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no 30000825 FORM A - AREA SURVEY MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston - Form numbers in this area Area no. 141-D-1 2. Photo (3x3" or 3x5') Staple to left side of form Photo number 1. Town Worcester Name of area (if any) Castle Street Row Houses (#4-18 Castle Street) 3. General date or period ca.1873 Ro1l4 - 4. Is area uniform (explain): in style? Jes (Second Empire) in condition? yes (good) in type of ownership? Jes (private) in use? yes (residential) 5. Map. Use space below to draw a general map of the area involved. Indicate any historic properties for which individual reports are completed on Forms B thru F, using corres- ponding numbers. Show street names (including route numbers, if any) and indicate north. Indicate with an "x" existing houses not inventoried on Form B. : DO NOT WRITE IN THIS SPACE USGS Quadrant MHC Photo no. (over) 6.
Recorded by_ B.R. Pfeiffer Organization Worc. Heritage Pres. Soc. Date February 1978 UTM: 19/267990/4681890 5M_70_nneyacr 7. Historical data. Explain the historical/architectural importance of this area. Worcester's largest block of row houses, the Castle Street Row contains eight units, each of which is built of brick, two and one-half stories high rising from & high basement. Each house has a side-nall floor plan, three-sided bay window, bracketed entry porch and mansard roof with dormers, The lower four units of the row (#4-10) are arranged symmetrically around two sets oi paired entries, while the upper Iour units have individual entries and are arranged at staggered heights which reflect the slope of the hill. With the exception of modern asphalt-shingle roofs and some modern pointing, the row retains most of its original simple features.
The site of the Castle Street Row was part of & much larger tract of: land on which El1 Thayer had founded the Oread Institute, a women's college, in 1849. Built at the head of Castle Street, the Oread Institute was a large Gothic Revival building with corner towers and crenellations; the building's castle-like appearance influenced the naming of surrounding streets. In the early 1870s Thayer subdivided a portion of the oread campus and sold off building lots to help liquidate a $20,000 mortgage on the property. Thayer apparently set the circumstances for the creation of a dense rowhouse district by _creating small narrow lots, virtually al1 of which were purchased by Larkin Gates, & local builder. Between 1868 and 1873, Gates built forty-two individual houses in the area, dividea among eight Second Empirestyle rowa. Of these houses only the Castle Street row remains intact.
Although designed ss modest, single-family homes, many of the houses of the Castle Street Row and neighboring rows were subdivided into apart- ments by the 1880s, while others contained a large number of boarders. containing the city's largest concentration. : 8. Bibliography and/or references such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc. City atlases and directories Taylor, Anthony. "Architectural Neighborhoods of Worcester", unpublished manuscript. INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commmity: Worcester Form No: 141-D-1 Property Name: Castle St. Row Houdo District Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. Property List Address Assessor's Data Present Owner 4 Castle St. 1604 sq. It. Book o, p. 26 Lot 24 Joseph G. & Helen F. Zuromskis 260 old Mill Road Shrewsbury, Mass.
01545 " " 6 Castle St. 8 Castle St. 10 Castle St. 12 Castle St. 14 Castle St. 16 Castle St. 18 Castle St. 1568 sq. It. Book 6, p. 26 Lot 23 1572 sq. It. Book 6, P- 26 Lot 22 1588 sq. It. Book 6, p. 26 Lot 21 1612 sq. It- Book o, p. 26 Lot 57 1630 sq. Ît. Book 6, p. 26 Lot 56 1693 sq. It- Book 6, p- 26 Lot 55 1350 sq. It. Book 6, p. 26 Lot 54 Charles Zuromskis 7 Oakland Dr. Auburn, Mass. 01501 Sophie M. Palubinskas 147 Lake Ave. Worcester, Mass. 01604 Staple to Inventory form at bottom pPropert Worcester Miltple Resone Aua (Partial Lanentony) State MA (Warcester Working Number 8. 30.79.2060 TECHNICAL CONTROL Photos 383 +13 Maps 2,63 Exueetent muttyle resource nomesation for the extire cily HISTORIAI of Worceofer. Both the general descreption 4 oratevent o Cal/Accpt NC-CBD -", "7-E, and 130-CBD-50 and 14.
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THE ONLY PROPERTIES THET I DO NOT RECOMMEND LISTNA HRE - 116-CBD-I3-DESAOYCO BYFIRE MO - 16CBD-1 Inventory - Review 130-CB0-44- DDES NOT RETSIN INTEGRITY FOR INDI VIDUKB GUGIBILITY v102-L-3 / DEISAL ET CONVINLED ABOUT BOUNDNES REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BUT BELLEUE MEY SOUCH BE OK. I BASED Recommard ON ADDITONAL DOCUMLENTATON SUBMITTED - / DETER JUDGEMENT. Listing all propertres rexcept these 3. Return 116-CBD-11 to Stute (not etegible); to durcuss futha 1/NR Statf +5 tate.
DUBIE g BRANCH CHIEF 3/3/8 Retum 102-L-3 to State fer curedtem HOLD 130- CBD -44 for info from stute DOBLE Staff conferenu 3/5/30 -agued to actiri as zuated belrroi ficeot wa sxeep, ozt -3 (ukunig f skite fi - i 16-C$D (officeal notfuati o returig 114- BD-11) á el 130-0BD-44 |Lihi, frit frme sfete) National Register Write-up - Send-back Federal Register Entry Re-submit KEEPER soldha 3/5/80 Entered MAR 5 1980 United States Department of the Interior - Heritaqe Conservation and Recreation Service MAY 79 Crnte street nen AUG 1979 141-D-1 4-18 Castle St. Wurceste Mn. Southo sastma elevation Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000304