<p>The John Johnson Three-Decker is a historic triple decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. The house was built c. 1894, and is a distinctive variant of the form, with a central projecting bay section. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
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<p>The John Johnson Three-Decker is located on a residential street in eastern Worcester, on the west side of Eastern Avenue north of Belmont Avenue (Massachusetts Route 9, a major through road). It is a three-story frame structure, covered by hip roof with decorative brackets in it eaves. The walls are finished in wooden clapboards. The facade of the building is unusual for triple deckers built in Worcester, with three bays, of which the center one is a projecting polygonal window bay. The main entrance is in the right bay, sheltered by a hip-roofed porch. When listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, the porch had turned balusters and supports, features that have since been removed.</p><br>
<p>The Belmont Avenue area in which the house was built was primarily populated by Scandinavian immigrants at the time of its construction, c. 1894. This was one of the first parts of the Belmont Avenue area to be built out with triple deckers, which provided housing for workers at the major steel and wire plants north of downtown Worcester. John Johnson, its first owner, was an absentee landlord who was also a woodworker. Typical early tenants were machinists, laborers, and wire workers of Finnish and Swedish extraction.</p><br>
<p>The Paul Johnson Three-Decker is a historic triple decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built about 1908, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990 as a locally significant example of a Queen Anne Victorian triple-decker. It has since been compromised by the removal of many of those features.</p><br>
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<p>The Paul Johnson Three-Decker is located in eastern Worcester, on the west side of Stanton Street just north of its junction with Belmont Street (Massachusetts Route 9, a major east-west route through the city). The house is a three-story frame structure, covered by a hip roof. Its exterior is finished in synthetic siding. The main facade is divided into a polygonal window bay on the left, and a stack of porches on the right. When built, the porches featured turned posts and balustrades; the balustrades were replaced by siding in the 1920s, and the posts were probably replaced by conventional square posts in the 1990s or 2000s. The house&#39;s original siding included bands of decorative shingling between the floors, and wooden clapboards elsewhere.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1908, a period when the Belmont Street area was being built out with residences for workers at the citys large steel and wire factories. Most of the workers who settled in this area were Scandinavian (Swedish and Finnish) immigrants. Paul Johnson, the buildings first owner, was a pattern maker; early tenants included machinists, an electrician, and a carpenter.</p><br>
<p>The Junction Shop and Hermon Street District is a historic district comprising 28 industrial properties on Jackson, Hermon, and Beacon Streets on the south side of Worcester, Massachusetts. It is a remnant of a once larger 19th and early 20th century manufacturing district just west of the railway junction between the Boston and Maine Railroad and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The area was first developed in the 1850s by James Estabrook and Charles Wood, and continued to be developed by the Estabrook family into the early 20th century. The oldest building, known as the Junction Shop, was built in 1851 by Worcester&#39;s famous teacher, inventor and abolitionist Eli Thayer, and followed a previously successful model of factory ownership in which the facility owner provided rental space, power, and other facilities to small manufacturers. Eli Thayer also built Adriatic Mills, formerly on Armory St and was the inventor of the hydraulic elevator. Power was provided by two Corliss steam engines. It is well known for its later occupation by the Knowles Loom Company, a major manufacturer of textile processing equipment. This three story stone building is 450 ft long and 50 ft. It is located in the block surrounded by Jackson, Hermon, and Beacon Streets, and the railroad tracks, and is surrounded within that block by a series of brick additions (built from the 1870s to the 1910s) which obscure much of its bulk.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the Junction Shop, a series of smaller factory blocks line Beacon Street between Herman and Jackson Streets. Those on the east side were built between the 1870s and 1890s by the Estabrooks for the Glasgo Thread Company. The north side of Jackson Street between the tracks and Harris Court is also lined with Estabrook-built factories, as is the south side of Hermon Street.</p><br>
<p>In 2012, the Planning Board gave the nod to a developer to turn the abandoned and derelict buildings into affordable housing units now known as the Junction Shops Mill Project. The Junction Shop lofts officially opened their doors in late 2015. Now, under Brady Sullivans ownership, the historic building has been transformed into luxury apartments for rent in Worcester. Featuring apartment homes that range in size from one to four bedrooms, each apartment captures the historic past of the building, while providing modern comfort for todays residents. These renovated mill lofts in Worcester feature stainless steel appliances, original reclaimed hardwood or bamboo floors, granite countertops, and sophisticated designer paint colors, all in combination with the mill&#39;s characteristic soaring ceilings and large, bright windows.</p><br>
<h2>Select businesses located in the district</h2><br>
<p>Access Fixtures</p><br>
<p>Clark Mailing Service</p><br>
<p>George&#39;s Coney Island Hot Dogs</p><br>
<p>Miss Worcester Diner</p><br>
<p>There are two noteworthy triple decker apartment houses built by Erick Kaller in Worcester, Massachusetts. They are located in Worcester&#39;s east side Belmont Avenue neighborhood, on the west side of Eastern Avenue north of Belmont Avenue. Both were built about 1894 in the Queen Anne style, and were originally nearly identical. They are wood-frame buildings, covered by hip roofs, and having a conventional side hall plan with a projecting side jog. The front facades are asymmetrical, with projecting polygonal bay windows on the left side, and a single-story porch sheltering the entrance on the right. The principal difference between the two is that 148 Eastern has flared siding skirts below its projecting bay windows, while 146 has plain siding there. Both have lost some of their styling due to subsequent exterior alterations, including the application of modern siding. </p><br>
<p>The houses were part of a series built on Eastern Avenue about 1894, a period of rapid growth in the area. Most of the residents were Scandinavian immigrants, employed in wire and steel factories on the city&#39;s north side. Erick Kaller was a worker in a local wire factory, and lived at #146. The Kaller family retained ownership of both buildings through the 1920s. They were listed separately on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Katz and Leavitt Apartment House is an historic apartment house at 53 Elm Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The five story brick building, built in 1926 to a design by the L. W. Briggs Company, is one of the most architecturally distinct apartment buildings in the city. It is faced with buff brick, except for the central section of the main facade, which is faced is decorative glazed tile. The feel of its design is Venetian Gothic, with a pointed-arch entry and other Gothic motifs repeated on the upper levels of the building.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Knollwood is an historic estate at 425 Salisbury Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Originally encompassing about 122 acre, the estate has been reduced to only 15 acre, and is now home to the Notre Dame Academy. The estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is one of the city&#39;s grandest surviving early 20th-century estates.</p><br>
