<p>The Arthur Provost Three-Decker is a historic triple decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built c. 1910, it is a locally rare instance of the form built in brick. It was also originally noted for its fine Queen Anne porches, which have been removed. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
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<p>The Arthur Provost Three-Decker is located southeast of downtown Worcester, on the south side of Thorne Street in the city&#39;s Franklin Plantation neighborhood. It is a three-story structure, built out of red brick and covered by a hip roof. Windows and doors are set in segmented-arch openings, and there is a polygonal window bay on the left side of the front facade. The right side originally had a stack of wooden porches with elaborate Queen Anne styling, including turned posts, spindled balusters, and bracketed eaves; the porches have subsequently been entirely removed, and the upper-floor doorways filled by wood framing and windows, while the ground-floor entrance is now fronted by an open porch with iron railing.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1910, during an eastward expansion of residential development into the area. Its first known owner, Arthur Provost, was a bookkeeper, and many of its early tenants were of French Canadian extraction.</p><br>
<p>The Otis Putnam House is a historic house at 25 Harvard Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1887 to a design by Fuller & Delano for a prominent local department store owner, it is a fine local example of Queen Anne architecture executed in brick. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It now houses offices.</p><br>
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<p>The Putnam House is located on the west side of Harvard Street, a north–south road paralleling downtown Worcester&#39;s Main Street on a rise to the west, southwest of its corner with Dix Street, and adjacent to the Jerome Marble House. It is a -story brick building, with a front-facing gable roof and a stone foundation. It is roughly rectangular in plan, with asymmetrical projecting sections to the sides. On its east-facing front facade, a two-story porch is recessed under the gable, with the first-floor section projecting beyond, with a shed roof across part of its width, and a gable above the granite steps. The second-floor porch has turned posts set on shingled piers, with a latticework frieze between them at the top. The main gable is framed in wood and finished in shingles set in a wavy pattern, with a projecting bay at the center with two round-arch windows in the front. First-floor windows are set in segmented-arch openings capped by brick lintels, while second floor windows are in square openings with stone lintels. A band of decorative brickwork acts as a frieze below the roofline.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1887 to a design by Fuller & Delano, and is one of the citys finer examples of Queen Anne brickwork. It was built for Otis Putnam, a native of nearby Leicester who worked his way through the ranks to become a leading partner in one of the citys largest department stores. He also served as a director of the local electric company, and of the Worcester and Holden Street Railway Company.</p><br>
<p>The Frank Reed Three-Decker is a historic triple decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was built c. 1888 for Frank Reed, an electrician and machinist who eventually opened his own business. The house is a particularly elegant example of a Queen Anne triple decker. Its porch has square cut chamfered posts, is decorated with lattice work, and has a projecting gabled top. The right side bay is round with a conical roof section, and is clad in shingles cut in a wavy pattern. The deep cornice is decorated with brackets near the corners.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Ezra Rice House is a historic house at 1133 West Boylston Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was built sometime between 1833 and 1845, and was a rare local example of transitional Federal and Greek Revival styling. Most of significant exterior details have been obscured or lost due to the application of modern siding. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
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<p>The Ezra Rice House stands in a residential area in far northern Worcester, at the northwest corner of West Boylston Street and Wilbur Road. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and exterior finished in modern siding. A full-height -story ell extends to the rear, joining the main block to a modern garage. The main facade, facing West Boylston Street, is three bays wide, with the main entrance in the rightmost bay, and windows placed irregularly in the two left bays. The entrance is the only portion of the exterior retaining significant Greek Revival features: it has flanking half-height sidelight windows, and is set in a slight recess flanked by pilasters and topped by a corniced entablature. The entry was virtually identical to that of the Charles Newton House (another period house in the city), and is derived from examples published by Asher Benjamin in 1830.</p><br>
<p>Due to the house&#39;s location remote from the city center, little is known of the property prior to 1851, when Ezra Beamon Rice is recorded as living here. Rice is likely a member of the Beamon family that was historically prominent in the affairs of West Boylston, and is poorly documented in Worcester records.</p><br>
<p>The B. E. Ridyard Three-Decker is a historic three-decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. When the c. 1910 house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, Since then, the house has been resided, and the porch details have been removed or covered over . The area where it was built was at the outer edge of residential development west of downtown during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.</p><br>
<p>The John Riordan Three-Decker is an historic three-decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1888, it is a rare survivor of the earliest phase of three-decker construction in the area northwest of Worcester&#39;s downtown. It has a single story entry porch, and an atypical square projecting bay  flanking the entry. Its early occupants were lower-income white collar workers, and skilled blue collar workers, predominantly Irish in origin.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Catharine Roynane Three-Decker  is a historic triple decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was built c. 1890, and is a well-preserved local example of the form with Queen Anne styling. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
