The Lorenzo D. Hawkins House is a historic house at 1 Cedar Street in
Stoneham, Massachusetts
Stoneham ( ) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, nine miles (14.5 km) north of downtown Boston. Its population was 23,244 at the 2020 census. Its proximity to major highways and public transportation offer convenient access to Bos ...
. The property consists of a house and carriage house, both built c. 1870, that are among Stoneham's finest Second Empire buildings. The house is a two-story wood-frame structure with irregular massing. It has the classic mansard roof, an ornately decorated entry porch, heavily bracketed cornice, and round-arch windows in its dormers and front bay. The carriage house features a polychrome mansard roof.
The house was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1984,
and was included in the
Nobility Hill Historic District
The Nobility Hill Historic District is a residential historic district roughly bounded by Chestnut and Maple Streets and Cedar Avenue in Stoneham, Massachusetts. The district includes a number of high quality houses representing a cross sectio ...
in 1990.
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See also
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* National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Stoneham, Massachusetts
Second Empire architecture in Massachusetts
Houses completed in 1870
Historic district contributing properties in Massachusetts
Buildings with mansard roofs
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