Major Bibliographical References (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Previous documentation on file (NPS): Primary location of additional data: - preliminary determination of individual listing (36 - State Historic Preservation Office CFR 67) has been requested - Other State agency x previously listed in the National Register - Federal agency - previously determined eligible by the National _ Local government Register - University - designated a National Historic Landmark - Other _ recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Vame of repository: - recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # ps form 10-8001 B-00 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page _1 - OMB Aaprorel Na 1021-0018 Castle Street Row Historic Distriet (Boundary Increase) Worcester (Worcester), MA STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The Emma B.
Gates Apartment Block meets National Register Criteria A and C at the local level. Its history is closely related to that of the Castle Street Row House District.Its architecture is also related to that of the district by its late 19th century period of construction, by its general size and height, and by its building materials. Under Criterion A, the building is historically significant as the last building to have been built in the late 19# century development of Castle Street by the Gates family. Under Criterion C, this 1887 Romanesque Revival style building is significant as a substantially intact and representative example of late 19 century Worcester apartment building construction. It is also significant as one of the more stylish examples of thework of Worcester architect, John B. Woodworth.
Historical Background of the Neighborhood The land upon which the Gates Apartments were built was once part of the campus of the Oreád Collegiate Institute. The Oread was first opened in 1849 by Eli Thayer and remained in operation until 1881. Modeled on Thayer's alma mater, Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island, it is said to have been the first American college for women to offer a four year liberal arts curriculum. At the time of its opening the only other institution of higher learning to admit women was Oberlin College in Ohio, which had graduated its first women in 1841. As one of only two institutions offering American women the same academic training available to men, the Oread was attended by young women from all over the country. Built of stone, the Gothic Revival style institute building took the form of a turreted castle.
It occupied a craggy, fortress- like position on the top of Goat Hill overlooking Main Street on the outskirts of the city. According to one source, the grounds originally consisted of ten acres. An 1851 map of Worcester (Illustration # 1) shows the Oread "Castle" as one of only two buildings standing at that date within the area delimited by Malden Street (now Piedmont) on the east, King Street on the west, Main Street on the south, and Queen and Chandler streets on the north. During this same period, former farmland along Main Street south of downtown Worcester was beginning to be developed with houses, many in picturesque styles on large lots. Illustration # 2 shows the Oread in 1856 with Main Street in the foreground and the hillside around it still undeveloped.
In this photograph an open sweep of ground extends from the front of the "Castle" all the way down to Main Street, creating a dramatic setting for the college building. A history of the institute described the setting thus: In front of the school was a broad stretch of pleasant lawn adorned by hardly a tree of any size extending to Main Street. This lawn was not kept clipped, but the grass was allowed to grow until June when the girls are reported to have had great frolics in the hayfields. Another pleasant lawn stretched from Main Street to the summit of the hill opposite, where was the Academy, a large school for boys. However, only a few years later, this idyllic setting began to change. In order to pay off a $20,000 mortgage on the school, lots along the periphery of the Oread property began to be sold off piecemeal in the late 1860's.
The land-sale (continued) MPS Form 10-800e OMB Approvel Na 1024-0016 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page 2 Castle Street Row Historic District (Boundary Increase) Worcester (Worcester), MA technique of fund-raising was the same used to sustain the boys' preparatory school, Worcester Academy, opposite the Oread, where Thayer had been principal in the late 1840's. Between 1868 and about 1873, on land purchased from the institute, Larkin N. Gates built 42 dwellings contained in eight blocks of Second Empire style row houses. All of these blocks can be seen on the 1886 Worcester atlas (Illustration # 5). The narrow lots and row houses allowed the builder to profit by every square foot of available land. Several new streets were opened up in the process.
The 1870 Worcester atlas (Illustration # 3) shows that lots along the Main Street frontage of the Oread property had been sold by that date and that a double house and a row house block had been built there. A new street called Oread Place had also been opened up between the institute building and Main Street and a single house and a block of row houses had already been erected there. Castle and Valley streets were opened in 1873 and Alden Street was put through in 1877. Something of the effect of this dense construction can be seen in Illustration #4, which shows the appearance and relationship of the Castle, Valley and Alden Street blocks of row houses. Sometime between 1870 and 1886 the brick houses at 5-7 and 9 Castle Street were built.
