Pratt House (Reading, Massachusetts)

Pratt House
Location456 Haverhill Street,
Reading, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°32′46″N 71°5′31″W / 42.54611°N 71.09194°W / 42.54611; -71.09194
Built1809
Architectural styleGeorgian, Federal
MPSReading MRA
NRHP reference No.84002797[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 19, 1984

The Pratt House is a historic house 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. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "NRHP nomination for Samuel Pratt House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved February 16, 2014.