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Charles Williams Jr. House

Coordinates: 42°23′9″N 71°4′55″W / 42.38583°N 71.08194°W / 42.38583; -71.08194
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Charles Williams Jr.
Charles Williams Jr. House is located in Massachusetts
Charles Williams Jr. House
Charles Williams Jr. House is located in the United States
Charles Williams Jr. House
Location1 Arlington Street,
Somerville, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°23′9″N 71°4′55″W / 42.38583°N 71.08194°W / 42.38583; -71.08194
Built1858
Architectural styleItalianate
MPSSomerville MPS
NRHP reference No.89001228[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 18, 1989

The Charles Williams Jr. House, built in 1858, is a historic house in Somerville, Massachusetts. Charles Williams Jr. was a manufacturer of electrical telegraph instruments at 109 Court Street in Boston. Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson experimented with the telephone in Williams' shop, and it was there that they first heard indistinct sounds transmitted on June 2, 1875. The first permanent residential telephone service in the world was installed at this house in 1877, connecting Williams' home with his shop on Court Street in Boston.[2] Williams had telephone Numbers 1 and 2 of the Bell Telephone Company.

The identifying sign on the face of the Charles Williams Jr. House

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  1. ^ "National Register of Historic Places". NationalRegisterOfHistoricPlaces.com.
  2. ^ John Lossing, Woodrow Wilson. Harpers' Encyclopædia Of United States From 458 A.D. To 1905, Harper & Brothers, 1905. Original from Pennsylvania State University, Digitized: June 25, 2009.