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- FORM B - BUILDING Jel no 80000632 MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston - - In Area no. Form no. 141-1N 2. Photo (3x3" or 3x5") Staple to left side of form Photo number 1. Town Address Name Present use Worcester 9 May Street Andrew H. Hammond Organ Reed Factory cormercial Daniel Lemovitz & Robert M. Willis 4. Map. Draw sketch of building location in relation to nearest cross streets and "other buildings. Indicate north. Present owner 1 3. Description: Date_1868, ca. 1875, ca.1880 Source see Bibliography (#10) Second Empire Style Architect unknown Exterior wall fabric Outbuildings (describe) none Other features slightly curved facade, slate mansard roof, iron fence along street, smokestack & additions at rear Altered aluminum sidingDate ca. 1970 over part of facades Moved Date 192677104681720 UTM: 5. Lot size:Assessor's Book 6, p.
36 Lot 26--33, 731 sq, êt. One acré or less Over one acre Approximate frontage 185! Approximate distance of building from street 15! 6. Recorded by_B.R. Pfeiffer Organization Worc. Heritage Pres. Soc. Date December 1977 (over) M-7-77 7. Original owner (if known) Original use Subsequent uses (if any) and dates Andrew H. Hammond organ reed factory commercial (present) 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 X X 9.
Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) The former Hammond Organ Reed Factory is a Second Empire style brick building of two-story height with a high basement and a third story beneath its slate-covereá mansard roof. The building's plan is irregular, reflecting the various additions made to its north and west walls during the 1870s and 1880s. The factory's facade is on May Street and has an off-center entrance which is approached fron a high granite stoop- Extending along May Street is an original cast-iron fence, set in a granite base. One of the few remaining Second Empire style factory buildings in the Hammond F'actory was built for Andrew Hammond (1830-1906), a native of New Hampshire who worked as an "iron Moulder" in Manchester and Laconia, New Hampshire befóre conning Io Worcester in 1851.
Having worked at the malleable iron works of vaite, Chadsey & Co., as well as at several local foundries, Hammond found the work "distasteful" and turned to the study of music. Hammond traveled briefly as a music iteacher in the American West before entering the organ reed manufacturing Tirm oi Edward Harrington and Augustus Rice, of which Hammond became sole owner in the 1860s. In 1868 Harmond built the easterrmost Porteachod the pae Sttest cact 1886,o tich adite nsreete na de until workers were amplojed here. Having survived the declining demand which drove other local organ manufacturers out of business in the 1890s, the Hammond Reed Company (incorporated in 1892) remained successful due to Hammond 9 contiruous alterations of instrument design and improvement of manufacturing machinery.
Between the 1890s and World War I, tne Hammond Organ Reed Factory was believed to be the largest organ reed factory 10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, in the early maps, etc.) world. Proto t,B88),57-58 (Hammond biography). Poperty Warceoter Miltple Resonre Dua (Partial Laventary) state MA (Warcester working Number8. : 30.79.2069 TECHNICAL Photos 383 +13 CONTROL Maps 2,63 xuelent multyle resource nomeration for the entie cily HISTORIAN of Worceoter. Both the general descrytion 4 sratement t Call/Acapt apyeocition io higtt Muna tacd shut. conun wth Bmiés umments "6-CBD-", "7-E, and 130-CBD-50 anl 44.
Integnty and /or bondaries need to 102-L-3, be addliessed specrtclly on enduidual DUBIE ARCHEOLOGIST descussedd with - Peit) Eefcanee and cos fort inte WINH 3 EXCENTONS ALL PROPERTIES APPEAN TO ME TO MEET AK CRITERIA AND THE FORMUS ARE ADEQUATERESO BOTH TELHNLALLY AND TO DETERMINE SIÇNIFCANCE ALMOUEH SOME EE TVE FORMS DID NOT CONTAN STRONG STATEMENS IF SIGNIFICANKE THE KESOURCE CATEGORIES WERE TUDROWHLY DISCUSSED IN BHE BODY OF THE NORINATION; OTHER ACEDT 2/28,88 THEREFORE SIGNIFICANCE MAS ESTABLISHED. HBDS WERE NOT VELESSARY BELHSE of MYE SCAE MAPSAND CLEARLY DELNEATES BOUNDANCS. ALRENDE WAS MLITSINA HAER DIU SMLE PROPERTIES BUT EIS NOW INCLLDED AFTER TO 2/1I/ CORRELTONS. THE ONLY PROPERTIES TIKET I DO NOT REROMMENA LASTING ARE v 116-CBD-/3- DESNOYCO DY FIRE Mo- 1oCBD-!
Inventory - Review 130-CBD-44- DDES NOT RETSIN INTEGRITY FOR INDI VDUKBELGIBILITY v10r-L-3 I DEZKASA AIU MIBOT CONVINLED ABOUT BOUNDANESS REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BUT BELIEWE THEY DOUCD BE OK. I BAGED Recommand DD ADDITONA DOCUMLENTATON SUBMUTTED - I DEPER JUDGEMENT. Listing all propertres sexcept these 3. Return 116-CBD-11 to Stute (noteligeble); to derauss futha u/NR tute. DUBIE Petum 102-L-3 to State fer credtum 3151 & BRANCH CHIEF 3/3/8 HOLD 130-CBD -44 for info from stute DUBIE Staff conferenu 3/5/30 -agued to action as zuted belowi diceot wth exeyztin so esu Pscl noteemn- demo fom Stfpo BD-11) = dl 130-CBD-44 (Ltl stitse tiktrni National Register Write-up Send-back Entered Federal Register Entry 2.3.81 Re-submit KEEPER Soldha 3/5/80 MAR 5 1980 United States Department of the Interior - Heritaqe Conservation and Recreation Service ALL STATE LIGHTING MFG., INC.
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