By the time of the construction of the Gates Apartments in 1887, the grounds around the Oread "Castle" had been reduced to a small lot hemmed in by houses (Illustration #6). The Emma B. Gates Apartment Block The Gates apartment building was the last building to be built in the development of Castle Street by members of the Gates family. A circa 1900 photograph (Illustration # 5) shows it in place, with its rear porches facing the camera, and the Oread "Castle" in the distance. The rocky ledge of the hill seems to have prohibited further construction in the area, both on the northern end of Castle Street and on the northern side of Alden Street. The lot for the Gates Apartments was purchased on May 20, 1887 from the Oread property by Emma Blood Gates. On September 29* of the same year Mrs. Gates also bought an additional two-foot-wide strip of land for one dollar.
Presumably, this second purchase allowed the present two-foot distance between the building and the northern boundary of the lot. By the time work was begun in 1887 for Mrs. Gates' apartment block on Castle Street, many of the nearby row houses had already been converted from single-family dwellings to apartments. City directories show that others were occupied by families that were taking in several boarders. The construction of the Gates Apartments coincided with the building of a number of other brick apartment buildings in the area around Main, Wellington, Chandler, and Pleasant streets, a short distance north of Castle Street. Some of those were similar in their relatively small size and Romanesque Revival style to the Gates block. Emma B. Gates Emma B. Gates was Mrs. Charles L. Gates. Her husband was the son of Larkin N.
Gates, the builder and real estate developer who was responsible for the original row house development of the former Oread Institute property. Charles Gates was a partner with Henry T. Farrar in the firm Farrar & Gates, established in 1885, agents for real estate, insurance, and investment securities. The Gates lived at 2 Alden Street, which they owned, nearly opposite the site of Mrs. Gates new apartment building. Charles Gates' father, Larkin Gates, lived at 4 Alden Street and owned it and all of the remainder of the Alden Street block of row houses except for that of his son. (continued) MAS Fome 10-8004 OMB Aaprovel Na 1024-0016 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet 3 Section number . Page Castle Street Row Historic District (Boundary Increase) Worcester (Worcester), MA It is clear that Mrs.
Gates built the building as an income-producing property. As late as 1900, she was still listed as the owner of the Gates Apartments, which, together with its land, was then valued at $10,100. While most Worcester apartment buildings of this period were owner-occupied, the Gates Apartments were not. However, because Mrs. Gates lived directly across the street in a development built by her father-in-law, she cannot truly be called an absentee landlady. John B. Woodworth, Architect The Emma B. Gates Apartment Block was designed by John B. Woodworth (1845-1893), who practiced architecture in Worcester from 1877 until his death in 1893. Worcester city directories show that in 1887, the year the Gates Apartments were built, he was living at 2 Alden Street, the same address as his client Mrs. Gates and her husband. Relatively little is known about Woodworth's career and or about his work.
His professional listings in Worcester directories indicate that he practiced independently and was never associated with partners. Most of the buildings identified as his work are simple cottages and unassuming three-story apartment blocks. Houses designed by Woodworth can also be found in well-to-do late-19** century neighborhoods of the Main South area, not far from Castle Street. Included among them are a circa 1880's clapboard and shingle Queen Anne style house at 38 May Street (NR, May Street Historic District) and a house at 10 Norwood Street (NR, Woodland Street Historic District). A more high style example of his work is the brick, Queen Anne style Edward Stark House, 21 Oread Street, 1883 (NR). The Emma B. Gates Apartment Block is of an architectural pretense and caliber similar to that of the Edward Stark House. Henry G. Hoflin, Builder Henry G. Hoflin was the builder.
An 1889 advertisement in the Worcester Directory lists him as Henry G Hoflin & Co., building contractors, accepting work on "All Classes of Buildings, either Carpenter or Mason Work" The Romanesque Revival Style The Emma B. Gates Apartment Block is an example of the Romanesque Revival style. Although the Romanesque Revival had been popular since the mid-19t century, a more robust version was made popular by the work of the influential late-19* century Boston architect, Henry Hobson Richardson. The Romanesque Revival was widely popular in Worcester during the 1880's and 1890's for all sorts of buildings, from churches, to business blocks, to apartment blocks. Several of Worcester's most important churches were built in the Romanesque style in brownstone, as were most of Richardson's examples.
