Asa M. Cook House

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]

Location81 Prospect Street,
Reading, Massachusetts

Coordinates42°31′23.69″N 71°7′10.45″W

Built1872

ArchitecturalstyleSecond Empire

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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
Built	1872
Architectural style	Second Empire
MPS	Reading MRA
NRHP reference No.	84002555[1]
Added to NRHP	July 19, 1984

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