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8400~422 FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 AREA DEC 2 6 1989 FORM NO. 1671 Town Worcéster Address 913/915 Main Street Historic Name Frank Reed Three-Decker Photo (3"x3" or 3"x5° ,black and white) Indicate address of property on back of photo. Staple to left side of form. : Use: Present residential residential Original DESCRIPTION Date ca. 1888 Source Worcester House Directory Style Queen Anne Three-Decker Architect unknown Exterior Wall Fabric wood clapboard and 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 Tet property and aearest lings intersection(s). Indicate north See attached map.
Major Alterations (with dates) none Condition excellent Moved Date Acreage less than 1/4 acre Setting major urban thoroughfare with mixed multi-family residential, conmercial, and institutional activities UTM REFERENCE 19/267410/4681370 USGS QUADRANGLE Worcester North SCALE 1:25,000 Recorded by Douglas Johnson Organization Clark University Date February 1981 Revised by Michael Steinitz for MHC - 12/88 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIASTATEMENT (if applicable) The Frank Reed Three-Decker possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association. It is significant as a representative example of thre first three-decker contruction boom in the Main South neighborhood in the late 1880s, a period that saw considerable industrial development in the area, and an influx of new employees and their families.
It is also an unusually well-preserved survival of a particularly ornate, Queen Anne style three-decker. The Reed 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, 915 Main Street is a remarkably well-preserved example of the earliest phase of local Queen Anne three-decker construction. The house has the typical side-hall plan with side-wall jog, and a recessed, three-tier entry bay porch on its asymmetrical facade. It also has a characteristic hip roof, and is clad in clapboard and shingle. builiing is unusual however for the round, projecting three-tier tower, with its conical cap, that flanks the porch on the main facade.
The porch features chamfered and turned posts, scroll, lattice, and curved decorative brackets, and is capped by a small, projecting gable. Windows are simply framed, with 2/2 sash. Ihe main entry contains a panelled, double-leaf door. Decorative corner brackets mark the wide roof cornice overhang. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. The Reed Three-Decker was built ca.1888, at approximately the same time as the neighboring Pilgrim Congregational Church, 909 Main Street (NR), a Main South landmark.
Sicuated on the edge of the area's high status residential district, 913 Main Street was owned from 1888 through 1920 by Frank Reed, whose occupation in the late 19th century was listed as electrician and machinist, but who by 1908 owned the Francis Reed Company, manufacturers of drilling machinery on nearby Hammond Street. In the 1920s, the house was owned and occupied by Thomas Fielding, an assembler of wool spinning machinery for the Johnson and Benet Company. Besides Reed, the earliest known residents appear to have been businessmen or white-collar employees. In 1888, they included Peter Bradt, a dry goods merchant; David Bradt, a druggist; and G.S. Boutelle, a moulding Manufacturer. From 1900 to 1922, the third floor apartment was occupied by the family of Frank Jones, employed during the period as either a salesman or a collector.
Tenants on the second floor included Charles Childs, occupation unlisted; and Antipas Zarle, a dealer of cigars BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Worcester Directory, Worcester House Directory, 1888, 1890, 1896, 1900, 1912, 1922, 1928. L.J. Richards, Atlas of the City of Worcester, 1896, 1911, 1922. 8/85 Ne7om 10800g United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number - Page- Worcester Three-Decker MRA Worcester County, MASSACHUSETTS 71. Provost, Arthur, Three-Decker fKeeper ntered in the Hational Begiates 72. Reed, Frank, Three-Decker Entered in the Hational Register Attest /Keeper Attest /Reeper 73. Ridyard, Albert, Three-Decketntered 1n tba Hational Register Attest 74. Ridyard, B. E., Three-Decker Sntered 1n tha VKeeper National Regiater 75.
Riordan, John, Three-Deckerintered in the National Register Attest ( Keeper Attest 6Keeper 76. Roynane, Catharine, Three-Decker Entered in the Matiozad Register Attest /Reeper 77. Shea, Bridget, Three-Decker Einterod in trator Attest 18. Simpson, Glara, Three-Decker intered in the Nat1onal Bogistex /Reeper Attest 19. Smith, Ellen M., Three-Deckefntered 1n the atarad etatos Aeeper Attest 80. Stoliker, Edna, Three-Deckerfubstant1ve Revi@/aMleeper Attest OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 12/26/89 Date Listed AelouBga2/9192 SeloueByue 2/9150 AelmurDgen 2/9/90 AulomBgen 89/90 AilruBgun 2/9/90 sulanByen 2/9/90 ShbrsByur 2/9/90 AlleaByan 2/9/90 LliluBgun 219/90 Buth duage 02-00-90 - UNTTED STATETDEPAPARAOETEETATERIOR ATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACE EVALUATION/RETURN SHEE' REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Reed, Frank, 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 WEEKLY LIST: REFERENCE NUMBER: 89002422 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: JATE OF PENDING LIST: 1/09/90 ATE OF 45TH DAY: 2/09/90 REQUEST: N SAMPLE: COMMENT WAIVER: N ACCEPT _RETURN ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: REJECT 2/9/4U DATE Intered in the National 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 OTHER COMMENTS USGS maps _photographs presentation Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date Werresto Three Decko MRA FRANK REED THREE DECKER 913-915 MAIN STREET NORCESTER, MA mHC £1671 Kodalux Processing Services MAY 89 N Kodalux Processing Services, MAY 89 N 50 211 WYMAN Frank Reed Three-Decker 913/915 Main St., Worcester MHC # 1671 100 FT 206 MAIN LOUDON 921 - G Tra HANCOCK 3 GARDNER TER.
CP 1 la.r3 HATHAWAY PHGRIM COvEL CHURCH $ WORCESTER A'ASS HEI 2 212 Canas 213 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000305