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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston - - - In Area no. Form no. 44-A 1. Town Address Name_ Worcester 40 Randolph Road Odd Fellows' Home Present use home for the aged 2. Photo (3x3" or 3x5") Staple to left side of form Photo number Ro11 18 4. Map. Draw sketch of building location in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings., Indicate north. Present owner Odd Fellow's Home 3. Description: Date 1890-92, 1902 Source Worc. Magazine Style Victorian Institutional (element of Romanesque Architect Baker & Nourse (1892 + 1902) Exterior wall fabric_ brick Outbuildings (describe)_none Other features central clock tower, granite banding, sills & lintels, brick & Timestone addition with quoining & roof balustrades Altered entrance doors Date ca 1970 Moved addition no Date cal922-1938 UTM 5.
Lot size: Assessor's Book 22, p.2 19269380/4686560 Lot 1, 387,331 One acre or less Approximate frontage Over one acre X 702' Approximate distance of building from street 70' DeMallie 6. 'Recorded by ed. B.R.Pfeiffer Organization Worc. Heritage Pres. Soc. Date January 1978 (over) 30M-5-77 7. Original owner (if known)_ International Order of Odd Fellows Original use home for the aged Subsequent uses (if any) and dates same 8. Themes (check as many as applicable) Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development Conservation Education Exploration/ settlement Industry Military Political Recreation Religion Science/ invention Social/ humanitarian Transportation 9.
Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) Surrounded by fields, the Odd Fellows' Home is one of several charitable homes for the aged and hospitals which were built in out- Iying sections of Worcester during the nineteenth century. The building's three and one-half storey central section with a five- story clock tower was begun in 1890 and opened in 1892. Although the grouped windows, rock-faced granite trim and other tower-details are reminiscent of Romanesque Revival design, the largest portion of the building is undecorated except for projecting brick piers and a slight corbelling at the cornice. The structure is enclosed by a slate-covered hip roof with dormers. Located on the east wall of the original building is a two and one-half storey addition built in 1902 to increase the home's capacity to 110 residents.
Bearing ele- ments of Classical Revival architecture, this addition has a symmet- rical facade, trimmed with limestone quoins, an entablatureand med- illioned cornice. The entrance is set behind an open Tuscan porch, above which is a stone parapet. Land for the home was donated by Thomas Dodge, a prominent Worcester inventor and patent lawyer, who gave eleven acres to the Odd Fellows' around 1890. Shortly thereafter, Dodge donated a neighboring parcel of thirteen acres to the city to insure "ample light and air" for the home. Included for nomination to the National Register are the Odd Fellows' Home, itself, and the large hilltop parcel on which it stands; neighboring property owned by the odd Fellows but located on the opposite side of Randolph Road has not been included in this nomination, as the nominated property is 10.
Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) Engineering Record, Vol. XIV, Jan. 4, 1902, p.22 (addition). Worc. Commercial, Vol. I, no. 2, 6/1892, p. 59 (diagram of gounds). Worc. Magazine, 12/1909, pp. 375-376 (article). Nutt, C. Hist. of Worc., Vo1.II, p. 939. PIAK (9oU INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Community: Worcester Form No: 44-A Property Name:Odd Fellows' Home Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. 9. Historical significance sufficient to preserve the building's site. Staple to Inventory form at bottom -Property Warceoter Mltple Resane Aua (Partial Dauenten) State MA (Warcester Horking Numberg. 30. 79.2060 TECHNICAL CONTROL Photos 383 + 13 Maps 2,63 Exculent mullol te gemenal dacugtin fer the entie cl, HISTORIAN
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DUBIE Retum 102 -L-3 to State fer cumectem; 3159 BRANCH CHIEF 3/3/81 HOLD 130-CBD -44 for info from stute DOBLE Staff confernu 3/5/80 - agrud to action as nuted beloro: 102 k .5 esunoficial notfuati f - State fr revraun SEE 313/80 REPORT Entered KEEPER Soldhe 315/80 National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry 2.3.81 - - Send-back Re-submit MAR 5 1980 United States Department of the Interior - Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service JUN 1979, 3 0 AUG 1979 44-A 0861 Odd Fellows' Hone 40 Randolph Rd.. Worcesto MRA, Ma south elevaticn by Berkey resti Prints 12/9 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000304