Historic places in Reading, Massachusetts
Reading in Middlesex County has 89 properties on the National Register of Historic Places: 84 buildings, 2 districts, 2 structures, 1 object. The first was listed in 1975 and the most recent in 1997. The most common areas of significance here are architecture, industry, community planning and development.
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Every National Register listing in Reading
Common Historic District
The Common Historic District is a historic district encompassing the civic and institutional heart of Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Roughly bounded by Main, Highland, and Federal Sts. · NPS record #85000548
Kemp Barn
The Kemp Place and Barn form a historic farmstead in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
186 Summer Ave. · NPS record #84002721
Kemp Place
The Kemp Place and Barn form a historic farmstead in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
186 Summer Ave. · NPS record #84002723
Parker, William, House
The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built c. 1796, was expanded early in the 19th century into a two family residence, and converted back into a single family in the early 20th century. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002791
Pearl Street School
The Pearl Street School is a historic school building at 75 Pearl Street in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
75 Pearl St. · NPS record #97000496
Woburn Street Historic District
The Woburn Street Historic District of Reading, Massachusetts encompasses a two-block section of late 19th century upper-class housing. [Wikipedia]
Woburn St. from Temple St. to Summer Ave. · NPS record #85000551
Ace Art Company
The Ace Art Company is a historic commercial and industrial building in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
24 Gould St. · NPS record #85000497
Bancroft, Joseph, House
The Joseph Bancroft House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002467
Bancroft, Samuel, House
The Samuel Bancroft House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002471
Bancroft, Wendell, House
The Wendell Bancroft House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002477
Bassett, Edwin, House
The Edwin Bassett House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002482
Batchelder House
Built about 1783, it is a good local example of Federal period architecture. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002501
Batchelder, Alden, House
The Alden Batchelder House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002491
Batchelder, George, House
The George Batchelder House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002496
Batchelder, Nathaniel, House
Built sometime between 1753 and 1765, it is a prominent local example of Georgian architecture. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002503
Battell House
Built about 1806, it is a fine local example of transitional Georgian-Federal architecture. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002504
Beard, Benjamin, House
The Benjamin Beard House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002505
Boston and Maine Railroad Depot
Reading station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Lincoln St. · NPS record #84002509
Bowser Gazebo
The Bowser Gazebo is a historic gazebo at 25 Linden Street in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
25 Linden St. · NPS record #84002514
Brackett House
The Brackett House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002515
Brande House
The Brande House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002516
Brooks, Francis, House
The Francis Brooks House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002524
Carroll-Hartshorn House
Built c. 1700, it is one of the oldest buildings in Reading, set on an early route between Wakefield and Haverhill. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002532
Carter Mansion
The Carter Mansion is a historic house located in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002535
Coggin, Gilman, House
The Gilman Coggin House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002551
Cook, Asa M., House
The Asa M. Cook House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002555
Damon, Joseph, House
The Joseph Damon House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002559
Damon, Washington, House
The Washington Damon House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts, exhibiting the adaptation of existing housing stock to new architectural style. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002560
Dewey Place
Dewey Place is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
176 Summer Ave. · NPS record #84002567
Durgin House
The Durgin House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002574
Eaton-Prescott House
Its oldest portion was probably built before 1757. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002597
Elliott, Luther, House
The Luther Elliott House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002598
Hall, Stephen, House
The 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built in the 1850s, and is one of Reading's best examples of Gothic Victorian residential architecture. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002630
Harnden-Browne House
The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built in 1831 by Sylvester Harnden, likely in a Georgian-Federal vernacular style. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85000498
Hartshorn, Timothy, House
The Timothy Hartshorn House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002633
Hartwell House
The Hartwell House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002635
Haverhill Street Milestone
The Haverhill Street Milestone is a historic milestone on Haverhill Street in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Haverhill St. · NPS record #85000499
Highland School
The Reading Public Library is located in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
64 Middlesex Ave. · NPS record #84002643
House at 11 Beach Street
Its first documented owner was Emily Ruggles, a prominent local businesswoman and real estate developer. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002659
House at 1177 Main Street
It was built sometime before 1854 by John Nichols, and probably served as a farmhouse. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002668
House at 129 High Street
Built sometime in the 1890s, it typifies local Victorian architecture of the period, in a neighborhood that was once built out with many similar homes. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002664
House at 16 Mineral Street
It was built c. 1874 and probably moved to its present location not long afterward, during a building boom in that part of the town. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002677
House at 199 Summer Avenue
The original two-and-a-half-story house was designed by architect Horace G. Wadlin and built in 1878 for Robert Kemp, leader of the popular Old Folks Concerts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002667
House at 206 West Street
It is locally significant as a well-preserved example of a Greek Revival cottage. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002680
House at 242 Summer Avenue
It is locally significant as a well-preserved example of a Shingle style house. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002681
House at 26 Center Avenue
Built c. 1854–1875, it is a rare surviving remnant of a residential subdivision once dubbed "Mudville" for the condition of its unpaved roads. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002679
