Stoneham in the 1860s
Abraham Lincoln took office in 1861 and Andrew Johnson succeeded him in 1865. The Civil War ran from 1861 to 1865 and ended slavery through the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment. The Homestead Act of 1862 opened western land to settlers and the first transcontinental railroad was joined in 1869. What Stoneham kept from the decade leans to Italianate, the label the records put on 4 of these stops.
Every stop carries a construction date in the 1860s. The route covers 10 of them and runs 1.9 miles end to end.
Distances are straight lines between the coordinates in the National Park Service Register data, so the walk on the street will be longer. Nobody has walked or checked this as a route, and a listing does not mean a place is open to visitors. Stops last changed Oct 16, 2026.
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Map
Coordinates come from the National Park Service National Register spatial data, or from Wikidata where the spatial data has no point. The solid line joins the stops in walking order and is not a street route. Listings with a restricted address in the Register are never mapped and never become stops. Data refreshed November 02, 2026.
Walking order
- 1Charles Gill House76 Pleasant St.Building · built 1860 · listed 1984start
- 2Franklin B. Jenkins House2 Middle St.Building · built 1860 · listed 19840.4 mi from stop 1
- 3Samuel Chamberlain House3 Winthrop St.Building · built 1864 · listed 19840.2 mi from stop 2
- 4Dow BlockCentral SquareBuilding · built 1864 · listed 19840.3 mi from stop 3
- 5First Unitarian ChurchCentral and Common Sts.Building · built 1869 · listed 19840.2 mi from stop 4
- 6Amasa Farrier House55 Central St.Building · built 1865 · listed 1984131 ft from stop 5
- 7R.P. Turnbull House6 Pine St.Building · built 1865 · listed 1984263 ft from stop 6
- 8Farrier, Amasa, Boardinghouse280 Main St.Building · built 1865 · listed 19840.2 mi from stop 7
- 9House at 19 Tremont Street19 Tremont St.Building · built 1860 · listed 19840.3 mi from stop 8
- 10George Cowdrey House42 High St.Building · built 1865 · listed 19840.3 mi from stop 9
1.9 straight-line miles over 9 legs.
Taking it along
- Download the route as GPXFor a handheld GPS or a phone app
- Open all 10 stops in Google MapsSet the mode to walking once it opens
- Open the first stop in Apple MapsThe Apple Maps web link carries one destination, so this is stop 1 only
Other walks in Stoneham
- Italianate houses in Stoneham15 stops · 1.4 milesItalianate buildings have low roofs with wide bracketed eaves, tall narrow windows and heavy hoods over the openings. The Stoneham examples on this route went up between 1850 and 1880.
- Greek Revival houses in Stoneham12 stops · 2.0 milesGreek Revival buildings carry low pitched gables, heavy cornices and columned porticoes modelled on Greek temples. The Stoneham examples on this route went up between 1825 and 1860.
- Stoneham in the 1850s10 stops · 1.5 milesEvery stop carries a construction date in the 1850s. Italianate is the style recorded on more of them than any other.
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