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<p>The Catharine Roynane Three-Decker is located southeast of downtown Worcester, on the south side of Ingalls Street in the citys Oak Hill neighborhood. It is a three-story wood frame structure, with a hip roof and exterior finished in modern siding. The front facade is asymmetrical, with a full-height projecting polygonal window bay on the right, and the main entrance on the left. The upper floors of the projecting bays have short skirts. The entrance is sheltered by a porch extending across the bays width, with a decorative wooden frieze below the roof between its square posts. The building originally had other period details, including bracketing in the eaves and vertical board finish on the projecting bay, but these have been lost or obscured due to the application of modern siding.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1890, early in the development of Oak Hill as a streetcar suburb serving workers in the city&#39;s downtown and southern factories. Catherine Ronayne was the first documented owner; tenants in the early decades include a machinist, firefighter, and shoe factory worker.</p><br>
<p>The Draper Ruggles House is a historic house at 21 Catharine Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built about 1848, it is an important local example of Greek Revival architecture. It is further notable as the home of Draper Ruggles, owner of one of the city&#39;s major industrial firms, a plow manufacturer. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
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<p>The Ruggles House is set on the north side of Catharine Street, just north of the UMass Medical Center on Worcester&#39;s east side. It is a rare local example of hip-roofed Greek Revival house with a temple front; the Dowley-Taylor House is the only other city property that also has these characteristics. The facade has four full-height reeded columns, with a projecting entry at the center that has a Victorian hooded portico sheltering the entry, and paneled pilasters flanking the balcony entrance above. The two-story porch on the left side is also a later 19th-century addition.</p><br>
<p>The house was probably built around 1848, not long after residential development began in this part of the city. The building&#39;s style is distinctively influenced by the work of Elias Carter, a regionally notable architect of the period, and was at the time somewhat common.</p><br>
<p>The reeding of the columns is a distinctive element of Carter&#39;s work, suggesting he may have been involved in the design of this building. The owner, Draper Ruggles, was a principal partner in a plow manufacturer, that he later sold to Oliver Ames. The house was moved a short distance on its lot in 1889–90 to facilitate the construction of 25 Catharine Street. The Draper Ruggles House is currently the location of Channing House, which is a halfway house operated by Advocates Inc. is probably the most successful halfway house in Worcester County and it is also probably one of the best or most successful programs in Massachusetts. Channing House is licensed by the state of Massachusetts and it is also listed by SAMHSA as a fully accredited 6 month substance abuse residential program in Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The Russell is an historic apartment house in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1894, it is one of the few surviving apartment blocks, of many built, in the Main-Wellington-Chandler area, which had one of the city&#39;s highest concentrations of such buildings by 1900. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
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<p>The Russell stands on the southwest corner of Austin and Irving Streets, a short way southwest of Worcester&#39;s central downtown area. It is a four-story masonry structure, built out of red brick with brownstone trim. The main facade faces north toward Austin Street, and is five bays wide, with stone beltcourses below and above the first floor. Windows are set in rectangular openings at the first floor, and in segmented-arch openings above, with stone sills and lintels of soldier bricks. The entrance is in the center bay, set in a Romanesque round-arch openings with stone voussoirs. The bays above the entrance have paired narrow windows set on shared stone lintels. The building name appears in a panel between the second and third floors. Pilasters rise flanking the central three bays, beyond the top of the building to form a parapet, with corbelled brickwork between.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by Barker & Nourse and built in 1894 at a cost of $25,000 for Abigail Russell Parsons. The Main-Wellington-Chandler area, convenient to downtown Worcester, experienced rapid growth in the 1880s and 1890s. Many of its apartment blocks have since been torn down, and this is one of a few surviving remnants of that past.</p><br>
<p>There are two historic Salisbury Factory Buildings in Worcester, Massachusetts. The first of these, at 25 Union Street, was built in 1879, and is a five-story brick building with modest Victorian Gothic trim. The second, at 49-51 Union Street, was built in 1882, is a three-story brick building designed by local architect Stephen Earle. These two buildings are the only ones that survive of a series of factory buildings built by Stephen Salisbury II and Stephen Salisbury III in the Lincoln Square area north of Worcester&#39;s downtown. The Salisburys rented space out to small manufacturers in these buildings, introducing a trend that dominated the industrial development of the city. Most of their buildings were demolished during redevelopment of the area in the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>Both buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Salisbury House is an historic house at 61 Harvard Street in Worcester, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The Greek Revival building was constructed between 1836 and 1838 by Stephen Salisbury II, son of Worcester merchant Stephen Salisbury I whose 18th century mansion stands nearby. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. The two-story wood-frame structure is finished in flushboarded wood treated to resemble stone. Design of the building is attributed either to Elias Carter or Isaiah Rogers (sources disagree).</p><br>
<p>The Salisbury Mansion and Store is an historic house museum at 40 Highland Street in Worcester, Massachusetts.</p><br>
