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Lake Quannapowitt is a lake in Wakefield, Massachusetts. It is one of two large lakes in Wakefield, the other being the man-made Crystal Lake. The lake is named after Quonopohit, [3] the Naumkeag Native American man who signed a deed to the town that would become Wakefield in 1686. [4] The lake is located off Route 128 in Middlesex County.
Wakefield Park: Wakefield Park: March 2, 1990 : Roughly Park Ave. between Summit Ave. and Chestnut St. A late 19th century "garden suburb" residential subdivision. 86: Wakefield Rattan Co. Wakefield Rattan Co. July 6, 1989 : 134 Water St.
The Common District encompasses the main civic center of Wakefield, Massachusetts. It is centered on the historic town common, just south of Lake Quannapowitt, which was laid in 1644, when it became the heart of Old Reading. The area was separated from Reading as South Reading in 1818, and renamed Wakefield in 1868. [2]
It is suspected to have been remodeled into the federal style from an earlier home built in circa 1727. It overlooks Lake Quannapowitt, and according to a 1989 study of historic sites in Wakefield, the house is "one of Wakefield's most imposing landmarks." [2] The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. [1]
The Downtown/Wakefield Square area extends from just north of the immediate north shore of Crystal Lake (an area known as Wakefield Junction, where North Avenue merges into Main Street) to the southern shores of Lake Quannapowitt. The West Side encompasses nearly all of Wakefield which is west of Lake Quannapowitt and Crystal Lake.
White Avenue is located northeast of downtown Wakefield, and is a short street in a residential area just east of Lake Quannapowitt. This house stands on the north side of the street, facing south on a lot that slopes west toward the lake. It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof, with two gable-roof and clapboarded ...
Church Street, which is immediately south of Lake Quannapowitt, was laid out in the late 17th century, but only had a single house from that period survive, the c. 1681 Hartshorne House at 41 Church Street. The Hartshorne House was remodeled in the Federal period of the late 18th/early 19th century, when many of the houses on Church Street were ...
Lake Quannapowitt: Lowell Street, ... Wakefield: Main Street, Wakefield I-95/MA-128: Beaverdam Brook I-95/MA-128: Salem Street, Wakefield ... This is a route-map ...