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- FORM B -BUILDING ref no sc0co635 MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston - - -' In Area no. Form no. 141-z 1. Town Address Name_ Present use Worcester 2 King Street The Brightside vacant after fire 2. Photo (3x3" or 3x5") Staple to left side of form Photo number - Exp. 34 Ro11. 4 4. Map. Draw sketch of building location in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings. Indicate north. Present owner United Realty Co. 35894 Park Ave. 3. Description: Worcester, Mass.
Date 1889 Source exterior date plaque Style Romanesque Revival Architect Exterior wall fabric_ Outbuildings (describe) Fuller & Delano brick one-storey commercial block Other features sandstone trirmings, elaborate terracotta panels, entry Ilankea by sandstone colums with carved capitals Altered some windows Date Moved UTM: 5.Iot size: 19/267880/4681770 One acre or less no Date Assessors' Book 6, p.26 Lot 19 19,506 sq.ft. * Over one acre 601 Approximate frontage Approximate distance of building from street 7' B.R. Pfeiffer 6. Recorded by Organization Worc. Heritage Pres. Soc. Date November 1977 (over) 30M-5-77 7. Original owner (if known) J.E. Buck (building notice); Richard I. Buck (1896 Atlas) Original use Subsequent uses (if any) and dates apartment house same (presently vacant) 8.
Themes (check as many as applicable) Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community developmentx Conservation Education Exploration/ settlement Industry Military Political Recreation Religion Science/ invention Social/ humanitarian Transportation 9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) The Brightside is a four-storey brick apartment house with a synme- trical facade (south). Planked on either side by seni-circular bays, the central section of the facade contains an columns with spiralled fluting and ornate capitals at the first storey.
Above the entry is a balcony with an original iron railing (2d storey) and terracotta panels (2d and 3d stories), one of which bears the name "Brightside" - Above the fourth storeg is a rock-faced sandstone cornice, brick parapet, sandstone date plaque framed by engaged colunns and original iron railings over botn bay window stacks. Side walls of the structure are largely undecorated. Although currently vacant following a minor fire, the Brightside is in mostly original condition, and remains Worcester's most ornate early apartment house. Built during the first wave of apartment house construction in the vicinity of Main Street south, the Brightside was among the most ex- pensive buildings of its type, costing $40,000 to build in 1888.
jurther, the building's unicue sandstone and terracotta ornament indicate that the building's architects prepared the design to order, unlike a large number of slightly later apartment houses, which appear to have been built according to several standardized plans. Also located on the Brightside's lot is a one-storey block of stores which are of unrelated history and which have no effect on the Brightside's significance. This one-storey cormercial block is included merely be- cause it shares an undivided lot with the Brightside. 10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) Engineering and Building Record, vol. XIX, March 16, 1889, p. xi. (building notice) Poperey Warceoter Miltple Resansse Dua (Partial Daventary) State MA (Warcester Working Number 8.
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141-2 na 2 Aing Strut Wert & South elevation 8 BRICH SIDL JAN 1978 by Berkey 141-2 2 KengStrut Detau JAN 1978 South Elevation 36 Prestige Prints Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000304