Emerson-Franklin Poole House

Emerson-Franklin Poole House
Location 23 Salem St., Wakefield, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°30′31″N 71°4′10″W / 42.50861°N 71.06944°WCoordinates: 42°30′31″N 71°4′10″W / 42.50861°N 71.06944°W
Built 1795
Architectural style Federal, Vernacular Federal
Governing body Private
MPS Wakefield MRA
NRHP Reference #

89000685

[1]
Added to NRHP July 06, 1989

The Emerson-Franklin Poole House is a historic house at 23 Salem Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. In addition to being a well preserved Federal style house (built sometime before 1795 by Elias Emerson), it was the birthplace and home of locally prominent painter Franklin Poole, and has a number of murals by Rufus Porter painted on its walls.[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Emerson-Franklin Poole House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-31.

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