Pratt House | |
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 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]