{"nrhp_refnum":"80000558","name":"Prentiss, Addison, House","other_names":["Prentiss-Hanson House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3 Channing Way","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.27397010200008,"lon":-71.79281483799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-03-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story brick Victorian Gothic house at 3 Channing Way in Worcester, Massachusetts, built around 1877 for Addison Prentiss. It sits on a hilltop about 40 feet above Kendall Street.","why_significant":"The house is presented as an important local example of Victorian Gothic architecture, nearly unaltered except for its facade porch posts. It is also tied to Addison Prentiss, a Worcester lithographer, engraver and publisher, and to later owner Charles F. Hanson, a piano and musical instrument dealer who became a leading figure in Worcester's Swedish community.","narrative":"Perched on a hilltop about 40 feet above Kendall Street in Worcester, this brick house at 3 Channing Way was built around 1877 in the Victorian Gothic style. It rises two and a half stories under gabled slate roofs, with a symmetrical south facade centered on a three-and-a-half-story tower topped by a high hip roof and dormers. Windows are rectangular two-over-one sash with rock-faced granite sills and lintels. Because the slope makes the facade entry hard to reach, the north porch and entry likely served as the main entrance. Apart from the facade porch posts, the house remains in original condition. It was built for Addison Prentiss (1815-1895), a designer, lithographer and engraver who produced an important 1851 view of Worcester and later worked as a book dealer and publisher. In 1887 he sold it to Charles F. Hanson, a Swedish immigrant who opened a piano and musical instrument business in 1870 and became a prominent figure among Worcester's Swedes.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Victorian Gothic","criteria":[],"status_note":"Present use is residential; the form says the house is in original condition except for the posts of its facade porch.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.562624-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/77/7928/63792877/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/80000558.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000558/f575167711-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000558/f575167711-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Pvmoutside","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Addison_Prentiss_House.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:Addison_Prentiss_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792877","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addison_Prentiss_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4681271"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/prentiss-addison-house-80000558/"}