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Wakefield Park Historic District is a residential historic district encompassing a portion of a late-19th/early-20th century planned development in western Wakefield, Massachusetts. The district encompasses sixteen properties on 8 acres (3.2 ha) of land out of the approximately 100 acres (40 ha) that comprised the original development.
Wakefield is the northernmost neighborhood in New York City (although, because of the slant of the Hudson and the grid system relative to true north, the city's northernmost point is actually in Riverdale, at the University of Mount Saint Vincent [3]). The neighborhood is part of Bronx Community District 12 and its ZIP Codes are 10466 and 10470 ...
US Post Office-Wakefield Main: US Post Office-Wakefield Main: October 19, 1987 : 321 Main St. 85: Wakefield Park: Wakefield Park: March 2, 1990 : Roughly Park Ave. between Summit Ave. and Chestnut St.
The Wakefield National Memorial Association was formed in 1923 to restore the property. In 1930, the grounds were authorized by Congress as a U.S. National Monument. In 1931, the Wakefield Association received a grant from John D. Rockefeller Jr., to acquire and transfer a total of 394 acres (1.59 km 2) of land to the Federal government.
The Common District encompasses the main civic center of Wakefield, Massachusetts. It is centered on the historic town common, just south of Lake Quannapowitt, which was laid in 1644, when it became the heart of Old Reading. The area was separated from Reading as South Reading in 1818, and renamed Wakefield in 1868. [2]
The compound she built at Chestnut and Prospect Streets is the only surviving estate of Wakefield's leading business executives. [2] The home was listed for sale on September 16, 2021, for $1,990,000 and sold on November 4, 2021, for $2,750,000 to leading technology and Real Estate entrepreneur Marc Trachtenberg.
It is suspected to have been remodeled into the federal style from an earlier home built in circa 1727. It overlooks Lake Quannapowitt, and according to a 1989 study of historic sites in Wakefield, the house is "one of Wakefield's most imposing landmarks." [2] The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. [1]
The Sheriff's Office which handles corrections is also in Wakefield. The Wakefield village center along Main Street (old Boston Post Road) between Belmont Avenue and Columbia Street was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 as Wakefield Historic District, with boundary increases in 2019 and 2022. The district is significant ...