House at 11 Beach Street

House at 11 Beach Street
Location Reading, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°31′18.11″N 71°5′40.69″W / 42.5216972°N 71.0946361°W / 42.5216972; -71.0946361Coordinates: 42°31′18.11″N 71°5′40.69″W / 42.5216972°N 71.0946361°W / 42.5216972; -71.0946361
Built 1880
Architect Unknown
Architectural style Stick/Eastlake, Queen Anne
MPS Reading MRA
NRHP Reference #

84002659

[1]
Added to NRHP July 19, 1984

The House at 11 Beach Street in Reading, Massachusetts is a modest Queen Anne cottage, built c. 1875-1889 based on a published design. The house is a narrow three bays wide, an artifact of the lot size. It had fish-scale shingles and Stick-style decoration in its front gable,[2] but most of these have since been removed or obscured by the application of synthetic siding.

The house was built as a speculative venture by Emily Ruggles, a prominent local businesswoman who operated a dry goods store and bought land on Beach Street for development in 1875. This house and the one adjacent were the first houses she had built.[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 "NRHP nomination for House at 11 Beech Street". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-02-22.


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