Pierce House (Reading, Massachusetts)

Pierce House
Location Reading, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°31′38″N 71°5′46″W / 42.52722°N 71.09611°W / 42.52722; -71.09611Coordinates: 42°31′38″N 71°5′46″W / 42.52722°N 71.09611°W / 42.52722; -71.09611
Built 1878
Architect Abbott, George
Architectural style Stick/Eastlake
MPS Reading MRA
NRHP Reference #

84002794

[1]
Added to NRHP July 19, 1984

The Pierce House is a historic house at 128 Salem Street in Reading, Massachusetts. The 2.5 story wood frame house was built sometime between 1875 and 1880 for Samuel Pierce, owner of the nearby Pierce Organ Pipe Factory. The house has Stick style/Eastlake style features, including a steeply pitched gable roof with exposed rafter ends, and an elaborately decorated entry porch with square chamfered columns and brackets in the eaves.[2]

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

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References

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


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