Charles Williams Jr. House

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

Charles Williams Jr.
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	1 Arlington Street, Somerville, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°23′9″N 71°4′55″W
Built	1858
Architectural style	Italianate
MPS	Somerville MPS
NRHP reference No.	89001228[1]
Added to NRHP	September 18, 1989

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Somerville, Massachusetts

References

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.