Built in the late 1880s, it is one of Reading's finest examples of Queen Anne/Stick style Victorian architecture.

[1] The Francis Brooks House stands in a large residential area southwest of downtown Reading, on the south side of Prescott Street between Pratt Street and Sunnyside Avenue.

The porch has bracketed turned posts in the Victorian style, and a hip roof.

[2] The land on which this house was built was farmland owned by the locally prominent Prescott family, and was platted for subdivision in the 1880s.

It was built sometime before 1889 by Francis E. Brooks, a local entrepreneur involved in a range of businesses.