Location Reading, Massachusetts MPS Reading MRA Opened 1765 Architectural style Georgian architecture | Built 1765 NRHP Reference # 84002772 Area 2,024 m² Added to NRHP 19 July 1984 | |
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The Capt. Nathaniel Parker Red House is a historic house at 77-83 Ash Street in Reading, Massachusetts. It is a 2 1⁄2-story vernacular Georgian house, five bays wide, with entrances on its north and south facades. The southern entry is slightly more elegant, with flanking pilasters and a transom window. The house was built sometime before 1765, and was already a well-known landmark because it was (unusually for the time) painted, and served as a tavern on the coach road. The house remained in the hands of militia captain Nathaniel Parker and his descendants into the late 19th century. The construction of the Andover Turnpike (now Main Street) in 1806-07, bypassing its location, prompted a decline in the tavern's business.
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.