The Apollos Field House is historically and architecturally significant as one of the oldest surviving dwellings in the Union/Washington Streets section of Charlestown. The Apollos Field House predates many of the extant nineteenth-century homes on the surrounding streets.
The home serves as an illustration of the process by which Charlestown was rebuilt, following its destruction by British forces during the American Revolution. Charlestown was transformed into a fashionable residential neighborhood that was home to members of many of Boston’s elite and wealthy families during the first half of the nineteenth century.
The Apollos Field House is also architecturally significant as a well-preserved, sophisticated example of a Federal-style, brick ender, oblong-form dwelling, and as a good representative example of the Federal style. Like many houses of the period in Boston, the structure exhibits a design reflective of the work of noted designer, builder, and pattern book author Asher Benjamin. The house is unusual in that Asher Benjamin owned it for a short period in 1815. The dwelling is an example of the work of Charlestown housewright and carpenter William Wiley.
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