<p>The Knut Erikson Three-Decker is a historic triple decker apartment building in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built c. 1912, the building exhibits some well-preserved Colonial Revival features, although some  have been lost. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
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<p>The Knut Erikson Three-Decker is located in Worcester&#39;s eastern Bell Hill neighborhood, on the west side of Stanton Street between Belmont and Ivan Streets. It is a three-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and exterior finished in a combination of wooden clapboards and shingles. The front-facing gable end has deep eaves, and is fully pedimented with a window opening at the center. The facade is otherwise asymmetrical, with a three-story projecting polygonal window bay on the left, and the former site of a porch stack on the right. The left side also has a projecting polygonal bay, and a single-story porch with a shed roof supported by turned posts near the rear.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1912, during the final phases of triple-decker construction in the Belmont Street area. It originally had finely crafted porches on the right side, supported by paired round columns. Early occupants of the house were of Swedish or Finnish extraction, and were typically skilled laborers working for the city&#39;s manufacturers. The first documented owner, Knut Erikson, was a painter who lived here at least until 1930.</p><br>
<p>The Euclid Avenue–Montrose Street Historic District encompasses a well-preserved cluster of Colonial Revival triple decker housing units occupying a dramatic hillside location on Euclid Avenue and Montrose Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. It includes all triple deckers on those two streets between Vernon Street and Perry Avenue, and exclude other forms of housing in the area. Of the 40 triple deckers in the district, 27 have gambrel roofs, and most of these have an asymmetrical facade with porches on the first two levels, and a recessed porch area in the gambrel section of the facade. These porches are usually flanked on one side by a two-story projecting window bay. Detailing on the porches varies: some, such as 8 Euclid, have Tuscan columns, while others, such as 8 Montrose, have squat square columns; columns are also sometimes paired or clustered in groups. Houses with triangular gables more typically have three-story porches, often with arched openings instead of a simpler construction. The layout of the properties on the hill, combined with the somewhat cohesive styling of the buildings, makes the district visually distinctive from its surroundings when viewed from a number of perspectives. The district includes Deedy Park, a triangular grassy area where Euclid and Montrose meet.</p><br>
<p>Most of the district was built out between 1910 and 1930. The area was attractive to laborers as well as white collar workers, given easy access by streetcar on Vernon Street to the city&#39;s work centers. Early residents were predominantly Irish, with Scandinavians arriving in larger numbers later.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Fairlawn is a historic mansion at 189 May Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is now part of the main building of the Fairlawn Rehabilitation Hospital. The mansion  were the property of James Norcross, a nationally prominent builder whose Norcross Brothers firm was engaged in construction projects involving famous architects, including H. H. Richardson and McKim, Mead & White. The Norcross brothers were also locally prominent, building a number of Worcester landmarks and operating a factory in the city which produced architectural parts.</p><br>
<p>James Norcross moved to Worcester in 1868, and assembled 66 acre of land along May Street beginning in 1890. In 1893 he built the estate house, a brown sandstone building 2.5 stories high, measuring 70 ft by 125 ft. Stylistically, the house is sui generis, although it has a number of architectural elements that were popular in the revival styles of the time. The front facades main feature is a round bay, rising three full stories to a cupola, which is surrounded by a single story porch supported by slender round columns. A similar bay is centered on the rear facade, although it lacks the cupola. Each of the buildings four corners has a rounded bay section rising three floors which is topped by a shed roof.</p><br>
<p>Norcross lived in the house until his death in 1903, and it remained in his family until 1922, when the estate was sold to the Fairlawn Rehabilitation Hospital. The hospital built additions to the house on each side (one c. 1951, the other in 1970), both built of brick. They are connected to the main house by narrow corridor sections, and do not detract from the main house&#39;s style. There is a stable behind the house which was likely also built by Norcross.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Fay Street Historic District a small residential historic district encompassing two related triple decker houses in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built about 1896, they were noted for the preservation of their Queen Anne styling, which has since been removed. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
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<p>Fay Street is located southeast of downtown Worcester; it is a short dead-end residential street on the north side of Grafton Street west of its junction with Hamilton Street. Numbers 4 and 6 stand side by side at the far end of the street, on the east side. They are nearly identical in their construction: both are three stories in height, with a hip roof. They have asymmetrical facades, with a three-story projecting polygonal window bay on the right, and a single-story porch on the left. There is a second projecting window bay about midway down the long right side of each one, and a porch at the back of that side.</p><br>
<p>When the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, the two triple deckers, built c. 1896, were noted for the preservation of their Queen Anne styling, including porches with turned balusters and brackets, with similar decorative bracketing in the roof eaves. 4 Fay Street was also noted for having decorative pendants hanging from the roof line near the side projection. Since then, the buildings have been resided and their porches rebuilt with simpler styling (see photo).</p><br>
<p>The C.H. Fitch House is a historic house at 15 Oread Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The -story brick building was built c. 1878 for Charles H. Fitch, owner of boot manufacturing businesses. Its styling has both Italianate and Gothic Revival elements, including deep eaves with brackets , and stone banding in the walls along with a porch decorated with jigsaw scrolling that are typical of the latter.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin Flagg House is a historic house located at 136 Plantation Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built c. 1717, it is considered the oldest structure in the city. It was home to a number of generations of influential Flaggs, including American Revolutionary War Captain Benjamin Flagg . The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
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<p>The Flagg House occupies a triangular lot on Worcester&#39;s east side, bounded on the west by Plantation Street and on the east by Ingleside Avenue. The house is a -story wood-frame structure, three bays wide, with a side-gable roof, large central chimney, and clapboard siding. Its center entrance (facing west toward Plantation Street) has modest trim, with a four-light transom window above.</p><br>
<p>The house is assumed to have been built about 1718, when Benjamin Flagg II purchased a large tract of land in the area; however, it is not known how much of the building is his original construction, and how much may have been later alteration. According to Caleb Walls Reminiscences, Flaggs son, also named Benjamin, "commanded the company of militia, who marched with Col. Timothy Bigelows company of minute men for Lexington, on the alarm, April 18, 1775, afterwards Colonel in the revolutionary service, filled important town offices, and died in Worcester, October 8, 1818, aged 95... Col. Flaggs location was on Plantation Street, on a farm of 150 acres..." The house was sold out of the Flagg family in 1850.</p><br>
<p>The Levi Flagg Three-Decker is a historic triple decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is a well-preserved representative of the development of the neighborhood, and is architecturally distinctive for a rare combination  of Queen Anne and Stick Style elements. The house was built c. 1901, and its first documented owner was Levi Flagg, a real estate agent who owned a number of properties throughout the city. The building follows a typical side-hall plan, but it has two sidewall bays that extend the full height of the building. The roof has deep eaves which are studded by pairs of decorative brackets. The main facade has a first-floor porch with Stick Style characteristics, including turned posts and decorative brackets matching those in the eaves.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The George Fontaine Three-Decker is a historic triple decker in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was built c. 1918, and is a well-preserved example of the Colonial Revival styling. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