<p>Knollwood was built in the 1910s for industrialist Lyman Gordon (1861-1914), cofounder of Wyman-Gordon, although he died before it was completed. The main house is a -story stucco construction, topped by a complex hipped tile roof. Its basic form is that of a central block with slightly asymmetrical flanking wings. The central portion has a slightly recessed pavilion that rises a full three stories to a decorated gable. The eastern flanking wing housed kitchen facilities, while the west wing end features a Palladian window on the first floor which leads out to a terrace. The approach to the house is along an imposing tree-lined allée. The estate includes several outbuildings, also built c. 1914, which are styled similarly to the main house. Among them area caretakers house, carriage house or garage, and servants quarters.</p><br>
<p>Following Gordons death, the estate was purchased in 1917 by Lucius J. Knowles, president of Crompton and Knowles, and in 1928 by Theodore Ellis, another local company owner and art collector. After Ellis death much of the original estate was subdivided. The remnant portion of the estate has been home to the private all-girl Notre Dame Academy since the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>The Lucius Knowles House is a historic house located at 838 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is locally significant as one of the city&#39;s best preserved Second Empire style buildings.</p><br>
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<p>The three-story, wood-framed house was built around 1870 for industrialist Lucius Knowles, best known for his innovations in the manufacture of looms. It has a symmetrical front facade with mansard roof, and a front entry sheltered by an elaborately decorated porch. Another entry on the south side also had a decorated porch, now glassed in, above which there is an oriel window. A unique music room was added to the northeast corner of the house around 1880, to a design by Stephen Earle, which featured stained glass skylights (now covered over but still in place).</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 5, 1980.</p><br>
<p>Larchmont is a historic house at 36 Butler Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1858 as a country house, it is one of the city&#39;s finest surviving examples of Italianate architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
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<p>Larchmont is located in a residential area of southern Worcester, on the north side of Butler Street west of McKeon Road. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and exterior finished in aluminum siding with wooden trim. Roof eaves are studded with paired Italianate brackets The front facade is three bays wide, with the center bay projecting slightly and capped by a gable. The main entrance is at the base of this bay, sheltered by an enclosed porch. The window above is Palladian in form, with a projecting bracketed cornice. Ground floor windows on either side of the entrance have projecting cornices, while second-floor windows have moulded surrounds with bracketed sills. A porte-cochere extends to the left side of the house.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1858 as a country house for Ransom Taylor, one of the citys largest landowners in the latter half of the 19th century. It is a rare surviving Italianate villa, of a type that once dotted the hills of Worcester, and is one of the finest Italianate houses in the city. The house may have been designed by Boyden & Ball; there is documentary evidence suggestive of this, which is supported by stylistic analysis. The buildings original octagonal cupola has been removed, and the porte cochere is a later addition.</p><br>
<p>The John Legg House is a historic house at 5 Claremont Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The Queen Anne style house was built in 1892 to a design by noted local architect Stephen Earle for John Legg, owner of the Worcester Woolens Company, one of the city&#39;s largest textile businesses. It is a -story wood-frame with an asymmetrical plan. One unusual feature is a first floor bay on the right side which is topped by a parapet. The center and left side of the house are sheltered by a porch, with a decorated gable end over the stairs.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Since the listing, some of the exterior features have been lost due to a later residing of the house.</p><br>
<p>The Morris Levenson Three-Decker is a historic triple decker in Worcester, Massachusetts. The house was built c. 1920, and is an excellent local example of Colonial Revival style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
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<p>The Morris Levenson Three-Decker is located in a residential area in southeastern Worcester, on the east side of Plantation Street. It is a three-story wood-frame structure, with a hipped roof and synthetically sided exterior. Its main facade is asymmetrical, with a three-story porch stack on the left and polygonal window bay on the right. Its porches are supported by multiple slender columns, which are spaced to form arches of varying dimensions on the upper floors. The ground-floor porch extends across the full front, and beyond it to the right to an octagonal pavilion. Other details present when the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, including modillion blocks in the eaves and balustraded porch fronts, have been obscured or lost due to the application of siding (see photo).</p><br>
<p>The house was built in about 1920, a period when residential three-decker development was being pushed further east from the city center. The building&#39;s first documented owner was Morris Levenson, a clothing merchant, and the second, Felix Shimkus, was a chef.</p><br>
<p>The Lincoln Estate–Elm Park Historic District is an expansive residential area in northwestern Worcester, Massachusetts. It is centered on Cedar and William Streets, and includes properties on adjacent streets. The area was developed beginning in the late 1830s by former Governor of Massachusetts Levi Lincoln Jr., a Worcester native who had inherited land in the area. The district was divided and developed by Lincoln until his death, and then by his heirs, and became a popular location for homes of Worcester&#39;s wealthy and elite, many of which were designed by architects.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Lower Pleasant Street District is an historic district at 418–426 Main Street and 9–49 Pleasant Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. It encompasses the only surviving row of Victorian-era commercial buildings in downtown Worcester. These buildings were built between 1872 and 1890, and are located along the north side of Pleasant Street, from its corner with Main Street nearly to Chestnut Street. 39 Pleasant Street is the location of Str8Up Entertainment. The most unusual of the six buildings is the Odd Fellows Hall at 9-15 Pleasant Street, which is the only commercial Gothic Revival building left in the city.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Lumb Three-Decker is a historic triple decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is a well-preserved example of the style in Worcester&#39;s Piedmont section with Queen Anne styling. The building follows the typical side hall plan, and features porches on the front with turned posts and spindle friezes. Other details, including decorative brackets in the extended roof overhang and elements of the window surrounds, have been lost since the property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Lumb Three-Decker is a historic triple decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. The home was built in 1894. It is an example of the style popular during Worcester&#39;s westward expansion, with well preserved Queen Anne styling. Although many details have been lost due to residing since its listing in 1990 on the National Register of Historic Places, it retains decorative turned porch supports and balusters. Thomas Lumb, its first owner, was a local saloon keeper, and its early tenants were ethnically diverse.</p><br>