However, this style, probably the single most popular style for the construction of the city's apartment blocks, was more often interpreted in brick. Several dozen Romanesque Revival style apartment buildings were built in the Main South area of the city during this period. Characteristics of the brick interpretation of the style seen in the Gates Apartments, including smooth red brick walls with narrow mortar joints, brownstone trim, brick corbelling, and the use of Roman-arched openings, were common to other apartment buildings in the city, as well. The Gates Apartment Block and the Late 19" Century Apartment Buildings in Worcester During the late 19*h century Worcester was a prosperous and growing industrial city. Between 1870 and 1915 its population quadrupled in size, from 41,105 to 162,697.
As the city grew rapidly, the downtown became denser than before as larger and taller buildings replaced smaller, one-to-three-story structures. Both industrial areas and residential neighborhoods expanded and also became denser. As a result of the increasing demand for housing; residential expansion occurred in all the central sections of the city. Although a street railway system had been in existence here MPS Form 10-800e United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page 4 OMB Approvel Ma. 1021-0016 Castle Street Row Historie District (Boundary Increase) Worcester (Worcester), MA (continued) since 1863, Worcester was still largely a "walking" city that required a concentration of housing near the city center. In answer to that need, residential expansion became more upward than outward.
The city's earliest three-deckers and first apartment buildings both seem to have been built in the 1870's. Although only a few row houses were built in Worcester, a number of them, including those built in the Castle Street area by Larkin Gates, were also first built during the 1870's. By the late 1880's, neighborhoods of brick apartment buildings began to appear around the edges of the downtown area. In the following years, the building of three-deckers and apartment blocks intensified. Soon, multiple- family housing, in the form of both three-deckers and apartment blocks, made up the major part of Worcester's new residential construction. From the 1880's through the early years of the 20" century, many apartment blocks larger than the Gates Apartments were built in the city. The 1893 Dictionary of Worcester (Massachusetts) and Its Vicinity, by Franklin P.
Rice includes an entry "Apartment Houses" with the remark: "Worcester has, within the past few years, followed the lead of the larger cities in the erection of Apartment Houses." This comment makes it clear that the late 19* century appearance of apartment buildings in the city was a novelty and worthy of some special note. The examples listed by Rice appear to have been four or five stories high with more than six units. It is not known how many of these larger buildings were of the fashionable "apartment hotel" variety typical of the finer apartment blocks built in Boston. Derived from Continental European examples, apartment hotels contained apartments that each occupied an entire floor of the building. In Worcester, apartment buildings were mostly occupied by middle class families. This was the case with the Gates Apartments, as well.
In 1890 the occupants were a druggist, a civil engineer, a machinist, a toolmaker, an armorer, and a grocer. Although much of Worcester's population growth during the late 19th century was due to foreign immigration, the occupants of brick apartment blocks like the Gates Apartments weretypically Native Americans and not recent immigrants. The early occupants of the Gates Apartments apparently belonged to this same group, since all had English surnames. However, by 1910 the class of tenants in the building had diminished somewhat. Now they included an electrician, a conductor, a barber, a woman taking in boarders, a shoemaker, and a produce man (the same person listed as a grocer in 1890). Among the boarders were a bookkeeper and a wireworker. By this time, several of the tenants, including some of the boarders, had Irish names.
Since no occupations are listed in the Worcester Street Directory in the later years of the 20* century the occupations of later tenants in the building are not known. However, several of them were long-tern tenants who remained there over many years. The Castle Street Neighborhood in the 20th Century Today the lot where the old Oread "Castle" stood is vacant at the top of Castle Street. After the Oread Institute closed in 1881, the building served, among other uses, as a school of domestic science and later as the headquarters of a riding academy. The picturesque old building was demolished about 1934. Its grounds are now a city park, known as Castle Park. During the 1950's the entire Main South area began to fall into decline and many other changes to the neighborhood occurred gradually over time.
