Asa M. Cook House
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Asa M. Cook House is located in Massachusetts
Asa M. Cook House
Asa M. Cook House is located in the United States
Asa M. Cook House
Location81 Prospect Street,
Reading, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°31′23.69″N 71°7′10.45″W / 42.5232472°N 71.1195694°W / 42.5232472; -71.1195694Coordinates: 42°31′23.69″N 71°7′10.45″W / 42.5232472°N 71.1195694°W / 42.5232472; -71.1195694
Built1872
Architectural styleSecond Empire
MPSReading MRA
NRHP reference No.84002555[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 19, 1984

The Asa M. Cook House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame Second Empire house was built in 1872 for Asa M. Cook, an American Civil War veteran who commuted by train to a job at the United States custom house in Boston. The house is one of the most elaborately detailed of the style in Reading, with pedimented windows, rope-edge corner boards, and dormers with cut-out decoration in the mansard roof.[2]

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "NRHP nomination for Asa M. Cook House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-02-20.


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