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Now houses the Reading Public Library. 34: House at 11 Beach Street: House at 11 Beach Street: July 19, 1984 ... 600-622 Main St. 55: Daniel Nichols Homestead: Daniel ...
In 1769 the area's first meeting house (church and civic building) was built, giving the area a sense of identity separate from portions of Reading that would later be set off as Wakefield and North Reading. Since then the area has become a focal point for religious and civic institutions in the town.
The Masonic Block is set at the northwest corner of Main Street (Massachusetts Route 28) and Haven Street in Reading's central business district. It is a three-story brick structure with stone trim. The facade facing Main Street is five bays wide, that facing Haven is nineteen bays, and there is a bay in an angled corner between.
Russell left Reading after retiring as coach of the Boston Celtics in 1969. In recent years the town of Reading struggled with the decisions to build a new elementary school, to cope with the influx of new families to the community, and renovate Reading Memorial High School which was opened in 1954 with an addition added in 1971. Both of these ...
The house was built in 1872, in a neighborhood laid out after the railroad arrived in 1848. Joseph Temple was a Reading native who entered the business of the locally prominent Damon family, whose firm manufactured neckties on premises in Reading center. In 1910 the division that Temple ran was producing 250,000 neckties per year. [2]
The Octagon House (or the Dr. Horace Wakefield House) is a historic octagon house in Reading, Massachusetts.Built in 1860 by Doctor Horace Wakefield, it is a distinctive variant of the type, executed as a series of small octagonal shapes around a central cupola.
The Parker Tavern is located on the south side of Washington Street, west of Main Street and a short way south of the Reading MBTA station. It is set near the back of a level, grassy lot, and faces west. It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, wooden-shingle siding, and a granite foundation. The front facade is ...
The Jerry Nichols Tavern is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-storey wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof, central chimney, and clapboard siding. The main entrance is flanked by pilasters and topped by an entablature.