Pratt House
Pratt House (Reading, Massachusetts) is located in Massachusetts
Pratt House (Reading, Massachusetts)
Pratt House (Reading, Massachusetts) is located in the United States
Pratt House (Reading, Massachusetts)
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. 1 2 "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 2014-02-16.


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