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FOEM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 2429 AREA DEC 2 6 1989 FORM NO. 1533 Town Address worcester 13 Preston Street Historic Name Marion battelle 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 Original residential DESCRIPTION Date ca. 1896 Source Worcester House Directorv Queen Anne style Three-Decker Style Architect unknown Exterior Wall Fabric wood clapbaord and cut shingle Outbuildings garage 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 very good Moved Date Acreage less than 1/4 acre Setting Late 19th/early 20th century urban nulti-family resicential street UTM REFERENCE 19/268090/4682100 USGS QUADRANGLE Worcester North SCALE 1:25,000 Recorded by Michael Steinitz Organization Clark University Date May 1980 Revised by Michael Steinitz for MHC - 12/88 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Marion Battelle Three-Decker possesses integrity of location, design, setting; materials, workmanship, feeling and association. It is significant as a representative multi-family residence fronn the working class, ethnic neighborhood that developed in the Piedmont area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is also a remarkably well-preserved, and unusually well-detailed example of Queen Anne style three-decker construction from this period.
The Battelle 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, 13 Preston Street is an unusually well-preserved and finely-detailed example of the use of Queen Anne style elements in local three-deckers. The house has :a typical side-hall plan, and is clad in wood clapboard and several types of cut shingle. The hip roof contains a small gable dormer that is centered over the main facade. Roof cornice overhangs are unusually wide, and contain regularly spaced, decorartive brackets. The asymmetrical main facade has an entry bay.containing a three-tier porch. The porch is supported by turned posts, with geometric pattern balustrades and friezes.
Flanking the porch is the building's outstanding feature: a massive, round, turret-like bay window clad in aiternate bands of patterned cut shingle that create an unusually complex set of surface textures. A second, angled window bay projects from the building's side wall. Windows are 1/1 sash with simple surrounds, and those on the side walls have bracketed caps. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. Located in the largely Irish and French-Canadian, working class neighborbood southwest of downtown, the Battelle Three-Decker was built ca. 1896 as part of a concentration of three-deckers built in the Jacques Avenue-Preston Street area in the 1890s. The first owner of 13 Preston was Mrs. Marion Batelle, who resided here through 1920.
By 1930, the house was owned and occupied by Robert Power, a policeman. Earliest known tenents (1896) included Patrick Connell, a harnessmaker; and Mary Connell, a bookeeper. Tenants in 1900 included George and Eli Nichols, machinists; and John Prior, a clerk. In 1910, they included Maude Ames, a stenographer; Fred Ames, a policeman; and Henry Prior, an ironworker. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Worcester Directory, Worcester House Directory, 1896, 1900, 1912, 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 /é 10000 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 Reviet OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 a muste mRA (wmueste thue-Derkute) Date Listed 1. Ahern, Cathørine, Three-Decker Entered in tlia National Register Jorkeeper Attest Réeper Attest 2. Anderson, Ludwag, Three-Decker 3. Baker, Peter, Three-Decker Entered in the National Registe eeper Attest Entered in the National Register VKeeper 4. Battelle, Marion, Three-Decker 5. Beaver Street Historic District Attest Entered in the Hatlonal Begister Keeper Attest Entered in the Nat1o0a1 Begistreeper 6. Blodgett, Lydia, Three-Decker Attest Entered in the Hational Register' Reeper Attest 7. Bostrom, Eric, Three-Decker Entered in the Nat1ogal Begister/Keeper Attest 8. Bousquet, Henry, Three-Decker Entered in the (Keeper National Register Attest 9. Carlson, Eric, Three-Decker Entered in the Nat1ona1 Register Heeper Attest 10.
Crabtreeg Thomas, Three-Decker Entered in the Mat1onal Begisdopeper Attest Sethtsavage 02-80-90 AulauBjus 2/9/90 AileBgan2/4kc Welmeßyenl2/940 Aklor Byen 2515 Arlnespgen 2/7/72 ArluaAgar 0/119 DuluraDgun14/41 AelineByen1sf192 AlmuBozun 2//72 elouBye 2/7/90 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Battelle, Marion, 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: 89002429 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: COMMENT WAIVER: N VACCEPT RETURN ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: N SLR DRAFT: N REJECT NATIONAL: 2/2/40 DATE Intered in the Batlonal Begistor 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 Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone _presentation Signed Date weresto Twree Deckos MRt MARION BATTELLE THREE 13 PRESTON STREET WORCESTER MA #1533 IX rvices :89 N Kodalux Processing Services MAY 89 N WORESTER JT A B .* 8 Marion Battelle Three-Decker 13 Preston St., Worcester MHC # 1533 PRESTON U $0° SOALE ALLENDALE N 50 ETHAN *ALLEN lssms1 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000305