<p>The Charles Lundberg Three-Decker is a historic triple decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. The house was built c. 1892, and is a well-preserved local example of the form with Queen Anne styling. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
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<p>The Charles Lundberg Three-Decker is located in a residential area east of downtown Worcester on the north side of Catharine Street west of Rodney Street. It is a three-story wood frame structure, with a hip roof and clapboarded exterior. The building follows a standard side-hall plan, with a flanking polygonal bay. The projecting section has shingled skirt sections between the floors, with small brackets in the resulting overhang. The main roof cornice is deep, with decorative modillion blocks regularly spaced. The front entry is sheltered by a single-story porch which has a spindled frieze and balustrade. It is supported by very slender turned columns with brackets at the upper end, below the frieze. The stairwell windows feature decorative stained glass.</p><br>
<p>Built about 1892, the house is a good example of early-period three-decker development in Worcester&#39;s Belmont Hill area. This area was heavily populated in its early years by immigrants from Sweden and Finland. Charles Lundberg, the first owner, also owned the adjacent houses; he was a clerk. Most of the early residents were of Swedish extraction.</p><br>
<p>The Charles Magnuson Three-Decker is a historic triple decker in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built about 1912, it is a good example of a Colonial Revival triple decker, built during a local housing construction boom. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
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<p>The Charles Magnuson Three-Decker is located in Worcester&#39;s eastern Belmont Street neighborhood, on the east side of Olga Street near its northern end. It is three stories in height, with a gabled roof and exterior finished in modern siding. The asymmetrical main facade has a three-tier porch on the right, supported by square posts, and a rounded projecting window bay on the left, which has two sash windows on each level. The gable end is fully pedimented; the roof cornice once had brackets, but these have been lost. Other lost feature included rounded posts on the porches, and the use of wooden shingles in the bands between the windows of the rounded bay. A polygonal window bay projects from one side.</p><br>
<p>The house was built c. 1912, late in the triple-decker housing boom on Belmont Hill. Most of the housing in this area was built for mainly Swedish and Finnish immigrants working in Worcester&#39;s northern steel and wire factories. Charles Magnuson, the first owner, was a foreman in a metal goods plant. Early tenants included a machinist, cabinetmaker and bookkeeper.</p><br>
<p>The Jefferson Ordnance Magazine in Jefferson, Texas, United States, is located 0.3 miles northeast of the US-59B crossing of Big Cypress Bayou. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>It is located across the Big Cypress Bayou waterway from Jefferson and Cypress Bayou Railway. It is claimed by the railway operators and tour guides to be the only remaining Confederate powder magazine from the 1860s. That claim, appearing at, appears to be false, as it does not take into account powder magazines that are included in surviving confederate forts. A specific counter-example to the claim is the Confederate Powderworks, in Georgia, whose powder magazines disprove the claim.</p><br>
<p>A narrower claim, that it is the only surviving Confederate powder house in Texas and one of few in the USA, is stated by the Historic Jefferson Foundation. An even more narrow claim, that it is "the most intact example in East Texas of a Civil War era brick ordnance magazine directly associated with the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederate States of America," appears in a planning document prepared by the Texas Historical Commission.</p><br>
<p>The magazine was built in late 1863 or early 1864. "Ninety percent of the building is original and remains unaltered except for some weathering, aging brick and some sympathetic repairs." However, two smaller associated buildings have been dismantled, apparently for their bricks.</p><br>
<p>The Ordnance Magazine and the property it sits on is owned by the Historic Jefferson Foundation. This property is landlocked and the road to the magazine is on private property, today it can only be viewed by riding the Jefferson and Cypress Bayou Railway, or taking the Turning Basin Riverboat Tour, both of which are attractions in Jefferson, Texas.</p><br>
<p>The Malvern Road School is a historic school building on Malvern Road and Southbridge Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1896 and enlarged in 1907, it is a high quality example of Beaux Arts and Renaissance Revival architecture. It is also significant as a well-preserved work of the local architectural firm Fuller & Delano. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The building has been converted to residential condominiums.</p><br>
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<p>The Malvern Road School is set prominently overlooking the junction of Malvern Road and Southbridge in southern Worcester. It is a two-story masonry structure, built out of red brick with wooden and marble trim. Its main facade is symmetrical, with a central section flanked by slightly projecting wings. The entrance is at the center, sheltered by a porch with Ionic columns and entablature. The entrance is topped in the second level by a Palladian window. Marble stringcourses run below and above the basement windows, and at the base of the first floor windows. The main roof cornice projects significantly and is adorned with modillion blocks.</p><br>
<p>The school was designed by prominent local architects Fuller & Delano, and its western two-thirds, housing two classrooms and offices, were built in 1896. The building was enlarged in 1907 to its present extent (four classrooms), in a scheme of planned enlargement used in other Worcester school designs of the period. The school was one of ten schools built in the city in 1896-97, and was located in an area that was at the time relatively sparsely developed. The building now houses condominium residences.</p><br>
<p>The Jerome Marble House is an historic house at 23 Harvard Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Built in 1867 to a design by Elbridge Boyden, it is one of the city&#39;s fine examples of Second Empire architecture, and one of the few for which an architect is known. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It now houses professional offices.</p><br>
