Charles Wells House

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Charles Wells House
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Location99 Prescott Street,
Reading, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°31′9″N71°6′51″W / 42.51917°N 71.11417°W / 42.51917; -71.11417
Built1894
Architectural styleQueen Anne
MPS Reading MRA
NRHP reference No. 84002842 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 19, 1984

The Charles Wells House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. The two-story Queen Anne Victorian wood-frame house was built in 1894 by Charles Wells, a New Brunswick blacksmith who married a Reading woman. The house is clad in clapboards and has a gable roof, and features a turret with an ornamented copper finial and a front porch supported by turned posts, with a turned balustrade between. A small triangular dormer gives visual interest to the roof above the porch. The house is locally distinctive as a surviving example of a modest Queen Anne house, complete with a period carriage house/barn. [2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ↑ "NRHP nomination for Charles Wells House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved February 15, 2014.


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