Built 1858 NRHP Reference # 89001228 Architectural style Italianate architecture | MPS Somerville MPS Opened 1858 Added to NRHP 18 September 1989 | |
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Location Somerville, Massachusetts Similar Bell House, Bell Telephone Memorial, Volta Laboratory and Bure, Bell Homestead National, Saint Peter's and Saint Joh | ||
The Charles Williams Jr. House, built in 1858, is a historic house at 1 Arlington Street in Somerville, Massachusetts. Charles Williams Jr. was a manufacturer of electrical telegraph instruments at 109 Court Street in Boston. Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson experimented with the telephone in Williams' shop, and it was there that they first heard indistinct sounds transmitted on June 2, 1875. The first permanent residential telephone service in the world was installed at this house in 1877, connecting Williams' home with his shop on Court Street in Boston. Williams had telephone Numbers 1 and 2 of the Bell Telephone Company.
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