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<p>The George Fontaine Three-Decker is located in southeastern Worcester&#39;s Vernon Hill neighborhood, on the east side of Vernon Street opposite its junction with Windham Street. It is a three-story wood-frame structure, with gambrel roof and clapboarded exterior. Its three-level porch projects significantly from the front, and is differently styled on each level. Its first tier has multiple Tuscan columns, the second has supports enclosed in siding, and the third level has a semicircular opening under a gambreled roof. The main roof is also gambreled, with a circular window near the apex, and modillion blocks in the eaves. Beside the porch stack on the lower two levels is a polygonal window bay, while there is a three-part picture window on the third level. Shed-roof dormers project on the steep side faces, and some side windows feature diamond-pattern panes.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1918, when Vernon Hill was being developed as a streetcar suburb with high-quality multi-unit housing. George Fontaine, its owner until 1930, was an inspector. Its early tenants included clothing dealers, a machinist, and timekeeper.</p><br>
<p>The Forest Hill Cottage is a historic cottage at 22 Windsor Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built in 1860, and is one of the city&#39;s best examples of Carpenter Gothic design. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
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<p>The Forest Hill Cottage is located in the hills of eastern Worcester, on the east side of Windsor Street near its junction with Forestdale Road. It is a 1-1/2 wood-frame structure, oriented facing south. It has asymmetrical massing, with varied steeply pitched gables, narrow arched windows, and board-and-batten siding. The street-facing facade has a three-window projecting rectangular window bay, while the front has a semi-octagonal porch that is a later 19th century addition. The gables originally had decorative bargeboard, which has been removed. Windows are in a variety of sizes and shapes, including some with round-arch tops, and others with pointed headers.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1860, and was probably originally a mirror image of the Soho Cottage, located just across the street. Its first owner, Luther Ross, was a patternmaker at the Court Mill. He apparently gave it the name "Forest Hill Cottage", and occupied it until 1886. The next owners were the Goughs, who owned it well into the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The Freeland Street School, now the University Park Campus School, is a historic school at 12 Freeland Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is a -story brick building built in 1885 during a period of significant growth in the city. The front and back of the building have slightly projecting gabled sections that house the buildings entries and stairwells. The exterior of the building is trimmed in sandstone, with some decorative terracotta panels. The roof his hipped, and the projecting sections are flanked by small hip-roofed dormers.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The school is now known as the University Park Campus School, and is still administered by the Worcester school district.</p><br>
<p>The George Gabriel House is a historic house at 31 Lenox Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1898, it is a significant local example of Colonial Revival architecture, and is one of the oldest houses in the city&#39;s Richmond Heights neighborhood. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
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<p>The George Gabriel House is located in the residential Richmond Heights area northwest of downtown Worcester, on the west side of Lenox Street near its northern end. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof and clapboarded exterior. The house has a generally rectangular plan, with a front porch supported by Ionic columns. On the second floor above the porch there is a bowed oriel with a Palladian window. The roof is pierced by gabled dormers which have round-arch windows. The building corners feature Corinthian pilasters, and the main roof has a cornice with dentil moulding. The interior has twelve rooms, five of which are bedrooms.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1898 for George W. Gabriel, bookkeeper and later General Manager for George F Blake & Co. The house was one of the earliest works of the well-known Worcester architect Lucius W. Briggs. The area had been farmland up to 1896, when it was subdivided for residential development. The house is one of the earliest, and finest, houses in the citys Richmond Heights neighborhood, and exemplifies an ongoing trend of the citys upper class to live on its west side.</p><br>
<p>The George Gale House is a historic house at 15 Elizabeth Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1848–49, it is an excellent example of a modest side-hall plan Greek Revival house, a once-common house type of the city&#39;s early residential areas. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
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<p>The George Gale House is located in a predominantly residential area of Chandler Hill east of downtown Worcester, at the northeast corner of Elizabeth and Farwell Streets. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. The house has a single-story porch wrapping around two sides, supported by fluted round Doric columns. Windows sheltered by the porch are longer than normal, a typical Greek Revival feature. The building corners have pilasters, which rise to an entablature that encircles the building. The main gable end is fully pedimented, with a sash window at its center. The interior of the house follows a side hall plan.</p><br>
<p>The house was built 1848-49 by Joel Flagg, who occupied until his death in 1854. These types of houses were once common in the Chandler Hill area, which was developed as an early residential suburb of downtown Worcester; this is one of a small number of houses left in the neighborhood which date to that period. The house was bought in 1859 by George Gale, a paper manufacturer, who lived here for most of the later 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Giguere Three-Decker is a historic triple decker in Worcester, Massachusetts. The house was built c. 1926, and is a well-preserved and detailed example of the form with Colonial Revival styling. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
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<p>The Thomas Giguere Three-Decker is located in Worcester&#39;s northern Greendale neighborhood, on the south side of Fairhaven Road east of West Boylston Street. It is a three-story frame structure, clapboarded on the first level and shingled on the upper levels, and is topped by a gable roof. Its front facade has a porch that extends across the entire width on the first level, supported by triple colonnaded columns, a detail that is repeated on the half-width porches on the second and third levels. The right-side bay of the front has bands of three sash windows on each level. On the right side of the building, there are projecting rectangular bays, also with three-part windows. A three-car garage stands at the rear of the property.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1926, during the later years of triple-decker development in the neighborhood. Greendale&#39;s development had been stimulated by the development of trolley service on West Boylston Street, and drew many residents who worked at the Norton Company plant. Thomas Giguere, one of its first occupants, was a machinist, and many of the early tenants were factory workers.</p><br>
<p>The Gilman Block was a historic commercial building at 207-219 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1896, it was a distinguished local example of Classical Revival and Romanesque styling, reflective of the city&#39;s rapid growth in the late 19th century. The building was acquired by the state and demolished in 2004 to provide space for a new courthouse. The courthouse incorporates a part of the facade of the building and has an exposition of its history. It had been listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000,</p><br>
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<p>The Gilman Block was located on the east side of Main Street in downtown Worcester, between Thomas Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. It was a four-story brick building, with Classical Revival and Romanesque/Tuscan Mediterranean influence. It had round-arch windows on the top floor, and a pressed copper cornice adorned with brackets at the corners.</p><br>
