115 Prescott St., Reading, Massachusetts. County/parish: Middlesex.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 19, 1984. NRIS 84002482.
1 contributing building.
The Edwin Bassett House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. It is a well-preserved Greek Revival house, built in 1850 by Edwin Bassett, the first Reading shoemaker to install a McKay stitching machine, a device that revolutionized and led to the industrialization of what was before that a cottage industry. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792134