By the early 1970's most of the earlier middle and upper class owners and occupants of (continued) NPS Forme 10-900-4 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number - 8 Page - OMB Aaprorel Na 1021-0018 - Castle Street Row Historic District (Boundary Increase) Worcester (Worcester), MA houses in the area had moved away. Many formerly grand houses had been broken up into apartments or had become rooming houses. Others were vacant and had fallen prey to vandalism and arson. Larkin Gates' row houses on Alden and Valley Streets, adjoining Castle Street, had been torn down and their lots were overgrown. All or most of those on Oread Place were also gone.
The only intact row house blocks surviving from Larkin Gates' development of the area stood on Castle Street (see NR, 4-18 Castle Street) immediately south of the Gates Apartments and behind it, facing on Piedmont Street (see MHC form for 1-7 Piedmont Street). Despite these changes, Castle Street survived with relatively few major changes. Here were preserved not only its row houses but also the Gates Apartments and two brick dwellings of the period at 5-7 and 9 Castle Street. During the 1970's Castle Street was mostly occupied by the elderly andby young people who appreciated the low rents. By some good luck, this street somehow managed to escape the social problems of the surrounding areas.
So, despite the generally dilapidated condition of the dwellings, a neighborhood spirit was kindled here, partly by the atmosphere of this quiet street with its unique brick row houses and their neighboring brick dwellings climbing up the hill. Neighborhood resident, Anthony Taylor in his 1984 book, Worcester's Architectural Neighborhoods, described Castle Street as: "a small island of sanity surrounded by a world of urban crisis." He further noted: "Castle Street is a unique and irreplaceable neighborhood and its residents think that it is remarkable despite all its shortcomings." In about 1978, under the leadership of Mr. Taylor, the neighbors founded the Oread Castle Neighborhood Corporation.
This organization began work to stabilize and improve the neighborhood with the added support of agencies of the City of Worcester, the City of Worcester Parks Department, neighborhood businesses, and a non-profit housing group, Worcester Cooperation Council, Incorporated. By the mid-1980s a small park, Castle Square Park, and community vegetable garden had been established by the neighbors on the north side of Valley Street on the site of one of Larkin Gates former row house blocks. Park benches and a cookout area were installed there. Across Valley Street, on the site of another former row house, a bocce court was built.
That the Gates Apartment Block was considered to be an integral and visually compatible part of the Castle Street Row House neighborhood at this time is seen in its inclusion in a view of Castle Street used on the 1980 letterhead of the Oread Castle Neighborhood Corporation (see Illustration #7). Although a considerable amount of time has passed since then, a functioning community garden and some of this neighborhood spirit still survive here today. Trees have been planted on either side of the street. A clearly modern, but not incompatible, wood frame row house block has been built on Alden Street at the corner of Castle Street. The economic status of the Castle Street neighborhood has changed relatively little in the past two decades, yet the neighborhood has been somewhat stabilized.
Renovations of the Gates Apartments and of some other buildings on the street will further contribute to the future of the area. (END) pessam 10000-a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number _ 9 Page _ OMB Aaprovel Na 1021-0018 Castle Street Row Historic District (Boundary Increase) Worcester (Worcester), MA - MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES Worcester Maps and Atlases Map of the City of Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, from Original Surveys by H. F. Walling. Warren Lazell, 1851. Atlas of the City of Worcester, Massachusetts. New York: F. W. Beers & Co., 1870. Atlas of the City of Worcester, Massachusetts. Philadelphia: G. M. Hopkins, 1886. Atlas of the City of Worcester, Massachusetts. Springfield, Ma.: L. J. Richards & Co., 1911 Insurance Maps, Worcester, Massachusetts. Pelham, N.
Y.: Sanborn Map Company, 1971. Published Sources Erskine, Margaret A. Worcester: Heart of the Commonwealth. Woodland Hills, CA: Windsor Publications, 1981. Knowlton, E. B., editor. Worcester's Best: A Guide to the City's Architectural Heritage. Worcester: Worcester Heritage Preservation Society, 1984. Rice, Franklin P. Dictionary of Worcester. Worcester: F. S. Blanchard & Co., 1893. Sandrot, Ivan. Your Worcester Street. Worcester: Franklin Publishing Company, 1948. Taylor, Anthony. Worcester's Architectural Neighborhoods. Worcester: Worcester Historical Museum, 1984. Wright, Martha Burt, ed. History of the Oread Collegiate Institute. New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Thayer:, 1905. Worcester Directory. Selected issues. Worcester House Directory. Selected issues. Unpublished Sources Bansfield, Matthew. Massachusetts Historical Commission B-Form, 20-24 Castle Street, Worcester. Ceccacci, S.
