The Charles Williams Jr. House is a historic house located at Arlington Street 1 in Somerville, Massachusetts. Built in 1858, the house belonged to Charles Williams Jr, who was a manufacturer of electrical telegraph instruments at 109 Court Street in Boston.
In Williams' shop on Court Street, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson experimented with the telephone. It was in this shop that they first heard indistinct sounds transmitted on June 2, 1875. These experiments laid the groundwork for the telecommunications technologies that followed.
The first permanent residential telephone service in the world was installed at this house in 1877. This service connected Williams' home with his shop on Court Street in Boston. Williams held telephone Numbers 1 and 2 of the Bell Telephone Company.
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