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<p>The house was originally built on Lincoln Square in 1772 by Stephen Salisbury I with an attached storehouse from which he sold imported goods under the name S. & S. Salisbury. He and his brother Samuel had originally been in business together selling hardware goods in Boston, and Stephen moved to Worcester to expand the operation. In 1820 the store was closed down, and the space was converted for residential use by the family, which occupied it until 1851. Thereafter it served as a girls school, tenant house, and then a gentlemans social club until 1929, when the building was threatened with demolition by the then occupants, the Worcester Lincoln Square Boys Club, who wanted to build more modern premises. It was saved by local efforts and moved to its current location on the former Salisbury estate near the museum and next to Salisbury House. It was donated to the American Antiquarian Society, which promptly gave it to the Worcester Art Museum, both of which were founded by Stephen Salisbury III. The museum undertook to restore the much-altered building to its condition as of 1830, and opened it for group tours as a historic house museum.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The James Schofield House is a historic Second Empire house at 3 Mt. Pleasant Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was built sometime before 1860, making it an early example of the style. It is a basically square structure, 2.5 stories high. At the time of its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, but these have been removed or covered over by subsequent replacement of the siding .</p><br>
<p>The Moody Shattuck House is a historic house at 768 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The Queen Anne style house was constructed in 1885 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Moody Edson Shattuck, founder of the M.E. Shattuck Cigar & Tobacco Company, was born in Waterville, Vermont on May 9, 1835. In 1858 he arrived in Worcester, Massachusetts and purchased a cigar store in the Lincoln House block, moving to the Walker Building two years later. Over the next several decades he would continue to develop his cigar business. At one time, it was one of the largest in New England.</p><br>
<p>Moody Shattuck married Helen Augusta Prouty on January 12, 1863. He built the house at 768 Main Street in 1885. Moody Shattuck died April 10, 1892. His wife remained in the house after his death. Mrs. Shattuck died in 1907. Both are buried at the Worcester Rural Cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The Bridget Shea Three-Decker is a historic triple decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built c. 1888, the house was described as a well-preserved Queen Anne structure when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. It has since lost many of its period details .</p><br>
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<p>The Bridget Shea Three-Decker is located in Worcester&#39;s southeastern Oak Hill neighborhood, at the northwest corner of Jefferson and Fox Streets. It is a three-story wood frame structure, covered by a hip roof and finished modern siding. The main facade is asymmetrical, with a projecting rectangular bay on the right side and the main entrance on the left. The entrance is sheltered by an enclosed vestibule with a shed roof. The right side bay houses two windows on the front face and single windows on the sides. The second and third floors of the bay are separated by a flared skirt.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1888, during the early phase of development in the Oak Hill area. Many of its period details, including corner braces and cut shingle sheathing, have been lost or obscured by subsequent siding work (see photo). The early owners and tenants of the house were mainly Irish immigrants, who moved to this part of Worcester in large numbers in the late 19th century. The Shea family, who were its first documented owners, included two machinists; other early residents included a weaver, watchman, and clerk.</p><br>
<p>The Clara Simpson Three-Decker is a historic triple decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is one of the older triple deckers in the Piedmont section of the city, built c. 1888. It follows a typical side hall plan, and has a jog on the side wall. It has a hip roof, which hangs over the house in typical Italianate fashion, with decorative brackets. The single story front porch extends the width of the house, and is supported by turned columns with heavy decorative brackets.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Slater Building is an historic commercial building at 390 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The ten story building, built in 1907 by the Norcross Brothers, was the second skyscraper in the city . Framed in steel, the building is clad in granite stone on its first two floors, while the upper floors are faced in limestone. The upper two floors are set off from those below by a trim line, and have a recessed loggia framed by Corinthian columns.</p><br>
<p>In 1939 the building&#39;s interior systems were modernized by architects Frost, Chamberlain & Edwards, successors to the original designers, and then still tenants of the building.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is currently the 10th tallest building in Worcester.</p><br>
<p>The Ellen M. Smith Three-Decker was a historic triple decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1908, it was described as one of the best preserved Queen Anne triple deckers in Worcester University Park area when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It was also one of the last to be built in the area, part of a group built to house workers in the business growing along the nearby rail corridor. It was thought to be demolished, but was actually relocated and re-modeled near-by.</p><br>
<p>The Elliot Smith House was a historic house located at 839 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 5, 1980. It was demolished in 1982.</p><br>
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<p>The -story asymmetrical wood-frame Queen Anne style house was built in 1889 for Elliot Smith, a local businessman who operated a wholesale grocery. Its porch featured elaborately turned posts and balusters, and the house was clad in wood shingles, including bands of decoratively cut shingles. There was an oriel stained glass window on the south wall. Smith lived in the house until his death in 1913. In 1945, the house was acquired by a veterans&#39; organization, and eventually became VFW post.</p><br>
<p>The David Jones House in Maryville, Tennessee, also known as the George Burchfield House, is a Second Empire style house built in 1887. It was built by Maryville brick-maker and builder David Jones.</p><br>
<p>The house is Blount County&#39;s only extant example of a residence built in the Second Empire style. It has a straight-sided mansard roof and prominent stone quoining.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Jones also built the NRHP-listed David Jones House on High Street.</p><br>
<p>The Smith-Thaxter-Merrifield House is an historic house at 158 Holden Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built c. 1741 and probably altered in the late 18th century, it is one of the oldest houses in the city, and has only undergone minimal alteration. It is also a rare local example of a hip-roof central-chimney house. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