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<p>The Marble House is located on the west side of Harvard Street, a north–south road paralleling downtown Worcesters Main Street on a rise to the west. It is a -story brick structure, with a slate mansard roof providing a full third floor. The buildings corners have brick quoining, and the main facade is symmetrical, with polygonal bays (rising to the roof level) flanking a center entrance. The entrance is sheltered by an open porch that spans the inner front corners of the flanking bays, and is topped on the second level by two narrow round-arch windows set in a single segmented-arch opening. The windows of the flanking bays are set in rectangular openings, with stone beltcourses serving as sills, and stone lintels above. The roof is studded with dormers, some with round-arch openings and windows, others with center-gable caps and pointed-arch windows.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1867 to a design by E. Boyden & Son, and is a little-altered example of the Second Empire style in the city. It was built for Jerome Marble, a dealer in pharmaceuticals and chemicals. Marble was also a director of the Quinsigamond Bank, and made an unsuccessful foray into establishing an excursion railroad.</p><br>
<p>The John Mark Three-Decker is a historic triple decker in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is a rare example in the city of the form executed in brick. It was built in 1888 by John Mark, a mason who also lived in the building. The front door is sheltered by an overhang supported by heavy brackets, which extends over a first floor bay section to the doors right. There are bands of decorative brickwork between the floors.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Anthony Massad Three-Decker is a historic triple-decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built about 1912, it was cited as a good local example of Colonial Revival styling when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. Many details, including Tuscan columns on the porch and modillion blocks in the eaves, have been lost or obscured by subsequent exterior changes .</p><br>
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<p>The Anthony Massad Three-Decker is located in Worcester&#39;s northeastern Brittan Square area, on the north side of Harlow Street. It is a three-story wood frame structure, covered by a hip roof and finished in modern siding. Its front facade is asymmetrical, with a stack of three porches on the left side and a polygonal window bay on the right side. The porches are supported by square posts finished with siding. An angled window bay projects from one side of the building. The porch openings were originally arched, with Tuscan column supports.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1912, when the Brittan Square/Lincoln Street area was growing as a fashionable streetcar suburb. Early residents of the area were typically employed in either blue or white-collar skilled jobs downtown. Anthony Massad, this building&#39;s first owner, was the proprietor of the Exchange Hotel. Early tenants included a railroad brakeman and a police officer.</p><br>
<p>The May Street Historic District of Worcester, Massachusetts, encompasses a well-preserved collection of mid-19th century residences that are predominantly Queen Anne in their styling. The district, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, extends along May Street from Florence Street to just beyond Woodland Street, including houses numbered from 29 to 56 May Street.</p><br>
<p>Although May Street was laid out early in the 19th century, it was not developed in any significant way before the 1880s. Although there are older houses along the street, the oldest in this district is the Second Empire house built c. 1867 at 30 May Street, after lot lines had been drawn on maps of the period. The only other Second Empire house, at 33 May Street, was built c. 1873 and significantly restyled c. 1891 with Queen Anne details. The other early buildings were Victorian Gothic houses at 32 and 34 May Street, built in the late 1870s, and a third at number 29, built c. 1880. Most of the remaining buildings were built between 1888 and 1896, with Queen Anne styling. The notable exceptions are a triple decker at 49 May Street, and Victorian cottages at 31 and 56 May Street, built c. 1882 and c. 1886 respectively.</p><br>
<p>The neighborhood was during this period of development catering to businessmen and the owners of small manufacturing operations. Early owners included a jeweller, a lumber dealer, owner of a machinist shop, and a school principal. Two houses were owned by real estate dealers, and only one had an absentee owner.</p><br>
<p>The Elizabeth McCafferty Three-Decker was a historic triple decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was a fine example of a Queen Anne triple decker, with bands of decorative shingles and porch with turned posts. It was built in 1894, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. Its early tenants were primarily machinists and laborers, also including a policeman and teamster. The building has apparently been demolished; the lot is now occupied by an auto shop.</p><br>
<p>The Andrew McCarron Three-Decker is a historic triple-decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built c. 1918, it is a well-preserved example of a Colonial Revival triple-decker, and rare for its relatively large size and proportioning. It follows a standard side hall plan, but is four bays wide instead of the more usual three, and has no side jogs . It has a three-story porch structure that projects significantly from the front facade. It is supported by fluted square columns and is topped by a pedimented gable.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The John B. McDermott Three-Decker is a historic triple decker in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built c. 1910, it is distinctive for its preservation, and the scale and profusion of its Colonial Revival details. It has a typical side hall plan with a side bay, and a hip roof that is unusual for the presence of pedimented gable sections. The cornice of the roofline is decorated with evenly spaced heavy brackets. The front entry is highlighted by a two-story gable-end pedimented porch, of which the first floor section wraps around to the right side of the building. The porch is supported by slender round columns, and its roof has bracketing similar to that of the main roof.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Patrick McGrath Three-Decker is a historic triple decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was built in 1894, during an early phase of development in the Grafton Hill area, and was highlighted for its Queen Anne styling when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. Exterior details, notably an ornately decorated porch, have since been lost .</p><br>
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<p>The Patrick McGrath Three-Decker is located in southeastern Worcester, in the residential area known as Vernon Hill. The house is set on the south side of Dorchester Street east of Vernon Street. It is a three-story wood frame structure, covered by a hip roof and modern siding. It has an asymmetrical front facade, with projecting polygonal window bay on the right, and a simple shed-roof porch sheltering the entrance on the left side. A rectangular window bay projects from the right side of the building. At the time of its National Register listing, the building had a number of distinctive Queen Anne features: it had jigsawn brackets in its eaves, and a band of scallop-cut wooden shingles between the second and third floors. A single-story porch extended across the entire front facade and around the side to the projecting bay, which had bracketed posts and a spindled valance. These features have been lost due to subsequent alterations.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1894, early in the period of triple-decker development in the Vernon Hill area. Patrick McGrath, the first owner, was a carpenter who also lived here. The neighborhood, which featured more widely spaced buildings, was being settled by mainly Irish immigrants moving out of more densely built areas closer to downtown. Early tenants included a teacher, a stonemason, and a clerk.</p><br>
