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FORM B - BUILDING ref no 80000558 MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston - In Area no. Form no. 103-J 1 1. Town Worcester Address_3 Channinz Way Adclises Prentiss-Hanson House Name Present use residential 2. Photo (3x3" or 3x5") Staple to left side of form Photo number Roll 21, - 4. Map. Draw sketch of building location in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings. Indicate north. .1 Present owner_w. Arthur Garrity 340 Main Street 3. Description: Worcester, Mass. 01608 Date ca.187% Source city atlases and directorie: Style Victorian Gothic Architect unknown® - Exterior wall fabric_ brick modern two-storey Outbuildings (describe) frame nouse Other features central tower facing Kendall Street, steeply pitched slate roof, stone trim Altered minor Date Moved no Date :10/26964574693780 5.
Lot size: Assessors' Book 1, p.16 Lot 10 11,967 sq.It. One acre or less Over one acre 100' Channing Wa: Approximate frontage 1251 Kendall Street Approximate distance of building from street 101 (Channing Wa: ) S. Lee 6. Recorded by_ed. B.R. Pfeiffer Organization Worc- ieritaje Pres. Soc. Date January 1976 (over) 30M-5-77 Addison Prentiss 7. Original owner (if known)_ residence Original use Subsequent uses (if any) and dates same 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) Located on a hilltop approximately 401 above Kendall Street, the Prentiss-Fanson House is an important local example of Victorian Gothic architecture. Ihs house is of brick construction, two and one half stories high with gabled slate roofs. The house's facade (south) is symmetrical with a three-and-one-half storey tower at its center and an open porch extending its length. The tower rises to a high hip roof with jurkinhead dormers on each side. On either side of the tower, facade has paired windows at both stories. Both side (east and west) elevations and the rear (north) elevation are asymmetrical. Throughout, windows are rectangular (2/1 sash) with rectangular sills and lintels of rock-faced granite.
The building's north elevation contains an original open porch and entry, which seems likely to have been the house's major entry as the steep slope of the house's facade makes the facade entr; inaccessible. With the exception of the posts of its facade porch, the Prentiss-Hanson House is in original condition. The Prentiss-Hanson House was built for Addison Prentiss (1815-1895), a local publisher who came to Worcester in 1851-1052. Until 1066 Prentiss worked as a designer, lithographer and engraver, producing ; (among other views) an important 1851 view of Worcester from Court Hill. After 1866 Prentiss became a book dealer and later a publisher. Prentiss acçupied #3 Canning Way until 1887 when he sold it to Charles [- Hanson. Hanson, who was Worcester's first Swedish immigrant, came to Worcester in 1868 at the age of nineteen years.
Having worked as a piano tuner and repair- man for S.R. Leland and Co., Hanson in 1870 opened his own business, 10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) selling pianos, musical instruments and "musical merchandise." .Active in. local Swedish organizations, Hanson became one of the wealthiest and most influential members of Worcester's large Swedish community- Citi directories (Prertiss) ilutt, C. History of Worcester, vol. IV, pp. 895-896 (Hanson biography) P-operey Warceoter Meltple Resomes Aua KPastal Daventeng) state MA (Warcester Working Number8. 30.79.2069 TECHNICAL CONTROL Photos 38 3 .
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