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rel no gcocosta In Area no. FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston Form no. 117-A-2 1. Town Worcester Address- 49-51 Union Street Name_ Salisbury Factory Building-49-51 Union Street Present use commercial 2. Photo (3x3" or 3x5") Staple to left side of form Photo number - 4. Map. Draw sketch of building location in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings. Indicate north. Present owner A. J. Realty Co. 90 Grove Street, Worc. 3. Description: Date. 1882 Source date placque Style utilitarian industrial Architect Stephen Earle Exterior wall fabric red brick Outbuildings (describe) none Other features granite placque bearing -initials "S.S."; granite hood over double entry: corbelled cornice with central parapet and date placque.
two storey Altered addition Date1886-1896 Moved no Date 19/269210/4623300 Assessors' Book 2, p.1, 5. Lot size: Lot 20 19,517 sq.ft. One acre or less Over one acre Approximate frontage 100' Approximate distance of building from street 7' 6. Recorded by_S. Ceccacci, S. Lee & B.R. Pfeiffer Organization_ WHPS Date Revised March 1979 (over) M-7-77 7. Original owner (if known)_ Stephen Salisbury III Original use factory Subsequent uses (if any) and datescommercial (present) 8. Themes (check as many as applicable) Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development X Conservation Education Exploration/ settlement Industry Military Political X Recreation Religion Science/ invention Social/ humanitarian Transportation 9.
Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) Designed by Stephen Earle, a prominent Worcester architect, and built in 1882, #49-51 Union Street is located at the northeast corner of Union and Market Streets. The building originally was trapezoidal in plan, with an ell at its northeast corner. The original portion of the building is three stories high vith a flat roof, corbelled cornice, parapet (west facade) and undecoratec granite trim. Between 1886 and 1896, a two storey brick addition was made to the building's Union Street facade. Designed by Stephen Earle, this addition included the structure's present double entry which is capped by a heavy granite hood set on granite consoles. Built by Stephen Salisbury III, #49-51 Union Street stands south of the site of the Court Mills which was built by his father, Stephen Salisbury II, between 1829 and 1832.
The Court Mills which were the first factories in Worcester to provide rental space and power for small manufacturers set the pattern for local industrial development and marked the beginning of the Salisbury family's long and important involvement in providing factory space for many of the city's major industries. Most factories built by Stephen Salisbury II and Stephen Salisbury III stood in the vicinity of Lincoln Square; however, re-development of the. area in the mid-twentieth century has led to the demolition or alteration of virtually all of the Salisbury Factory Buildings, leaving #49-51 Union Street and #25 Union Street (see form 117-A-1) as the most significant evidence of the Salisbury family's influence on the area's development. (cont.) 10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) Worcester Historical Society.
Biography file (Thomas Dodge) Sanitary Engineer, vol. VII, 5/31/1883, p. 611 (building notice) Nutt, C. History of Worcester, vol. III, p. 63 (Washburn biography) Washburn, C. Industrial Worcester, Pp. 109-299. INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commmity : Form No: Worcester 117-A-2 roperty Name: Salisbur Factory buildin Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. 9. #49-51 Union Street was built for the Worcester Barbed Wire Fence Company, a firm which was founded in 1881 by Thomas H. Dodge (a prominent local patent lawyer and inventor who held patents on textile, papermaking and agricultural machinery) and by Charles Washburn.
From its founding the firm was loosely connected with the Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Company (of which Charles Washburn's uncle, Ichabod, had been the founder), the city's largest industry. In 1883, Dodge was forced by his health to retire from the business, resulting in the purchase of the Worcester Barbed Wire Fence Company by Washburn & Moen which already held many barbed-wire patents and was the largest producer of barbed wire in the United States. As a result of the merger, Charles Washburn was made a director of the Washburn & Moen Company which continued to manufacture barbed wire at 49-51 Union Street until 1898, after which the building was rented by G.L. Brownell, an inventor and maker of twisting machinery for the manufacture of diverse materials ranging from silk thread to heavy ropes.
In 1909 Brownell's business expanded to occupy the entire building which he had purchased from Stephen Salisbury's estate in 1908; Brownell's firm continued in this location until after World War I. At present #49-51 Union Street is rented to a variety of small firms. Staple to Inventory form at bottom Property Warceoter Mltiple Resonce Aua (Partial Aanentany) State MA (Warcester Working Number8. 30.79.2069 TECHNICAL CONTROL Photos 383 + 13 Maps 2, 63 Ercelent-multh the geneal dacrgtion fer the entie cil, HISTORIAN of Worcote. " 4 shatevent t individual invertony sheet ar acup 10-30-79 sastesua, a reasors bthenaoo tine LeckeaBAR IECTURAL HISTORIAN can m/h Bmiés ummets m 102-L-3 14. Integnty and /~ bondavies nech to be adlessee "C -CBD - ", "7-E, and 130 -CBD-50 and speatuully on enducdual ARCHEOLOGIST H6-CBD- 17 - Destroued, connot be listel.
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W BASED Recommend ON ADDLTTONAL DOCUMLENTATTAS SUBMUTTED - / DERER JUDLEMENT. Listine - alo propentien Nescet these 3. Return 116-CBD-I$ to Stute +stute. DUBIE (not elegible); o to duscuuss puutha Retum 102 -L-3 to state fer cumectum; 3/5 8 BRANCH CHIEF 3/3/8 HOLD 130-CBD -44 for info from stute DUBLE Staff confernu 3/5/80 - agred to action as nuted beloro: fitena ete, 102 Coficial notfusti t BD-1) a dl 130-CBD-44 (Lielis frit f SEE 383/80 REPORT National Register Write-up Send-back Entered Federal Register Entry 2.3.81 - Re-submit KEEPER Soldhe 315/80 MAR 5 1980 United States Department of the Interior - Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service UNION PLACE WALBERG & AUGE Adams Warehouse NE CELLA 117-A- ALG 1979 Saliseury Factery Bulding 49-51 UnianSt.
wcrcesto MRA, Ma west elevation JUN 79 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000304