<p>The Patrick McGuinness Three-Decker is a historic triple decker in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was built c. 1908, and is a rare well-preserved example of a double triple-decker  with Colonial Revival styling. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
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<p>The Patrick McGuiness Three-Decker is located in Worcester&#39;s southeastern Vernon Hill neighborhood, on the south side of Suffield Street east of Perry Avenue. It is a three-story wood-frame structure, basically built as a pair of adjacent mirror-image triple deckers. The building has a central recessed porch area where each level has a slightly different treatment: the first level has full-length turned columns, the second level has half-height columns above a shingled balustrade, and the third level has arch-forming brackets resting on short piers. The bays flanking the porch area are rounded, with two sash windows. There were originally jigsawn brackets in the main roof eave, but these have been apparently been lost (see photo).</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1908, when the lower western portion of Vernon Hill was being densely developed with triple deckers as a working-class residential area. Patrick McGuiness, its first owner, was an absentee landlord, who rented the units to Irish and Scandinavian immigrants. By the 1920s, the area had become more mixed, with tenants of Polish and Lithuanian extraction.</p><br>
<p>The Frank McPartland Three-Decker is a historic triple-decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built about 1912, it is a well-preserved instance of a typical modestly styled Colonial Revival three decker, although some architectural details have been lost to subsequent exterior changes. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
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<p>The Frank McPartland Three-Decker is located in Worcester&#39;s northeastern Brittan Square neighborhood, on the west side of Paine Street between Harlow Street and Green Hill Parkway. It is a three-story wood frame structure, covered by a hip roof and clad in modern siding. Its main facade is asymmetrical, with a three-level projecting polygonal window bay on the left. The right side is dominated by a three-level porch, which projects beyond the window bay, and has a single-story section extending all the way across the front. It is supported by posts with simple Tuscan styling, round on the first two floors and square on the third. Its main roof eave was originally studded with modillion blocks, and its porch railings were once more elaborate; these details have been lost (see photo).</p><br>
<p>It was built c. 1912, when the Lincoln Street/Brittan Square area was developed as a streetcar suburb, and is a well-preserved example of Colonial Revival styling. Frank McPartland, its first owner, was a postal letter carrier who also lived here. Early tenants included another letter carrier and a wireworker, as well as a milliner and a fireman.</p><br>
<p>The James McPartland Three-Decker is a historic three-decker in Worcester, Massachusetts, built around 1888. It is a rare surviving instance of the form in Worcesters East Side Irish neighborhood, with a hip roof and decorative brackets in the eaves. A square projecting section on the front facades right side is topped by a gable roof and shingled porches take up the left side, met on the third floor with round-arch openings.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Mechanics&#39; Hall District is a historic district encompassing a city block of downtown Worcester, Massachusetts, United States that preserves its late 19th-century appearance. It is located on Main Street between Exchange and Foster Streets, and includes the Worcester Five Cents Savings Bank building and Mechanics Hall. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
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<p>The Mechanics Hall District is located on the north side of Worcesters downtown, west of the DCU Center and north of City Hall. It consists of eight buildings on both sides of Main Street, between Exchange and Foster Streets to the east, and Sudbury and Maple Streets to the west. The eponymous Mechanics Hall is located roughly in the center of the east side of this area; it is an Italianate structure built in 1857 to a design by Worcester architect Elbridge Boyden, and is one of the city&#39;s cultural centers. To its north is the large Central Exchange Building, constructed in 1895-96 with later Renaissance Revival styling. South of Mechanics Hall is a vacant lot, beyond which is the Burnside Building, built in 1886-87 to a design by Boston architects Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell.</p><br>
<p>The block opposite Mechanics Hall is taken up by five buildings, all of which are historically significant. The northern end is anchored by the Flagg Building (1854), one of the citys best-preserved Italianate office buildings, with the 1897-1906 Day Building adjacent. South of these is the 1891 Worcester Five Cents Savings Bank building, designed by Worcester architect Stephen Earle, and the 1925 Classical Revival Central Building. The districts southern end is the former State Street Mutual building, built in 1894-97; it is considered to be the city&#39;s first formal skyscraper, with a steel frame and Romanesque exterior.</p><br>
<p>A much larger stretch of Worcester&#39;s Main Street was one lined with a series of connected commercial buildings similar to this block. Urban renewal has taken its toll on the larger area, and this block is now one of the few that retains a significant concentration of high quality late 19th-century architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Merrill Double House is an historic two family house at 18-20 West Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The -story Victorian Gothic Revival brick building was built c. 1879, apparently by the heirs of a local shopowner, Enoch Merrill, whose house had previously stood on the lot. The two units are symmetrically laid out on either side of a common party wall. The center of the main facade includes a porch that shelters the paired entrances, and each side facade includes a pavilion that rises a full three stories with a steeply pitched roof.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Charles Miles House is a historic house at 131 Lincoln Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built about 1850, it was one of the city&#39;s finest surviving Italianate residences when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Many of its exterior features have been lost due to the application of modern siding .</p><br>
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<p>The Charles Miles House is located in Worcester&#39;s northeastern Brittan Square neighborhood, on the east side of Lincoln Street (Massachusetts Route 70) at its corner with Forestdale Road. It is a two-story wood-frame house, three bays wide, with a hip roof and modern siding. A single-story hip-roofed porch extends across its front façade, with square posts rising to arched openings. The porch roof eave is lined with dentil molding, a detail repeated in a projecting polygonal window bay on the right side.</p><br>
<p>When listed on the National Register, the building was described as one of Worcesters finest Italianate residences, with corner quoining, a modillioned cornice, and a widows walk. Windows were capped by lintels set on consoles. All of these features have since been lost to exterior alteration.</p><br>
<p>The house was built c. 1850 by Charles Miles, a clerk working the city&#39;s treasury department.</p><br>
<p>The house was occupied by Dr. Thomas P Coyle from June 16, 1960, until August 1983, who restored much of the first floor interior.</p><br>