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<p>The Smith-Thaxter-Merrifield House is located in suburban northern Worcester, at the southeast corner of Holden Street and Stetson Road. It is a two-story hip roof timber-frame house, with a five bay facade, massive central chimney, and clapboard siding. The original south-facing facade is symmetrical, with a central entry flanked by pilasters and topped by a dentillated cornice. A two-story ell extends to the rear of the house (toward Stetson Road).</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of the house was probably built by Elisha Smith II not long after his arrival in the area, from Weston in 1741. He sold it to Benjamin Thaxter later in the 18th century, who probably enlarged it, adding the hip roof and the entrance surround. In 1849 the property was purchased by Deacon Alpheus Merrifield, and in 1866 it was acquired by James Libby. About 1915, Libby&#39;s heirs sold it to the Norton Company. Its only known subsequent alterations are the replacement of windows, in the early 20th century. At the time of its listing on the National Register in 1980, it was being used as child care facility, a role it had served since 1946. This type of house was fairly typical in Worcester in the late 18th and early 19th century; there are only three such houses left.</p><br>
<p>The Soho Cottage is a historic house at 21 Windsor Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1860, it is one of the city&#39;s finest surviving examples of Carpenter Gothic architecture, owned and occupied for many years by a prominent local industrialist. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
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<p>The Soho Cottage is located northeast of downtown Worcester, at the northwest corner of Windsor Street and Forestdale Road in the Bell Hill neighborhood. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a steeply pitched gabled roof and exterior clad in vertical board siding. The roof gables are adorned with drip-style bargeboard. A cross-gable section projects to the south on the right side, with a gabled wall dormer and oriel window to its left, flanking the main entrance. The facade facing Windsor Street includes a rectangular window bay with three sash windows on the front and one each on the sides. Windows in some of the gables are topped by either half-round or Gothic style arched elements.</p><br>
<p>The cottage was built in 1860, as a mirror image to the Forest Hill Cottage across Windsor Street (which has been more substantially altered). Its first owner was William Allen, an English immigrant who worked as a machinist and foreman in local factories. In 1875, Allen purchased the Worcester Boiler Works, which became one of the largest manufacturers of industrial boilers in New England. Allen remained in this house until his death in 1906.</p><br>
<p>The Edward Stark House is a historic house at 21 Oread Street in Worcester, Massachusetts.</p><br>
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<p>The -story Queen Anne Victorian house was built in 1880 for Edward H. Stark, owner of a boot and shoe factory. It is principally brick, with sandstone trim, and resting on a sandstone block foundation. Its features include a rounded bay that rises to a conical turret, and a porch with turned balusters and pillars. It was designed by John B. Woodworth, a local architect, and is the finest known example of his work.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Daniel Stevens House is a historic Second Empire house at 7 Sycamore Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built about 1865 for Daniel and Charles Stevens, it is a well-preserved local example of Second Empire architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Daniel Stevens House stands on the southwest side of Sycamore Street, a residential side street a short way south of downtown Worcester. It is a -story brick building, with a mansard roof providing a full third floor. It is three bays wide, with the outer bays consisting of projecting polygonal sections. The entrance is in the center bay, sheltered by a flat-roof porch with square posts and a bracketed cornice. The building corners are quoined in brick, and the windows are set in openings with shouldered brownstone lintels, and with brownstone sills connected to thin projecting brownstone stringcourses. The steep mansard slopes are pierced by elaborate dormers with bracketed gabled roofs.</p><br>
<p>Daniel Stevens was a native of Charlton who settled in Worcester in 1853 with his brother Charles and established business as painters. Their business was so successful that they built a large facility on Southbridge Street now known as the Stevens&#39; Building, and expanded into the manufacture of wooden architectural parts. The lived in a previous house at 7 Sycamore prior to the construction of this house, which was probably sometime between 1865 and 1870 (based on stylistic evidence and period maps). Charles Stevens moved out in 1880.</p><br>
<p>The Edna Stoliker Three-Decker is a historic triple decker in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built c. 1916, it 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 Edna Stoliker Three-Decker is located in a residential part of southeastern Worcester, on the west side of Plantation Street near its junction with Cohasset Street. It is a three-story wood frame structure, with a hip roof and exterior clad mostly in modern siding. It has a typical side-hall plan, but is distinctive in that its projecting bays vary in style, and that its first-floor porch wraps around to the side. The porch is supported by heavy square columns either singly or in pairs, and the smaller upper-level porches have arched openings. The porches are covered by a truncated hip roof with a deep pediment, and the main roof gable has a square window with original tracery. Features lost due to the application of modern siding include shingle bands between the floors of the projecting window bay, and modillion blocks in the porch&#39;s eave.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1916, during a major real-estate development phase in the city&#39;s southeast. Edna Stoliker, the first owner, was also resident here; early tenants included a teamster, homemaker, policeman, and railroad conductor.</p><br>
<p>The Edward Stone Three-Decker is a historic triple decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1888, during an early phase of development in the area, it originally housed workers at nearby manufacturers, and later housed office workers who went downtown by streetcar. The house was highlighted for its Stick style architectural decorations when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, including elements in the gable end and on the porch. Many of these details have been lost or covered over as a result of subsequent exterior siding work , although round-arch windows in the gable end survive.</p><br>