<p>The block was built in 1896 to a design by the local architectural firm of Cutting, Carleton & Cutting. It was built for Moses Gilman, a local businessman, to replace another commercial building, and to house a baking and confectionery business. The ground floor housed two storefronts, while the bakery operation was housed in the basement, and the confectionery business on the upper two floors. By 1904, that business had failed, and the building was subsequently used by a variety of commercial interests. Some of its larger spaces were used by the churches of immigrant groups as worship spaces, particularly those from Scandinavia. Its commercial uses fell off in the 1970s, and it housed nightclubs for a time. When it was listed on the National Register in 2000, it was the only building left on its block.</p><br>
<p>The Goddard House was a historic house at 12 Catharine Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1870, it was a prominent local example of Second Empire architecture, built for a highly placed manager of a major local firm. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980; it was demolished in 1979.</p><br>
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<p>The Goddard House was located northeast of downtown Worcester in its Bell Hill neighborhood, on the south side of Catharine Street at its junction with Oak Street. The site where it stood is now a parking lot for an adjacent Oak Street property. The house was a -story wood-frame structure, with a mansard roof providing a full third floor in the attic level. The roof was dressed with hexagonal slate tiles, with segmented-arch bracketed dormers projecting from the steep roof face. It had asymmetrical massing, and an ornate centered entry porch. Eaves were studded with paired brackets, and the entry porch was topped by a low balustrade.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1870 to a design by local architects E. Boyden & Son. It was built for Henry Goddard, a manager at the Washburn and Moen Wire Works whose father was an early partner in the business. Goddard was employed for his entire career with the company, and probably built this house after he was transferred to the companys North Works. He was also active in local politics, serving multiple terms on the citys common council and board of aldermen.</p><br>
<p>The Harry Goddard House or Goddard-Daniels House is an historic house at 190 Salisbury Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1905 for a local wire company executive, it is one of the city&#39;s finest examples of Colonial Revival architecture, and a significant residential design of local architect George Clemence. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and has been owned by the American Antiquarian Society since 1981.</p><br>
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<p>The Harry Goddard House is located northwest of downtown Worcester, at the northwest corner of Salisbury Street and Park Avenue. It is a large -story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof and clapboarded exterior. Its front facade faces east toward Park Avenue, with the center section projecting slightly. The projection has rounded window bays flanking the former main entrance, which is sheltered by a single-story porch extending across the entire projecting section. There is a Palladian window above the entrance. A new entrance, added about 1930, is located near the southwest corner of the building, sheltered by a rounded porch enclosed by French doors.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by local architect George Clemence, and was built in 1905 for Harry Goddard, president of the Spencer Wire Company. The house was written up in a local magazine after its completion. Goddard, a prominent local businessman, entertained William Howard Taft, then the United States Secretary of War, at this house, which he named "Elmarion". At the time of its National Register listing in 1980, it remained in the hands of Goddard&#39;s descendants.</p><br>
<p>In 1970, the house was deeded with a life tenancy clause to the American Antiquarian Society, whose headquarters are across the street, by Eleanor Goddard Daniels. Following the death of Mrs. Daniels, the AAS assumed possession of the house. The AAS renovated the house for institutional use, and renamed it the Goddard-Daniels House.</p><br>
<p>The Henry Goulding House is an historic house at 26 Harvard Street in Worcester, Massachusetts&lt; USA. Built in 1850-51 for a major local industrialist, it is one of the city&#39;s most opulent Italianate houses. In 1921, the house became the Swedish Lutheran Home for the Aged after the Goulding heirs gave it to the Swedish Lutheran Church of Worcester. The house was owned by Lutheran Social Services, Inc. in 1980 when the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It is now owned by the Sheehan Health Group and is operated as the Lutheran Rehabilitation & Skilled Care Center.</p><br>
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<p>The Henry Goulding House is located on the northern fringe of downtown Worcester, on the east side of Harvard Street at its junction with Dix Street. The building is now a large multisection structure, extending for some length along the road. The original mansion block is located at the northern end, with an early 20th-century addition in the middle, and a 1970s modern section at the southern end. It is a two-story frame structure, with a low-pitch hip roof and stuccoed exterior. The roof eave is adorned with modillion blocks. The main facade is three bays wide, with sash windows arranged around the center entrance. The ground floor windows are flanked by slender pilasters and have bracketed sills and a gabled and bracketed lintel; the second floor windows are more simply framed, with a projecting sill and projecting bracketed cornice. The entrance is sheltered by a portico with round-arch openings and a roof with modillioned cornice and balustrade.</p><br>
<p>The opulent Italianate mansion was built in 1850 for Henry Goulding on the site of his earlier Greek Revival house, W.H. Goulding House, which was moved to 4 Dix Place. Goulding was a principal partner in some of Worcesters largest industrial businesses. He was also a Worcester selectman, a founder and president of the Mechanics National Bank, and a founder of the Worcester Mechanics&#39; Association. The house was occupied by Goulding until his death in 1866, and then by his son. His heirs sold the house to the Swedish Lutheran church in 1921, which built the first addition and converted the property to its present medical support use.</p><br>
<p>The Grafton Street School is a historic school at 311 Grafton Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The school consists of two buildings, built in 1879 and 1899, that feature high-quality Late Victorian architecture. The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
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<p>The Grafton Street School is located in central eastern Worcester, on the north side of Grafton Street (Massachusetts Route 122). The property is bounded on the west by Fay Street and on the east by Wall Street, and includes two buildings. The first, a -story brick building with a hip roof, was constructed in two phases, and replaced an earlier wood-frame structure. The southern half of the building was built first, to a design by local architects E. Boyden & Son, and was enlarged to the north in 1897 to designs by the same firm. This building has sandstone trim, and banding in blackened bricks. A separate, three story building was added to the site in 1899, to plans by J. William Patston. It also has sandstone trim, and features brick quoining at its corners. The older building has Queen Anne styling, a relative rarity in the city for a school building, and the later building has more Colonial Revival features.</p><br>
<p>The need for the schools repeated expansions was caused by a shift in the neighborhoods character from one that was originally suburban, to one of more densely-built triple decker housing.</p><br>
<p>The Green Hill Park Shelter is a historic picnic shelter in Green Hill Park, the largest city park of Worcester, Massachusetts. It was designed by architect George H. Clemence, and built in 1910-11. The building is the most architecturally sophisticated park pavilion in the city, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
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<p>Green Hill Park is located in eastern Worcester, occupying about 480 acre of uplands separating the Blackstone River valley from Lake Quinsigamond. Near the center of the park is Green Hill Pond, a 30 acre artificial body of water. The shelter is located near the southeastern end of the lake, between it and Green Hill Parkway, the parks main circulating road. The shelter is an open structure, consisting of sixteen fieldstone piers supporting a hip roof with curved eaves and ridge. The roof has a metal support structure, but it is otherwise framed in wood. At its south end is an enclosed area designed for use as a concession stand. The roofs flared edges and projecting louvered dormers give it an Oriental feel.</p><br>
<p>The park was originally a country estate, given to the city by Andrew Green in 1906. None of the estate&#39;s original buildings have survived. The shelter is one of several buildings that were designed by local architects as part of its conversion to a public facility. It was designed by George H. Clemence, and completed in 1911.</p><br>