<p>Since 2017 The Charles Miles House has been owed by 131 Lincoln Street, LLC, and has been converted to professional office space. The main tenant of the building is Kovacs Law, P.C.</p><br>
<p>Montvale is a residential historic district in northwestern Worcester, Massachusetts. It is a portion of a subdivision laid out in 1897 on the estate of Jared Whitman, Jr., whose property contained a single house, now 246 Salisbury Street. The central portion of this house was built in 1851 in a conventional Greek Revival style, and was expanded with the addition of side wings by the developers of the 1897 subdivision, H. Ballard and M. O. Wheelock.</p><br>
<p>Ballard and Wheelock laid out 73 lots on the Whitman property, on which a large number of fine Queen Anne Victorian and Colonial Revival houses were built. The district contains 37 properties, including the Whitman house and 36 others built between 1897 and 1924. This cluster of houses is centered on Whitman Road between Sagamore Road and Salisbury Street, and also includes properties on Waconah and Monadnock Roads.</p><br>
<p>One of the more notable houses in the district is a Queen Anne/Shingle style house at 254 Salisbury Street, built in 1897 to a design by prominent architect George Clemence. Other properties were designed by the architectural firm of Earle & Fisher, including 96 Sagamore Road, a Colonial Revival house built in 1902, and 11 Monadnock Road, an 1899 Queen Anne Victorian executed in brick and stucco. Earle & Fisher were also responsible for the additions and modifications to the 1851 Whitman house.</p><br>
<p>Some houses in the district were occupied by wealthy and high-profile individuals in the city. Harold Ashley, vice president of a sprinkler manufacturer, lived at 14 Whitman Road, a 1920 Eclectic house. Frederick Lines, treasurer of the Matthews Manufacturing Company, lived in the 1918 Colonial Revival house at 24 Whitman Road, and mathematician and WPI professor Levi Conant lived at 254 Salisbury Street.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Jesse Moore House is a historic house at 25 Catherine Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Completed in 1891, it is one of the city&#39;s well-preserved examples of high-style Queen Anne architecture with Shingle style features. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
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<p>The Jesse Moore House is located northeast of downtown Worcester, in the Bell Hill neighborhood. It occupies a lot at the northwest corner of Catherine and Windsor Streets, where it is set up on a rise, with a granite retaining wall at the sidewalk. It is a -story structure, with the asymmetrical style and massing typical of the Queen Anne style. It has two three-story octagonal towers on its southern facade, along with a shingled porch. The second level has a recessed porch area between the two towers. Its ground floor is finished in rock-faced granite, while the upper levels are finished in wooden clapboards and shingles. Portions of the front and sides are decorated with colored terra cotta tiles.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1890–91; its architect is unknown, but may be Baker & Nourse based on a stylistic comparison to another local house they designed. The adjacent Draper Ruggles House was moved a short distance to make way for its construction. Nothing is known of the first owner, Jesse Moore, in whose family it remained until 1925. At that time it was purchased by the Louis Pasteur Hospital.</p><br>
<p>The Sarah Munroe Three-Decker  is a historic triple decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. The house was built c. 1892, and was noted for its Queen Anne styling when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. Many of these details have subsequently been lost due to alteration .</p><br>
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<p>The Sarah Monroe Three-Decker is located in Worcester&#39;s eastern Belmont Street neighborhood, on the east side of Rodney Street just north of Belmont Street (Massachusetts Route 9). It is a three-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof and exterior finished in modern siding. The main roof has deep eaves, which were originally adorned with paired carved brackets and modillion blocks. The facade is asymmetrical, with a projecting three-story polygonal window bay on the right, and a single-story porch on the left, sheltering the entrance. The porch was originally an elaborate Queen Anne construction, with turned posts and balustrade. The exterior of the house also originally had more elaborate styling, with bands of wooden shingles between the floors in the projecting bay. The house follows a typical side-hall three-decker plan, with a long projecting side jog on the right side.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1892, during the early phase of triple-decker development in the Belmont Hill area. This area was a popular residential destination for Swedish and Finnish immigrants, who were employed steel and wire factories in northern Worcester. The first documented owner was Sarah Monroe, who also lived here. Most of the documented early tenants were wireworkers, laborers, and machinists.</p><br>
<p>The Patrick Murphy Three-Decker is a historic triple decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. The house was built c. 1900, and was cited as a fine example of Queen Anne architecture when was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. Some of its architectural detail has been lost since then .</p><br>
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<p>The Patrick Murphy Three-Decker is located southeast of downtown Worcester, in the city&#39;s Oak Hill neighborhood. It occupies a small lot at the northeast corner of Jefferson and Arlington Streets. It is a three-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof and exterior finished in modern siding. The main facade is asymmetrical, with a projecting polygonal window bay, three stories tall, on the left, and the main building entrance on the right. A single-story porch extends across the entire front, and is the most decorative surviving element of a once-elaborate exterior. It has turned posts which rise to brackets and a valance with a ball-and-spindle frieze. Details lost include bands of decorative shingles between the floors on the front bay, brackets in the eaves, and corner brackets with pendants at the corners of the front bay and a similar one on the side.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1900, when this area on the northwest slope of Grafton Hill underwent major residential development. Patrick Murphy, its first owner, was a laborer who also lived here. Its early tenants included Irish immigrants (typically laborers, machinists, or wire workers) employed in the city&#39;s southern factories.</p><br>
<p>The Christina Nelson Three-Decker is a historic triple decker residence in Worcester, Massachusetts. The house was built c. 1916, and is a well-preserved local example of Colonial Revival styling. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
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<p>The Christina Nelson Three-Decker is located in the North Quinsigamond neighborhood of southern Worcester, on the south side of Butler Street between Bothina and Malmo Streets. It is three-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and exterior finished in modern siding. Its three stories of porches are supported by Tuscan columns, and flanked on the left side by a rounded window bay. The main facade is topped by a fully pedimented gable end. The exterior was originally finished in a combination of clapboards and wooden shingles; the latter appeared in bands between the windows of the front window bay.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1916, during an extended residential building boom in the Quinsigamond area that lasted from 1890 to about 1920. Its earliest documented owner was Christina Nelson, who lived nearby on Keach Street; many of its early tenants were Scandinavian immigrants, drawn to employment at the nearby Quinsigamond Works, a metal processor and major local employer.</p><br>
