Beaver Street Historic District

Beaver Street Historic District

35 Beaver Street
Location 31-39 Beaver St., Worcester, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°14′58″N 71°49′38″W / 42.24944°N 71.82722°W / 42.24944; -71.82722Coordinates: 42°14′58″N 71°49′38″W / 42.24944°N 71.82722°W / 42.24944; -71.82722
Built 1916
Architectural style Colonial Revival
MPS Worcester Three-Deckers TR
NRHP Reference #

89002377

[1]
Added to NRHP February 09, 1990

The Beaver Street Historic District is a residential historic district in the Main South part of Worcester, Massachusetts. It encompasses a collection of five well preserved Colonial Revival triple-deckers located at 31-39 Beaver Street,[2] and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[1]

The five buildings in this Beaver Street subdivision were built c. 1916, at a time when Worcester more fashionable development was moving from the Woodland Street area to the west side, and when the streetcar made the area more readily accessible to factory workers. The typical early owners and occupants of them were Irish American families where the men were laborers or machinists, and the women who worked outside the home had office jobs.[2]

The five buildings are identical in their basic structure, a rectangular three story wood frame building with a side hall entry, and protruding bay sections on the front and left side. All have front porches that rise to three stories, but the decorative details and number of supporting columns differ among them. 37 Beaver Street is distinctive in the group for having a full width first floor porch and a gable end with full pediment, while numbers 31 and 35 have first floor side porches sheltering the entry. At the time of their listing in 1990 all were clad in wood clapboards and shingles.[2]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 3 "NRHP nomination for Beaver Street Historic District". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-71. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
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