<p>The Greendale Village Improvement Society Building is a historic building at 480 W. Boylston Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1897, it is an important reminder of the role community organizations played in making civic improvements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
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<p>The Greendale Village Improvement Society Building stands on the east side of West Boylston Street in northeastern Worcester, between Airlie Street to the north and the Frances Perkins Branch Library. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a hip roof and clapboarded exterior. A three-story square tower rises to a flared pyramidal roof at its southwestern corner, and a large gable is set above the central bay of the west-facing front facade. At the center of that gable are a pair of sash windows, with a half-round fan above. The bay below the gable also projects slightly, with an entrance porch projecting further. The interior of the building is laid out with a kitchen and dining room in the basement, a small meeting space and library on the ground floor, and a large meeting hall on the second floor.</p><br>
<p>The Greendale Improvement Society was founded in 1895 as a community vehicle to improve conditions in Worcester&#39;s Greendale neighborhood. In 1897, it was rechartered as the Greendale Village Improvement Society, and was given land by the Kendrick family on which to build a meeting house. The society raised funds and had this building erected in 1900. The society was a significant presence in the local community, building, maintaining, and plowing roads in the community in its early years, lobbying the city for fire protection, and providing for trash removal. After the Second World War, the building was used to house veterans organizations.</p><br>
<p>The Evert Gullberg Three-Decker is a historic triple decker in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built c. 1902, the house is a well-preserved instance of an early Colonial Revival triple decker with a gambrel roof. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
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<p>The Evert Gullberg Three-Decker stands in Worcester&#39;s northeastern Lincoln-Brittan Square neighborhood, on the east side of Ashton Street. It is a three-story wood frame structure, with a cross-gabled gambrel roof. Distinctive elements include the large gambrel gables, front windows with stained glass sections, and the third floor porch, which is recessed behind a shingled arch. Original shingling on the walls, typically found in the skirting below the front bay windows, has been covered by modern siding. The porches to the left of the window bay are likewise later 20th-century replacements.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1902, and represents an early example of the gambrel-roofed triple decker in the city, a style of Colonial Revival architecture that would not become widely deployed until the 1920s. The area was at the time of construction developing as a streetcar suburb, serving a largely middle-class population. Evert Gullberg, the first owner, was a carpenter; tenants included a salesman and a grocer. Most of the next few owners were absentee owners who used the building as a rental property.</p><br>
<p>The Gilbert Hadley Three-Decker is a historic three-decker in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1888, it is a well-preserved example of the form with Stick-style architecture, with a distinctive arrangement of porches. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
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<p>The Gilbert Hadley Three-Decker stands on a residential street west of downtown Worcester, on the west side of Russell Street between Pleasant and Larch Streets. It is a three-story wood frame structure, with a hip roof and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade is three bays wide, with the main entrance in the rightmost bay. A single-story porch extends across the front and wraps around to the right side, and is elaborately finished, with spindled friezes, chamfered posts, and decorative brackets. The side elevation of the porch is topped by balconies on the second and third floors. On the left side of the building, there is a rectangular projecting jog near the center of the facade, behind which a porch extends to the side.</p><br>
<p>The area where this house stands was developed as a residential area in the 1880s, and this house was probably built in 1888. The builders may have been the Hadley Brothers, whose principals, Herman and Gilbert Hadley, occupied units in this house and an adjacent one. Early tenants of the building included skilled workers such as bookkeepers, clerks, and teachers, as well as a policeman and an insurance agent.</p><br>
<p>The Charles A. Hall Three-Decker is a historic triple-decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built c. 1896, it is a well-preserved example of a triple-decker with Queen Anne styling. It follows a typical side hall plan, but has a squared front bay that is unusual for that part of the city. The bay is decorated with bands of cut shingles, and has window overhangs between floors. The bay is topped by a decorated projecting gable.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Hammond Heights is an historic neighborhood subdivision on the west side of Worcester, Massachusetts. It includes properties along Germain, Haviland, Highland, and Westland Streets and Institute Road, most of which were built between 1890 and 1918, and is a good example of a turn-of-the-century residential subdivision, with a diversity of period architectural styles. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
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<p>Prior to 1890, the area that is now Hammond Heights was farmland, belonging to John Hammond, whose Italianate house (built in the 1850s) still stands on Highland Street. The farm was proposed for subdivision as early as 1886, and the area was completely built out between 1890 and 1928. Most of the houses in the neighborhood are wood-frame structures, many of which were designed by architects for their first owners. Stylistically, most of the houses are either Queen Anne or Colonial Revival, although there are some Craftsman-style and English Revival (Tudor) houses.</p><br>
<p>The first part of the area to be developed was Germain and Highland Streets. There are two particularly fine examples of Queen Anne architecture on Germain Street, one of which was featured in the catalog of architects Barker & Nourse. Good examples of Colonial Revival designs are found at 26 Haviland and 11 Westland Street. 28 Haviland Street is a distinctive and unusual example of Arts and Crafts architecture with touches of the Prairie School.</p><br>
<p>The Hammond Organ Reed Factory is a historic former factory building at 9 May Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. based on Built in 1868 and enlarged in 1886, it is one of the city&#39;s few surviving Second Empire factory buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. In 2007–2009, the building was restored and converted for use as affordable housing.</p><br>
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<p>The former Hammond Organ Reed Factory is located southwest of downtown Worcester, at the southeastern corner of May and Silver Streets. It consists of a series of connected structures, some brick and some wood-frame, extending on a roughly north–south axis. The original structure is at the northern end, facing May Street; it is a -story brick structure, with a high basement and a full third floor under its mansard roof. Its front facade is nine bays wide, asymmetrically arranged, with the original main entrance slightly off-center in the middle bay, accessed by a high stoop.</p><br>
<p>Andrew Hammond was an ironworker who came to Worcester in 1851, where he worked at, and eventually took over ownership of, the organ reed business of Edward Harrington and Augustus Rice. Hammond built the oldest portion of this factory in 1868, and added to it several times over the next two decades, until the building reached its present configuration in 1886, at which time it employed an estimated 200 workers. Hammond is believed to be the largest manufacturer of organ reeds between 1890 and the advent of World War I. After standing vacant and crime-ridden for many years, it was converted into affordable housing in 2007–09.</p><br>
<p>The Harding-Winter Street Manufacturing District encompasses a surviving fragment of the 19th century industrial history of Worcester, Massachusetts. The district includes seven brick factory buildings which were built between 1870 and 1898. They are a remnant of a once-extensive manufacturing district that extended further along Franklin and Grafton Streets, but has become fragmented by urban redevelopment and the construction of nearby Interstate 290. The district is bounded on the south by Pond Street, on the west by Harding Street, on the east by Water Street, and on the north by the rear property lines of Winter Street properties. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Harding Street was created in the 1850s by filling in a portion of the Blackstone Canal, and this area developed as a center of Worcesters footwear industry. Three of the buildings, all built in 1870, were built for the Walker Shoe Company, founded in 1862 by two brothers. The company manufactured heavy boots, and was one of the citys first major footwear makers, serving as a training ground for later shoemakers. Another was built in 1890 for the Hill Envelope Company, founded in 1848 by the inventor of an envelope folding machine. It later became part of US Envelope, which was still operating on the premises in 1980. Other buildings in the district were built for another bootmaker, an underwear manufacturer, and a maker of stained glass windows</p><br>
