Major Bibliographical References Bibliography (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 previously listed in the National Register Federal agency previously determined eligible by the National Local government Register University designated a National Historic Landmark x Other recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Name of repository: # N/A Preservation Worcester, Worcester MA recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # N/A NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 Bancroft Building Worcester (Worcester), Massachusetts Section number 8 Page 1 8. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The Bancroft Building is architecturally significant for its embodiment of the distinctive characteristics of Worcester's late-19th century commercial architecture and its representation of the dramatic architectural and economic changes that the city experienced from that period up to the era of the Great Depression. The building retains integrity of materials, setting, feeling, workmanship, association, location, and design; and fufills criteria A and C at the local level. The present office building was created in ca.1920 by combining the 1869 Dodge Block, facing the Worcester Common on southeast corner of Franklin and Portland Streets, with the neighboring 1882 Sawyer Building. The Dodge Block, named for its builder and principal occupant Thomas H.
Dodge, is a rare, surviving example of the scale and design of the downtown commercial architecture built early in the city's industrial era. Dodge created space for a drug store on the street-level of the building and installed his law office in the front of the second story. The rest of the building was rented to working families and their boarders, including a fifth story in a mansard roof that was destroyed by fire in 1961. The Sawyer Building was also designed to contain living units above street-level stores and was built on speculation by Worcester businessman Stephen Sawyer on a lot subdivided from his house property. It represents the changing land use around the Common as Worcester's downtown commercial core expanded into peripheral residential areas.
This location on the Common in close proximity to City Hall made the area very popular with bankers, lawyers, newspaper offices, and other professional services. It has been one of the pivotal areas of the city. In spite of having been later joined and altered, both the Dodge Block and the Sawyer Building retain the distinctive characteristics of the late-19t century period in which they were built, particularly in their modest scale and ornamental masonry work. Both buildings have the added distinction of having been designed by Fuller & Delano, Worcester's premier architectural firm in the era. By 1920, the architectural character of the streets facing the Worcester Green had changed again with large office blocks, department stores and theatres dominating the scene.
It was at this time the upper-story interiors of the Dodge Block and Sawyer Building were combined and renovated into office space. The two buildings were joined by an entranceway and stair built in the narrow alley that formerly separated them. The combination was named The Bancroft Trust Building in acknowledgement to its principal tenant, the Bancroft Trust Company, which occupied the street- level of the Dodge Block between 1922 and 1936. In this way, the Bancroft Building is an instructive example of the practice of adapting older buildings to meet new needs and tastes in the urban environment. The significance of the Dodge Block is enhanced by its association with Thomas H. Dodge, one of the more prominent citizens of the city during the last half of the nineteenth century.
Patent lawyer, industrial inventor and philanthropist, Dodge had a significant impact on the City of Worcester, including the erection of his landmark building on the Commons. (continued) See continuation sheet NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Bancroft Building Worcester (Worcester), Massachusetts Section number 8 Page 2 Thomas H. Dodge Thomas H. Dodge appeared in Worcester in 1864, coming from Washington, D.C. where he had been practicing as a patent lawyer. Ä native of Eden, Vermont, Dodge spent his youth in Nashua, New Hampshire, where he was introduced to the cotton manufacturing process as an employee of the Nashua Manufacturing Company.
In the meantime, he pursued an education and was admitted into the practice of law in Manchester, New Hampshire in 1854. Several important inventions improving mill machinery and a treatise on the manufacture of cotton and woolen goods brought Dodge national attention. He was appointed assistant examiner of patents in the United States Patent Office in Washington in 1855. He was soon promoted to the position of chief examiner and later became chairman of the Board of Appeals. During this period, Thomas H. Dodge remained active in creating innovations in industrial processes. In 1850, he developed a means to feed paper to printing presses from rolls and increased the speed of production considerably. His patented improvements to the double-hinged mowing machine allowed it to be driven and operated by a single man, which helped spread its use by farmers.
He also is credited with proposing to the U.S. Postmaster General that the department institute a policy of returning undelivered mail to its senders, thereby dispelling the need for and expense of dead-letter pursue a legal career, having been admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court. The 1864 Worcester City Directory identifies Thomas H. Dodge as an attorney with an office at 6 Brinley Hall and a residence at 294 Main Street. The reasons for his relocation to Worcester are not well-detailed; however, Dodge held patents on barbed wire manufacturing machinery, which was the mainstay of the city's booming industrial economy at the time. By 1867, he was advertising his services as "counsellor and patent solicitor" and had moved his practice to the Post Office Block.
