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FORM B - BBILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 - Photo (3"x3" or 3"x5", black and white) Indicate address of property on back of photo. Staple to left side of form. Peateres. Toeitate sii brtidination between inventoried property and nearest intersection(s). Indicate north See attached map. UTM REFERENCE 19/270650/4682230 USGS QUADRANGLE Worcester North SCALE 1:25,000 5YUUaDOL AREA DEC 2 6 1989 FORM NO. 1684 Town Worcester Address8/10 Fairmont Avenue Historic Name Henry Bousquet Three- Decker Use: Present residential Original residential DESCRIPTION Date ca.
1928 Source Worcester House Directory Style_ Colonial Revival/Craftsman Architect possibly Henry Bousquet Exterior Wall Fabric wood clapboard and shingle Outbuildings none Major Alterations (with dates) none Condition good Moved Date Acreage less than 1/4 acre Setting Early 20th century, urban, single- and multi-family residential neighborhood. Recorded byMichael Steinitz Organization for MHC Date December 1988 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Henry Bousquet Three-Decker possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association. It is significant for its association with the develoment of a suburban, multi-family, ethnic, working-class neighborhood in the Bloomingdale area in the 1920s.
It is also a particularly well-preserved late double three-decker that represents well the last phase of local Colonial Revival three-decker design. The Bousquet Three-Decker thus meets criteria A and C of the National Register of Historic Places on the local level. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community. Architecturally, 8/10 Fairmont Avenue.is an unusually well-preserved example of late, double three-decker design that incorporates Colonial Revival elements The house has a hip roof and is clad in wood clapboard, with shingle bands between stories. The symmetrical main facade has a central entry from which there projects a three-tier porch capped by a pedimented gable roof. The porch is supported by heavy single, double and triple square columns, set on piers on the second and third tiers.
The porch also has arched openings and open balustrades. Enclosed side rear entry porches are also capped by pedimented gables that extend from the hip roof. Windows have 4/1 and 6/1 sash, and include pairs and triples on the front and side elevations. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. Built ca. 1928, the Bousquet Three-Decker was one of the last three-deckers built in the Bloomingdale neighborhood, an area of suburban, multi-family. subdivisions that extended eastward from the Grafton Hill area in the 1910s and 1920s. the Hamilton and Bloomingdale neighborhoods, Fairmont and Puritan Avenue represented the eastern edge of three-decker development.
The modestly fashionable houses built in the area attracted a mix of working-class families from the city's older East Side ethnic districts, who commuted from this area by streetcar and later auto to work places in various parts of the city. The first known owner and probable builder of 8/10 Fairmont, a double three-decker, was Henry Bousquet, a carpenter who lived on Plantation Street. By 1930 the owner was listed as Otto Luder. Tenants in 1930 represented a mixture of Worcester's Irish, French-Canadian, and Swedish populations. They included Harry Hanson, a monotype operator; Ralph Smith, a grinder; Frederick Kneeland, a salesman; Alphonse Belliveau, a railroad yard foreman; Albert Plourde, a carpenter; and James Cahill, a collector. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Worcester Directory, Worcester House Directory, 1928, 1930. J. Callahan et al., Worcester Three-Decker Survey, 1981.
8/85 Npo róm 10.0000 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page. Worcester Three-Deckers MRA Worcester County, MASSACHUSETTS COVER (substantive Revíei] OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 a mustu MRA (wmuestu she-Derkute) Date Listed 1. Ahern, Catherine, Three-Decker Entered in tlia Natlonal Register fonkeoper Attest fRéeper Attest 2. Anderson, Ludwág, Three-Decker 3. Baker, Peter, Three-Decker Entered in the Nationa1 Registe Keeper Attest Entered in the National Register kKeeper Attest 4. BattEfle, Marion, Three-Decker 5. Beaver Street Historic District Entered in the Nationel Begistes Reeper Attest Entered in the Nat1oga1 Begistteeper 6. Blodgett, Lydia, Three-Decker Attest Entered in the Hational Register' Keeper 7. Bostrom, Eric, Three-Decker Attest Entered in the Natloga1 Begista Keeper Attest 8.
Bousquet, Henry, Three-Decker Entered in the (Keeper National Register 9. Carlson, Eric, Three-Decker Attest Entered in the Nat1onal RegisteN Heeper Attest 10.
Crabtreem Thomas, Three-Decker Entered in the Nat1ona1 Begis6eeper Attest Sethtavage 02-80-90 Aelam Bjux 2/1/5c AiloreBya2/4kc Xelmepyen219k0 Ailara Bya2t1e Aulmupyen 2/9172 ArluuBgen o119 Aeluayute Allineyu204/70 AilmuBgu 2/1/92 Almußye 2/5/90 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE IATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES VALUATION/RETURN SHEEI REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Bousquet, Henry, Three-Decker NAME: MULTIPLE Worcester Three-Deckers MRA NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Worcester DATE RECEIVED: 12/26/89 DATE OF 16TH DAY: 1/25/90 DATE OF PENDING LIST: DATE OF 45TH DAY: 1/09/90 2/09/90 DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REFERENCE NUMBER: 89002360 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: PEgUESR W BAMEPROBLEM N BENDEAPE N RATEOAX APPEDVED H REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SIR DRAFT: N COMMENT WAIVER: N LACCEPT RETURN REJECT 2/4/90 DATE Intered 1n the Mational Begistör 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 OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date _presentation Wcresto Theepeckes nht HENRy BOUSQUET THREt 8/10 FAIRMOUT AVENUE WORCESTER MA mHC #168 doudd poy sapinlas Quissou.
xnjep ORIENT 1§ST. 040.09.5. DIVISION BLEEKEF.. - CNSION 441 Henry Bousquet Three-Decker 8/10 Fairmont Ave., Worcester MHC # 1684 MARCH VNEANGO if DELL ** R0BIN 100 FT 100 12 LLA PIERRE PLANTAT TION 446 FAIRMONT RIOGE INGLESIDE 15 13 14 DRFTMOLTN ST PUELIC SCHOOL DARTMOUTH 447 LLAGAN Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000305