Charles Winship House

Charles Winship House
National Register of Historic Places
	The empty Charles Winship House, 2011
location	Wakefield , Massachusetts , United States
Coordinates	42 ° 29 '51 " N , 71 ° 5' 10" W Coordinates: 42 ° 29 '51 " N , 71 ° 5' 10" W
Built	1901-1906
Architectural style	Colonial Revival Architecture
NRHP number	89000717
The NRHP added	July 6, 1989

The Charles Winship House was a 27 room mansion located at 13 Mansion Road in Wakefield , Massachusetts . The building was constructed between 1901 and 1906. The mansion was built by the businessman Charles Winship. The Charles Winship House has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1989 and has been uninhabited since 2010. The property was demolished in July 2020.

history

The property in May 1922

The Charles Winship House was built between 1901 and 1906 by the American businessman Charles Winship (1862-1946), who was a co-owner of the Wakefield-based Harvard Knitting Mills.

After Winship's death, the property was used as a nurses' home for up to 40 nuns from 1946 before it was sold to a real estate businessman in 1978.

In 1989, the building was entered on the National Register of Historic Places along with several other historic private homes in Wakefield. The Charles Winship House was last sold in 1998. In 2008, its owner had to file for bankruptcy. The building has been empty since 2010. The interior and personal belongings of the last residents were left behind and have since been damaged by vandalism .

After the property had been empty for ten years, it was demolished on July 8, 2020. The new owner of the property is planning to build two single-family houses.

architecture

The Charles Winship House was built in the so-called Colonial Revival style and with 27 rooms was the largest private residence in Wakefield. The center of the villa was the main staircase, which is decorated with several wall paintings. The wall paneling inside the building was made of African mahogany . The Charles Winship House had a total of 12 chimneys.

External features of the building were the hipped roof with a balustrade and a two-story colonnade in the front of the building.