{"nrhp_refnum":"80000512","name":"North Worcester Aid Society","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"58 Holden St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.29984552900004,"lon":-71.81731012699998,"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 one-and-one-half storey Victorian frame building at 58 Holden Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, built in 1887 as a meeting hall and offices for the North Worcester Aid Society.","why_significant":"The building is tied to a women-founded charitable group begun in 1874 that sewed clothes for war orphans and later aided needy residents and ran a nonsectarian Sunday School. It is also a simple, well-preserved example of Victorian architecture. The themes checked are architecture and community development.","narrative":"Built in 1887 at 58 Holden Street in Worcester, this one-and-one-half storey frame building has served as the home of the North Worcester Aid Society ever since. The society was organized in 1874 in a private home by women who had gathered during the Civil War era to sew clothes for war orphans. Its stated purposes were educational, charitable, benevolent, social and religious. After meeting in a Holden Street school building, the group put up this hall on land donated by Eben Jewett. Over time it worked with city missionaries, ran a nonsectarian Sunday School and helped needy residents of the neighborhood. Architecturally, the building is a plain Victorian structure with clapboard walls, a brick foundation, simple brackets and decorated aprons in the gables. The only notable change is an entry porch added in 1924. It remains in excellent condition and is still used for offices and meetings.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Victorian frame","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition, altered only by a minor entry porch addition (dated 1924); still used as aid society offices and meeting hall.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.80469-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/69/7929/63792969/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/80000512.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000512/dec251b4f4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000512/dec251b4f4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Pvmoutside","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:North_Worcester_Aid_Society_Worcester_MA.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:North_Worcester_Aid_Society_Worcester_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792969","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Worcester_Aid_Society","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7057423"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/north-worcester-aid-society-80000512/"}