Dewey Place

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Dewey Place
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Dewey Place is located in Massachusetts
Dewey Place
Location176 Summer Avenue,
Reading, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°31′20.67″N 71°7′1.8″W / 42.5224083°N 71.117167°W / 42.5224083; -71.117167Coordinates: 42°31′20.67″N 71°7′1.8″W / 42.5224083°N 71.117167°W / 42.5224083; -71.117167
Built1853
Architectural styleGreek Revival, Italianate
MPSReading MRA
NRHP reference No.84002567[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 19, 1984

Dewey Place is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. The 2+12-story wood-frame house was built c. 1853 by John Mansfield, a shoe manufacturer, in what was then a popular upper-class neighborhood of the town. The house as classic Italianate design, with three bays across the front and a cupola (a somewhat common Italianate feature in Reading houses of the period). The front porch appears to be a 20th-century alteration. The house's most prominent owner was Francis O. Dewey, a major dealer in glass lantern globes.[2]

The house was listed on 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 Dewey Place". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-02-20.


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