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8400244c FORM B* - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 AREA DEC * 6 1989 FORM NO. 1663 ' Photo (3"x3" or 3"x5ª, black and . white) Indicate address of property on back of photo. Staple to left side of form. Town worcester Address 3 Pitt Street Andrew McCarron Historic Name Three-Decker Use: Present residential Original residential DESCRIPTION Date ca. 1918 SourceWorcester House Directory Style Colonial Revival Three-Decker Architect unknown Exterior Wall Fabric wood clapboard 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 excellent Moved Acreage Date less than 1/4.
acre Setting Late 19th/early 20th century multi-family residential street; opposite Sacred Heart Church UTM REFERENCE 19/268460/4680540 USGS QUADRANGLE Worcester South SCALE 1:25,000 Recorded by Michael Steinitz Organization Clark University Date June 1980 Revised for MHC by Michael Steinitz -12/88 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Andrew McCarron Three-Decker possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association. It is significant as a representative example of multi-family housing built in the Cambridge Street neighborhood in the 1920s, a period of continued industial It is also an unusually well-preserved and ornate example of local Colonial Revival three-decker construction. The McCarron 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, 3 Pitt Street is a remarkably well-preserved example of the use of Colonial Revival style elements in local three-decker construction. The building is unusual for its massiveness and for the balance of its proportions. It is clad in wood clapboard, and has the characteristic side-hall plan, but is unusual in the four bay width of the main facade, and in its lack of bay windows or side-wall jogs. The pedimented, steeply pitched gable roof is also atypical. The main facade features a full length, one-story, projecting porch, which extends to three tiers in the entry bay. The three-tier extension is capped by a small, gable portico. The porch is supported by fluted, square columns.
Corner pilasters on the main facade rise to a simple frieze band that is broken by the third story window openings. Windows are of 2/2 sash, and the first and second story surrounds have simple decorative caps. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. The McCarron Three-Decker is a relatively late (ca. 1918) example of three- decker construction in the Cambridge Street area. In a largely Irish descendant, working class residential area, the house was located near the South Works of American Steel and Wire, and next to the neighborhood landmark Church of the Sacred Heart. The first known owner of the house was Andrew McCarron, a woolsorter, who resided here, but who also owned a half dozen other buildings in the city.
Early tenants included John McDermott, a helper; Michael McGuire, a driver; and Arthur McDermott, a driver. By 1928, the building was owned by Alexander Pisierski, a loomfixer, who also lived here. Tenants at this time included Edward Thompson, Patrick McPartlin, and Mrs. Winifred McElligott and family. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Worcester Directory, Worcester House Directory, 1918, 1920, 1924, 1928. L.J. Richards, Atlas of the City of Worcester, 1922. J. Callahan et al., Worcester Three-Decker Survey, 1981. 8/85 (0P9S Form 10-000 a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page. OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Worcester Three-Decker MRA Worcester County, MASSACHUSETTS 51. Massady Anthony, Three-Decker Date Listed satlonad Boglatkeeper -.-i-ou did vilt 52.
McCafferty, Elizabeth, Three-Decker Substantive Beviow 53. McCarron, Andrew, Three-Decker National Bogister Keeper Attest Jorkeeper Attest Attest 54. McDermott, John B., Three-Deckefncered in the Keeper National Bogister Attest 55. McGrath, Patrick, Three-Decker «ivuied in the iatlonal Begistes Keeper Attest 56. McGuiness, Patrick, Three-Decker. ...cu in tne wational RegistegKeeper Attest 57. MeParczand, Prank, Three-Deckefia Loal 1 losiano Keeper Attest 58. McPartland, James, Three-Deckerucred in tne, Natlonal Reglater - Keeper Attest 59. Munroe, Sarah, Three-Decker National Boglatff Kéeper Attest 60.
Murphy, Patrick, Three-Decker intered in the Wationad Reglater/ Reeper Attest Aelmußyer 2/7490 Bunx Saunge 02-0 Zlouyer 24/9 SelourByan 2/9kc AelmuBgew _2/9/92 AulmuByu _2/9/21 AelouByur 2/9/56 AelourByeu 2/9/4 AtelvuByan 2/9/52 AeloByer 2/4/90 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY MoCarron, Andrew, 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: 89002442 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: N PDIL: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: COMMENT WAIVER: N ACCEPT _RETURN ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: REJECT 2/1/40 DATE Batered 1Reghet 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 USGS maps photograpns -presentation OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date ANDREIV /IECARRON THREE-DECKER 3 PITT STREET WORCESTER MA NiHC#1663 woresto Three Recko MRA 20 gcaaia C AG WASHBURN 411 P-7 PZ CAMBR WIREON RD BECTOA 53 9 THALAD COINC.
CAMBRIDGE 1970 -: PITT yapai SRERMAN BROSO! MASS =.. LINC *'MITCHELL WORCESTER EXPRESSWAY - 8 UNOER CONSTN 425 Andrew McCarron Three-Decker 3 Pitt St., Worcester MHC # 1663 417. M: KEON RD. XALE OF FEET 50 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000305