Historic house in Massachusetts, United States

United States historic place

Asa M. Cook House

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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Location| 81 Prospect Street,
Reading, Massachusetts
Coordinates| 42°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
Built| 1872
Architectural style| Second Empire
MPS| Reading MRA
NRHP reference No.| 84002555[1]
Added to NRHP| July 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]

## See also[edit]

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Reading, Massachusetts
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
* 1st Massachusetts Battery \- unit commanded by Cook
* 8th Massachusetts Battery \- unit commanded by Cook

## References[edit]

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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