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583 MAY 1 5 1989 FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 SOUTHBNIDGE MASS MPA AREA B 213 FORM NO. Town Southbridge Address 52 Main Street Historic Name Photo (3"x3" or 3"x5", black and white) Indicate address of property on back of photo. Staple to left side of form. Sketch Map: Draw map showing property's location in relation to nearest cross streets and/or geographical features. Indicate all buildings between inventoried property and nearest intersection(s).
Indicate north Use: Present Original DESCRIPTION Date C4.1904-1925 multi-family residential multi-family residential Source Sanborn maps Style Queen Anne & French-Canadian influenci Architect _Unknown Exterior Wall Fabric clapboards Outbuildings none Major Alterations (with dates) none Condition Good-fair Moved no Date nla Acreage less than one acre Setting residential/commercial street, single and multifamily dwelling, mostly late-19th early-20th c. UTM REFERENCE 18/445 900/4661980 USGS QUADRANGLE Southbridge, Mass-Conn SCALE 1:25,000 Recorded by E. Woodford, S. Ceccacci ed. S.
Ceccacci Organization Southbridge Historical Com- mission Date May 1986 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) 52 Main Street is signific.ant as an example of the distinctive regional multi-family housing type known as the triple decker, ornamented in a distinctly French Canadian fashion, and constructed during the growth of the town's eastern section late in the 19th century. It meets National Register criteria A and C at the local level and retains integrity of setting, location, materials, workmanship, design, feeling, and association. The boundaries indicated on the attached assessors map - are tnose of current ownership. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.
This three and a half story multifamily dwelling has a gable roof and wrap-around porches on three floors does not follow a standard three decker pattern. Although the three deckers seen in Southbridge take a variety of forms, most typically have flat or low hipped roofs. The use of galleries on more than one side of the building and the use of outside stairs as seen here (both possibly French Canadian elements) are common to Southbridge three deckers. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the developmen of the community. The development of this section of Main Street with multifamily dwellings occurred during the first two decades of the 20th-century in response to the sustained success and prosperity of the nearby American Optical Company. During this period larger house lots were subdivided and developed.
In the case of this lot, an earlier two story house was replaced with a much larger multifamily dwelling. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES maps, atlases 8/85 NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Section number. Page Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Southbridge MRA Worcester County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review Date/Signature 11. Building at 38--42 Worcester Street Entered in the Mational Register freeper AebmaBgun 6pz/rs 12. Building at 52 Main Street Entered in the National Begister 13. Central Mills Historic District Entered in the Mational Regiater Attest FReeper AhlumZgu 6/22/09 Attest Ikeeper AleeneByu 6/2214 Attest 14. Chamberlain--Bordeau House Entered in the Mational Register Entered 1u Lne 15.
Chapin Block Mational Register Keeper E AelmunByan 4/2119 Attest Keeper AeloneByun 4/x/89 Attest 16. Cheney, Alpha M. House Entered in the (Keeper Mational Begister AeleeSyur 6/2219 Attest 17. Cheney, J.M., Rental House..ca in une Heeeper AunByen42/9 Mational Register Attest 18. Clarke--Glover Farmhouse Axeeper AubreByun 6/23/84 19. Cliff Cottage Entered in tne Mational Register Entered in the National Register Attest 1Keeper XbreBze 4/22/89 Attest 20.
Cole, E., Merritt, House -Reeper i TlrueBzu 0/23/89 Entered in tbe National Begistar Attest NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY NAME: Building at 52 Main Street MULTIPLE NAME: Southbridge MRA STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Worcester DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: 5/15/89 6/16/89 DATE OF PENDING LIST: 5/31/89 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 6/29/89 REFERENCE NUMBER: 89000583 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: N OTHER: N PDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: N COMMENT WAIVER: N ACCEPT RETURN REJECT 6/22/89 _DATE Entered in the National Register ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: RECOM./CRITERIA REVIEWER DISCIPLINE DATE DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N CLASSIFICATION count resource type STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION FUNCTION historic current DESCRIPTION architectural classification materials descriptive text SIGNIFICANCE Period Areas of Significance--Check and justify below Specific dates Builder/Architect statement of Significance (in one paragraph) summary paragraph completeness clarity applicable criteria justification of areas checked relating significance to the resource context relationship of integrity to significance justification of exception other BIBLIOGRAPHY GEOGRAPHICAL DATA acreage UTMS verbal boundary description boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION sketch maps USGS maps photographs presentation OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date TOWN & COUNTRY TELOWER 1-28 52 Main Street( B-215) Southbriage, MA cccaccI, 1986 Southbridge tistorical commission ROl1 #6 MRA 35 + SOUTHBRIDGE MASS JOHN E.O'CI"HELL A ASCOCIATES AUJURH, MAIHE 1371 52 Mayn Street 27 47 30 29 @I33 133 LuPUCI U STNEET -19130 e G3 GD MECHANIC «XEMPE *or - TAG ERGUPY «HEMPE TO0n +019 917 010: i 13 28 22 ,23?1 2403 25 SOUTHBRIDGE.
MASS. 32 :4 103 -16 / B-213 #52 37 48.=8. 08.N0.#8.14.HF.0M 36 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000294