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FORM B - BUILDING re no - MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston - - - - In Area no. Form no. 163-E 2. Photo (3x3" or 3x5") Staple to left side of form Photo number = R011_22 4. Map. Draw sketch of building location in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings. Indicate north. 1. Town Worcester Address 40 Webster Street Name_ Webster Street Firehouse Present use fire station Present owner City of Worcester 3. Description: Date 1893 Source date placque Style eclectic Architect Exterior wall fabric Elbridge Boyden & Son brick Outbuildings (describe). none Other features Jellow brick facade, Jellow, terracotta trin, central tove with cresting, stylized and classic: ornament Altered no Date Moved no Date Assessors' ,UTM 5. Lot size: Lot 2 Book 8, p.31 19/266230/4680530 one acre or less 10,046 sq.ft.
Over one acre Approximate frontage 68! Approximate distance of building from street 15' 5. Lee 6. Recorded by ed. B.R. Pfeiffer Organization_ Worc. Heritage Pres. Soc. Date February 1978 (over) 30M-5-77 7. Original owner (if known)_ City of Worcester Original use firehouse Subsequent uses (if any) and dates san e 8. Themes (check as many as applicable) Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development X Conservation Education Exploration/ settlement Industry Military Political Recreation .Religion Science/ invention Social/ humanitarian Transportation 9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) Built in 1893, the Webster Street Firehouse possesses a variety of fanciful and eclectic ornament.
Characteristic of firehouses of its period, the building has paired entries for fire engines (facade), a one-storey wing (south) which leads to the stairway and a tower which rises to an open belfry. the firehouse's facade contains a central date panel flanked by brick pilasters with stylized foliate capitals (2nd storey) and a high arched window surmounted by a decorative tower with an iron cresting. Although some of the building's terracotta tiles bear classical motifs character- istic of the 1890s, other stylized olements of the facadé its cresting, capitals and hexagonal slatework) are holdovers from Victorian Cothic design. At present the Webster Street Firehouse is unaltered. The Webster Street Firehouse was designed by the prominent local firm of Elbridge Boyden & Son and was built by Eli Belisle at at a cost OF $16,000.
structed to house Steamer Company #5 and, later, Hook and Ladder Company #4-, both of which served the surrounding industrial and residential district which was lnown locally as New Worcester. 10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) city Documents: #48, year ending 11/30/1893, Auditor's Report, pp.41-42; year ending 11/30/1894, Auditor's Report, p. 42. ingineering and Building Record, vol. XXVIII, 7/27/1893, P- 147 (building notice) - Property Warceoter Miltiple Resone Dua (Partial Lanentany) State MA (Warcester Working Number8. 30.19.2060 TECHNICAL CONTROL Photos 383 . +13 Maps 2, 63 Ercllent muttyle ressurce nomexatine for the extiie cily HISTORIAN Worccote. soth the general descryteion shatereat f Acupl Lightae AR NECTURAL HISTORIAN conan m/h Bmiés ummento m 102-L-3 74.
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DUBIE Retum 102-L-3 to state fer curedum; 3/5 BRANCH CHIEF 3/3/81 HOLD 130-CBD -44 for info from stute DOBLE Staff confernu 3/5/80 - agred to action as sutel belrro: KEEPER Soldhe 3/5/80 MAR 5 1980 National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry 2.3.8 Send-back Re-submit 313/80 REPORT Entered United States Department of the Interior - Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service 78 JAN 1978 30 165- hereester TRAMaG 40 Weboter 5479 Webstostiat Firehuse Janthreast elevatton Aes stuldd Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000304