<p>The Harris-Merrick House is an historic house at located 41 Fruit Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built sometime between 1832 and 1844, it is a good example of Greek Revival architecture, and a rare surviving element of the early residential development west of downtown Worcester. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 5, 1980.</p><br>
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<p>The Harris-Merrick House is located west of downtown Worcester in a residential area, at the southwest corner of Fruit Street and Marston Way. It is an L-shaped -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. The building corners have paneled pilasters, and some of its gables are fully pedimented. The main facade is three bays wide, with full-length first story windows, and the main entrance in the rightmost bay. It is sheltered by a porch with round columns, entablature, and fully pedimented gable.</p><br>
<p>The house was built c. 1832–1844 on Chestnut Street, and is one of the few buildings to survive from the early days of development on the citys west side. The area was developed in the 1830s (with many houses designed by Elias Carter), and this house was built either for Clarendon Harris, a bookkeeper who purchased the land in 1832, or Pliny T. Merrick, who owned it in 1844. Merrick was one of the citys most prominent attorneys whose own home stood adjacent to this one&#39;s original lot. The house was moved to its present location in 1874, at which time it was converted into a two-family residence.</p><br>
<p>The John Hastings Cottage is an historic house at 31 William Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built about 1880, it is a distinctive example of Victorian Gothic architecture. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, where it is misspelled as "Hastins".</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The John Hastings Cottage is located in a densely built residential area west of downtown Worcester, on the north side of Williams Street just east of West Street. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a clapboarded exterior and complex roof line. The roof has a number of gable ends, some of which have pierced aprons and bargeboard trim. Its porch is also elaborately decorated, and the roof sports one of the few surviving 19th century cupolas left in the city. The cupola is octagonal, with windows and paneling in alternating faces. Some of the windows of the main block are framed by gabled wooden lintels and sills with peaked gables at the center. Both the window and main gables have applied Stick style woodwork. The front facade has a projecting bay, in which the eave is adorned by decorative woodwork.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1880 for John Hastings, a provisioner. He owned it into the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel Hirst Three-Decker is a historic triple decker in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is a well-preserved example of a Colonial Revival house built late in Worcester&#39;s westward expansion of triple-decker construction. It follows a typical side hall plan, with a distinctive front porch supported by paired square pillars through all three levels. The roof has an extended eave that is decorated with brackets and dentil molding.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Marcus Hobbs House is an historic house at 16 William Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1849, it is an example of mid-19th century Greek Revival housing with added Italianate features. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Marcus Hobbs House is located in a densely built residential area a short way west of downtown Worcester, on the north side of William Street west of Linden Street. It is a -story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Its front facade is three bays wide, with the main entrance in the left bay flanked by sidelight windows. A single-story porch extends across the front and around to the left side, supported by fluted Doric columns. The building corners have paneled pilasters, which rise to an entablature decorated with paired carved wooden brackets. The main gable has a round-arch window at its peak.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1849 by carpenter Marcus Hobbs and was originally in a Greek Revival style. In about 1870 it was restyled with significant Italianate features, including the round-arch gable window, paired brackets in the eaves, and dentil molding. The porch, originally limited to the front of the house, was probably also extended at that time. Later owners of the property include Edward Hamilton, who founded the Mozart Society of Worcester.</p><br>
<p>The Houghton Street Historic District is a historic district in Worcester, Massachusetts. It consists of seven triple-decker residences  and three period garages, all built between 1920 and 1926. The buildings represent a well-preserved and cohesive collection of Colonial Revival residences. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. Some of the buildings have lost historic integrity since the listing.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Houghton Street is a north–south street in Worcester&#39;s southeastern Oak Hill area, and is basically residential in character. This historic district encompasses one side of a single city block, the east side of the street between Palm and Dorchester Streets. Located on this block are seven triple decker houses, six of them facing Houghton Street, and the southernmost one facing Dorcester Street. All were built between 1920 and 1926, a period when triple-decker construction had pushed west from its earliest concentrations on the west side of Grafton Hill. The area was populated by a mix of blue- and white-collar lower- and middle-class residents, who were ethnically diverse. The first houses to be built were 61, 63 and 65 Houghton Street, which were followed by 147 Dorchester Street, and lastly by 49, 53, and 57 Houghton.</p><br>
<p>The northernmost house, 49 Houghton, has a hip roof and a typical asymmetrical facade, with a polygonal projecting bay on the left side, and a stack of porches on the right, with the first-floor porch wrapping around the left side. The porch columns are grouped square columns, and the front-facing porch openings have peaked shape. The porch stack is topped by a fully pedimented gable with a diamond window at the center.</p><br>
<p>The adjacent house, 53 Houghton, has porches on the left of the facade and bands of tripled sash windows on the right. The porches are once again supported by grouped square columns, and are capped by a gabled pediment that matches the main roof gable in having a triangular louver at its center. 57 Houghton also has tripled windows instead of a bay, and had porches supported by Tuscan columns, but they have since been rebuilt and the house resided with modern siding.</p><br>
<p>The last three houses on Houghton Street have all been compromised by the application of modern siding, and the enclosure of their front porches. 147 Dorchester Street is unusual in having a mostly symmetrical facade, with polygonal bays flanking a central porch stack which is topped by a modillioned and pedimented gable. The porch is supported by fluted square columns, with modillioned overhangs.</p><br>
<p>The Daniel Hunt Three-Decker is a historic triple decker house in the Main South neighborhood of Worcester, Massachusetts. It is well preserved representative of the housing boom that took place in the area in the 1880s and 1890s, with significant early Queen Anne styling. It was built in 1890, and its first owner was Daniel Hunt, a machinist who lived next door. The building follows a typical side hall plan, with a side wall jog and an asymmetrical facade. The left side is a row of porches with turned balusters and posts, and the right consists of a bay that projects the full depth of the porch. The roof is a shallow hip roof, with an extended eave that has curved support brackets.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The David Hunt Three-Decker is a historic triple decker in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built about 1900, it is a well-preserved example of the building type with Queen Anne Victorian features. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The David Hunt Three-Decker is located in Worcester&#39;s southeastern Vernon Hill neighborhood, on the east side of Louise Street. It is a three-story frame structure, covered by a hip roof and a combination of wooden clapboards and decorative scalloped shingles. The roof has extended eaves adorned with Italianate brackets. The front facade has a stack of porches on the left side, and a rounded window bay on the right, with bands of decorative shingles separating the floors. The porches have shingled skirts with a section of short balustrade at the center, and are supported by square columns with simple capitals. The right side of the building has a projecting jog that extends to the rear; at the end of this section is a back entrance, sheltered by a portico with turned posts.</p><br>
