Asa M. Cook House | |
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| Location | 81 Prospect Street, Reading, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°31′23.69″N71°7′10.45″W / 42.5232472°N 71.1195694°W |
| Built | 1872 |
| Architectural style | Second Empire |
| MPS | Reading MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 84002555 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 19, 1984 |
The Asa M. Cook House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame Second Empire house was built in 1872 for Asa M. Cook, an American Civil War veteran who commuted by train to a job at the United States custom house in Boston. The house is one of the most elaborately detailed of the style in Reading, with pedimented windows, rope-edge corner boards, and dormers with cut-out decoration in the mansard roof. [2]
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1]
