{"nrhp_refnum":"80000493","name":"Upsala Street School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"36 Upsala St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.24176595000006,"lon":-71.79508902899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-03-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Invention"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick grammar schoolhouse at 36 Upsala Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, built in 1894 to designs by George Clemence and enlarged in 1902 and 1923.","why_significant":"The school was built to serve the residential growth of the Union Hill neighborhood in the late 1890s and early 20th century. It is a Romanesque Revival building whose later additions closely follow the original design. The form checks the themes of architecture and community development.","narrative":"Upsala Street School is a brick grammar school at 36 Upsala Street in Worcester, built in 1894 to a design by George Clemence. It was constructed to serve the growing Union Hill neighborhood, where housing was spreading in the late 1890s and early 1900s. The original section is two and one-half stories with a slate-covered hip roof and a symmetrical north facade. A projecting central pavilion holds a deep arched entry flanked by blind arches and roundels dated 1894, with a shallow balcony and sandstone name plaque above. Sandstone forms the sills, lintels and a decorative band under the modillioned cornice. A rear wing added in 1902 repeats the original design and may have been planned from the start to allow expansion. A second addition of 1923, built of brick with sandstone trim, has a flat roof but otherwise resembles the earlier sections. The building remains in school use under city ownership, and its architecture and role in neighborhood growth support its listing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"George Clemence (1894)","architectural_style":"Romanesque Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used as a school and owned by the City of Worcester; the form records no alterations or moves.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.681367-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/55/7929/63792955/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/80000493.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000493/e4b6399412-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000493/e4b6399412-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Pvmoutside","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Upsala_St._School.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Pvmoutside</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:Upsala_St._School.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792955","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upsala_Street_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7899240"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/upsala-street-school-80000493/"}