{"nrhp_refnum":"80000529","name":"Forest Hill Cottage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"22 Windsor St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.27781169900004,"lon":-71.79037752899995,"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-a-half-story Carpenter Gothic residence at 22 Windsor Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, built in 1860 for Luther Ross and still used as a residence.","why_significant":"The form describes it as among Worcester's best examples of Carpenter Gothic architecture. It was built as a near mirror image of its neighbor, Soho Cottage. Its hillside site, fanciful design and name reflect mid-nineteenth century development influenced by Romantic ideas about landscape and architecture.","narrative":"Forest Hill Cottage, at 22 Windsor Street in Worcester, is a one-and-a-half-story house dating to 1860 and is regarded as one of the city's best examples of Carpenter Gothic architecture. It rises from a brick foundation to steeply pitched roofs, with deep eaves, board-and-batten siding, a west bay window and a south-facing gable containing an ogee-arched window. The bargeboards have been removed, and a semi-octagonal front porch was added around 1880-1890. The house was built as a mirror image of its neighbor, Soho Cottage. Luther Ross, a pattern maker at the Court Mill, bought the lot from real estate developer Samuel Davis in 1860, and the city directory of 1861 first used the Forest Hill Cottage name. Ross lived there until 1886, when it was sold to H.D. Gough, whose heirs kept it into the twentieth century. The hillside setting, whimsical design and name reflect the Romantic ideas that shaped the neighborhood's mid-nineteenth century growth.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Carpenter Gothic","criteria":[],"status_note":"Present use is residence; the bargeboards have been removed and a semi-octagonal front porch was added around 1880-1890.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.404608-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/5/7929/63792905/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/80000529.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000529/fb4ab3d054-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000529/fb4ab3d054-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Pvmoutside","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Forest_Hill_Cottage.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:Forest_Hill_Cottage.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792905","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Hill_Cottage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5468931"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/forest-hill-cottage-80000529/"}