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]
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| Location | 456 Haverhill Street, Reading, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°32′46″N 71°5′31″W / 42.54611°N 71.09194°W |
| Built | 1809 |
| Architectural style | Georgian, Federal |
| MPS | Reading MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 84002797[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 Samuel Pratt House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-02-16.