Blake Daniels Cottage

Historic house in Massachusetts, United States
United States historic place
Blake Daniels Cottage
42°29′20″N 71°5′29″W / 42.48889°N 71.09139°W / 42.48889; -71.09139
Built1860 (1860)
Architectural styleGreek Revival
MPSStoneham MRA
NRHP reference No.84002562 [1]
Added to NRHPApril 13, 1984

The Blake Daniels Cottage is a historic house at 111–113 Elm Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Built in 1860, it is a good example of a Greek Revival worker's residence, with an older wing that may have housed the manufactory of shoe lasts. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]

Description and history

The Blake Daniels Cottage stands in a residential area of eastern Stoneham, at the southwest corner of Elm Street and Duncklee Avenue. It is a tall 1+12-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. A single-story ell, possibly of earlier construction than the main house, extends to the west. The main block has a three bay facade, with the main entrance in the right bay, flanked on one side by a sidelight window, and framed by pilasters and a corniced entablature. The ell has a second entrance, sheltered by an Italianate hood. A brick chimney is set at the center of the eastern facade (facing Duncklee), with the roof on either side pierced by shed-roof dormers.[2]

The house was built about 1860, and is among the better preserved of Stoneham's Greek Revival houses, as well as being an important site preserving part of Stoneham's early home-based shoe manufacturing businesses. Its owner, Blake Daniels, operated a small manufactory of shoe lasts at this location up to the 1870s. The manufacture of shoe parts and tools for shoe manufacture was a common cottage industry in the town at that time.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ a b "NRHP nomination for Blake Daniels Cottage". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-23.
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