<p>The well-preserved Queen Anne Victorian was built c. 1900, during an early period of development in the Vernon Hill area. The area where it was built, on the southern slope of the hill, was populated at the time mainly by Irish immigrants working in the city&#39;s wire factories. David Hunt, the first owner, was employed as a wire worker.</p><br>
<p>The Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center is a historic hotel in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, originally built in 1927 as the Heidelberg Hotel. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The hotel closed in 1985, and was mostly derelict until 2005. It reopened after a $70 million renovation on August 30, 2006, as the Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center. the hotel was also inducted into, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, since 2007.</p><br>
<p>The hotel&#39;s NRHP listing was increased in 2008 to include the Hotel King across the street and the listing was renamed Heidelberg Hotel and Hotel King.</p><br>
<p>Rosemont, also known as Joseph W. and Ida Guest House, is a historic home located at 15 Cragmere Road, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1893, and is a -story, three-bay, T-shaped vernacular brick-and-frame farmhouse. It consists of a gambrel-roofed main block with projecting central bay, with a gable-roofed rear wing. The house has elements of Stick, Queen Anne, and Colonial Revival-style detailing. Also on the property is a -story frame carriage house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in March 2009.</p><br>
<p>Jackson Historic District in Jackson, Louisiana, is a historic district roughly bounded by College Street, LA 952, Horton Street and Race Street.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant as a "surviving rural town center from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with banks, shops, residences, churches, warehouses and all manner of other buildings which might be expected in such a town.... But the historic area of Jackson is superior to most historic town centers because it is unusually well-preserved."</p><br>
<p>The district included 124 structures. Of these, 29 buildings (24 percent) are Federal or Greek Revival built from 1815 to 1845. Ten buildings (8 percent) are of a period spanning from 1845 to 1875, and includes three churches and a few late Greek Revival houses. For 1875 to 1910, there are 15 buildings (13 percent), including Late Victorian and Queen Anne styles. For 1910 to c.1930 there are 43 buildings (35 percent). Twenty buildings (24 percent) are intrusions.</p><br>
<p>The 135 acre area was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 4, 1980. It includes the Centenary College which was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 19, 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Fowler House, also known as the Allen-Fowler House is a historic, two-story, modified L-plan house built in 1852 in Bastrop, Texas, United States. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 1978, and was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 2008.</p><br>
<p>The house was built by Professor William J. Hancock of Aberdeen, Mississippi, in 1852 after he arrived in Bastrop to become headmaster at the Bastrop Academy, one of the leading schools in Texas at the time. The house was not only for his family and him, but also for student boarders.</p><br>
<p>In 1857, Bastrop Academy became Bastrop Military Institute, which trained young men for service during the Civil War. Colonel Robert Thomas Pritchard Allen replaced Hancock as headmaster and Allen and his wife Julia moved into the house. They continued to board cadets who attended the institute. Sam Houston, a hero of the Texas Revolution, was a frequent guest of the Allens while his sons attended the institute.</p><br>
<p>John Preston Fowler and Maud Maynard Fowler bought the property in 1876 and added Victorian detailing and a projecting bay window to the structure. Fowler became mayor of Bastrop, county attorney, and a Texas state senator.</p><br>
<p>The current owner of the house is Geoff Connor, who purchased the house in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Chicago and Northwestern Depot is a former railway station in Wilmette, Illinois, which has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1975. The station served the Chicago and North Western Railway along what is now Metras Union Pacific/North Line. It was built in 1873 as a passenger station and became a freight station in the 1890s before closing in 1946. The station was relocated to its current location on June 13, 1974, and it has since been remodeled as a restaurant. The depot has been called "Wilmettes most historic building," and the Chicago Sunday Times referred to the station as "the finest station on the entire line" upon its opening.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first railroad depot in Wilmette was built in 1870–71 for $700 by a group of landowners hoping to develop the area. As well as being used as a railroad depot, this original depot was used for local elections, including the referendum on the incorporation of Wilmette in 1872. This depot burned down, and residents built the Chicago and Northwestern Depot in 1873. The depot was built to be fireproof and cost $3,400, which was donated by ten residents. In the 1890s, Wilmettes growing number of commuters wanted a new depot to be built on the inbound side of the tracks. The Chicago and Northwestern Depot was moved one block north from the passenger station and became Wilmettes freight depot. The depot remained a freight depot until 1946, when Wilmette&#39;s freight service was transferred to Evanston; the station was then boarded up, and its platform was removed. On June 13, 1974, the station was moved away from the railroad tracks to its current site to avoid demolition. The depot was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. A cable television company leased the station for several years after its relocation. The building was leased to a different family and converted into a restaurant called the Old Ouilmette Depot in 1992. The restaurant closed after a 2004 fire, and the building remained vacant until 2008, when a new restaurant called Depot Nuevo opened in the building.</p><br>
<p>The Kirk&#39;s Cabin Complex was built by homesteader Rensselaer Lee Kirk around 1890 in what later became Canyonlands National Park in Utah. Kirk was a small rancher who built a log cabin and two corrals at the location, but was unable to make a living there and abandoned the ranch after a few years. Since that time the location was used by cowboys whose herds were grazing in the area, until the late 1960s when the national park was established.</p><br>
<p>Meyers Castle or the Joseph Ernest Meyer House is a former private residence in the town of Dyer, Indiana in the United States. The castle was constructed from 1927 to 1931 in the Jacobethan style by architect Cosbey Bernard, Sr. The house was built for Joseph Ernest Meyer as his private residence, a herbologist and one of Hammonds first millionaires. The building now serves as a special events venue and was also home to "Rivelli", an Italian steakhouse that is now closed.</p><br>
<p>The castle was built as a replica of a Scottish castle Meyer had once seen. When it was completed in 1931, the Meyer&#39;s Castle was the largest and most lavish mansion in the surrounding Calumet region. Its location in the forested area allowed Meyer to continue his practice of herbology. The hill on which the estate sits atop of is called "Indian Hill" due to the many Sauk and Potowami artifacts found in and around the vicinity. It is also one of the highest points in Lake County, IN.</p><br>
<p>Joseph Meyer lived in Meyers Castle until his death in 1950, leaving the castle to his wife Cecilia, who lived there for several years after his death. After the death of Cecilia Meyer in 1975, the entire castle grounds and complex was sold to the East Dyer Development Company, which subsequently became todays Castlewood Subdivision of Dyer.</p><br>
<p>The castle was purchased from the town of Dyer by Cynthia and Charles Curry and later sold.</p><br>
<p>The property was purchased in 1987. At the time of purchase, the property was in an abandoned and dilapidated state. It was renovated and returned to its original majestic state. They now operate the property as a special events venue and along with a reservation only restaurant. Visitors are welcomed by peacocks that roam the grounds.</p><br>
<p>Cave Springs Cowboy Camp was a line camp operated by the Scorup-Sommerville Cattle Company in what would become Canyonlands National Park, Utah. The site consists of a cave-like shelter under a rock overhang on the side of a small canyon. The canyon was arranged with a fence across the opening that allowed its use as a cattle pen. The site contains a great deal of material that was abandoned as the site became disused. The shelter was used from the late 1890s through the late 1960s when the park was established.</p><br>
