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Woburn St. from Temple St. to Summer Ave. 42°31′14″N 71°06′53″W / 42.520556°N 71.114722°W / 42.520556; -71.114722 ( Woburn Street Historic Former listings
The district is centered on the town common, at the intersection of Main and Salem Streets. The common has been communally owned since at least 1737, with the original burying ground (expanded in the 19th century, and now known as Laurel Hill Cemetery) to the north.
Distribution of listings by county as of September 2014 The National Register of Historic Places is a United States federal official list of places and sites considered worthy of preservation. In the state of Massachusetts , there are over 4,300 listings, representing about 5% of all NRHP listings nationwide and the second-most of any U.S ...
The Parker House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts.It is a two-story wood-frame cottage, two bays wide, with a front-facing gable roof, clapboard siding, and a side entrance accessed from its wraparound porch.
The Parker House is a historic house at 52 Salem Street in Reading, Massachusetts.It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story vernacular Federal-style wood-frame house, five bays wide, with a side gable roof, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation.
The building served Reading as an elementary school until 1984, when it was closed due to declining enrollment. The school board leased it to a variety of tenants, and turned it over to the town selectmen in 1989, who sold the building in 1995. [2] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. [1]
The Walnut Street School is a historic school building at 55 Hopkins Street in Reading, Massachusetts. A two-room schoolhouse built in 1854, it is the town's oldest public building. Since 1962 it has been home to the Quannapowitt Players, a local theatrical company. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1]
In the 20th century, Reading became a small, residential community with commuter service to Boston on the Boston and Maine Railroad and the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway. Both commuter services were later taken over by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority , and for many years, there was discussion of extending the MBTA Orange ...