Pratt House (Reading, Massachusetts)

Pratt House
Location Reading, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°32′46″N 71°5′31″W / 42.54611°N 71.09194°W / 42.54611; -71.09194Coordinates: 42°32′46″N 71°5′31″W / 42.54611°N 71.09194°W / 42.54611; -71.09194
Built 1809
Architect Unknown
Architectural style Georgian, Other, Federal
MPS Reading MRA
NRHP Reference #

84002797

[1]
Added to NRHP July 19, 1984

The Pratt House is a historic house at 456 Haverhill Street in Reading, Massachusetts. The two story wood frame house built in 1809 and is stylistically a transitional Georgian/Federal structure. The main portion of the house is a single room deep, and there is a two story shed roof extension on the rear. The house belonged to various members of the locally prominent Pratt family, including Joseph Pratt, the first Reading shoe manufacturer to use a stitching machine.[2]

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

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References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "NRHP nomination for Samuel Pratt House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-02-16.


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