<p>The Murphy Trail and Bridge in San Juan County, Utah, United States, were used to move livestock from winter range along the Green River to highland summer range from about 1917 to about 1964. The trail and bridge are located in what is now Canyonlands National Park and the trail is now used as a hiking path. The bridge was made from logs and rough-cut planking, and was built around 1917 by J. Idiart and D. Allies. The 10 ft bridge was reconstructed in 1998 and no longer retains historic integrity.</p><br>
<p>City Hotel in Marthaville, Louisiana, also known as Hotel Darden, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. It was built c.1881 upon arrival of the Texas and Pacific Railroad, which stopped at a depot across the street from the hotel. It was built by John Jackson Rains, an early settler who is considered to be the founder of Marthaville.</p><br>
<p>The hotel is stylistically simple, but has a full gallery (porch) on both of its two stories. It has a hipped roof.</p><br>
<p>The former Bloomingburg Reformed Protestant Dutch Church is located on Main Street  in Bloomingburg, New York, United States. An ornate wooden Federal style building dating to 1821, it is one of the oldest churches in the county. It remains mostly as it was originally built save for some changes to the interior.</p><br>
<p>Its 80-foot-tall (24 m) bell tower visible for some distance, is a local landmark. In 1980 the church, no longer in use, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is currently a local and regional history museum. A recent referendum defeated a proposal by the town of Mamakating to sell it to another congregation.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The church building is a two-story, three-by-five-bay rectangle sided in white clapboard. The heavy timber framing is supported by a fieldstone foundation. The moderately-pitched gabled roof is shingled in asphalt, with a single chimney near the roofline on the east side. The church is entered at the tower or south end. Unusually, this originally brought the congregation in at the sides of the altar, which was also at this end.</p><br>
<p>From the projecting central front bay, the multi-staged tower rises, interrupted only by the bracketed cornice on the front roofline. It continues to a narrow frieze with cornice and modillions. All four sides have a window, a small roundel on the front and sides and a small rectangle on the rear, overlooking the roof. Above the oculus there has traditionally been a painted clock face, set at 11:07.</p><br>
<p>The belfry above is octagonal and ornate. Tuscan columns frame panels that are alternately louvered and plain. These support a similar frieze and cornice as the one below. The final stage uses the same treatment, with all panels louvered, and the tower&#39;s cap is an octagonal dome with weathervane.</p><br>
<p>All the three front bays are filled with entrances. The main entrance is a pair of doors recessed behind fluted architraves. A fanlight surmounts the doorway, their muntins making intersecting Gothic arches. These are echoed on the side entrances.</p><br>
<p>Both sides are fully fenestrated on both stories with 20-over-20 double-hung sash windows. The rear elevation features no decorative treatment at the roofline, and one window in each story at the sides, similar to the windows along the sides.</p><br>
<p>A vestibule separates the main door from the sanctuary, while both side entrances lead directly to it. The altar is of plain wood, with some elliptical framing in the wall above paralleling a larger frame opposite that leads to the stairway to the choir loft, supported by thin octagonal columns. Simple round columns support the 10-foot–deep (3 m) second-story galleries with balustrade on either side. All walls except the front have wainscoting to the sill level; the front has shelving.</p><br>
<p>All the woodwork inside save the altar and gallery handrails is painted white. Much of it is original. The ceilings are pressed metal.</p><br>
<p>A set of stone steps from the front leads to a flagstone walkway that in turn descends a set of steep stone steps to Main Street. In the back is a small bungalow that once served as a parsonage.</p><br>
<h2>Aesthetics</h2><br>
<p>The Bloomingburg Reformed Protestant Dutch Church is similar to the style of churches that began to appear in New England after 1800, as well as some of Charles Bulfinchs designs. It was common to copy church designs at the time, usually from other nearby examples. The steeple appears to be some similarity between the Bloomingburg church and a pattern for a rural church in Asher Benjamins influential 1797 The Country Builder&#39;s Assistant.</p><br>
<p>But unlike the other designs, there is no small pediment on the front of the tower, matching the larger pediment on the front face, nor is there any sign there ever was. The three-bay front is a variant found more frequently in New York, as opposed to the five-bay facades found in New England. Also unusual is the placement of the altar at the front of the church, later changed.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Associate Reformed Church was formed in Bloomingburg in 1799. Twenty years later, in 1819, some members who wished for a pastor recognized by the Dutch Reformed Church broke away to form the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Bloomingburgh (as it was then spelled). They chose the small Gillen&#39;s Hill, which overlooked the village, and established a building committee.</p><br>
<p>The cornerstone was laid in 1821. Church records credit Peter Weller, an elder of the church and George Miller, a local builder and carpenter who was not a member of the congregation, with the construction. A year later, the pews were finished and subscribed. The church was dedicated in spring 1822 and opened in December.</p><br>
<p>At the time, the church interior was slightly different. The altar was at the entrance end, and a small semicircular window in the gable apex opened into the rear. These were changed in the middle of the century, along with the conversion of the box pews into slips, the extension of the galleries and construction of the choir loft and accompanying stairways. A new bell was installed in 1868.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1880s, the exterior got renovated. The roof eaves were extended and the brackets installed, per the late Italianate trends of the era. A memorial stained-glass window was installed in 1901 above the front door. Other stained-glass windows installed shortly afterwards have since been lost. New carpets and pews were installed later in that decade.</p><br>
<p>To celebrate the churchs centennial, in 1922 the parsonage was built. In 1950 the roof was converted from tin to asphalt shingling, the last major change to the churchs exterior. A decade later, in 1962, the dwindling congregation merged with Bloomingburg&#39;s Methodist Church to form the Community Church of Bloomingburg. The old Reformed Church building was for a time used as a church school, but then a new educational wing was added to the Community Church building, and the old church was sold to the county.</p><br>
<p>It was neglected for a few years, with some of the interior furnishings stolen and vandalized. In 1977 the Bloomingburg Restoration Foundation was established to preserve the church and use it as a regional history museum; it is open today for that purpose by appointment. In 1999 the county transferred the church to the Town of Mamakating.</p><br>
<p>In 2017 the town offered to sell the church to a parish that was temporarily holding church services in the building. At the time the building was being rented by the Bloomingburg Restoration Foundation who paid the town $1 a year to rent the property in exchange for its continued service to the building and the community. The parish declined, and later the town notified the foundation that it was planning to sell the church to a Pentecostal congregation from nearby Middletown for $85,000, and thus the foundation should vacate the premises. Town supervisor Bill Herrmann claimed the foundations maintenance of the property "has been less than acceptable", citing numerous defects in the building such as cracks in the interior plaster, a leaning steeple and front steps in such disrepair that they are blocked off from use, requiring visitors to enter through the side. The foundation countered that it had invested $50,000 in the building during its ownership, adding carpeting and a bathroom and a new furnace. It said it would hire a lawyer to fight any eviction proceedings, and suggested the towns real goal was to sell it to the areas growing Hasidic community, an allegation Hermann called a sign of the foundations desperation.</p><br>
<p>No legal action would be necessary. In 2018 the Bloomingburg Restoration Foundation collected enough signatures on a petition to force a permissive referendum on the sale. By an overwhelming margin the sale of the building was rejected.</p><br>
