{"nrhp_refnum":"80000572","name":"Hastins, John, Cottage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"31 William St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.267223589000025,"lon":-71.80724745699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-03-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-half-story Victorian Gothic cottage at 31 William Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, built around 1880 as a residence for John E. Hastings. The architect is unknown.","why_significant":"The nomination describes it as a fanciful, ornate and rare example of its period. It retains an original cast-stone foundation, a fish-scale slate roof and an octagonal cupola, one of few left in Worcester. Its decorative woodwork is intact, and the house was listed for its architectural value.","narrative":"Built around 1880 at 31 William Street in Worcester, this one-and-one-half-story cottage is an ornate example of Victorian Gothic domestic architecture. It sits on its original foundation of cast-stone, an early form of concrete, and is clad in clapboard. A complex hip and gable roof covered in fish-scale slates rises to an octagonal cupola, one of the few remaining in the city. Gables and dormers on every elevation carry pierced aprons, and the house also has bargeboards, gabled window caps, an original entry porch with pierced brackets, a bay window and strapwork panelling around the base of the first storey. A low cast-stone wall along the William Street frontage may date from the same period. The first occupant was John Hastings, a provisioner, whose family kept the house into the twentieth century. The building is unaltered and has not been moved. It was listed as a rare and fanciful survivor of its period, with architecture as its theme.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Victorian Gothic","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as a residence; the form states it is unaltered and has not been moved.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.274035-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/67/7928/63792867/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/80000572.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000572/381728b5e4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000572/381728b5e4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Pvmoutside","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Hastins_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:John_Hastins_Cottage.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792867","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hastings_Cottage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6238214"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/hastins-john-cottage-80000572/"}