<p>The Leonard Sturtevant House is a historic house at 84 Mulberry Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built c. 1849, it is a locally distinctive variant of Greek Revival styling, and a rare surviving element of the early development of the city&#39;s Belmont Hill area. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
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<p>The Leonard Sturtevant House is located southeast of downtown Worcester, at the southeast corner of Mulberry and Prospect Streets near the base of Belmont Hill. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and exterior clad in modern siding. The house has a T shape, with projecting rectangular sections on each side. Both the front gable and the gables of the projections are fully pedimented; the main gable has an arched window in the tympanum, while the side gables have small octagonal windows. The cross of the T is topped by a square cupola. An open porch supported by Doric columns wraps around to the sides of the house. Portions of the house&#39;s originally more elaborate Greek Revival design have been obscured or lost by the application of modern siding.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1849, a period when Belmont Hill saw a brief boom of middle-class housing set on spacious lots. This period did not last, because of the area&#39;s close proximity to industrial sites and a notoriously problematic immigrant quarter, and was largely redeveloped with more dense lower-class worker housing later in the 19th century. Leonard Sturtevant, the first documented owner, was a tailor who lived here in the late 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The D. Wheeler Swift House is a historic house at 22 Oak Avenue in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1879–80 to a design by the noted local architect Stephen C. Earle, it is a well-preserved example of Gothic Revival and Stick style design, which was home to a prominent business owner. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
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<p>The Swift House is located at the southeast corner of Oak and Kendall Streets in eastern Worcester, and is surrounded to the north, east, and south by buildings of the UMass Medical Center. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof, clapboard siding, and granite foundation. A rectangular section with gable top projects to the left (Kendall Street) side. It is a well-preserved example of Gothic Revival and Stick style design, with bargeboard and decorative apron in the main gable. The porch, which wraps around two sides of the house, has a low geometric railing, and bracketing that echoes the woodwork in the gables. In an unusual touch, the main entrance is set at an angle at the corner.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by architect Stephen C. Earle, a noted Worcester-based architect, and built in 1879–80. D. Wheeler Swift, a native of Falmouth, Massachusetts, was an inventor of envelope-making machines, eventually becoming an owner of companies that used such machines. By the end of the 19th century he was a director of the United States Envelope Company, formed by merging his company with several others.</p><br>
<p>The John Wescott Three-Decker, also known as the Wescott-Mulcahy Three-Decker is a historic triple decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is a well-preserved example of a Queen Anne triple-decker, built about 1892. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The John Wescott Three-Decker stands west of downtown Worcester in the city&#39;s Piedmont neighborhood, on the south side of Pleasant Street at Mason Street. Unusual for typical triple deckers, it is oriented with its long axis parallel to the street, in order to fit the building onto a long, narrow lot. It is a three-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof and exterior finished in a combination of wooden clapboards and shingles. Near the center of its front facade is a slightly projecting bay of porches, with turned balusters and posts. The walls are clad in alternating sections of clapboards and shingles, and the roof has a deep cornice studded with pairs of brackets. Small brackets also highlight the trim lines above the sash windows.</p><br>
<p>The building was constructed about 1892, on a lot that had previously held a two-family residence. Its first owner was John Wescott, a grocer whose store was located across Mason Street. Wescott lived nearby, and rented the units to mainly working-class individuals and families. In 1930 it was purchased by the Mulcahy family, who occupied the ground floor unit, and whose son occupied the top floor unit. The Mulcahy family owned the building through the 1950s, generally occupying two of its units and renting the third. The building underwent a rehabilitation in 2000, when its porches were replaced with replicas of the original.</p><br>
<p>The Nathan Warren House was a historic house at 50 Weston Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Built c. 1889-90 the -story house was one of the city&#39;s finest Queen Anne residences, with a turret and porte cochere, as well as a variety of decorated projecting sections. The house was built by Nathan Warren, who wrote a history of Waltham, was active in local and state politics, and who was a member of an exploratory expedition to the Yellowstone area in 1873.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Frank J. Tyler House is a historic house at 240 Linden Street in Waltham, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1894, this -story wood-frame house is one of Waltham&#39;s finest Queen Anne Victorians. It is particularly distinguished by its elaborate three-story tower, which has a conical roof and bands of decorative shingles. The main entry is framed on the left by the tower, and on the right by a polygonal bay that rises a full two stories, and is capped by a squared-off projecting gable. The gable tympanum is filled by a three-bay window and clad in decorative cut shingles. The main entry is sheltered by a porch supported by paired Tuscan columns. The paneled door is flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a transom window.</p><br>
<p>Despite its location in a fashionable neighborhood of the city and the relatively high quality of its construction, the house was used as a rental property, passing through a large number of nonresident owners until 1907. Frank J. Tyler, who subdivided his property and built it on speculation, was a Boston-based manufacturer of agricultural machinery.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, where it is listed at 238 Linden Street.</p><br>