In this particular year, he was also recorded in the City Directory as a partner in the firm Dodge & Wellington, manufacturers of screw wrenches and blacksmith drills in Manchester, New Hampshire. This company was never mentioned again, but it indicates that Dodge continued to work as an industrial designer and entrepreneur while in Worcester. Thomas H. Dodge purchased a 2688-square-foot building lot on the southeast corner of Park (now Franklin) and Portland Streets from John G. Kendall on 20 July 1868.' Kendall, an agent for the Worcester Mutual Fire Insurance Co., had purchased a parcel containing the lot he sold to Dodge plus a lot he later sold to Stephen Sawyer from builder Adolphus Morse in 1855.2 The lot was one block east of Main Street and faced the Worcester Common. At that time, the railroad paralleled Main Street west of Portland.
A station and roundhouse were located on the south side of Park Street. The tracks effectively created a boundary between the commercial district on Main Street, on the west side, and residential areas that developed on the east side, until the tracks were moved east of the Commons in the 1890s. (continued) See continuation sheet NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Bancroft Building Woreester (Worcester), Massachusetts Section number 8 Page 3 The Dodge Block Thomas H. Dodge commissioned the Worcester architects, Fuller & Delano, to design a substantial brick commercial building for his corner lot, which was the first instance of extending the commercial district east of the railroad tracks.
A marble stone in the brick wall between the third and fourth stories on the Franklin Street façade was carved with the date 1869. (Worcester resident Paul Soulliere recalls his father, who owned the building between 1940 and 1972, chiseling off the raised date around 1940. The outlines of the numerals are still discernable from the street in the proper light.) Dodge's office address was still listed as being in the Post Office Block in the 1870 City Directory, but this could have been an oversight or it took the owner until after the directory was published to move into the new building. The next directory (1872) records the office of Thomas H. Dodge, counsellor and patent solicitor, for the first time at "43 Park, c. Portland." It appears that Dodge occupied the second-story space in the front building.
The street-level storefront was occupied nearly continuously during Dodge's ownership of the building by Bradt & Flint, druggists, who like their landlord, advertised regularly in the City Directory. The 1896 House Directory listed the Worcester & Suburban Street Railway Co. as a tenant of the Dodge Block. This may have very well been another of Thomas H. Dodge's enterprises. The rest of the second floor, and the third through fifth floors, were rented as tenement dwellings. Every two years, the Worcester House Directory recorded tenants and their boarders, with their occupations identified. The social and cultural demographics of the city are evinced in the lists of people residing at 4 Portland Street (the entrance to the living quarters were at the rear of the side elevation of the building).
Worcester's various ethnic groups, white-collar and blue-collar occupations, female heads of households, single men and women, and the prevalence of boarders in the tenement economy are all evident in the directories of the Dodge Block. As built, the Dodge Block was a substantial edifice for its time and clearly conveyed the position and wealth of its owner, particularly with his offices located above the street. Its tall mansard roof, supported by sturdy brackets and punctuated with numerous dormers, epitomized the architectural taste of the day. Historic photographs illustrate scores of buildings of this scale with mansard roofs in the city filling both commercial and residential functions. Few have survived, as the roof of the Dodge Block, too, succumbed to fire in 1961.
This building was further distinguished with a rounded corner where the store entrance originally was located There are other corner buildings in Worcester with this feature, particularly those, like the Dodge Block, that were not square in plan and whose corners formed an acute angle. A secondary entrance was located at the south end of the long Portland Street façade and would have provided access to stairs in the rear of the building. There would have been a second set of stairs in the front of the building so that Dodge and his clients could get to his office from Park Street. The concern for fire safety was pronounced even in this early period, so these stairs probably extended to the upper floors of the building as a second means of egress from the tenements.
(continued) See continuation sheet NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Bancroft Building Worcester (Worcester), Massachusetts Section number 8 Page 4 With its corner location, both street elevations were richly ornamented with projecting windows heads incorporating marble end and key blocks and, as mentioned, the heavy, overhanging wood cornice of the mansard roof. In addition to the date plaque on the Park Street façade, Dodge installed another stone ornament between the second and third stories emblazoned with his monogram carved in deep relief. Stephen Sawyer Stephen Sawyer obtained title to his 9706-square-foot property facing the Common on Park Street from John G.