House at 322 Haven Street
Built sometime before 1889, its use of even modest Gothic features is unusual in Reading, where the Gothic Revival was not particularly popular. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002686
House at 42 Salem Street
Built sometime before 1854, its gable end faces the street, with the door on the left bay of three, a typical Greek Revival side hall layout. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002649
House at 44 Temple Street
Built c. 1910, it has a low hip roof with exceptionally wide eaves supported by exposed rafters. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002650
House at 483 Summer Avenue
The 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built c. 1830, late for a Federal style building. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002652
House at 57 Woburn Street
It is one of the town's more elaborate Queen Anne houses, with patterned shingles and an ornately decorated porch. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002657
House at 77 Howard Street
It was built in the 1890s, during the town's growth as a railroad suburb of Boston. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002675
House at 79-81 Salem Street
The wood-frame house was built sometime between 1830 and 1854 was a typical vernacular Greek Revival house, with a five-bay facade and a paired central entrance. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002676
Lewis House
The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built in the late 1870s by John Lewis, a successful shoe dealer. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002741
Manning, Charles, House
The Charles Manning House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002744
Manning, Jacob, House
The Jacob Manning House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002745
Masonic Block (also M.F. Charles Building)
The Masonic Block (also known as the M.F. Charles Building) is an historic commercial block in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
600-622 Main St. · NPS record #84002746
Nichols, Daniel, Homestead
The Daniel Nichols Homestead is a historic home in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002753
Nichols, James, House
The James Nichols House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002755
Nichols, Jerry, Tavern
The Jerry Nichols Tavern is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
51 Mill St. · NPS record #84002757
Nichols, Richard, House
It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, six bays wide, with a side-gable roof, clapboard siding, rubblestone foundation, and an entry in the third bay from the left, with a chimney behind. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002760
Octagon House
The Octagon House (or the Dr. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002762
Old Hose House
The Old Hose House is a historic fire house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002769
Parker House
It is a 2+1⁄2-story vernacular Federal-style wood-frame house, five bays wide, with a side gable roof, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002774
Parker House
The Parker House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002778
Parker Tavern
The Parker Tavern is a historic house museum in Reading, Massachusetts, United States. [Wikipedia]
103 Washington St. · NPS record #75000286
Parker, Capt. Nathaniel, Red House
The Capt. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002772
Parker, Joseph, House
The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was probably built around 1795, when it first appeared on local maps. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002781
Parker, Samuel, House
The Samuel Parker House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts, United States. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002783
Parker, Stillman, House
Probably built in the 1850s, it is a rare local variant of transitional Federal/Greek Revival styling. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002785
Pierce House
The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built sometime between 1875 and 1880 for Samuel Pierce, owner of the nearby Pierce Organ Pipe Factory. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002794
Pierce Organ Pipe Factory
The Pierce Organ Pipe Factory was a historic factory building in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
10-12 Pierce St. · NPS record #84002795
Pratt House
The Pratt House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002797
Pratt, Stillman, House
The 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame house, probably built in the late 1840s, is a rare local variant of a combined Federal-Greek Revival style house. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002799
Reading Municipal Building
The former Reading Municipal Building is a historic building at 49 Pleasant Street in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
49 Pleasant St. · NPS record #84002810
Reading Municipal Light and Power Station
The Reading Municipal Light and Power Station is a historic municipal power station building at 226 Ash Street in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
226 Ash St. · NPS record #84002811
Reading Standpipe
The Reading Standpipe was a historic water tower atop a hill near the corner of Auburn and Beacon Streets in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Auburn and Beacon Sts. · NPS record #85000549
Roberts House
The two-story house is basically Colonial Revival in character, but also exhibits Craftsman style features, including extended eaves with exposed rafter ends, stucco walls, and a chunky entrance portico. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002815
Rowhouses at 256-274 Haven Street
The Rowhouses at 256–274 Haven Street (also known as the Edward Manning Houses) are a series of historic rowhouses in Reading, Massachusetts, USA. They were built in 1886 by Edward Manning on the site of a millyard that had been destroyed by fire a few years before. [Wikipedia]
256-274 Haven St. · NPS record #84002817
Sanborn, Rev. Peter, House
The Rev. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002819
Smith Shoe Shop
The Smith Shoe Shop is a historic ten-footer shoe workshop at 273 Haverhill Street in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
273 Haverhill St. · NPS record #85000550
Symonds, Thomas, House
Built sometime between 1775 and 1836 by Thomas Symonds, Jr., it is the only Federal period brick-ended house in the town, and is unusually architecturally sophisticated for the period in the town. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002833
Temple, Joseph, House
The Joseph Temple House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002835
Temple, Mark, House
The Mark Temple House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002838
Walnut Street School
The Walnut Street School is a historic school building at 55 Hopkins Street in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
55 Hopkins St. · NPS record #84002841
Wells, Charles, House
The Charles Wells House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002842
Weston, Ephrain, House
The Ephraim Weston House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002845
Weston, Jabez, House
The Jabez Weston House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002846
Wisteria Lodge
Wisteria Lodge is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #84002857
Other towns in Middlesex County
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