<p>The James Swasey House was a historic house at 30 Common Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Built c. 1846, the -story wood-frame house was a well-preserved example of vernacular Greek Revival architecture, of a sort that were typically built at the time as housing for local mill workers. James Swasey, the carpenter who built the house, and his wife occupied the house into the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. At some point between 2008 and 2011, it was demolished or moved; a modern condominium stands at the site now.</p><br>
<p>The Henry Stewart House is a historic house at 294 Linden Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The -story brick building was built c.1900–01, and is a rare local example of Jacobethan style. The house was built as the gardeners cottage for Cornelia Warrens Cedar Hill estate. The house was designed by Boston architect John A. Fox. Fox based his design on that of Nun Upton, a 17th-century English country house in Herefordshire near Brimfield which is now a Grade II listed building.</p><br>
<p>The house has a T-shaped plan, with projecting end gables that project upward in curved Flemish styling. The second level above the main entrance is half-timbered wood construction. The walls have highlighting heavy beltcourses, and the chimneys are topped by corbelled pots.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Robert M. Stark House is a historic house at 176 Main Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. This -story house was designed by local architect George Strout, and built in 1890 for Robert Stark, a lawyer and local politician. At the time, the east side of Main Street had become a fashionable address for the upper middle class. The house has high quality Queen Anne style, including various projecting sections and gables, a three-story turret with conical roof, bands of decorative shingles, and windows of varying sizes and shapes with a wide variety of framing treatments.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>House Stark, one of the nine noble houses in the fantasy series Game of Thrones, is a reference to the Robert M. Stark House.</p><br>
<p>The Perez Smith House was a historic house at 46 Lincoln Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The 2½ story wood-frame house was built in 1851 and was one of the city&#39;s finest transitional Greek Revival/Italianate houses. It had a typical Italianate three-bay facade, deep cornice with decorative brackets, and round-arch windows in the gable. It also had Greek Revival pilastered cornerboards, and its center entry was flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a transom window and paneled sunburst. Its windows were topped by heavy corniced lintels.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It was demolished in June 2024.</p><br>
<p>The Marshall Smith House is a historic house at 26 Liberty Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1846–47; it is one of the city&#39;s few side-gable Greek Revival houses, with a single-story Doric porch spanning the main facade, a full entablature, and pedimented gable ends. The porch balustrade is a later addition, as are the western ell and northern window bay. Marshall Smith, the first owner, was a chair and harness maker.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Sanderson–Clark Farmhouse is a historic farmstead at 47 Lincoln Street  in Waltham, Massachusetts. The property includes an 1831 Federal style house, along with farm-related outbuildings, including a barn and stable. The property was used as a working farm until the early 20th century. It is now surrounded by 20th-century infill development, although other Federal-era houses associated with the Sanderson family still stand nearby.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Huntley, also known as Historic Huntley or Huntley Hall is an early 19th-century Federal-style villa and farm The house sits on a hill overlooking Huntley Meadows Park to the south. The estate is best known as the country residence of Thomson Francis Mason , grandson of George Mason of nearby Gunston Hall.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Upon the death of Masons grandfather George Mason on 7 October 1792, his father Thomson inherited a portion of the Gunston Hall estate. Around 1817, Masons father Thomson divided the property into two farms: Dogue Run farm for Mason&#39;s younger brother Richard Chichester Mason (1793–1869) and Hunting Creek farm adjacent to Mount Vernon for Mason.</p><br>
<p>After Masons marriage in 1817 to Elizabeth "Betsey" Clapham Price of Leesburg, Virginia, he began building Huntley as a secondary home against a hillside overlooking Hybla Valley and the Potomac River on his Hunting Creek tract between 1820 and 1825. Consistent with its counterpart Mason residences like Gunston Hall and Hollin Hall, Huntley was most likely named for Huntly Castle, an ancestral home in Scotland from Masons mothers side. Huntley never served as a permanent residence for Mason, who owned a number of houses in Alexandria including Colross, his chief homestead. Huntley was conveniently located along a gravel road from Alexandria. By 1834, Masons brother Richard built Okeley Manor on neighboring Dogue Run farm.</p><br>
<p>Twenty years after Masons death, his widow Betsey attempted to sell Huntley and its accompanying Hunting Creek farm in 1859. When she was unable to sell the property, Betsey transferred ownership on 7 November 1859 to her sons John "Frank" Francis Mason and Arthur "Pen" Pendleton Mason. Once the property was transferred to Masons sons, Huntley was held as security on a debt to a family friend, Dr. Benjamin King. On 7 December, they obtained a $13,000 loan, due for repayment on 1 January 1862, from Dr. King. Frank Mason rented Huntley to George W. Johnson, a Union sympathizer, for two years beginning on 1 August 1860. Under their agreement with Johnson, the Masons promised him $1,000 to put the farm in order. At the onset of the war, Pen Mason enlisted in the Confederate States Army.</p><br>
<p>During the American Civil War from December 1861 through February 1862, the 3rd Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment camped at Huntley, with their quartermaster and his wife residing in the mansion. Also during the war, the Masons defaulted on their loan, and Dr. King eventually acquired Huntley at a public auction on 12 June 1862. Despite Dr. Kings ownership, Johnson continued to reside at Huntley and worked the farm until February 1863. After the American Civil War, Johnson reported to the Southern Claims Commission that when Frank Mason and his mother Betsey traveled south before the war, the Masons left all of their servants and their servants children in Johnson&#39;s care without compensation.</p><br>
<p>Six years after Dr. King purchased the estate, Albert W. Harrison and Nathan W. Pierson from New Jersey assumed Huntleys title on 21 November 1868 and divided their claim in 1871. Harrison took ownership of the mansion and its supporting structures and Pierson acquired the rest. Following Harrisons death in 1911, Huntley came into the possession of his heirs. Richard Chichester Mason&#39;s descendants sold nearby Okeley Manor in 1916, ending Mason family ownership of any of the original Gunston Hall property.</p><br>
