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.[2]
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| Location | 8 Park St., Wakefield, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°30′23.05″N 71°4′15.17″W / 42.5064028°N 71.0708806°W |
| Built | 1852 |
| Architectural style | Italianate |
| MPS | Wakefield MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 89000689 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 06, 1989 |
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]
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edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for House at 8 Park Street". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-02-05.