<p>The Charles Newton House is a historic house at 24 Brattle Street in Worcester, Massachusetts.</p><br>
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<p>The original owner of the house was Charles Newton, a farmer. The exact date of construction is not known, but it was most likely between 1846, when Newton acquired the land, and the early 1850s, when the house was first noted in the city directories. About 1861 Newton sold the property to Calvin Foster, railroad financier and founder and president of the City National Bank of Worcester. In 1890 Foster sold the house to architect James E. Fuller of the well-known firm of Fuller & Delano, who lived there until his death in 1901. Fuller&#39;s sons, also architects, built their own houses on the property. J. Edward Fuller, the elder, built his house at what is now numbered 40 Brattle Street about 1896, while Robert L. Fuller, the younger, had built his at 14 Brattle Street by 1911.</p><br>
<p>Likely built in 1840s, the -story wood-frame house is a rare local example of a house transitional between Federal and Greek Revival styling. The side hall, front gable plan is typically Greek Revival, but some details are Federal, such as the narrow corner boards. The doorway, flanked by sidelight windows and surrounded by an architrave with corner and center blocks, was derived from designs published by Asher Benjamin. The house&#39;s northern wing and main stair, featuring Colonial Revival details, was likely an addition added by Fuller.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Norcross Brothers Houses are historic houses at 16 and 18 Claremont Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. They are named after their builders and first occupants, James and Orlando Norcross, principals of the Norcross Brothers construction company.</p><br>
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<p>The houses, which are located on the corner of Claremont Street and Woodland Street in the Main South area of Worcester, have been regarded as some of the earliest and finest examples of Queen Anne architecture in the city. They were built in 1878 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 16 Claremont Street is home to the George Perkins Marsh Institute of Clark University. The Marsh Institute studies the human dimensions of environmental change and coupled natural and human systems.</p><br>
<p>The two homes are nearly identical in design, featuring rock-faced sandstone exteriors and asymmetrical facades. They are richly ornamented with wood paneling and unique interior details, with slight differences between the two houses. Over the years, the homes went through various modifications as they served different purposes, including a nursing home, convent, commune, dormitory, and more. Efforts have been made to restore some of the original spaces, but changes made by previous occupants and academic program requirements have been accommodated.</p><br>
<p>The North Worcester Aid Society was a charitable society based in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1874 to provide clothing for children orphaned during the American Civil War. It met in a school on Holden Street until 1887, when land nearby was donated to the group, and its building at 58 Holden Street was built.</p><br>
<p>The society&#39;s building as originally built was a relatively simple -story wood-frame structure with minimal Queen Anne/Stick style decoration with a rectangular plan. In 1928 the southern wing and small porch were added, providing the society with dining and social space. This addition was designed by Worcester architect G. Adolph Johnson. The society was at its height in the 1940s, declining afterward. It was dissolved in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is now a private residence.</p><br>
<p>The Richard O&#39;Brien Three-Decker is a historic triple-decker in Worcester, Massachusetts. The house was built c. 1890, and was noted for its well-preserved Queen Anne styling when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. A number of these details have been lost or obscured .</p><br>
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<p>The Richard O&#39;Brien Three-Decker is located southeast of downtown Worcester, on the east side of Suffolk Street in a mixed residential-industrial area. It is a three-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof and exterior clad in modern siding. Its front facade is asymmetrical, with a three-story rounded window bay on the left, and the main entrance on the right. The entrance is sheltered by a porch with bracketed turned posts and a plain 20th-century balustrade. The entrance is a pair of paneled doors, each with frosted windows framed by a bracketed cornice. The exterior of the house was originally more elaborate: the main roof eave was bracketed, the porch balustrade had turned balusters, and the window bay had bands of decorative cut shingles between the floors. These features have been lost or obscured by the application of modern siding.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1890, serving as worker housing for people employed either in the nearby railroad yards or factories. Richard O&#39;Brien, the first owner, was a painter, and his family owned the house until at least 1920. Tenants included laborers and leatherworkers, primarily of Irish extraction.</p><br>
<p>The James O&#39;Connor Three-Decker is a historic triple-decker in Worcester, Massachusetts. At time of its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, it was recognized as a well-preserved example of a wood-frame Queen Anne building, featuring a three-story porch with decorative turned wood balusters and porch supports, and wood siding with decorative bands of cut shingles. It was built about 1906, in what was then an ethnically mixed neighborhood; its early occupants were Irish and Swedish, with Poles and Lithuanians arriving later. Since its listing, the house has been resided and the porches removed.</p><br>
<p>The James OConnor-John Trybowski Three-Decker is a historic triple decker in Worcester, Massachusetts. When the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, it was recognized for its well preserved Colonial Revival styling, including porches supported by heavy square columns, and decorative brackets on the cornice. It was built about 1914, and its first owner, James OConnor, was a gasfitter, and its early tenants were Irish immigrants. Since its listing, the house&#39;s exterior has been resided, removing the cornice decorations and enclosing the porches .</p><br>
<p>The Old State Mutual Building is an historic commercial building at 240 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. It served as the offices of the State Mutual Life Assurance Company from its construction in 1870 until 1897. Designed by Charles B. Atwood, it is one of a few surviving Second Empire commercial buildings in the city.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Oxford–Crown Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by Chatham, Congress, Crown, Pleasant, Oxford Streets and Oxford Place in Worcester, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The district contains Mid 19th Century Revival, Greek Revival, and Renaissance architecture. The area was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and expanded in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Due to its proximity to the citys downtown and the assemblage of historically significant properties, the Crown Hill Neighborhood Association gathered to petition City Council to form a Local Historic District in 2008. In October 2010, the Crown Hill Survey Project commenced and in February 2011 the boundaries were created with the help of the neighborhoods property owners. Approval was granted by the Worcester Historical Commission two years after efforts began.</p><br>
