Allen Street
MACRIS NWB.AF · area form, 1980
Allen Street runs between High Street and Prospect Street and had been laid out by 1843. The survey found few early houses; most buildings date from the mid to late 19th century and are plain vernacular houses with little ornament, a few showing Greek Revival or Queen Anne details. Number 3 was recorded as a 20th-century intrusion.
Two Federal houses stand at 2 and 6 Allen Street. Both keep their three-story hipped-roof form, though their entrances were later altered with Victorian brackets. Number 11 has an Italianate portico at its front door, and number 17 is a Queen Anne house with an irregular plan.
In the 19th century the street was home mostly to skilled tradesmen. City directories list house carpenters Joseph D. Kimball at number 8 and Charles H. Hale at number 6 and ship carpenter Thomas Cook at number 4 in 1851; later residents included woodworker William Huse at number 12 and engineer William H. Smith at number 11.
Summarized from the Massachusetts Historical Commission's area form. See the MACRIS record ↗
