The House at 39 Converse Street in

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, is a well-preserved Queen Anne Victorian house. It was built c. 1880 as part of a

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along Converse Street. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof and cross gable. It features decorative shingle bands in sections on the second floor, and between the first and second floors. The L-shaped house has a second story projecting gabled section over a rounded projecting bay on the first floor. The house was listed on the

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in 1989.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Wakefield, Massachusetts Queen Anne architecture in Massachusetts Houses completed in 1880 {{WakefieldMA-NRHP-stub

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