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MyND Excco5'l FORM B - BUILDING - MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston - - - - - - - - In Area no. Form no. 116-L-4 1. Town Address Worcester 24 William Street Name George Cobb House Present use residence 2. Photo (3x3" or 3x5") Staple to left side of form Photo number Ro11 4 4. Map. Draw sketch of building location in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings. Indicate north. Present owner Gertrude B. Bombard - 3. Description: Date Source Style ca.
1875 city atlases & directories Victorian Gothic Architect unknown Exterior wall fabric_clapboard Outbuildings (describe) none Other features ogee pointed arch at en- try, projecting porch with railing pierced by quatrefoils, central pro- jecting section with tri-partite windows & gable with apron & barg- boards, dormers with bargeboards Altered ,n° Date_ Moved no Date UTM: Assessor's Book 2, p.33 191268550/4683060 5. Lot sizelot 47, 4604 sq.ft. One acre or less Over one acre 60° Approximate frontage Approximate distance of building from street 10' 6. Recorded by S.Lee, ed. B.R.Pfeiffer Organization Worc. Heritage Pres. Soc. Date February 1978 (over) 30M-5-77 - 7. Original owner (if known) Original use George R. Cobb residence 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) First occupied in 1875, the George Cobb House is an ornate and unaltered example of Victorian Gothic architecture. The structure is two and one-half stories high, rising from a foundation of rock- faced granite to a slate-covered hip roof with decorative gabled pavilian at its center; set in the first storey of the pavilien is the main entry, framed by an ogee arch and clustered columns. Flank- ing the entry are three-sided bay windows which are connected by a three-sided open porch with a railing oi quatretoil panels.
Above the entry is a tri-partite arched window, capped by -a stylized ogee arch. The pavilian's gable is trimmed by an apron pierced with tre- foils and by bargeboards which terminate in quatrefoils. Dormers are trimmed with similar decoration. First storey windows on the building's side elevations gabled caps with incised decoration, while second storey windows have moulded caps on consoles and sty- lized volutes at their bases. The Cobb House's first occupant was George Cobb, a fish and oyster merchant, who owned the house into the early twentieth century- 10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) city atlases & directories Property Warceoter Mltiple Resonae Ava KPastial Laventary) State MA (Warcester Working Number8.
30.79.2060 TECHNICAL CONTROL Photos 383 +13 Maps1 2, 63 Excclent mulryll resource nomeration for the entire cely HSTRIAN of worcofee. Both the general descrytion " statemeat s Caul/acapt Lightne 10-50-79 Phen an this time ( MinKe AR DECTURAL HISTORIAN apprcition is bifoted on actached sohects.. conun N/h. Bmiés ummento n 102-L-3 , NC-CBD-"1, ")-E, and 130-CBD-50 and 14. Intgnty wud /o bondanies need to be adilessedl speahully on enduidual ARCHEOLOGIST 15 14 - , , - Peniod s descussed with -Peath Enpefcane ans cas cort int WITH 3 EXCERTONS AU PROPERTIES APPEAN TO ME TO MEET HK CRITERIN AND MHE ALMOUEH SAME EE TE FORMS DID NOI CONTAN STRONA STATEMENS IF SIGNIFICANKE THE KESOURCE CATEGONES WERE THDROUGHLY DKCUSSED IN THE BODY OF MHE NDRINATION; TUEREFBRE SNGNIFICANCE WAS ESTABLSHED. UBDS WERE NOT NEUESSARY BELNSE Of MYE SCHE MAPSAND CLEANLT DEUNEATED BOUNDANCS.
AURENDE WAS MISSING OTHER ACEAT 2/28/88 HAER DIU SANCE PROPEATES BUT EIS MOW INCLIDED AFTER THE 2/11/ CORRELTONS. THE ONLY PROPERTIES THST I DO NOT RECOMMEND LASTING ARE - 1.6-CBD-13 - DESMOYEO BYFIRE MO - 16CBD-!! Inventory- Review 130-CBD - 44- POCS. NOT RETAIN INTEGRITY FOR INDI WIDUKLBELGBILITY v102-L-3 B ÜOT CONVINLED ABOUT BOUNDANLE REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BUT BELLEUE MEY DOUCD BE OK. BASED DN ADDITONAL DOCUMENTATON SUBMITTED - / DEFER JUDLEMENT. Recommand Listne all proppeties sexcept these 3. Return 116-CBD-H to Stute (mot etegible); to derauss futta v/Ne +State. DUBIE g BRANCH CHIEF 3/3/8 Retum 102-L-3 to State fer corectem; HOLD 130-CBD -44 for info from stute DUBLE Staff conferne 3/5/30-agued to action as zuted belrroi Uccept with exeystin?t-3 trekuning fo stite fr bevioin.
16-CBD-11 (official notfratin o (oms) a / 130- CBD-44 |Leli, fant see 33/80 REPONT National Register Write-up Send-back Federal Register Entry 2.3.8 Re-submit Entered KEEPER Soldhe 3/5/80 MAR 5 1980 United States Department of the Interior - Heritaqe Conservation and Recreation Service ©TELEPHONECO. EM PLOYEES PARKING ONLY by Berk Prestige JUN 19 -30 AUG 1979 116-L-4 Lobb, Geerge, Heuse 24 Wlliamst Warcesto MRA,Ma South+last elevalion by Berkey Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000304