<p>During the 1930s, Huntleys property, along with other former Mason properties, was partially reassembled by entrepreneur Henry Woodhouse for the proposed George Washington Air Junction. The airport was intended to serve as a regional landing site for Graf Zeppelin airships, but the plans never came to fruition and Woodhouse lost the land by default. The last of the Harrisons died in 1946 and Huntleys mansion was sold to August W. and Eleanor S. Nagel. During the Nagels&#39; brief period of ownership, the couple commissioned Arlington architect Edward M. Pitt to make drawings of the mansion. Three years later, Huntley was sold to Colonel and Mrs. Ransom G. Amlong.</p><br>
<p>Huntley was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 3 November 1972. A $100,000 grant through the National Park Services Save Americas Treasures program was awarded to help with the renovation. The Fairfax County Park Authority also provided several million dollars towards preservation and redevelopment of the site. The restored Huntley officially opened on May 19, 2012.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Huntleys mansion and its surrounding farm complex were constructed between 1820 and 1825 in the early Federal style. Originally built in the shape of an "H", the mansions central section rises three stories on the south and two on the north. For unknown reasons the east and west sides were built first and later joined in the center. Its brickwork is laid in a common bond. The mansions flanking wings, which are one story lower than the one-room central section, each consist of two rooms. The central gable is crowned by two rectangular interior chimneys which run parallel to the mansions roofline. The central gable also contains three bays with casements of nine panes each.</p><br>
<p>The second story of the central section is crowned by a mousetooth brick cornice that once marked the edge of the mansions clipped roof. The first floor central section is sheltered by a three-bay porch addition that links the pedimented wings. The mansions front entrance is framed by three-paned sidelights separated by slender reeded pilasters and surmounted by a fanlight with wooden tracery. The two bays which flank this entrance on the first floor porch have a four-over-four sash. The remaining windows on the ground and first floors consist of a six-over-six double hung sash. Set slightly into the brick of the house, the windows still consist mostly of their early glass, and single panel shutters vented by fixed louvers.</p><br>
<p>The mansions most notable architectural features are its one-bay pedimented wings. The wing elevation on the south includes a simple ground floor bay surmounted by the first floor windows which are set into recessed rectangular frames. The side wings are topped by pediments enhanced by a molded cornice and enclosing louvered lunettes. Windows on the east and west sides of the mansions wings are spaced irregularly. On the east side, two bays light the ground level and three bays break the wall of the first story.</p><br>
<p>The Nathan Sanderson II House is a historic house at 111 Lincoln Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The oldest portion of this house, a -story timber frame section, is said to date to c. 1698. It was moved to its present location c. 1816 by Nathan Sanderson II, son of Nathan Sanderson I, whose house is next door. It was extensively altered at the time, giving it an unusual five-bay front-gable Greek Revival appearance. A single story porch with fluted Doric columns spans the main facade, and the slightly projecting central entry is flanked by sidelight windows. The house is one of several associated with the Sanderson family, who were early settlers of the area.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Nathan Sanderson I House is a historic house at 107 Lincoln Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1783, probably by Nathan Sanderson, over the foundation of an earlier  house built by an uncle. It was built in stages, with only two rooms on each floor at first; sometime before 1834 the roof was raised and a leanto added. The leanto was also raised to a full two stories in the 19th century, giving the house its present Federal profile. The house is one of several associated with the Sandersons, who were early settlers of the area.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The John Sanderson House is a historic house at 564 Lexington Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Built in 1826, this -story wood-frame house is one a few Federal style houses in the city, and the only one with a brick end wall. It has well-preserved period features, including rear-wall chimneys, simple moulded window surrounds, and a centered entry with half-length sidelight windows. It is one of a cluster of houses in the immediate area with connection to the Sanderson family, who were early settlers of the area.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, where it is listed at 562 Lexington Street.</p><br>
<p>The Royal E. Robbins School is a historic school building at 58 Chestnut Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The two story brick Georgian Revival building was built in 1901, during a period of rapid growth on the city&#39;s South Side. It is named for Royal E. Robbins, a major figure in the founding of the Waltham Watch Company, a major economic force in that area. It is now a community center.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Prospect House is a historic building located at 11 Hammond Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Built in 1839, this temple-front Greek Revival structure was originally a hotel and tavern, and is one of only a few surviving 19th century hotel buildings in the city. Now an apartment house, the building has four two-story fluted Doric columns supporting a pedimented gable, with a second-story porch behind the columns. Early pedimented dormers have been linked together in later alterations.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Potter–OBrian House was a historic house at 206 Newton Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The -story brick house was built c. 1850, and was the citys only brick Italianate house. One of the older houses on the citys South Side, it was built when the area was still part of Newton. At the time Waltham purchased the territory from Newton, Edward Potter owned the house. It was owned by the OBrian family for many years.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It has since been demolished, but continues to be listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>The Piety Corner Historic District encompasses one of the oldest settled areas of Waltham, Massachusetts. It is centered on a major road intersection, the junction of Totten Pond Road with Lexington and Bacon Streets, and includes the city&#39;s largest single concentration of well-preserved 19th and early 20th-century houses. It extends south from Totten Pond Road along Bacon Street as far as Greenwood Lane, and along Lexington Street to Beaver Street. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Piety Corner area was first settled by English colonists in the late 17th century, when it became known as "Hosiers Corner" after an early resident. It acquired its present name because it was home to a number of ministers. None of the houses from the early settlement period survive in the district, although Walthams oldest house, the c. 1721 Hagar-Smith-Livermore-Sanderson House, is not far away. The district&#39;s oldest properties are the Federal style Sanderson-Bemis House (c. 1819-29, 380 Lexington Street) and the Jonas Clark House (c. 1825, 399 Lexington Street).</p><br>
