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FORM_B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS. HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 1391 AREA - DEC 2 6 1989 FORM NO. 1632 Photo (3"x3" or 3"x5", black and : white) Indicate address of property on back of photo. Staple to left side of form. Town Worcester Address 67 Catharine Street Historic NameCharles Lundberg Three-Decker Use: Present residential Original residential DESCRIPTION Date ca. 1892 Source Worcester House Diractory Style Queen Anne style Three-Decker Architect unknown Exterior Wall Fabricwood clapboard and cut shingle Outbuildings none 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 See attached map.
Major Alterations (with dates) none Condition good Moved Date less than 1/4 acre Acreage Setting Late 19th century urban, multi-family residential street, on a steep hillslope. UTM REFERENCE 19/270110/4683780 USGS QUADRANGLE Worcester North SCALE 1:25,000 Recorded byMichael Steinitz Organization Clark University Date June 1980 Revised for MHC by Michael Steinitz-12/88 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Charles Lundburg Three-Decker possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association. It is significant as a representative example of early three-decker construction in the Belmont Street area, a district that was developing as an ethnic (mostly Scandanavian), working-class neighborhood in the last decades of the 19th century.
It is also an unusually well-preserved and well-detailed example of local Queen Anne three-decker design. The Lundburg 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, 67 Catharine Street is a remarkably well-preserved, finely detailed example of early local Queen Anne three-decker construction. Clad in wood clapboard and shingle, the house has the characteristic hip roof and side-hall plan. The asymmetrical facade has an entry bay with a single-story porch, flanked by a projecting, three-story bay window, with shingled skirt overhangs between floors.
Porch details include turned posts; large, solid decorative support brackets; spindle frieze and balustrade; and paired brackets in the portico cornice. Regularly spaced brackets are also located in the roof cornice overhang. Windows are 2/2 sash, with decorative window caps. Geometric pattern stained glass windows light the stairwell. 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. 1892, the Lundburg Three-Decker is located on a steep hillslope on the eastern end of Catharine Street. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the neighborhood was predominantly occupied by Swedish, Finn-Swede, and Finnish immigrant families. Many were employed as skilled metal workers at the nearby Washburn and Moen North Works, in the manufacture of wire, or by other local metal-working firms.
Together with neighboring 65 and 69 Catharine Street, 67 Catharine Street was first owned by Charles A. Lundburg, a clerk, who lived at 65 Catharine, and who owned at least two other houses in the neighborhood. Residents in 1894 included August Blomgren, a wireworker; Axel Lundstrom, a tailor; Charles Berglund, a printer; and John Anderson, a wireworker. Residents through the 1920s were nearly all of Sweedish By 1930, the building owners were Martin and Maria Arnberg, who ran a grocery and shooting gallery. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Worcester Directory, Worcester House Directory, 1892, 1894, 1900,1910,1920,1930 L.J. Richards, Atlas of the City of Worcester, 1896, 1911, 1922. J. Callahan et al., Worcester Three-Decker Survey, 1981.
8/85 orm 100000 Unlted States Department of the Interlor National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number - Page- Wörcester Three-Deckers MRA Worcester County, MASSACHUSETTS 41. Johnson, Paul, Three-Decker OMB Approvel No. 10240018 12/26/89 Date Listed Entered in the datlozad Roglotofkeeper Attest Slomsyes 217/90 42. Kaller, Erick, Three-Decker (146 EasterhAve.) fReeper Entered 1n AelareByen 2/9190 National Begiater Attest 43. Kaller, Brick, Three-Decker (248 Rastern Ave.) HRéeper AelnunBgun2/9190 antered National Registas Attest Entered in the 44. Larson, Swan, Three-Decker Watlonad Register Keeper AelmeBgu 19/90 Attest 45. Levenson, Morris, Three-Decker Entered in tae Nationad Registeskeeper LlelmaBgen sf1/9 Attest 46. Lumb, Thomas, JIhree-Decker (80 Dewet St.) Keeper Entered 1n the Hational Register Attest Keeper SllueBgan 2/9/56 47.
Lumb, Thomas, Three-Decker (44 Winfield St.) Entered in the Hatlanad Register Attest Aelaußigur 2/4/50 48. Lundberg, Charles, Three-Decker Entered in tue Nat1onal Register Keeper Attest 49. Magnuson, Charles, Three-Deckentered in tne National Begister Keeper AeluuAgunl 219/90 Seloue Byen 319150 Attest 50.
Mark, John, Three-Decker Substaativa Dovler for Keeper Betl Saue 22-0991 Attest UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Lundberg, Charles, 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: 1/09/90 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 2/09/90 DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REFERENCE NUMBER: 89002399 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: N PDIL: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: COMMENT WAIVER: N ACCEPT _RETURN ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: N SLR DRAFT: N NATTONA NAPPROVED: N _REJECT 2/9/50 DATE Entered in the bstionai Register 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 _presentation Signed Date CHARLES LUNDBER THREE - DECKER 67 CATMARINE STRE WORCESTETT, MA MHC #1632 Worcesto Thoe Decker MeT HOOPER Charles Lundberg Three-Decker o7 Catharine St, Worcester MHC # 1632 309 ST TER F000 1NOW738 PAVEU CLGA 12 *ASTERN 113 AV 39222 E E VEPNON'CE 15 ELANDER RODNEY VIN SON EVERARD P.a L 14 40 SCALE OF FEET COPTRIGHT SAMBOAN MAP COMRAN Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000305