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The Reed—Wood Place is a historic farmstead at 20 Meetinghouse Road in Littleton, Massachusetts.


Description and history

It is a complex of attached buildings typical of 19th century New England farms. At one end is the main house, a five bay wood-frame structure, was probably built sometime before 1812 for Isaac and Mary Gardner Reed. The house exhibits a variety of architectural styles, having elements of
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Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but a ...
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Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian ...
, and Gothic Revival elements that were applied by successive generations in the 19th century. A ell extends north from the main block, joining the house to a shed and early 19th-century barn, which have been adaptively rehabilitated into office space. The house was listed on the
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in 2000.


See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts This is a listing of places in Middlesex County in the U.S. state of Massachusetts that are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. With more than 1,300 listings, the county has more listings than any other county in the United Sta ...


References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Middlesex County, Massachusetts Greek Revival architecture in Massachusetts Gothic Revival architecture in Massachusetts Federal architecture in Massachusetts Italianate architecture in Massachusetts Littleton, Massachusetts {{MiddlesexCountyMA-NRHP-stub