The Charles Wells House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. The two-story Queen Anne Victorian wood-frame house was built in 1894 by Charles Wells, a New Brunswick blacksmith who married a Reading woman. The house is clad in clapboards and has a gable roof, and features a turret with an ornamented copper finial and a front porch supported by turned posts, with a turned balustrade between. A small triangular dormer gives visual interest to the roof above the porch. The house is locally distinctive as a surviving example of a modest Queen Anne house, complete with a period carriage house/barn.[2]

Charles Wells House
Charles Wells House is located in Massachusetts
Charles Wells House
Charles Wells House is located in the United States
Charles Wells House
Location99 Prescott Street,
Reading, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°31′9″N 71°6′51″W / 42.51917°N 71.11417°W / 42.51917; -71.11417
Built1894
Architectural styleQueen Anne
MPSReading MRA
NRHP reference No.84002842[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 19, 1984

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 Charles Wells House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-02-15.