{"nrhp_refnum":"80000482","name":"Freeland Street School","other_names":["Freeland Street Schoolhouse"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"12 Freeland St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.24705930600004,"lon":-71.82525979299999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-03-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half storey brick grammar schoolhouse at 12 Freeland Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, built in 1885 for the City of Worcester.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as an example of Victorian school architecture and as part of community development in the Main Street south area. It is one of several grammar schools built there in the 1880s and 1890s during rapid population growth. It was designed by the local firm Barker and Nourse.","narrative":"Freeland Street Schoolhouse at 12 Freeland Street in Worcester is a two-and-one-half storey brick building completed in 1885 for the City of Worcester. Its plan is roughly rectangular, with off-center pavilions on the north and south sides that rise to pedimented gables and hold the entries and stairways. Grouped windows light the classrooms on both floors, and a hip roof with hip-roofed dormers covers the structure. Sandstone water table and window trim, bands of decorative brickwork and terracotta tile panels provide the ornament. The school was designed by the local firm Barker and Nourse and built by Jeremiah Murphy at a cost of $11,444. It was one of several grammar schools erected near southern Main Street in the 1880s and 1890s, the period when that area developed most rapidly as the population grew. The form records no alterations or moves, and the building was still used as a school when it was documented in 1978.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect Barker & Nourse; built by Jeremiah Murphy","architectural_style":"Victorian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as present use school, owned by the City of Worcester; the form records no alterations and no moves.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.542378-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/75/7929/63792975/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/80000482.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000482/0f2504710d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000482/0f2504710d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freeland_Street_School,_Worcester_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freeland_Street_School,_Worcester_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792975","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeland_Street_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715482"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/freeland-street-school-80000482/"}