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- FORM B - BUILDING ref no 80000601 MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston - In Area no. Form no. 130-I 1. Town Address Worcester 20 Irving Street Name English High School Present use school department offices 2. Photo (3x3" or 3x5") Staple to left side of form Photo number Ro1l 30 4. Map. Draw ,sketch of building location. - in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings. Indicate north. Present owner City of Worcester 3. Description: Date 1891-1892 Source City Documents Style Romanesque Revival Architect. Exterior wall fabric Barker & Nourse brick Outbuildings (describe) ,none Other features brown sandstone trim, corner tawer with high hip roof, arched entry, stone columns with carved capitals Altered minor Date Moved, Date 12/268460/46522si4 got siro: Assessors' Book 3, p.22 Lot 20 39,376 sq.ft.
One acre or less Over one acre Approximate frontage 250' Approximate distance of building from street 15' 6. Recorded by B.R. Pfeifler Organization_Worc. Heritage Pres. Soc. February 1978 Date (over) M-7-77 7. Original owner (if known) City of Worcester Original use high school Subsequent uses (if any) and dates_school department offices (present) 8. Themes (check as many as applicable) Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural X The Arts Commerce Communication Community development Conservation Education Exploration/ settlement Industry Military Political X Recreation Religion Science/ invention Social/ humanitarian Transportation 9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) Built in 1891-1892, the English High School Building is a superb example OÎ Romanesque Revival style architecture, in an excellent state of preser- vation.
The main body of the building is three and one-half stories high, rising from a base of rock-faced granite to a dormered hip roof. Windows of' the third storey and of interior stair wells have arched heads of rock- faced sandstone voussoirs. Dormers are gabled, containing windows with arched transons and decorative brickwork in the gable. Major entries exist on the building's Irving Street (east) and Chatham Street (south) walls. The Irving Street entry consists of a sandstone and granite porch with a wide entry arch on squat columns and a sandstone railing (above) with carved corner posts. Slightly simpler in its decoration, the Chatham Street entry is set in a rectangular surround with squat columns, foliate carvings and a keystone with a carved lamp. Above this entry is a shallow projecting window sill with elaborate foliate carvings.
At the school's southeast corner is a five and one-half storey tower (130' high) with a high hip roof and cast-iron cresting. The exterior of English High School is unaltered, retaining original oak-panelled doors and low granite walls at the property's boundaries. English High School was designed by the locally prominent firm of Barker & Nourse, which published an Illustration of the school building on the introductory page of Illustrations of a Few Buildings (1898), trade catalogue for the firm. (cont.) 10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) City Document #47 for the year ending 11/30/1892 Barker & Nourse. Nutt, C.
History of Worcester, 11 0500101, 0R 015 82 1ie,01 Chiltong 02 Bngbrod, of Classical lligh), 721 High) MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Worcester 130-I Property Name: English High Schoo] Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. 9. Opened in September of 1892, this building served as the English High School (the city's second high school) until 1914, when the English High School was re-organized as the High School of Cormerce. At this time the Classical High School which had been located at the corner of Maple and Walnut Streets (in a building designed by Henry Hobson Richardson, now demolished), moved into this building. The new High School of Cormerce then occupied the former Classical High School building. After 1966 this building ceased to be used as a high school; it has since been used as office space.
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