<p>The Park Building is an historic building in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Built in 1914, the 11 story structure was for many years one of Worcester&#39;s most prominent landmarks. It has a steel frame, with an exterior that is dressed predominantly in limestone. The first two floors have metal and plate glass store fronts, while the third floor has evenly spaced windows, separated by decorative limestone panels and topped by a cornice. From the fourth to the ninth floors there is little decoration. The top two floors have groups of windows separated by Tuscan columns, giving the appearance of a loggia.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Perry Avenue Historic District is a historic district in Worcester, Massachusetts. It includes four well-preserved triple-decker houses that were built in the late 1920s at the base of Vernon Hill, representing one of the last phases of development in that area. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
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<p>Perry Avenue, a predominantly residential street, is located in southeastern Worcester, running parallel to and east of Interstate 290, roughly between Massachusetts Route 122A and Massachusetts Route 146. The four buildings that make up this district are located on the east side of the street, about midway between Seymour and Stone Streets.</p><br>
<p>All four buildings are wood frame structures, three stories in height, and have gable roofs and a combination of clapboard and wooden shingle siding. All have an overhanging front gable that is fully pedimented, with modillions in the eave and raking edges. Their fronts are divided into two sections, one a projecting bay window stack rising the full height, and the other a stack of porches. On two of the buildings, 51 and 55 Perry, the porches project and are set under a separate gable, while those of 49 and 54 are recessed under the main gable. The recessed porches are supported by grouped columns, while the projecting porches have shingled supports, and extend on the first level across the building width.</p><br>
<p>These houses were built about 1928, during Worcester&#39;s last period of triple decker construction. This area, located lower on the slopes of Vernon Hill, was developed as infill in an area originally populated by Irish immigrants; these new buildings were at first owned and occupied primarily by Polish and Lithuanian immigrants.</p><br>
<p>The Pleasant Street Firehouse is an historic former firehouse at 408 Pleasant Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. One of three fire stations built by the city in 1873, it was Worcester&#39;s oldest active firehouse when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
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<p>The former Pleasant Street Firehouse stands in a mixed residential-commercial area west of downtown Worcester, at the southwest corner of Pleasant and Winslow Streets. It is a two-story brick building, with a hip roof topped by an open cupola, and a pedimented gable with oriel window atop the center section of the main (north-facing) facade. There are three equipment bays on the ground floor, all of which have been enclosed with wood frame walls clad in shingles. The outer bays each have a door in them, that on the right also with a plate glass window to the right. Two similar glass windows are found in the central bay. Windows in the second floor are topped by eared granite lintels.</p><br>
<p>The city built this firehouse in 1873-74 on land purchased from Daniel Waldo Lincoln, a prominent local landowner. Its architect is unknown; although the city paid the local firm of Earle and Fuller for design services related to fire stations in 1873, the building is stylistically different from the other firehouses built at the time. It is somewhat curiously retardaire in style, with the cupola and projecting side pavilion more reminiscent of earlier Federal and Greek Revival styles than the then-current Second Empire and Renaissance styles. Since its listing on the National Register in 1980, the city closed and sold the building, and it has been converted to commercial use.</p><br>
<p>The Providence Street Firehouse is a historic former firestation at 98 Providence Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1899, it is unusual among the city&#39;s firehouses for its Beaux Arts stylings. The building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, now houses Worcester Emergency Medical Services .</p><br>
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<p>The former Providence Street firehouse stands on the west side of Providence Street, in a predominantly residential area southeast of the city&#39;s downtown. It is a 2-1/2 story brick building, rectangular in plan, with a hip roof and a square tower on the north side. The tower is topped by a pyramidal roof. It has two garage bays set in rectangular openings, topped by sandstone lintels, with a pedestrian entrance to their right. That entrance has a Beaux Arts style surround, with rosettes decorating the trim elements, and a gabled pediment above. The second floor has four paired sash windows set in rectangular openings. The roof eave is studded with heavy brackets.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by Earle & Fisher and was built in 1899 to serve what was then a rapidly developing neighborhood. Although similar in size and scale to other period firestations in the city, this one is distinctive for its heavy Beaux Arts decoration.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Engine 12 and Ladder 5 ran out of this station until 2009. Worcester Emergency Medical Services took over the station, providing space for Paramedic 1 and Paramedic 4, and for a training facility.</p><br>
<p>The Providence Street Historic District is a historic district in Worcester, Massachusetts. It includes a cohesive collection of triple decker houses built in the late 1920s in the Vernon Hill section of the city. The ten primary buildings in the 1.39 acre district are fine examples of Colonial Revival and Craftsman styling; there are also seven period garages. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The development of triple deckers on Worcester&#39;s south side had reached the vicinity of the Worcester Academy grounds by the mid-1920s. A series of them were laid on along Providence Street (Massachusetts Route 122A), and built between 1926 and 1930 during the last phase of triple decker development. They were probably built by the Dworman Building Company, and many of them were first occupied by predominantly Jewish families moving to the area from homes closer to the city center. In 1930, four of the ten buildings were owned by Hyman Zive, a realtor with other property holdings in the city, and only two were occupied by their owners.</p><br>
<p>The seven buildings at 127-139 Providence Street are nearly identical in their construction. These Colonial Revival structures have hipped roofs and full three-level porches topped by a gable with a diamond light window. The porches have square columns, and each level has a slightly different styling: the first level has an arched opening, the second a peaked one, and the third a bracketed square opening. Railings on the upper levels have narrow spindled balusters. Most of these seven buildings have wood clapboard siding on the first level and wood shingles on the upper levels; those at 131 and 133 Providence have clapboards on all levels, with bands of shingles between the floors. The three buildings at 141-145 Providence are all Craftsman in their styling.</p><br>
