The House at 556 Lowell Street in

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is a high style Queen Anne Victorian in the Montrose section of town. The -story wood-frame house was built in 1894, probably for Denis Lyons, a Boston wine merchant. The house is asymmetrically massed, with a three-story turret topped by an eight-sided dome roof on the left side, and a single-story porch that wraps partially onto the right side, with a small gable over the stairs to the front door. That porch and a small second-story porch above are both decorated with Stick style woodwork. There is additional decoration, more in a Colonial Revival style, in main front gable and on the turret. 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 Colonial Revival architecture in Massachusetts Houses completed in 1894 1894 establishments in Massachusetts {{WakefieldMA-NRHP-stub

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