Nobility Hill Historic District

The House at 6 S. Marble Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts, is a rare early 19th century worker's house, and the only significant survivor of the early quarrying industry in Stoneham. It is a wood-frame house, two stories high, five bays wide and one room deep, with a side gable roof and a granite foundation. It has simple cornerboards and door and window trim. Houses like this were somewhat common on the early routes through the town, of which South Marble Street is a relatively undisturbed surviving fragment. This house was built about 1810.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

The Newton Lamson House is a historic house at 33 Chestnut Street in the Nobility Hill section of Stoneham, Massachusetts. Built c. 1887, it is one of Stoneham's finest Queen Anne/Stick style houses. It has a rectangular plan, with a gable roof that has a cross gable centered on the south side. The gable ends are clad in decorative cut shingles, and the gables are decorated with Stick-style vergeboard elements. Below the eaves hangs a decorative wave-patterned valance. The porch has turned posts and balusters. It is further enhanced by its position in the center of a group of stylish period houses, including the Sidney A. Hill House and the Franklin B. Jenkins House.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and included in the Nobility Hill Historic District in 1990.

The Franklin B. Jenkins House is a historic house at 37 Chestnut Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Built c. 1895, it is one of Stoneham's finest Queen Anne Victorian houses. The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house has an L shape, with a distinctive octagonal turret section at the crook of the L. A porch with turned posts and balusters wraps around the front and side to the turret section.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, where it is listed at 35 Chestnut Street. It was also included in the Nobility Hill Historic District in 1990.

The Sidney A. Hill House is a historic house at 31 Chestnut Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. The Queen Anne style Victorian wood-frame house was built c. 1895 for Sidney A. Hill, a partner in a shoe manufacturing business. The gables of the house feature Stick-style aprons and bands of cut shingles, and a porch that wraps around parts of the front and side of the house that features turned balusters and posts, and more Stick style detailing.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and included in the Nobility Hill Historic District in 1990.

The Lorenzo D. Hawkins House is a historic house at 1 Cedar Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. The property consists of a house and carriage house, both built c. 1870, that are among Stoneham's finest Second Empire buildings. The house is a two-story wood-frame structure with irregular massing. It has the classic mansard roof, an ornately decorated entry porch, heavily bracketed cornice, and round-arch windows in its dormers and front bay. The carriage house features a polychrome mansard roof.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and was included in the Nobility Hill Historic District in 1990.

The Charles Wood House is a historic house at 30 Chestnut Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. It is one of the most elaborate Italianate houses in Stoneham. The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built c. 1875 for Charles Wood, who lived there until the first decade of the 20th century. Its basic plan is an L shape, but there is a projecting section on the center of the main facade that includes a flat-roof third-story turret, and the roof line has numerous gables facing different directions. There are porches on the front right, and in the crook of the L, with Stick style decorations, the cornice features heavy paired brackets, some of its windows are narrow rounded windows in a somewhat Gothic Revival style, and the walls are clad in several types and shapes of wooden clapboards and shingles.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, where it is listed at 30 Chestnut Street. The property is also a contributing resource to the Nobility Hill Historic District, listed in 1990.

The C.H. Brown Cottage is a historic house at 34 Wright Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Probably built in the 1830s, it is a well-preserved example of worker housing built for employees of local shoe factories. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

The Padilla Beard House is a historic house at 18 Maple Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Built about 1850, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 for its association with Padilla Beard, the first operator the stagecoach line on the route between Boston and Reading. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

The T.U. Lyon House is a historic house at 9 Warren Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. The modest 1+1⁄2-story Greek Revival house was built c. 1850 for T.U. Lyon, a shoe cutter. At the time of its construction Warren Street had been supplanted as the major north–south road through Stoneham by the Medford-Andover Turnpike (now Main Street, Massachusetts Route 28). Most of its distinctive Greek Revival features, including corner pilasters and a larger-than-typical frieze, have been lost due to recent residing of the exterior (see photo). The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

The Samuel Chamberlain House is a historic house at 3 Winthrop Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Built c. 1864, it is one of three well preserved Italianate side-hall style houses in Stoneham. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

The John Jones House is a historic house at 1 Winthrop Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Built in 1874, it is a well-preserved example of a house with classic, yet modest, Italianate features. The two-story wood-frame structure is finished in clapboards, with a side-gable roof and twin interior chimneys. It has a three bay front facade, with bay windows flanking a center entry that is sheltered by a porch connected to the bay roofs. John Jones, the first owner, was a shoemaker.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

The Stoneham Public Library is the public library of Stoneham, Massachusetts. It is located at Main and Maple Streets.