The Helen Dodge Three-Decker is an historic three-decker house at 570 Pleasant Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1912, the well preserved, architecturally eclectic building is representative of the final stages of three-decker development, and its penetration into the fashionable upper-class west side of the city. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[1]
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| Location | 570 Pleasant St., Worcester, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°15′53″N 71°49′21″W / 42.26472°N 71.82250°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | c. 1912 |
| Architectural style | Queen Anne, Eclectic Queen Anne |
| MPS | Worcester Three-Deckers TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 89002427[1] |
| Added to NRHP | February 9, 1990 |
Description and history
editThe Helen Dodge Three-Decker is located in a residential setting west of downtown Worcester, on the south side of Pleasant Street opposite the city's Newton Hill Park. It is a three-story wood-frame structure, with a gable-on-hip roof and a mostly clapboarded exterior. Prominent features of its front facade include an angled projecting rectangular bay on the left side, and a stack of three porches on the right. The porch is distinctive for its semi-circular arch openings, and there are bands of decoratively cut shingles between the floors.[2]
The house was built about 1912, and was one of a number of more architecturally sophisticated three-deckers built on the city's fashionable west side, its middle-class working residents gaining access to the downtown via a streetcar line that ran down Pleasant Street. Its early residents included clerks and telephone operators.[2]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ a b "NRHP nomination for Helen Dodge Three-Decker". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-02-20.