<p>Indian Hill-North Village is a residential historic district encompassing the largest planned worker housing community in Worcester, Massachusetts. Located in the suburban northern part of the city, it was developed in the 1910s by the Norton Company, then the city&#39;s largest employer. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The North Village of Indian Hill is located in northern Worcester, just west of Interstate 190 and south of Ararat Street. It includes houses located on a roughly rectangular grid of streets bounded by Ararat Street, Delaval Road, Heroult Street, and Marconi Road. Roughly bisecting the area are Watt Road and Westinghouse Parkway; the latter is a divided road with a tree-lined median.</p><br>
<p>The company-designed houses in this area fall into two broad categories. The first type, which are the most common, are 1-1/2 story wood frame structures, with steeply pitched slate-covered gable roofs, a three-bay facade with center entrance, and a porch sheltering the entrance. The second type, of which only two examples exist on Watt Road at Westinghouse Parkway, are type 1 cottages with a single-story ell projecting from the rear. The district also includes four ahistorical ranch houses on Heroult Road dating to the 1960s. There are two originally non-residential buildings in the district: the former community hall at 24-26 Watt Road, and the community store at 8-10 Watt Road.</p><br>
<p>The village was created as a model planned company town for its workers by the Norton Grinding Company in 1915. Its design is attributed to Grosvenor Atterbury, who designed the South Village (since compromised by the construction of I-190), and the home of Aldus Higgins, then president of the Norton Company. The company established the Indian Hill Company as a worker real estate subsidiary in 1914, when the South Village was developed. The exact construction dates of the North Village complex is not known, but it probably took place with great rapidity during World War I, when there was an acute housing shortage. Unlike the South Village, whose properties were immediately sold (at cost) to company employees, the company retained ownership of most of the North Village until the 1920s. The complex is unique in Worcester, whose other major employers have no history of similar developments.</p><br>
<p>The IOOF Building is a historic building at 674 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The four-story brick Beaux Arts style building was designed by Clellan W. Fisher and was constructed in 1906 for the local chapter of the International Order of Odd Fellows.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The building is primarily brick, laid in Flemish bond, with dressed limestone trim. Prominent on the front facade is the main entry, an elaborate limestone archway which occupies the center of three bays. On the second floor, the side bays are highlighted by balconies that retain their original wrought iron railings. The third floor windows are large with rounded arch tops, while all three of the fourth floor windows have limestone balconies with wrought iron rails.</p><br>
<p>The Ingleside Avenue Historic District is a residential historic district in Worcester, Massachusetts. It consists of a cluster of four triple decker residences and three period garages, all built c. 1928, during the last phase of triple decker construction in the city. All have retained some of their Colonial Revival styling. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Ingleside Avenue is located on Worcester southeast side, north of Grafton Street (Massachusetts Route 122), one the major arteries through the area. Ingleside runs north from Grafton Street to Plantation Street, with the historic district located on the west side of the southernmost block. Located on this block are four similar triple deckers, all built about 1928. They are roughly matched pairs of buildings, each pair having one building with a hip roof, and the other with a gabled roof, that are otherwise virtually identical in their construction and Colonial Revival styling.</p><br>
<p>The buildings of the district have undergone a number of changes since the district was listed on the National Register in 1990. The buildings then had clapboard siding, with cut shingles on the skirts between the levels, but all have since had their exteriors reclad in modern siding. 218 Ingleside has had its upper two porches removed; these were previously similar to those of the other buildings, supported by groups of square columns. The district originally included three period garages, of which only one is still standing.</p><br>
<p>The Harry B. Ingraham Three-Decker is a historic triple decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was built c. 1892 for Harry B. Ingraham, an absentee owner based in Boston. When listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, the building was specially noted for its fine Queen Anne styling, but much of this has been lost due to later exterior refinishing . The porches on the front were supported by narrow turned posts with decorative brackets, and third floor porch had a Stick Style frieze across its top. The house was sheathed in wood clapboard, although there were bands of cut shingles providing a decorative touch. The house has since been sided in synthetic sided, and its upper porch details have been replaced by simpler designs.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Institutional District of Worcester, Massachusetts is an historic district encompassing a significant concentration of civic and municipal buildings north of the city&#39;s downtown area. It is centered on Lincoln Square and Wheaton Square, and includes properties on Main, Salisbury, and Tuckerman Streets. It includes the 1840s Worcester County Courthouse, the War Memorial and Memorial Auditorium, and the former Worcester Historical Society building at 39 Salisbury Street. The 1897 Worcester Art Museum is included in the district, as is the c. 1890 armory building at 44 Salisbury Street. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Prior to its institutional uses, this part of Worcester was largely owned by the Salisbury family, whose progenitor, Stephen Salisbury I, opened a store at Lincoln Square in 1772. Salisburys grandson, Stephen Salisbury III, was a major local industrialist, and began donating and selling portions of the family holdings in the 1880s. His donations included land for the Central Church, Boys Club, Art Museum, Auditorium, and War Memorial. He was a major benefactor of the museum, bequesting it the family collection. The Salisbury Mansion and Store, now owned by the museum, are located just outside this district.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>Worcester County Courthouse, 2 Main Street (1845), by Ammi B. Young; 1878 addition by Stephen C. Earle; 1899 addition by Andrews, Jaques & Rantoul; 1950s addition (non-contributing in this nomination, but contributing in the 2021 individual NR nomination for the courthouse).</p><br>
<p>Worcester War Memorial, Lincoln Square (1935) by Lucius W. Briggs and Frederic C. Hirons</p><br>
<p>Worcester Boys&#39; Club (1930), Lincoln Square by Frost, Chamberlain & Edwards</p><br>
<p>Worcester War Memorial Auditorium (1932), by Lucius W. Briggs and Frederic C. Hirons</p><br>
<p>Central Church, Salisbury Street (1885), by Stephen C. Earle</p><br>
<p>Worcester Historical Society, 39 Salisbury Street (1981), by Barker & Nourse</p><br>
<p>Worcester Woman&#39;s Club (aka Tuckerman Hall), 10 Tuckerman Street (1902), by Josephine Wright</p><br>
<p>Worcester Industrial Technical Institute (aka Worcester Voke), 2 Grove Street (1909), with additions (1916-1917) by Frost, Briggs & Chamberlain</p><br>
<p>Worcester National Guard Armory, 44 Salisbury Street (1890), by Fuller & Delano, with addition (1907)</p><br>
<p>North High School, 46 Salisbury Street (1889), by Fuller & Delano</p><br>
<p>Worcester Art Museum, 55 Salisbury Street (1897), by Stephen C. Earle, with later additions</p><br>
<p>The John and Edward Johnson Three-Decker is a historic triple decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. The house was built c. 1918, and is a well-preserved and distinctive example of Colonial Revival styling, with a number of unusual features. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The John and Edward Johnson Three-Decker is located in Worcester&#39;s southeaster Vernon Hill neighborhood, on the west side of Louise Street. It is a three-story frame structure, covered by a gabled roof, and finished in a combination of wooden shingles and clapboards. Its front has a stack of porches on the right side, and a rounded window bay on the left. Unlike many triple deckers its first floor porch extends part way around one of the sides. The house is sided in alternating sections of shingles and clapboards, and its upper porches are supported by grouped slender turned columns. The left side of the house also as a projecting three-story window bay. The front roof gable is fully pedimented, and there are shallow brackets in the eaves.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1918, when the area was being heavily developed with triple deckers. Many of the area&#39;s early residents were immigrants working in nearby steel mills and wire factories. The first owners, John and Edward Johnson, were probably Swedish immigrants, and were respectively a machinist and a wire worker. Early tenants included Irish and Swedish immigrants.</p><br>
