Leonard Wiley House, Crescent and Water Streets, circa 1890

Title: Leonard Wiley House, Crescent and Water Streets, circa 1890
Description: "The Leonard Wiley House, at the corner of Water and Crescent Streets was built somewhere around 1765. According to Lilley Eaton's Genealogical History of the Town of Reading, Mass. the farm land was originally owned by early settler Benjamin Poole, Esq. and later by his nephew, Jonathan Poole. Jonathan Poole's son-in-law Nathaniel Wiley inherited the farm and later passed it on to his son, Leonard. Leonard Wiley was born in 1791, one of eight children of Nathaniel and Sally (Poole) Wiley. He died in 1872. The farm was occupied by his heirs until the house was moved to 35 Bartley Street to make room for the Crescent House."; Image from the Wakefield Municipal Gas and Light Department annual calendar, 2013; Photo courtesy of Wakefield Un-Common Antiques
Contributor: Institution: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library; Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department (Wakefield, Mass.); D'Onofrio, Jayne M.
Coverage: Massachusetts--Middlesex (county)--Wakefield; Crescent Street (Wakefield, Mass.); Water Street (Wakefield, Mass.)
Date: 1890
Format: image/jpeg
Publisher: Wakefield, Mass. : Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department
Subject: Architecture, Domestic
Type: still image; Photographs
Original Format: 1 picture: b & w
Extent: 31 x 19 cm.