Emerson-Franklin Poole House

Emerson-Franklin Poole House
Location 23 Salem St., Wakefield, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°30′31″N 71°4′10″W / 42.50861°N 71.06944°W / 42.50861; -71.06944Coordinates: 42°30′31″N 71°4′10″W / 42.50861°N 71.06944°W / 42.50861; -71.06944
Built 1795
Architectural style Federal, Vernacular Federal
MPS Wakefield MRA
NRHP Reference #

89000685

[1]
Added to NRHP July 06, 1989

The Emerson-Franklin Poole House is a historic house at 23 Salem Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. It is a  2 1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof, clapboard siding, and two asymmetrically placed chimneys. The main facade is also slightly asymmetrical. A mid-19th-century porch extends across the full width of the front, and additions project to the side and rear of the original structure.[2]

In addition to being a well-preserved Federal-style house (built sometime before 1795 by Elias Emerson), it was the birthplace and home of locally prominent painter Franklin Poole, who captured many historically significant scenes of Wakefield in the mid-19th century. The house is also important for the murals Rufus Porter, an important itinerant muralist, painted on its walls.[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 "NRHP nomination for Emerson-Franklin Poole House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-31.


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