Wikidata Q5914468 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5914468 4. HOUSE AT 8 PARK STREET House at 8 Park Street Recorded year (source inventory): 1857 · Building Catalogue point: 42.50640278, -71.07088056 CHAPTER The House at 8 Park Street, also known as the Dr. Joseph Poland House, is a historic house at 8 Park Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built c. 1852 for Dr. Joseph Poland, who only briefly practiced in the town. The house is in a vernacular Italianate style, with a two-story ell on the rear and a porch on the right side. The house has elongated windows with entablatured surrounds. The porch and front portico are supported by turned columns with bracketed tops, the building corners are pilastered, and there are paired brackets found in the eaves and gable ends. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The year is the source inventory’s recorded inception date. Construction start, opening and later alterations may have separate dates in the linked article. LOOK FOR Choose one visible architectural detail. Compare it with another place in this study, then follow a source to check what its date describes. ACCESS Catalogue location only. Confirm current access and the observation point before travelling. RECORD CONTEXT The year is the source inventory’s recorded inception date. Construction start, opening and later alterations may have separate dates in the linked article. ATLAS RECORD https://tartariamaps.com/?city=wakefield-ma&candidate=Q5914493&detail=1 SOURCES Wikipedia · article and contributors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_8_Park_Street Wikidata · Wikidata Q5914493 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5914493 5. HOUSE AT 42 HOPKINS STREET House at 42 Hopkins Street Recorded year (source inventory): 1859 · Building Catalogue point: 42.50361111, -71.09666667 CHAPTER The House at 42 Hopkins Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is an excellent early example of an Italianate house. Built c. 1850, the 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure is an early example of balloon framing (replacing the earlier mortise and tenon style). It is three bays wide, with wide eaves and double brackets, corner pilasters, and a high granite foundation. Its front entry is sheltered by Colonial Revival portico added around the turn of the 20th century. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The year is the source inventory’s recorded inception date. Construction start, opening and later alterations may have separate dates in the linked article. LOOK FOR Choose one visible architectural detail. Compare it with another place in this study, then follow a source to check what its date describes. ACCESS Catalogue location only. Confirm current access and the observation point before travelling. RECORD CONTEXT The year is the source inventory’s recorded inception date. Construction start, opening and later alterations may have separate dates in the linked article. ATLAS RECORD https://tartariamaps.com/?city=wakefield-ma&candidate=Q5914316&detail=1 SOURCES Wikipedia · article and contributors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_42_Hopkins_Street Wikidata · Wikidata Q5914316 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5914316 6. HOUSE AT 12 WEST WATER STREET House at 12 West Water Street Recorded year (source inventory): 1860 · Building Catalogue point: 42.50194444, -71.07138889 CHAPTER The House at 12 West Water Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a rare local example of a Second Empire house. The wood-frame house was built around 1860, and has two full stories, with a third beneath the mansard roof. It is three bays wide, with a wide double-door entry, and a porch across the front with elaborately decorated posts. The house may have been built by Cyrus Wakefield, owner of the Wakefield Rattan Company, and sold to a company employee. A later owner was George Cox, who owned a billiard parlor in the town center. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The year is the source inventory’s recorded inception date. Construction start, opening and later alterations may have separate dates in the linked article. LOOK FOR Choose one visible architectural detail. Compare it with another place in this study, then follow a source to check what its date describes. ACCESS Catalogue location only. Confirm current access and the observation point before travelling. RECORD CONTEXT The year is the source inventory’s recorded inception date. Construction start, opening and later alterations may have separate dates in the linked article. ATLAS RECORD https://tartariamaps.com/?city=wakefield-ma&candidate=Q5913925&detail=1 SOURCES Wikipedia · article and contributors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_12_West_Water_Street Wikidata · Wikidata Q5913925 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5913925 7. HOUSE AT 20 HANCOCK ROAD House at 20 Hancock Road Recorded year (source inventory): 1867 · Building Catalogue point: 42.51805556, -71.07361111 CHAPTER The House at 20 Hancock Road in Wakefield, Massachusetts is an unusual Italianate house. Built in the 1860s or early 1870s, the two-story wood-frame house is only four bays wide, with the entry door in the leftmost bay. The house has some Italianate details, including dentil molding in the cornice, but is predominantly Greek Revival in character. It is possible this house was built as an outbuilding of the Beebe estate on Main Street, and moved to its present location when Hancock Street was laid out. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The year is the source inventory’s recorded inception date. Construction start, opening and later alterations may have separate dates in the linked article. LOOK FOR Choose one visible architectural detail. Compare it with another place in this study, then follow a source to check what its date describes. ACCESS Catalogue location only. Confirm current access and the observation point before travelling. RECORD CONTEXT The year is the source inventory’s recorded inception date. Construction start, opening and later alterations may have separate dates in the linked article. ATLAS RECORD https://tartariamaps.com/?city=wakefield-ma&candidate=Q14715573&detail=1 SOURCES Wikipedia · article and contributors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_20_Hancock_Road Wikidata · Wikidata Q14715573 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715573 Your observations __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________