Kendall on 9 August1867, less than a year before Dodge bought the neighboring lot on the west.? Sawyer gave Kendall a $1500 mortgage on the property. City directories indicate that Stephen Sawyer and his family were residing at 9 Park Street as early as 1864. The Sawyers either moved from a location closer to Main Street or they were occupying an existing dwelling that was purchased with the property. In the 1867 City Directory, Stephen Sawyer is recorded as living at 13 Park Street. Perhaps street numbers were changing as new lots were created on Park Street east of Portland Street. Sawyer was a proprietor of Clark, Sawyer & Co., a crockery, glassware and wallpaper store at 480 Main Street. In The Worcester of 1898, he is pictured as a director of the Worcester Mutual Fire Insurance Company, the firm that John G.
Kendall represented as an agent at the time Sawyer purchased the Park Street property. In 1882, Stephen Sawyer subdivided his parcel to create a 2063- square-foot building lot between his house and the Dodge Block. On it he built a four-story brick building, designed by the architects Fuller & Delano, with a store at street-level and tenements on the upper stories. Coming over ten years after the construction of the Dodge Block, it is likely that Sawyer realized the commercial direction in which the residential neighborhood of Park Street was going. By the following year, the directories indicate that the Sawyers had moved west and up the hill to Chestnut Street. The old Park Street house became a boarding house and remained as such until it was demolished to make way for the Capitol Theatre in 1926.
Sawyer conveyed the brick building to his daughter, Lucy, in 1885, who would own and rent it to tenants for the next 23 years. He deeded the old house to his son and namesake at the same time. The Sawyer Building The Sawyer building appears to have been modeled after the Dodge Block in more modest and updated ways. Considering that Fuller & Delano were the architects of both buildings, it is not surprising that an effort was made to integrate the two designs. The buildings stood as a lone pair for many years but were perhaps thought of as a standard that was expected to continue down the street. Compared to the taller and more massive 20th century commercial buildings west of Portland Street (e.g., the Bancroft Hotel), this pair appears old-fashioned, yet they represent the "big" buildings of an earlier era.
The façade of the Sawyer Building echoed the four bays of fenestration on the Dodge Block, even though it was slightly narrower. And in a more stylish treatment, the windows were grouped in pairs recessed into the wall with thick stone headers and sills spanning both openings. (continued) See continuation sheet NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Bancroft Building Worcester (Worcester), Massachusetts Section number 8 Page 5 A projecting panelized brick cornice was similar to the one that existed on the Dodge Block, yet the Sawyer Block did not include the by-then antiquated mansard roof. The Sawyer Building displayed new trends in design popular in 1882.
Like its neighbor, the Sawyer Building contained a combination of commercial and residential functions, a popular design for the principal thoroughfares and built as investment properties by Worcester's growing community of successful middle-class entrepreneurs. (Thomas Dodge was also acquiring numerous investment properties throughout the city.) The building contained one living unit per floor. Each was large enough to accommodate a working family and one or two boarders. The initial tenant of the store space was a picture and photograph supply shop; soon an undertaker rented the space and remained there for many years. The Bancroft Trust Building William E. Langlois purchased the Dodge Block on 1 July 19075 Lucy Sawyer sold her building to him on 31 July 1908° William E.
Langlois first appeared in the Worcester City Directory in 1891 identified as a laborer employed at 13 Blackstone Street and boarding at 139 Green Street. Two years later, Langlois was still boarding at 139 Green Street, but he was identified as a student. The 1902 House Directory recorded that physician W.E. Langlois, and dentist T.J. O'Connor occupied offices in the Dodge Block. In a lengthy biography published in The Worcester of 1898, it was stated that Thomas H. Dodge retired from "active business, and has devoted himself to the care and enjoyment of his estates" in 1883? He maintained an address at the Dodge Block until 1906. By 1910, Langlois had moved his office to the second floor of the Sawyer Building, where it remained, with the exception of one edition of the House Directory where he occupied an office on the third floor, until he vacated the property in 1932.
