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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 245° AREA DEC 2 6 1989 FORM NO. 1324 Town Worcester Address 8 Wyman Street Historic Name Edward Stone 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. 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 Use:' Present residential Original residential DESCRIPTION Date ca. 1888 Source Worcester House Directory Style Stick style Three-Decker Architect unknown Exterior Wall Fabric wood clapboard Outbuildings none Major Alterations (with dates) none See attached map.
Condition_excellent Moved Date Acreage less than 1/4 acre Setting Late 19th/early 20th century multi-fanily residential street UTM REFERENCE 19/267300/4681220 USGS QUADRANGLE Worcester North SCALE 1:25,000 Recorded by B.R. Pfeiffer Organization Worcester Heritage Pres. Soc. Date January 1978 Revised for MHC by Michael Steinitz - 12/8 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIASTATEMENT (if applicable) The Edward Stone Three-Decker possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association. It is significant as a representative example of the earliest phase of three-decker uevelopment in the Main South area, which in the last decade of the 19th century was growing both as an area with expanding industrial employment opportunities, and as a streetcar suburb for the central city.
The Stone house is also a remarkably well-preserved, and unusually detailed house, one of a handful of fine local examples of Stick style design in three-decker construction. The Stone Three-Jecker thus ineets criteria A and C of the National Register of Historic Places " the local level. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community. Architecturally, 8 Wyman Street is an unusually well-preserved and well-detailed house, one of a few outstanding examples of Stick style three-decker design inthe city. The house has the characteristic three-bay, side-hall plan. It is however unusual for its cross- gable roof, in which the gables contain decorative, embellished king's post trusses, vergeboards, and scroll corner brackets. The wide eaves also shelter regularly spaced decorative brackets.
The gables also contain arched windows with label molding. The outstanding feature of the house is its extremely fine, elaborately detailed porch, which extends across the first floor of the main facade. Chamfered posts, curved decorative support brackets, and geometrically patterned balustrade and frieze combine in an unusual array of Stick detail. Window openings contain 2/2 sash; the main entry retains its panelled, double-leaf door. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. Built in 1888, the Stone Three-Decker was one of the more ornate multi-family residences built in the Main South area to be owned and occupied by skilled employees of nearby manufacturing plants, and by the growing number of white-collar workers employed in downtown businesses.
By 1890 electric streetcar service along Main Street made the neighborhood a particularly accessible residential location for many of the latter. The house at 8 Wyman Street was owned and occupied from 1888 through 1930 by Edward L. Stone, a machinist. The earliest known tenants (1888) included Asaph, Newcomb, a carpenter; and James Dawson, a salesman. Tenants in the 1890s included George Ward, a machinist, and L.C. Estabrook, a clerk. In 1900 residents included Herbert Searle, a superintendent; and Almon Fischer, a salesman. Lewis Scamell, a salesman, resided on the third floor from 1908 through 1930. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Worcester Directory, Worcester House Directory, 1888, 1890,1896, 1900, 1920, 1928. L.J. Richards, Atlas of the City of Worcester, 1896, 1911, 1922. J. Callahan et al., Worcester Three-Decker Survey, 1981.
8/85 (sPom 10.9000 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 12/6/90 Section number . Page Worcester Three-Deckers MR$ Worcester County, MASSACHUSETTS 81. Stone, Edward, Three-Decker Emtered in the National Registez Date Listed Keeper Aelumpzyun 2/1/40 Attest 82. Troupes, John, Three-Decker Entered In the Matiopal Regiater Pkeeper eluußgen e19190 Attest 33. Vsen Sereet Hlatorlc Dletrice Subetantsro Rorfg" eoper Batky Sauage %o/00 Attest 84. Wescott, John, Three-Decker Batered in the Nat1onal Register /Keeper elmeRyero 2/9/40 Attest 85. Woodford Street Historic:District Keeper Aelas Bgua 219/92 Entered in the National Register Attest 86.
Zemaitis, Anthóny, Three-Dectered 1n tbe Keeper National Reglater Attest AelouByeu 2/4/50 Keeper Attest UNTTED STATES DEEPAEOTEE TATERIOR NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Stone, Edward, 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: 89002450 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: N PDIL: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: COMMENT WAIVER: N LACCEPT RETURN ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: _REJECT 2/1/70 DATE Entered in the fattonal Registos 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 KXXX Worcesto Thee Raker MRA EDWARD STONE THREE DEC 8 WymAN STREET WORCESTER, mA mHc *1324 Kodalux Processinn WORCESTER,HASS HOL 2 211 209 MAIN 206 242 CHUNCH ST.
PETERS R.C. CHURCH Edward Stone Three-Decker 8 Wyman Street, Worcester MHC # 1324 CRISTY GATES 212 1176- CHENEY 222A 210 HYMAN GRAND Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000305