{"nrhp_refnum":"84002686","name":"House at 322 Haven Street","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"322 Haven St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Reading","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.523521376000076,"lon":-71.10092660399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-07-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small 19th-century cottage at 322 Haven Street in Reading, Massachusetts, built between about 1876 and 1889. It is a clapboard house with a steeply pitched gable roof, later extended to the west and rear.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house reflects the 19th-century growth of Reading's east side as a neighborhood of working-class residents and small businesses. It is also tied to David Henry Nichols, a shoemaker in Reading's important shoemaking trade, and it combines Early Gothic Revival and Italianate styles in an unusual way.","narrative":"This clapboard cottage on Haven Street in Reading, Massachusetts, dates from roughly 1876 to 1889 and faces south close to the street. Its steeply pitched gable roof and cutwork along the raking eaves point to the Early Gothic Revival, while the double front door, the bracketed doorway hood and the front bay window reflect Italianate taste. One-story additions extend the house to the west and rear. Early records connect it with Elizabeth B. Nichols and her husband David Henry Nichols, a cordwainer, or shoemaker, whose trade was central to Reading's economy. After Elizabeth's death in 1900 the property passed to her daughter, and later occupants included a rubber worker, probably a tenant, and a carpenter who owned it in 1926. The house was listed for its part in the development of Reading's east side as a working-class and small-business neighborhood, for the shoemaking connection, and for its blend of two architectural styles. It retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship and feeling.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Gothic Revival-Italianate","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:56.553389-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/18/7921/63792118/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/84002686.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002686/3d9912cf11-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002686/3d9912cf11-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_at_322_Haven_Street,_Reading_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_at_322_Haven_Street,_Reading_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792118","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_322_Haven_Street","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5914239"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/house-at-322-haven-street-84002686/"}