<p>The focus of development in Waltham shifted south toward the Charles River in the 1820s with the establishment of the Boston Manufacturing Company, and the Piety Corner area saw relatively little development. In 1859, the Waltham Corporation of the New Jerusalem Church was founded for the many New-Church families in the area of Piety Corner. The following year in 1860, The Waltham New-Church School was founded to further support these local families. There was a surge in development when the Swedenborgian Church (which later became the Covenant Congregational Church) was built; its present English Medieval building was finished in 1879. By 1864, the school had grown too large for the space, so the Waltham New-Church school built two additional school buildings: Wilkins Hall and the Cottage. Both of these buildings are still in use today by Chapel Hill - Chauncy Hall School.</p><br>
<p>Shortly thereafter the ownership of the school was transferred to the New-Church Institute of Education. In 1912, the name of the school was changed to the Waltham School for Girls as the times showed a trend away from coeducation. The school continued to accept boys in the lower grades and since the boys did not take kindly to the school&#39;s name, the lower school became known as Chapel Hill in 1937. In 2010, The Covenant Congregational Church closed after serving the community for 150 years. In 2011, the Church was reconnected with the remainder of the campus that is now called Chapel Hill - Chauncy Hall School.</p><br>
<p>In the 1860s, a number of Second Empire mansard-roofed houses were built, as were two of Walthams finest Carpenter Gothic houses, at 326 and 356 Bacon Street. One of the citys most unusual houses was built in 1875: originally built as an octagon house, 361 Bacon Street was later truncated to its present odd shape. By the late 19th century the area was transformed into a fashionable upper-class residential area, as evidenced by a number of fine Queen Anne and Colonial Revival houses. Particularly fine examples of the first style are found at 326 Lexington (1888) and 395 Lexington (1891).</p><br>
<p>In 1960, the Piety Corner area was broken up to some extent by the construction of Totten Pond Road, a major roadway leading west from the junction. As a result, a portion of the historic area, near the junction of Lexington and Lincoln Streets, is now separated from the main area, and was listed separately as the North Lexington Street Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The John M. Peck House is a historic house at 27 Liberty Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built in 1843 and sold to John Peck, a local hatter and politician. When it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, its well-preserved Greek Revival styling was highlighted. This principally survives in the treatment of the main entry, with a corniced entablature and pilasters. Peck lived in the house just two years, selling it to Phineas Upham, who owned a dry goods business on Main Street. A later owner was Charles Fogg, a major Waltham landowner who probably rented the house out.</p><br>
<p>The John E. Olcott House is a historic house at 35–37 Central Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Built c. 1837, the two story house is a rare local example of Federal style executed in brick. The house was built and occupied by John Olcott, a bricklayer, and is essentially vernacular in its styling, lacking some of the flourishes found in the more elaborate Elijah Fiske House. It is five bays wide, with a shallow-pitch hip roof, twin chimneys, and a projecting enclosed entry vestibule.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The OHara Waltham Dial factory was a historic building at 74 Rumford Avenue in Waltham, Massachusetts. The three-story brick structure was built in 1897 by Daniel OHara, and housed his company, a spinoff from the Waltham Watch Company which specialized in the manufacture of a variety of clock faces. The building had distinctive corner towers with paneled brick surfaces, although these were a later  addition. OHaras company operated until the late 1950s; the facility was then used in the manufacture of traffic signals and luggage.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>On April 5, 2019, the city of Waltham issued a Notice of Unsafe Structure for the building. On June 12, 2019 it was decided that the building was beyond repair and was subsequently demolished. The lot is currently vacant with some of the original foundations remaining.</p><br>
<p>The North Lexington Street Historic District is a residential historic district at 508–536 North Lexington Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. It consists of a cluster of four houses and their associated outbuildings, built around the turn of the 20th century, and unusual for its state of cohesion and preservation given the busy nature of Lexington Street. Three houses  are Colonial Revival in styling, and 528 Lexington is an 1873 Second Empire house. The house at 508 Lexington was built in 1865 and extensively restyled in 1905; it retains some Italianate styling. Particularly rare in Waltham is the converted barn at 526 Lexington Street. This cluster of buildings was traditionally associated with the Piety Corner area, but is now separated from it by a significant number of more modern buildings.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Robert Murray House is a historic house at 85 Crescent Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1859, and was one of the earliest Italianate Victorian houses built in the area. It has classic Italianate styling, with a three-bay facade that has a small centered cross gable, and paired brackets in the eaves and gable ends. Its entry is sheltered by a porch with fluted Doric columns topped by a dentillated pediment.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