Another physician, Edward C. Rochette opened his office in the Sawyer Building in the same year. Significant changes were occurring on Park Street and the old buildings were in transition. Between 1910 and 1914, the block between Main and Portland Streets was completely transformed. During that period, the Park Building, the Worcester Trust Company Building, the Worcester Telegram Building, and the luxury Bancroft Hotel were all erected. The site of the old train depot and roundhouse (the tracks had been removed from the Commons by 1896), an old Methodist church later occupied by a French Canadian Catholic parish, and a dwelling had been cleared to make way for the new development. The ten-story Bancroft Hotel loomed high above the Dodge Block across Portland Street.
Plans were in the offing for new construction at the old Sawyer house property, which had been sold by Lucy Sawyer's brother in 1910. The opportunity was not lost on Dr. William E. Langlois. Sometime between the 1920 and 1922 editions of the Worcester House Directory, the Dodge Block and the Sawyer Building were joined into a single address and under a new name: the Bancroft Trust Building. The Bancroft Trust Company opened a banking room on the ground floor of the (continued) See continuation sheet NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Bancroft Building Worcester (Worcester), Massachusetts Section number 8 Page 6 Dodge Block where a drug store had operated since the building's construction.
This new banking institution appears to have been established in 1922. Its president was Peter F. Sullivan, who was also Worcester's mayor at the time. Two of its three vice-presidents and a number of its 25 directors were physicians. It would seem that a group of Worcester's successful professionals and businessmen involved in real estate development in the city pooled their resources to provide loans and mortgages. William E. Langlois was not included in the list of officers and directors in the advertisements published in the 1922 City Directory and House Directory.
However, Mendoza Langlois was a director of the bank, which may suggest how the bank's location was selected and the extensive renovation work was financed Illustrations of the building from this period, including an elevation drawing incorporated into the bank's heart- shaped logo found in the advertisements, shows the buildings joined by two-story entrance built in the alley space between them. Otherwise, no outward changes are evident. However, on the interior significant changes were made to create offices out of the former living spaces. A stair tower was built in the center of the space between the buildings and passageways were created to allow movement between the two parts. This project resulted in the historic buildings becoming functional 20* century office space in the expanding commercial and financial center developing on the south side of the Commons.
Their close proximity to City Hall and the new Bancroft Hotel placed Langlois's revitalized buildings in the midst of the downtown action. In a rather shameless attempt for recognition, the bank and its new headquarters borrowed the Bancroft name from the hotel. The bank's address was 58 Franklin Street. Murray Brothers, the undertaker, continued to occupy the Sawyer Building storefront at 62 Franklin Street. The Bancroft Trust Building, with tenants on the second through fourth floors was listed as 60 Franklin Street. It was a popular address for physicians. The Bancroft Trust Company was in liquidation by 1936 and had vacated the building. Three smaller shops took its place in the old Dodge Block: First Aid Drug Stores, Inc. (54 Franklin St.), Worcester Publishing Co. (no. 56), and Chain Curtain Stores (no. 58). The Little Hungarian Restaurant was the tenant at 62 Franklin Street.
WORC radio broadcasting station had been occupying the fifth floor of the Dodge Block since 1930. After 1932, William E. Langlois no longer appeared on the lists of occupants in the House Directories. Only the drug store and one other tenant were recorded in 1938, and by the next issue of the House Directory, the Bancroft Trust Building had a new owner: the Commercial Acceptance Corporation. This corporation was owned by Paul E. Soulliere, a Worcester entrepreneur who was a partner in an insurance company (Brown and Soulliere) that had moved into 60 Franklin Street in 1940, invested in depressed real estate, and provided financial services. He was a cousin of William E.
Langlois, which was likely how he became aware of the property.® (continued) See continuation sheet NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Bancroft Building Worcester (Worcester), Massachusetts Section number 8 Page7 Between 1938 and 1940, Soulliere significantly renovated the interior of the combined buildings. According to his son, office spaces were reconfigured and new office doors and trim were installed. An elevator was built in the center space between the buildings and the stairs altered to wrap around it on the ground floor level. A local stonemason, C.V. Bianchi, installed marble tile floors in all the hallways and a marble wainscot in the ground- floor entrance hall and stairway.