"The Russell", 49 Austin Street, Worcester, Investment Tax Credit Application, Part I, c1985. Ceccacci, S. Willard Richmond Apartments, 43 Austin Street, Worcester, Investment Tax Credit Application, Part I, c.1985. Lee, S. & Pfeiffer, B. R., Wellington Street Apartment House District, Worcester, MHC inventory form, 1977. Lee, Sandra. Worcester Architects List. Worcester Heritage Preservation Society. 1978. Massachusetts Historical Commission. "Reconnaissance Survey Report: Worcester". 1984. Pfeiffer, B. R. Castle Street Area, Massachusetts Historical Commission Area Form, 1978 Pfeiffer, B. R. "Narrative History: Worcester", Worcester Comprehensive Survey, 1978. r: NMaeitr Ccompeianen, Taylor, Anthony. Cover letter for first Annual Report, Oread Castle Neighborhood Corporation, June 19, 1980.
Electronic Sources Oberlin College website: www.oberlin.edu Photographs Oread Institute File, Photograph Collection, Worcester Historical Museum (end) _Castle St. Row B.L Name of Property Worcester,MA County, State 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property _less than one acre UTM References See continuation sheet. (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet) 1. 19 269340 4682920 Zone Easting Northing 2. Zone Easting Northing 3. Zone Easting 4. Zone Easting _ See continuation sheet Northing Northing Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11.
Form Prepared By name/title Susan McD.Ceccacci, Preservation Consultant, with Betsy Friedberg, NR Director, MHC organization Massachusetts Historical Commission _ dateJanuary 2001 street & number_220 Morrissey Boulevard telephone _617-727-8470 city or town. Boston state_MA _zip code 02125 Additional Documentation Submit the following items with the completed form: Continuation Sheets Maps A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. A sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. Photographs Representative black and white photographs of the property. Additional items (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) Property Owner (Complete this item at the request of the SHPO or FPO.) name F.
Joseph Bansfield and Cassandra Datena street & number 22 Castle Street telephone508-754-2574 city or town Worcester _ state_MA _ zip code 01610 Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings. Response to this request is required to obtain a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18.1 hours per response including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form.
Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of this form to the Chief, Administrative Services Division, National Park Service, P.O. Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127; and the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Project (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503. MPS Form 100 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet 10 Section number . Page 1 OMG Aaprovel Na 1021-0016 Castle Street Row Historic District (Boundary Increase) Worcester (Worcester), MA GEOGRAPHICAL DATA Verbal Boundary Description The boundaries of the Castle Street Row House District, including the boundary increase, are shown on the attached map of the area.
The boundaries of the property at 20-24 Castle Street, which expands the existing district, are the same as those shown in the City of Worcester Assessor's Book # 6, Sheet # 18, Lot # 31. Boundary Justification The boundaries of the expanded Castle Street Row House District circumscribe the property of the row house block, already included in the district, and that of the added Emma B. Gates Apartment Block. The property included within the boundaries of the expanded district was all part of the section of the campus of the Oread Collegiate Institute that was developed during the late-19" century by Larkin N. Gates and his family. (END) NFS Forma 10-800e 109 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number.
Page OMB Aaprovel Na 1024-0018 Castle Street Row Historic District (Boundary Increase) Worcester (Worcester), MA PHOTOGRAPHS Photographer: Susan Ceccacci Date: July 1999 Negatives: with Matthew Bansfield 1. Main (west) and south facades, looking north from Castle Street 2. Detail of main (west) façade, view looking northeast 3. Main (west) façade at left; south façade at right 4. Rear (left) façade - upper three of four stories - seen from nearby rooftop, looking southwest. 5. Interior: main entry hall with stairway seen from front door, looking east ILLUSTRATION 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 1851 map of Worcester showing the still sparse development of the Main South area where the new Oread Collegiate Institute building was located, with the boys' preparatory school, Worcester Academy across the way.
