Walking tours of Reading
Reading's register runs heavily to houses, 67 listings of that kind. Horace Greeley Wadlin is named on more of them than any other architect.
4 themed routes run through those listings. Of the routes below, three follow a single style and one follows one kind of building. A subject becomes a route only where the register holds enough of it close enough together to walk.
Every listing in Reading → · 90 in all
The routes
- StyleItalianate houses in Reading10 stops · 1.9 miles · stops last changed Sep 18, 2026Italianate buildings have low roofs with wide bracketed eaves, tall narrow windows and heavy hoods over the openings. The Reading examples on this route went up between 1802 and 1886.
- StyleQueen Anne houses in Reading10 stops · 1.9 miles · stops last changed Sep 18, 2026Queen Anne is a late Victorian manner of irregular plans, steep roofs, turrets, bay windows and wrapping porches. The Reading examples on this route went up between 1831 and 1895.
- StyleGreek Revival houses in Reading10 stops · 2.1 miles · stops last changed Sep 18, 2026Greek Revival buildings carry low pitched gables, heavy cornices and columned porticoes modelled on Greek temples. The Reading examples on this route went up between 1757 and 1865.
- Building typeHouses and mansions in Reading15 stops · 1.3 miles · stops last changed Sep 18, 2026The route links houses built between 1757 and 1920. Many are private homes and the stops are meant to be seen from the sidewalk.
Every route holds at least ten stops and stays under two and a half miles. Routes are computed from the coordinates in the National Park Service National Register spatial data or, where it has no point, Wikidata, and the distances are straight lines between stops. Listings with a restricted address in the Register are never mapped and never become stops. Data refreshed November 02, 2026.
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Titles come from Open Library's catalog, matched by subject heading or by title.