On the Franklin Street elevation, the alley space at the third and fourth story was walled in to the roof level to unify the façade of the joined buildings. By 1940, the building was fully occupied once more. It became known simply as the "Bancroft Building." First-Aid Drugs remained in the corner storefront. The store space in the old Sawyer Building was divided into two units. A "watch hospital" moved into the store at 62 Franklin and would remain there for many years; the shop at 64 Franklin changed hands frequently. Sometime after 1950, Soulliere took over the drug store and operated it himself, renaming it Bancroft Drugs. Substantial alterations were made to the store space and a commercial kitchen was built in the basement to provide meals to a lunch counter in the store. The present storefront and awning were constructed as part of this renovation.
The storefronts of 62 and 64 Franklin Street (in the Sawyer Building) were modernized at the same time. A fire in the chimney venting the furnace ignited the wood mansard roof in the winter of 1961. Ironically, the loss of this significant historic feature brought the two halves of the joined building more into symmetry. Other than this unexpected alteration, few changes occurred to the office levels of the building. When Paul E. Soulliere died in 1972, his son Paul inherited the property. Immediately after, the drug store space became a bank once more. The Consumer's Savings Bank opened a branch office at 54 Franklin Street and remained there for the next twenty years. The present liquor store at 64 Franklin Street opened at 62 Franklin Street in the 1950s and eventually took over both store spaces. The offices have remained inhabited.
Paul Soulliere [Jr.] sold the building to Charles and Janet Birbara in 1981. In 1998, the Birbaras donated the building to Preservation Worcester. (continued) ENDNOTES ' Worcester County Deeds, Book 771, Page 415. 2 Worcester County Deeds, Book 547, Page 75; Morse also received a $4500 mortgage from Kendall. recorded in Book 547, Page 76. 3 Worcester County Deeds, Book 751, Page 267; mortgage on the property recorded in Book 751, Page 268. 4 Worcester County Deeds, Book 1676, Page 81. 5 Worcester County Deeds, Book 1856, Page 509. See continuation sheet NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Bancroft Building Worcester (Worcester), Massachusetts Section number 8 Page 8 6 Worcester County Deeds, Book 1884, Page 480. p. oul. 8 Per Paul Soulliere, 27 June 2001.
(end) L See continuation sheet NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Bancroft Building Worcester (Worcester), Massachusetts Section number 9 Page 1 BIBLIOGRAPHY Nutt, Charles. History of Worcester and its People. 1919. Rice, Franklin P. The Worcester of 1898. 1898. pp 600-603. Richards Standard Atlas of the City of Worcester, MA. 1896, 1911, 1922. Sanborn Maps for the City of Worcester. Soulliere, Paul. Telephone Interview. 27 June 2001. Worcester Atlas. 1870. Worcester City Directory, 1864 - present. Worcester House Directory, 1888 - present. Worcester's Illustrated Building Guide. 1881. The Worcester Magazine, Vol. XVI, No. 12 (Dec. 1913). Cover illustration. Worcester, MA. Preservation Worcester, Inc. Survey files. - Worcester County Registry.
Deeds relating to 60 Franklin Street. (end) - See continuation sheet Bancroft Building Name of Property 10. Geographical Data Acreage of property Less than one UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) Worcester Co., Massachusetts County and State 1 19 Zone 268900 Easting 4682400 Northing 3 Zone Easting Northing 2 4 See continuation sheet 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 Neil Larson, consultant, with Betsy Friedberg, NR Director, MHC organization Massachusetts Historical Commission street & number 220 Morrissey Boulevard city or town Boston date telephone state MA Additional Documentation Submit the following items with the completed form: Continuation Sheets December 2001 617-727-8470 zip code 02125 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 Preservation Worcester street & number 10 Cedar Street city or town Worcester telephone state MA 508-754-8760 zip code 01609 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 time fo reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining data and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of this from to the Chief, Administrative Services Division, National Park Service, P.O. Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127; and the Office of Managementand Budget, Paperwork Reductions Projects (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503. NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Bancroft Building Worcester (Worcester), Massachusetts Section number10 Page 1 10. Geographical Data Verbal Boundary Description The property is bounded by Franklin Street on the north, Portland Street on the east and parcel lines on the south and west. See attached City of Worcester Real Property Office map. Boundary Justification The boundaries were chosen represent the two historic building parcels that were combined when the Bancroft Building was created in ca.1920. (end) -- See continuation sheet NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Bancroft Building Worcester, MA Additional Documentation figure 1 Postcard view of Dodge Block (left), c1915. Bancroft Hotel, Woreester.
