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	Francis Brooks House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Reading, Massachusetts
Built	1887
Architect	Unknown
Architectural style	Stick/Eastlake, Queen Anne
MPS	Reading MRA
NRHP reference No.	84002524
Added to NRHP	July 19, 1984

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The Francis Brooks House is a historic house at 78-80 Prescott Street in Reading, Massachusetts. This 2.5 story wood frame house was built c. 1887-88 by Francis E. Brooks, a local entrepreneur involved in a range of businesses. The house is one of Reading's finest Queen Anne/Stick style houses, with sunburst decorations, jigsaw trim decoration, and decorative shingle bands.^[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^ "NRHP nomination for Francis Brooks House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-02-19.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.

[NRHP-2] "NRHP nomination for Francis Brooks House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-02-19.

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+The '''Francis Brooks House''' is a historic house at 78-80 Prescott Street in [[Reading, Massachusetts]].  This 2.5 story wood frame house was built c. 1887-88 by Francis E. Brooks, a local entrepreneur involved in a range of businesses.  The house is one of Reading's finest Queen Anne/Stick style houses, with sunburst decorations, jigsaw trim decoration, and decorative shingle bands.<ref name=NRHP>{{cite web|url=http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=REA.120|title=NRHP nomination for Francis Brooks House|publisher=Commonwealth of Massachusetts|accessdate=2014-02-19}}</ref>
-'''Francis Brooks House,''' built in 1887, is a historic house at 78-80 Prescott Street in [[Reading, Massachusetts]].
+The house was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1984.<ref name="nris"/>
+==See also==
+*[[National Register of Historic Places listings in Reading, Massachusetts]]
+*[[National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts]]
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+{{Reading, Massachusetts}}
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+{{National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts}}
 [[Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts]]
 [[Category:Houses in Reading, Massachusetts]]
+[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Middlesex County, Massachusetts]]
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