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The Item Building is a historic commercial building at 26 Albion Street in
Wakefield, Massachusetts Wakefield is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, incorporated in 1812 and located about north-northwest of Downtown Boston. Wakefield's population was 27,090 at the 2020 census. Wakefield offers ...
. Built in 1912, the single-story brick building serves as the headquarters of ''
The Wakefield Daily Item ''The Wakefield Daily Item'' is an independent weekday daily newspaper published in Wakefield, Massachusetts, with issues published Mondays through Fridays. History Fred W. Young printed the first ''Item'' on May 7, 1894, running the paper unti ...
'', Wakefield's main community newspaper, and is a well-kept example of early 20th century commercial architecture.


Description and history

The building is located at the southwest corner of Albion and Foster Streets, one block west of Wakefield's central business district. It is a single-story brick building, with a granite foundation, brick and cast stone trim elements, and a flat roof. The Foster Street facade is four bays long, with an entrance in the leftmost bay, while the Albion Street facade is eight bays in length. The first five are original, while the latter three are a mid-20th century addition. An angle at the corner originally provided the main entrance, but has now been bricked over and replaced by a window. A Craftsman-style shed-roof hood remains over the window. The main entrance is now in the fifth bay under a metal marquee. The fenestrated bays of the building were originally pairs of plate glass with granite sills, demarcated by brick piers. These bays have now been largely filled with brick and pairs of sash windows. ''The Wakefield Daily Item'' began publishing in 1895, and was the first local newspaper in
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that had its own printing facilities. In 1912, Harris M. Dolbeare, the publisher, had this building constructed to house its newsroom and printing operations. The building was enlarged by three bays along Albion Street in the mid-20th century. The building was listed on the
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on July 6, 1989.


See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Wakefield, Massachusetts This is a list of properties and historic districts in Wakefield, Massachusetts, that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and long ...
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts This is a listing of places in Middlesex County in the U.S. state of Massachusetts that are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. With more than 1,300 listings, the county has more listings than any other county in the United Stat ...


References

Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Commercial buildings completed in 1912 Buildings and structures in Wakefield, Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places in Wakefield, Massachusetts 1912 establishments in Massachusetts {{wakefieldMA-NRHP-stub