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Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.
re/ no 80000554 FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston - 2. Photo (3x3'' or 3x5") Staple to left side of form Photo number Roll 27 4. Map. Draw sketch of building location in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings. Indicate north. UTM: 19)268970/4683150 : - (over) In Area no. Form no. 116-CBD- 6 1. Town Address Worcester 156 Main Street Name Elwood Adams Hardware Store Present use commercial Present owner M. Champagne & N. Cloutiel Elwood Adams Realty Corp. 156 Main Street 3. Description: Date ca.1831, ca.1865 Source plaque, 1897 account 19th-century commercial Style vernacular Architect Exterior wail fabric unknown brick Outbuildings (describe). . none Other featúres trabeated granite store fronts, granite window sills and lintels, bracketed cornice top two floors Altered -added Date ca.1865 Moved .
no Date 5: Lot size: Assessors' Book 2, p.28 Lot 16 '9,345 sq.ft. One acre or less Over one'acre Approximate frontage 50° Approximate distance of building from street 101 6. Recorded by S, Coccacci, B.R. Pfeiffer Organization Worc. Horitage Pres. Soc. - Date November 1977 M-7-77 - 7. Original owner (if known) Original use Henry w. Miller hardware store 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) TnoThe Elwood Adams Block, built ca.1831, was originally a two and one-half storey building which was enlarged to its present four-storey height around 1865. Unchanged from its ca.1865 remodeling, the block has a facade of six baygi width, divided by a central pier into two sections of three bays' wiath. At the first storey are two store fronts (used as a single store) of trabeated granite and iron posts. Windows of the upper floors have rectangular granite lintels and sills. At the roof line is a wooden cornice with modillion brackets. Side walls of the block show faint outlines of the 1831 gable end; howeysr, no change in brickwork is evident on the building's facade, suggesting that the facade was entirely re-faced with pressed brick around 1865.
Now containing the Elwood Adams Hardware Store, Worcester's oldest business occupies a site of long-standing conmercial importance. In 1782, on this site, Daniel waldo, Sr., opened a hardware store for which he built the city's first brick builaing- enterea the business, Waldo Jr. took Henry W. Miller as an apprentice. After 1821 Miller and George Rice purchased the business, over which Miller gained complete ownership in 1031. Miller, who bought the building from the Waldo heirs whom the store was after which the business assumed its present name. 10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) Letter by Alice M. Rioe, dated June 1897, in possession of current owners. - Nutt, C. History of Worcester, vol. I, pP. 253-255 (Waldo biography) vol.
IV, p.606 (Adams biography) Properey Warcester Miltiple Resance Aua (Parteal Laventary) state MA (Warcester Working Number8. 30.79.2060 TECHNICAL CONTROL Photos 383 +13 Maps 2, 63 Exceetent muttyll resource namesatin for the entire cely HISTORIAN oWorceote. Both the general descrytion o shatement of Cacl/Acupt "1C-CBD-", "7-E, 44. Integnty and jor bondaries need to be addressed speahully on indurdual BUBIE ARCHEOLOGIST 116- CBD- 1 - Destroued, connot be listed. 130-CBD-4t - lam not unuinced this has lost integrith g tachl descussed with Srfcanee and calegorizaten WITH 3 EXCENTONS ALL PROPERTTES APPEAN TO ME TO MEET AK CRITERI AND THE FORUS ARE ADEQUATE RED BOTH TECHNLALLY AND TO PETERNINE SISNIFLANCE.
ALMOLEH SAUE OF TRE FORMS DID NOT CONTAN SIRONK STATEMENS IF SIGNIFICANCE THE KSSOURCE CHTEDOMIES WERE TBROWGHLY DICUSSED IN THE BODY OF MHE NORINATION; OTHER ACLERT 2/23,88 THEREFBRE SNGNIFICANCE MAS ESTABLISAED. HBDS WERE NOT NELESSARY BELHSE Of NHE SCHLE MAPSAND CLEARLY DELNEATED BOUNDAMES. ALRENDE WIS MIISTOM DIU SANCE PROPEATTES BUT BEIS MOW INCLLDEN AFTER BE 2/11/ CORREITONS. THE ONLY PROPERTIES TKAT I DO NOT RECOMMENA LASTING ARE - 116-CBD-/3- DESAOYCO BY FIRE mo- loCBD-! HAER Inventory - Review 130-CBD-44- DOES. NOT RETSIN INTEGRITY FOR INDI VDUKBELGIBILITY v102-L-3 1 SL WBOT CONVINLER ABOUT BOUNDANES REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BUT BELLEUE TEY BOUCD BE OK. #F BASED ON ADDITONAL DOCUMENTATON SUBMITTED - / DERER JUDLEMENT. Recommand Listne propertres nexcept these 3. Return 116-CBD-11 to Stute (mot elegible); 7 s to duscuss futha W/NR +State.
DUBIE g BRANCH CHIEF 3/3/81 Retum 102-L-3 to State for curectem; HOLD 130-CBD -44 for info from stute DUBIE Staff confernu 3/5/30 -agued to action as zustel belrr: 16-CSD -11 (official notfirati of also National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry - Send-back Re-submit Entered KEEPER Soldhe 3/5/80 MAR 5 1980 United States Department of the Interior - Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service ELWOOD ADAMS HARDWARE ELWOOD ADAMS - HARDWARE CONTRACTOR'S SUPPLIES SERSEY 884 STANLEY HARDWARE 4=4U WORK CLOTHING SUSHES FOOTWEA BE UN 189 MAY Allans, Elw 116 -CBD-6 156 Main St.% east elevation (r oheie Worcest-v Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000304