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- ref no S0000611 FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office oi the Secretary, State House, Boston - - - - - - In Area no. Form no. 130-CBD- 46 1. Town Address Name_ Worcester 600 Main Street Babcock Block Present use commercial/vacant 2. Photo (3x3" or 3x5") Staple to left side of form Photo number Present owner Palace Realty Inc. Kenneth R. Stanhope 3. Description: Date ca.1060-1870 Source city atlases Roll 27 - - Style granite post lintel facade Architect unknown 4. Map. Draw sketch of building location in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings. Indicate north. Exterior wall fabric- granite/brick Outbuildings (describe) none Other features structural granite fron (apparently not a facing over brick arched window muntins, tie-rod plates on soutn wall Altered store front Date 1960s Moved no Date UTM Assessors' Book 3, p.19A 19126864014682290 5.
Lot size: Lot 11--.2,558 sq.ft. One acre or less X Over one acre Approximate frontage 251 Approximate distance of building from street 101 6. Recorded by_ B.. Pfeiffer Organization Worc- Meritage Pres. Soc. Date November 1977 (over) ogwggg 7. Original owner (if known) C.B. Babcocx (1871) Original use cormercial Subsequent uses (if any) and dates 8. Themes (check as many as applicable) same Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development Conservation Education Exploration/ settlement Industry Military Political Recreation Religion Sclence/ inventior Social/ humanitarian Transportation 9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) A rare local example of granite construction, the Babcock Block's trabeated granite facade is unique in Worcester.
The block is five stories high with elevations facing Nain and Austin Streets. Pacade windows of the third, fourth and fifth stories are glazed witn . double-hung sash, the top lalves of which have arched muntins. The block's Austin Street ele- vation is faced with pressea brick and heavily studded with star-pattern tie-rod plates. Except for its modernized store front and the replacement oi sore second storey sash, the Babcock Block is intact- It is likel; that the block was built around the sane time as the neighboring Colton BLOCK (torm 130-0BD-45) Ior chester babcocz, a building mover whose house was at #2 Austin Street. Ine buildin 's earliest known occupant was J.R. Emery " Co., grocers (188). 10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) Lorcester Illustrated Business Guide (1360), p-79.
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HBDS WERE NOT NELESSARY BELNSE OF M/E SCHLE MAPSAND CLEARLY DELNEATED BOUNDANICS . HLRENDE WAS MISSING DIU SANCE PROPEATTES BUT BIS MOW INCLIDEN AFTER BE 2/11/ CORRELTORIS. THE ONLY PROPERTIES THST I DO NOT RECOMMEND LASTING HRE ~ 116-CBD-/3 - DESAOYCO BY FIRE Mo- 16CBD-!! OTHER 2/2888 HAER Inventory- Review 130-CBD-44- POCS. NOT RETSUN INTEGRITY FOR NDIVDUKBEUGIBILTY v102-2-3 I DEHSSSAAM EST CONVINLER ABOUT BOUNDANES REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BUT BELEVE THEY DOUCH BE OK. ON ADDITIONAL DOCUMLENTATIAN SUBMITTED - / DEFER JUDGEMENT. Recommad Listing all proppertres nexcept these 3. Return 116-CBD-1 to Stute (rot etegible); to durouss futha W/NR +stute. DUBIE Retum 102-L-3 to State for curecem; 3/5 & BRANCH CHIEF 3/3/8 HOLD 130-CBD .44 for info from stute DUBIE Staff conferenu 3/5/80-agued to action as purtel belrri wn.
sfote) KEEPER Soldhe 3/5/80 MAR 5 1980 National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry 2.3.81 Re-submit Entered United States Department of the Interior - Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service 11155 QUORS ED. S. PIERCE LIQUOR CO. 30 AUG 197 130-CBD-46 Babcock Blsck St 600 mauu Wercester MRA, Ma South & east elevations Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000304