Mass. See continuation sheet NPS Form10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Bancroft Building Woreester, MA Additional Documentation figure 2 View looking southeast from Worcester City Hall, c1920. 977338 BETBIET NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Bancroft Building Worcester, MA Additional Documentation figure 3 Bancroft Trust Building, northwest perspective, c1920. HANLH NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 Additional Documentation figure 4 Bancroft Trust Building Second Floor Plan, c1940 O ARFAWAY NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page Additional Documentation figure 5 Sanborn Map, 1971. 30 9 ALLEN ELTC CHATNANS BO-LED. 1% 3o-ct0- 58 FEDSRAL FRANKLIN ST. IN STREET Daa FRANKLIN PER NC. DECK C. VECN BUANSIDE sceut OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Bancroft Building Worcester, MA WORCESTER MASS YOL1 14 (229 VOL 3) 3PORTLAND 250-G0 130- CBDeEST PPRKING NC- EXPOSCO SECL XEAAS & MSTI 199S COM DAMP ALL TIS Bux-CED- 4 D BEL ToNE RANL." DT PARX G. See continuation sheet 130-CBD-62 25 12 4: Bancroft Building Worcester, Massachusetts Franklin 40.30 360Bag-62 Lawrencett.
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ER 4:G UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Dodge Block and Sawyer Building, Bancroft Trust Building REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY NAME : MULTIPLE Worcester MRA NAME : STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Worcester DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: 1/29/02 3/01/02 REFERENCE NUMBER: 02000155 DATE OF PENDING LIST: 2/13/02 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 3/15/02 REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: N OTHER: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: SLR DRAFT: Y NATIONAL: COMMENT WAIVER: N _ACCEPT RETURN REJECT DATE ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS : nomisation was missing a 4565 mapo- State will send a replacement RECOM.
/CRITERIA Aucept A,B, C REVIEWER Patrich Andus TELEPHONE DISCIPLINE_Historian - DATE 3/15/2002 DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N i see attached SLR Y/N COLDES1 BUD ON THE COMMON TLS SALON AIL CARE Bancroft Buildina (Dodge Block * Sawya Building) 60 Franklin St. Norceste MA Photo by: Neil Larson, 2001 Ney. at: Preservatin Worcesten 10 Eentrat Cedan St., Norcester PHoto 1 Extenior, NW perspective Bancroft LIQUORS BOTTLED LIQUORS WINES 6 BEER COLDEST BUD ON THE COMMON T NAILS SALON 01AC Bancroft Building 60 Frauklin St. Worcesta MA XL20004 Photo by Neil Larson, Jane 2001 Neg. at: Presenvation Worcester Photo l: Exterior, NE perspective IS SALON Bancroft Burkding 01AO. 60 Frauklin St Worceste MA 3017304 Photo by Neil Larson, sure 2001 Neg. at: Presenvation Narcesten PhoTo 2: Extenin NW peispeetive Baucroft Buulding 60 Frauklin St.
Worcesten MA Photo by Neil Lanson, June 2001 Ney at: Preservatin Worcesten PHOTO 3: Exteriá, su paspeetive ST TT E N YOU PING INESS TED S TE AM- BA 60 Bancroft Building M1AC 60 Franklin St. Worceste MA )I21304 Ploto bu Neil Lansar, June 2001 Neg. at: Presenvatin Warcutes PttoTo 4: North elavatin, detail 5 eutrauce 1N3 1a Baucroft Building 60 Framklin St. Worcesten MA Photo by Nait Larsn, Jure 2001 Negatie at: Preservatin Warcester Photo 5: luterio, 2d Flor, view o) elavato and hallwan, looking west fram Sawye Building Baucroft Building 60 Frauklin St. Worcestu MA Photo by Neil Larsen, June 2001 Neg. at: Presenvatim Worcesten PHoTo 6: Interin, 2d Ploor, office in NW corver7building Bancroft Building 60 Frauklin St. 01AO. Worcesta MA Photo by NeilLanson, June 2001 Neg. at Presenvetim Warcesten PtoTo 7: Iaterir, 3rd Flor Hallway on west side & building A0E Bancroft Building 60 Franklin St.
