House at 28 Cordis Street
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28 Cordis Street is a historic house located 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 ...
. It is significant as a well-preserved example of the
Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...
style houses built during the early to mid 19th century.


Description and history

It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof and a hip-roofed wraparound porch. Its main entrance is flanked by sidelight windows. It was built c. 1835–45, and features rare original fluted Doric columns supporting its porch. The house was added to 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 ...
on July 6, 1989, at which time it also featured a rare period fence; this feature has since been lost.


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 ...
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts


References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Wakefield, Massachusetts Houses completed in 1840 Greek Revival architecture in Massachusetts {{WakefieldMA-NRHP-stub