Emerson-Franklin Poole House

Emerson-Franklin Poole House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	23 Salem St., Wakefield, Massachusetts
Coordinates
Built	1795
Architectural style	Federal, Vernacular Federal
MPS	Wakefield MRA
NRHP Reference #	89000685
Added to NRHP	July 06, 1989

The Emerson-Franklin Poole House is a historic house at 23 Salem Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. It is a ​2 ¹⁄₂-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof, clapboard siding, and two asymmetrically placed chimneys. The main facade is also slightly asymmetrical. A mid-19th-century porch extends across the full width of the front, and additions project to the side and rear of the original structure.

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, who captured many historically significant scenes of Wakefield in the mid-19th century. The house is also important for the murals Rufus Porter, an important itinerant muralist, painted on its walls.

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

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Wakefield, Massachusetts
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts

External links

• Emerson-Franklin Poole House off the market: murals to remain untouched