(Courtesy, Worcester Historical Museum) 1856 photograph of the Oread Institute and its grounds, taken from the still undeveloped grounds of Worcester Academy across Main Street. The cylindrical stone structures on the right hand side of the photograph just west of the present Piedmont Street are a barn and riding ampitheatre, which were no longer standing by 1870. (Photograph, Collection Worcester Historical Museum) 1870 Worcester Atlas showing the early development ofthe former front campus of the Oread Institute. Drawing by Anthony Taylor reconstructing the dense development and probable late 19* century appearance of Larkin Gates' row house developments on Crafts, Valley and Alden Streets. 1886 Worcester atlas showing the dense development of the former front campus of the Oread Institute by that date. Larkin Gates' row houses blocks are shown in gray.
(Courtesy, Worcester Historical Museum) c. 1900 photograph showing the Oread "castle" surrounded by dense development. The rear porches of the Emma Gates Apartment Block can be seen in the center right of the photograph. The Alden Street row house block is seen at the far left. #2 Alden Street, the home of Emma Gates and also of architect John B. Woodworth, is the unit with its side gable showing. (end) OREAD PL E *)... OREAD CASTLE PARK ALDEN UNP'E° 2 - - COMMUNITY | GIRTEN 1 necouA II PARK + COOKOUT YRER VALLEY BOCCE t, mong. 5 PARÁ'G. 55CE. : 5208 M STG8 '... -g. ...nT (2om) 2,0g SrGE AV CASTLE VAC - "ido O NIE:- C. O.c. ::3 EwE Sione SiGE r.. PIE DNONT CT. ?... s'%aons -9ECÃD 6o1" 10 C...1 USCO AUTO SALES PEDMONT 198 ) -u [3 0"1 0.6 3% MAIN CASTLE STREET ROW HOUSE DISTRICT (EXPANDED TO INCLUDE THE EMMA B.
GATES APARTMENT BLOCK) Area included in the expanded district is shown within broken lines. Numbers in circles indicate photograph number and direction of view of the photograph TA - CHNYDEER - f'lihile Ahertredur Huw'e 1 Rine LPlhecae E Whtir F l.laqueg 1 Brmlmtte B Henlenatie LNCTON IBDonidm TSBliar E EPCEE Mhegnene iterrician Treedrridinn QUHEN Haller e: MALDEN TALITON sisicny Bhora! TECESTER INSTITTTR DeaB Burtman TAYLOR TREKNOX FPBmx TAANER TAonT **Rickinmen ('sPullerC Th derBl Nhapfintd N.1 Pa CThayer ® BENREIT WORGESTER ACADENY HHrywoodl lunctionstatio ROAD JC Pipley ILLUSTRATION # 1 1851 Worcester map showing the still sparse development of the Main South area where the new Oread Collegiate Institute building was located, with the boys' preparatory school, Worcester Academy, across the way.
(Courtesy, Worcester Historical Museum) ILLUSTRATION #2 Photograph of the Oread Collegiate Institute and its grounds in 1856. Taken from the still undeveloped grounds of Worcester Academy across Main Street. The cylindrical stone structures on the right hand side of the photograph just west of the present Piedmont Street are a barn and riding amphitheatre, which were no longer standing by 1870. (Photograph, Collection Worcester Historical Museum) ILLUSTRATION #31870 Worcester atlas showing the early development of the former front campus of the Oread Collegiate Institute. P'helen in!) 11.1.Girrrue 1.Ners / N 12 G s.1l.Colton 8 U 13 /Tonrteilnt S Wi snett C.Tatt S.Forehand H.C.Hadsworth Yeterinar ar Ifemary ONT dayuts J.1/ Ir. Y Kichnrdwn B. Batman 1tcn M A 1. Nennis Y h Moghi irurg Wilco. Ti,:1 1..- S T CLAREMONT } Id.H.H. SCHOOL Baruri Jourus ILV u 'it ti F.
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79411 BRISHA MA 53-(10 5773 318387 hittemore 155838 12132 6130 JDlara 6313 T.1 iit, Torla 76crd ILLUSTRATION #5 1886 Worcester atlas showing the dense development of the former front campus of the Oread Collegiate Institute by that date. Larkin Gates' row house blocks are shown in grey. (Courtesy Worcester Historical Museum) ILLUSTRATION #6 Circa 1900 photograph showing the Oread "Castle" surrounded by dense development. The rear porches of the Emma B. Gates Apartment Block can be seen at the center right of the photograph. The Alden Street row house block is seen at the far left. 2 Alden Street, the home of Emma B. Gates and also of architect John B. Woodworth, is the unit with its side gable showing.
