The Charles Wells House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. The two-story Queen Anne Victorian wood-frame house was built in 1894 by Charles Wells, a New Brunswick blacksmith who married a Reading woman. The house is clad in clapboards and has a gable roof, and features a turret with an ornamented copper finial and a front porch supported by turned posts, with a turned balustrade between. A small triangular dormer gives visual interest to the roof above the porch. The house is locally distinctive as a surviving example of a modest Queen Anne house, complete with a period carriage house/barn.[2]
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| Location | 99 Prescott Street, Reading, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°31′9″N 71°6′51″W / 42.51917°N 71.11417°W |
| Built | 1894 |
| Architectural style | Queen Anne |
| MPS | Reading MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 84002842[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 19, 1984 |
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]
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edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Charles Wells House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-02-15.