{"nrhp_refnum":"80000563","name":"Copeland, Samuel, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"31 Harvard St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.26950408600004,"lon":-71.80237770599996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-03-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame Greek Revival house at 31 Harvard Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, built around 1847 as a residence for Salem Copeland. It is now used as institutional offices.","why_significant":"The form describes it as one of only two ornate temple-front houses surviving in Worcester. Its pedimented facade has a four-column portico with papyrus and acanthus capitals and elaborate foliate decoration. Alterations are minor, so the house remains essentially intact. Themes checked are architecture and social/humanitarian.","narrative":"Built around 1847 on a lot Salem Copeland bought in 1846, this two-story frame house at 31 Harvard Street in Worcester is a Greek Revival temple-front residence. Its pedimented facade carries a portico of four fluted columns topped with papyrus and acanthus capitals, and matched boarding and foliate decoration fill the pediments. Windows sit beneath moulded caps on consoles. Only one other house of this ornate type survives in the city. Copeland was a tool maker and later a hardware manufacturer who was also listed as a builder in local directories. Later owners included a druggist, a merchant and a county treasurer, and in the twentieth century part of the house served as a funeral parlor. Alterations are limited to smaller-pane replacement sash and an addition at the southwest corner, so the building remains essentially intact. A brick stable survives on the lot. The house now holds offices for a community counseling organization.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as institutional offices by a family counseling organization; alterations include smaller-pane sash and a southwest addition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.302836-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/19/7930/63793019/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/80000563.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000563/0157be250f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000563/0157be250f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Pvmoutside","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_Copeland_House_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:Samuel_Copeland_House_Worcester_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793019","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Copeland_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7411165"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/copeland-samuel-house-80000563/"}