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FORM B - BUILDING Area C Form no. 122 SKETCH MAP Draw map showing property's location in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings or geographical features. Indicate north. Reading 99 Prescott Street Name Charles Wells House -ginal dwelling esent dwelling -p:[X Private individual Private organization Public iginal owner Charles D. Wells DESCRIPTION: Date 1894 Source_ -Deed Style Queen Anne Architect Exterior wall fabric clapboards & shingle: Outbuildings barn BOYCE 5T. F Major alterations (with dates) none ? 53 PRESCOTTST Moved no Date Approx. acreage 10,870 sq. ft.
Recorded by_ Architectural Preservation Setting Faces south on Prescott Street Associates Organization_Reading Historical Date NovemBeE VbSEtmössion Date 6/82 19/326340/4709360 (Staple additional sheets here) ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within community) Ihis is one of the best preserved examples in Reading of a modest Queen Anne house and its barn. Situated on a corner lot, few such complete structural settings remain. The two-story house is enlivened by a corner tower with original ornamental copper finial, small triangular dormer, and high decorative fieldstone foundation. A turned balustrade decorates the porch, which represented a new kind of indoor-outdoor link, and was almost an emblem of Victorian living.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community) This land was purchased by Charles D. Wells from David C. Temple via a deed dated April 12, 1893. Wells, from Richibucto, New Brunswick, and his wife, Mabel G. (Flint) Wells, built this house the next year. She was p descendant of the Thomas Flint family from North Reading, Mass. Wel1s was a blacksmith, whose shop was located facing Elm Park (now 159 Ash Street). Today, the house retains its barn intact -- an integral part of a property in the days when the horse and carriage was the principal means of transnortation.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Middlesex County Court House Registry of Deeds, book 2235, page 148 20M-2/80 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commmity : Reading Form No: C-122 Property Name: 99 Prescott St. Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION Phis property is sirnificant (1) for its connection with blacksmith Charles D. Mell; and (2) as an example oidmodest Queen Anne house with its barn still intact. It retains integrity of location, desisn, sot tre mateonalherortnanshi?, and feeling, and neets Criterta ? and Staple to Inventory form at bottom NPS Form 10-900-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form Continuation sheet Item number OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp.
10-31-84 For NPS use only received 6(4/xf date entered Page 9a9 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Reading Multiple Resource Area Middiesex County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review 81. Sanborn, Rev. Peter, HouseEntered in the National Register 82. Symonds, Thomas, House 83. Temple, Joseph, House 84. Temple, Mark, House 85. Walnut Street School 86. Wells, Charles, House 87. Weston, Ephrain, House 88. Weston, Jabez, House Entered in the Nationel Registor Entered in thg Hatione? Begtatex Extered in the Nationa? Register Irtered in tha Nationa? Register Entered in the Natlona? Regdater Entered in the Nationa? Regiater Entered in the National Register 89.
Wisteria Lodge Entered 1n the Nationa] Registex feeper Date/Signature AubrByun 7-197, Attest fheeper AleluusByen 7-19+9 Attest foKeeper AilurByer +19-54 Attest ftkéeper AelnByua 1-1154 Attest fseeper AuluByen717-4 Attest treeper AuloueBgun 119-54 Attest f'Keeper deloredByu +19-54 Attest fKeeper delaresByen 71974 Attest fKeeper Aelouzun21954 Attest Keeper Attest WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Ry # 84002.842 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Wells, Charles, House (Reading MRA) Middlesex County MASSA CHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: Reviewer's comments: Lsample LJ request Working No.
JUN 4, 1984 Fate Due: Dare 25/85 Date Due: - 1/19/88 Action: LACCEPT 2-19-8Y Entered in the - RETURN REJECT_ Nat1onet Regist&Eral Agency: - Lappeal -NR decision Recom./Criteria Reviewer Discipline Date _ see continuation sheet Nomination returned for: _ _ technical corrections cited below substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification Category Ownership Public Acquisition 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Has this property been determined eligible? yes no 7. Description Condition excellent good fair deteriorated ruins unexposed Check one -unaltered altered Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates boundary selection Status Accessible Present Use Check one - original site moved date 8.
Significance Period Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Specific dates Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) Builder/Architect summary paragraph completeness clarity applicable criteria justification of areas checked relating significance to the resource context relationship of integrity to significance justification of exception other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property Quadrangle name UTM References Verbal boundary description and justification 11. Form Prepared By 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: national state local State Historic Preservation Officer signature date title 13.
Other Maps Photographs Other Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Signed - Date - Phone: Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet Well, Cheles t Rendiju MP1. Rt. Vic 99 Prescat 99 50 109 82,50 115 82.50 80.00 123 72.95 PRESCOTT 83 87 2.50 70.0 135.33 38 66.0 9309 133.82 38a 10,58l 132.31 390 10,805 130.0 00 39 10,665 130.80 40 10,870 132.70 0 (0* 41 10,870 130.85 132.0 42 12,540 132.0 43 9,24000 132.0 44 10,890 132.0 10,890 45 82. 132.0 PLAT 39 250 125.81 242 110.20 SUMMER 236 80.15 22 112.50 3 7 11,630 127.50 23 110.0 21 GI0 36 75 20 76 128.48 24 8,360 110.0 35 12,230 16,200 80.0 93.55 173.55 20 9,775 128.70 25 8,360 110.0 12,500 155.35 34 :755 128.0 26 8,360 110.0 19 11,115 137.15 7e 216 STREET 2 174 9,62833 125.68 BOYCE 9,62832 127.75 27 8,360 110. seWer Eoss.
28 8,360 110.0 9,732 18 118.95 17 U 8,348 100:75 PRATT 20 100.93 12 100.87 STREET 8 67.25 101.25 107 31 30 29 23,150 70 16 F 10,530 89.20 198 WOBURN 201 18 5.43 23,550 15,9000 ul1,300 N N ~ 102.80 100.85 359.85 67.80 15 88.60 00 100 14 25,530 to Dash Line, 46 t #C-122 Map 99 Prescott St. 50, Lot 41 1983 Assessors Map 100' 51 AV 20,1 139.9 37, 238 229 12 32,0 250. 13 F104 A- 263.7 279. 2 276.32 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000290