{"nrhp_refnum":"80000589","name":"Elizabeth Street School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"31 Elizabeth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.27023772800004,"lon":-71.79077056999995,"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 two-story brick grammar school on Elizabeth Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, built in 1893 for the City of Worcester and designed by architect George Clemence.","why_significant":"The nomination points to the building's eclectic mix of Renaissance Revival and Romanesque Revival elements and to its place as an early work from the first year of Clemence's practice. It also notes that, unlike most schools of its period, it has had no major additions.","narrative":"Elizabeth Street School is a two-story brick schoolhouse in Worcester's Chandler Hill neighborhood, completed in 1893 for the City of Worcester as a grammar school. It was designed by George Clemence in the first year of his architectural practice. The building rises from a basement of mottled yellow brick, with red brick upper stories. Its most prominent features are two square entry towers on the southern portion, each with an arched entry, roundels at the first floor, tripartite arched windows above, and a high pyramidal roof. Arched windows, brick diaper patterns beneath the eaves and eyebrow dormers add further decoration. The design blends Renaissance Revival and Romanesque Revival elements in an eclectic way. The school is notable because it has had no major additions, unlike most school buildings of its era, possibly because the surrounding neighborhood was already fully developed when it was built. The city later used it as an instructional resource center.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"George Clemence","architectural_style":"Eclectic (Renaissance Revival and Romanesque Revival elements)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used by the school department as an \"Instructional Resource Center\" at the time of the 1978 survey; the form records no alterations and no moves.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.32767-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/21/7929/63792921/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/80000589.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000589/0848c2af00-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000589/0848c2af00-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elizabeth_Street_School,_Worcester_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</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:Elizabeth_Street_School,_Worcester_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792921","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Street_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5363578"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/elizabeth-street-school-80000589/"}