{"nrhp_refnum":"84002741","name":"Lewis House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"276 Woburn St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Reading","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.51847978600006,"lon":-71.13009499599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-07-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half-story Colonial Revival house at 276 Woburn Street in Reading, Massachusetts, built between 1875 and 1879 for John B. Lewis, Jr. It was moved closer to the street between 1929 and 1932.","why_significant":"The nomination cites the house's role in the 19th-century residential development of Woburn Street and its association with John B. Lewis, a successful shoe supplier. It also treats the house as a good example of Colonial Revival architecture that retains integrity.","narrative":"This two-and-one-half-story, three-bay clapboard house at 276 Woburn Street in Reading was built between 1875 and 1879 for John B. Lewis, Jr. Lewis appears to have built it at the rear of his lot and then moved an older house, built by Jedde Brown, to Berkeley Street. Between 1929 and 1932 the new house was shifted closer to the street so two more houses could be built on the same lot. Its Colonial Revival design includes a low hipped roof with wide eaves, pedimented dormers, wooden quoins, a rounded Regency-style bay window, and an entrance with leaded sidelights, a fanlight and a portico with paired Doric columns. Lewis began working as a boy, served in the Union army, and later dealt in real estate and shoes in Shreveport, Louisiana. In 1880 he founded a Boston firm that became the city's largest shoe supplier to the retail trade. The house represents the upper-middle-class homes built in the latest style in Reading in the late nineteenth century.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Currently a private dwelling; the porch steps were replaced around 1960 and a detached double garage stands to the rear.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.293889-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/45/7906/63790645/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/84002741.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002741/2ab504d75f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002741/2ab504d75f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ReadingMA_LewisHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ReadingMA_LewisHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790645","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_House_(Reading,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715666"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/lewis-house-84002741/"}