Norcester MA Photoby Neil Lansm, June 2001 Neg. at: Preservatin Norcester PHoTO 8: Interior, 3rd floor. Detail 77 door. Bancroft Building 60 Franklin St. Worcesta MA Photo by: Neil Lason, dune 2001 Neg. at: Preservatim Warcesten PHOTO 9: Interimn, Ata Floor, office in NE cornero building Bancroft Building 60 Franklin St. Worcesta MA Phsto by Neil Lansen, dume 2001 Neg. at : Presenvatin Warcesten PHoTo 10: Intenir, 4tnflom, east side Vlewo bay window PRESERVATION WORCESTER . Preserving Neighborhoods For People RECEVED3230 DEC FHISTORIC PIACES NNORKYRLACES MA SENVICE October 25, 2001 Ms. Carol Shull Keeper, National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Mail Stop 2280, Suite 400 1849 C Street N.W. Washington, DC 20240 Dear Ms.
Shull, I understand that the following property will be considered by the National Park Service for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, after being approved by the Massachusetts State Review Board on December 12,2001: Bancroft Building Worcester (Worcester County), Massachusetts I am aware of both the incentives and disincentives of the Economy Recovery Tax Act of 1981 and the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and other consequences of National Register listing and hereby waive the right to a 60-day commenting period for responding directly to the Massachusetts Historical Commission or the National Park Service. Should I wish to respond to the nomination after consideration by the Massachusetts State Review Board and prior to its listing on the National Register of Historic Places, I will forward my comments directly to your attention. TOlD D.
Keith Chenot President, Board of Directors cc: Philip Bergen, National Register Assistant, Massachusetts Cultural Commission 10 Cedar Street - Worcester, Massachusetts 01609 - (508) 754-8760 - Fax (508) 798-0693 PRESERVATION WORCESTER Preserving Neighborhoods For People December 11, 2001 Ms. Carol Shull Keeper, National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Mail Stop 2280, Suite 400 1849 C Street, N.W. Washington, DC 21240 Dear Ms.
Shull: I understand that the following property will be considered by the National Park Service for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, after being approved by the Massachusetts State Review Board on December 12, 2001: Bancroft Building Worcester (Worcester County), Massachusetts I am aware of both the incentives and disincentives of the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 and the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and other consequences of National Register listing and hereby waive the right to a 60 - day commenting period for responding directly to the Massachusetts Historical Commission or the National Park Service. Should I wish to respond to the nomination after consideration by the Massachusetts State Review Board and prior to its listing in the National Register of Historic Places, I will forward my comments directly to your attention.
Sincerely, Keith Chenot President Preservation Worcester cc: Philip Bergan, National Register Assistant< Massachusetts Historical Commission 10 Cedar Street - Worcester, Massachusetts 01609 - (508) 754-8760 - Fax (508) 798-0693 January 9, 2002 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Massachusetts Historical Commission 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: Bancroft Building, 60 Franklin Street, Worcester (Worcester), MA 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, Letry. tredkeil Betsy Friedberg National Register Director Massachusetts Historical Commission enclosure CC: Bruce Bunke, Chair, Worcester Historical Commission Neil Larson, Preservation Consultant Hon. Raymond Mariano, Mayor, City of Worcester Joanne Kennedy Valade, Worcester CLG Coordinator James Igoe, Preservation Worcester Everett Shaw, Worcester OPCD 220 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125 (617) 727-8470 - Fax: (617) 727-5128 www.state.ma.us/sec/mhc - - The Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Massachusetts Historical Commission March 28, 2002 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 APK 1 7 2002 Dear Ms. Shull: In the weekly update of March 22, 2002, the following property was listed in the National Register of Historic Places, as of March 15, 2002: Dodge Block and Sawyer Block - Bancroft Trust Building, Worcester (Worcester County), MA. I am writing to request that the property be listed under its preferred name, as indicated on the cover form for the nomination - that is, Bancroft Block (Worcester), MA Thank you for making this change to the listing record for this historic property. Sincerely, Brona Suron Brona Simon Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Massachusetts Historical Commission CC: Bruce Bunke, Chair, Worcester Historical Commission Neil Larson, Preservation Consultant Hon.
Raymond Mariano, Mayor, City of Worcester Joanne Kennedy Valade, Worcester CLG Coordinator David Leach, Preservation Worcester Everett Shaw, Worcester OPCD 220 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125 (617) 727-8470 - Fax: (617) 727-5128 www.state.ma.us/sec/mhc
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