Carter Street
MACRIS NWB.AC · area form, 1980
This streetscape form covers Carter Street from Merrimac Street across Munroe Street, numbers 3–51 and 20–56. It names vernacular Greek Revival and Victorian as the styles, and no major intrusions. The form presents the street as a working-class neighborhood built for the Ocean Steam Mills, mostly single-family cottages with some two-family houses, many put up on speculation and tied to the mill's owners or workers.
It sorts the houses into three types. The most common is the one-and-a-half-story cottage with its gable end to the street, mostly built between 1850 and 1860. Examples are 47, 49 and 51, built by Augustus L. Papanti, and 3 Carter Street, built by Thomas Atwood as housing for the Ocean Mills; Atwood also built 7 and 9. A plainer two-story type appears at 32, 34 and 36, built by the contractor Albert Currier. Two-family houses stand at 29–31 and 38–40.
Summarized from the Massachusetts Historical Commission's area form. See the MACRIS record ↗