Tat UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY NAME : Castle Street Row--Boundary Increase MULTIPLE NAME: Worcester MRA STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Worcester DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: 1/16/01 2/16/01 DATE OF PENDING LIST: 1/31/01 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 3/03/01 REFERENCE NUMBER: 01000120 REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N OTHER: REQUEST: N SAMPLE : COMMENT WAIVER: N VACCEPT RETURN ABSTRACT/ SUMMARY COMMENTS : DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N PERIOD: SLR DRAFT: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: NATIONAL: REJECT 2/16/01 0ATE Entered in the Nesonai Begievsr RECOM. /CRITERIA_ REVIEWER TELEPHONE DISCIPLINE DATE DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N EMMA B.
GATES APARTMENTS 22 CASTLE STREET WORCESTER (WORCESTER COUNTY) MA PHOTOGRAPHER:S. CECCACUI DATE: JULY 1999 NEGATIVE:MATHEW BANSFIELD VIEW: MAIN (WEST) É SOUTI FALADES LOOKING NORTI FROM CASTLE STREET PHOTO #1 EMMA B. GATES APARTMENTS 22 LASTUE STREET WORLESTER (WORLESTER LOUNTY) MA PHOTOGRAPHER: S.CECCACCI DATE:JULY 1999 NEGATIVE:MATTHEW BANSFIELD VIEW: DETAIL OF MAIN (WEST) FACADE VIEW LOOKING NORTH EAST PHOTO # 2 EMMA B. GATES APARTMENTS 22 CASTLE STREET WORCESTER (WORCÉSTER COUNTY) MA PHOTOGRAPHER: S.CECCACCI DATE: JULY 1999 NEGATIVE: MATTHEW BANSFIELD VIEW: MAIN (WEST) FACADE (LEFT) SOUTH FACADE (RIGHT) PHOTO # 3 EMMA B GATES APARTHENTS 22 CASTUE STREET WORLESTER (WORLESTER COUNTY) MA PHOTOGRAPHER:S.CECCACCI DATE: JULY 1999 NEGATIVE: MATTHEW BANSFIELD YIEW: REAR (LEFT) FACADE CUPPER 3OF 4,STORIES) SEEN FROM NEARBY ROOFTOP ookING souTH weST PHOTO #4 EMMA B.
GATES APARTMENTS 22 CASTUE STREET WORCESTER, (WORCESTER COUNTY) MA PHOTOGRAPHER:S. CECCACCI DATE : JULY \ 999 NEGATIVE : MATTHEW BANSFIELD VIEW: MAIN ENTRY HALL WItH StaIRwAY SEEN FROM FRONTDOOR LO0KING EAST. PHOTO #5 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Massachusetts Historical Commission January 3, 2001 Ms. Carol Shull National Register of Historic Places Department of the Interior National Park Service Mail Stop 2280, Suite 400 1849 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20240 Dear Ms. Shull: Enclosed please find the following nomination form: Castle Street Row Historic District, Worcester (Worcester), MA BOUNDARY EXTENSION TO EXISTING DISTRICT WORCESTER MRA The nomination has been voted eligible by the State Review Board and has been signed by the State Historic Preservation Officer.
The owners of the properties in the Certified Local Government community of Worcester were notified of pending State Review Board consideration 60 to 90 days before the meeting and were afforded the opportunity to comment. Sincerely, Betsyfriedley Betsy Friedberg National Register Director Massachusetts Historical Commission enclosure CC: Bruce Bunke, Chair, Worcester Historical Commission Susan Ceccacci, Preservation Consultant Hon. Raymond Mariano, Mayor, City of Worcester Joanne Kennedy Valade, Worcester CLG Coordinator J. Edward Bansfield James Igoe, Preservation Worcester Everett Shaw, Worcester OPCD 220 Morrisser Boulerard. Boston, Massachusetts 02125 - (617) 727-8470 n TTv.state.ma.us/sec/mhc
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