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FORM A - AREA SURVEY MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston - - - 110 Form numbers in this area Area no. 142-T-3 - 2. Photo (3x3" or 3x5') Staple to left side of form Photo number 1. Town Worcester Name of area (if any) Ihe Boynton & the Windsor iational Register District 3. General date or period 1887-1688 4. Is area uniform (explain): in style? es (Victorian- astylistic) in condition? yes (fair) in type of ownership? yes (private) - in use?yes (residential) 5. Map. Use space below to draw a general map of the area involved. Indicate any historic properties for which individual reports are completed on Forms B thru F, ponding numbers. Show street names (including route numbers, if any) and indicate north. Indicate with an "x" existing houses not inventoried on Form B. DO NOT WRITE IN THIS SPACE USGS Quadrant MHC Photo no. (over) 6.
Recorded by_Brian R. Pfeiffer Organization Worcester Heritagôsociety Date December 1977 UTM 19|2683104682020 5M-7-7E-D061ACE 7. Historical data. Explain the historical/architectural importance of this area. The Boynton (718 Main Street) and The Windsor (720 Main Street) are free-standing brick apartment houses of identical design. 0f the two buildings, the Boynton remains unaltered; it is four stories high with a flat roof. The Boynton's facade is symmetrically arranged (except for the front door which is south of center) and consists of a wide central bay (with two windows at each storey) framed by piers and flanked by narrower outer bays. At the roof line is a panélled brick parapet with a raised central section. At the first storey of the facade is an open entry porch consisting of five arches (three on the front, one on each end) above which are terracotta tiles and an iron railing.
window trim and copings are oi rock-iaced sandstone. While the Windsor was originally identical to the Boynton, it now differs by the loss of its parapet and the replacement of original 1/1 wooden sash with 1/1 metal-frame sash. Built in 100? at a cost of $10,000 Ior J.C. Ellis, a real estate developer, the Boynton was designed by the local firm oi Barker * Nourse. Although no building notice has been found for the Windsor, the building's design and construction date (1887-1888) make it likely that it, too, was designed by Barker ü Nourse, and built for G.D. Moore. In their present condition, these two buildings are good examples of local apartment house construction, which began in the early and mid-1880s. Also characteristic of early apartment house development in Worcester are the building's original appeal to middle- class tenants.
Among the Boynton's earliest tenants were its owner, J.C- Ellis, a physician, a printer, a dressmazer, a hairaresser and two widows; the first tenants of theWindsor included a teacher, an an ammunition maker, a clerk, a druggist and artist, a machinist "electric and botanic physician" who kept an Mrs. I.B. Smith, an office in her apartment. Prior to recent demolitions, the Boynton and the Windsor were part of the city's most extensive early apartment house district, one which extanded along Main Street South, Wellington Street, and northward to Chandler Street. Now fragmented, architectural types which dominated this area's development during the 1880s and 1890s are best represented by the Boynton, the Windsor and a cluster of brick apartment houses remaining on Wellington Street (see Area Form 142-T-2)- 8.
Bibliography and/or references such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc. city atlases * directories. Sanitary Engineer, Vol. XV, 4/23/1887,p. 560 (building notice). Rice, F.P. Dictionary of Worcester « Its Vicinity. (1893). -INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston 2. Commnity: Worcester Form No: 142-T-3 The Boynton & The Propertyr National Register DiSt Windsor Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. T. Property 718 Main Street (The Boynton) 720 Main Street (The Windsor) Assessor's Data Assessor's Book 6, p. 17B Lot 4 8,069 sq. It. Assessoris Book 6, p. 17B Lots 5 & 6 24,695 sq. It. Present Owner Harvey G. Poulin J.P. Realty Co. 718 Main St. Worcester, Mass. 01610 Chestnut Renewal Corp. 5 Chestnut st. Worcester, Mass.
01608 Staple to Inventory form at bottom Poperty Warceoter Miltple Resoure Aua (Pastial Laventery) state MA (Warcester Working Number8. 30.79.2060 TECHNICAL CONTROL Photos 383 .+13 Maps 2,63 Exceetent muttyll resource nomesation for the extire cely HISTORIAN of Worceoke. Both the general descrytion o shaterent of aul/Acapt adoa. Each p i s o sct ecenant individual inventony sheete ar ixclided is wedl Lightnee 10.30-79 Tao KinL3deckua DAR DORCTURAL, HISTORIAD appercition is liflited on actached sheets. conun w/h Bmiés ummento 102-4-3, "6-CBD-", "7-E, and 130-CBD-50 and 44. Inteynty and /a bondaries need to' be addessed spectcally on induidual tms.
ARCHEOLOGIST 16-CBD- 6-CB- 44 - Datoef cconned thes - Periad 5 sunificanee and categorizatem descussed with WINH 3 EXCENTONS AU PROPERTIES APPEAN TO ME TO MEET AK CRITERI AND MHE OTHER FORMS ARE ADEQUATE RSD BOTH TECHNLILL, AND TO DETERMINE SIÇNIFLANCER ALMOLEH SOME OF TRE FORMS DID NOT CONTAN SIRONK STATEMENS IF SIGNIFICANKE THÉ ACLEDT KSSOURCE CHTEGOMIES WERE TRDROUGHLY DISCUSSED IN THE BODY OF THE NDNUNATION; 2/2888 THENEFBRE SIGNIFICANCE MAS ESTABLISHED. PBDS WERE NOT NELESSARY BELASE HAER THE ONLY PROPERTIES TKAT I DO NAT RELOMMENA LASTING ARE Inventory - - 116-CBD-13 - DESTOYCO BY FIRE No-16CBD-! Review 130-CB0-44- DOES NOT RETSUN INTEGRITY FOR INDI VIDUKB EUGIBILITY v10r-L-3 I DERSAA DRL BOT CONVINLER ABBUT BOUNDANES REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BUT BELLEUE MEY BOUCD BE OK. - BASEN ON ADDLTONAL DOCUMENTATON SUBMITTED - / DEFER JUDGEMENT.
Recommend Lishne all now propartres sexcept these 3. Return 116-CBD-$ to Stute (not elegible ); o to derouss futhe W/NR +stute. DUBIE Petum 102- L-3 to state for curestem; 3/5 BRANCH CHIEF 3/3/81 HOLD 130-CBD -44 for info from State DUBLE Staff conferenu 3/5/30-agred to action as zuated belrr: det ete), 102k-3 16-CBD -" (official notfirati of also un sfate) KEEPER Soldhe_ 3/5/80 National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry - 2.3.8 Send-back Re-submit Entered MAR 5 1980 United States Department of the Interior - Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service 142.T -30 Drynton+hinalsar NnAUG. 720 main St. Wereester MRA, Ma East elevation ints JUN 1979. by Berkey AUG N9 142-T-3 Boyntan +hindser T7.D.
718 hain Woruste MRA, Ma South+east eleatrons JUN 1979 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000304