Jerry Nichols Tavern

Reading, United States

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The Jerry Nichols Tavern is a historic wood-frame house in Reading, Massachusetts, built in 1785 by Jeremiah Nichols, a Revolutionary War veteran, farmer, and shoemaker. A Georgian colonial structure of two and a half stories, five bays wide, it features a side gable roof, central chimney, and clapboard siding, with a formally detailed main entrance framed by pilasters and topped by an entablature. The property held strategic significance before the Revolution, serving as a drilling ground for Reading's minute companies and housing the town's powder magazine. Expanded between 1810 and 1813, it was adapted as a tavern and stagecoach stop by 1830. Purchased in 1824 by Rev. Peter Sanborn, the property remained in his family until the 1940s. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.