{"nrhp_refnum":"80000591","name":"Sturtevant, Leonard, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"84 Mulberry St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.270196404000046,"lon":-71.79246619699995,"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 two-storey Greek Revival frame house at 84 Mulberry Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, built around 1849 for Leonard Sturtevant. The architect is unknown.","why_significant":"The form calls it a unique local example of Greek Revival architecture that remains intact despite later siding. It also illustrates the middle-class settlement of Belmont Hill in the 1840s and 1850s. It is one of the few buildings that recall the early history of an area otherwise heavily redeveloped.","narrative":"Built around 1849 at 84 Mulberry Street in Worcester, this two-storey frame house was first occupied by Leonard Sturtevant, a tailor who owned it through the second half of the nineteenth century. Its Greek Revival design includes a cross-shaped floor plan, with corner pilasters and pedimented gables on each wing. The side-hall facade has its original entry and windows set in earred frames, and an open Doric porch on a granite base runs along the front and sides. Octagonal lights fill the side gables, an arched window with label moulding marks the facade gable, and a square cupola sits over the crossing of the plan. Asbestos siding was added in the mid-20th century, yet the house remains intact. It is considered significant as a local architectural standout and as a reminder of Belmont Hill, where middle-class businessmen built Gothic and Greek Revival homes before industrial fumes, nearby poverty and denser working-class housing changed the area.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as a residence (present use); covered with asbestos shingle siding added in the mid-20th century, but described as intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.557973-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/27/7929/63792927/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/80000591.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000591/a16a807b3d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000591/a16a807b3d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Pvmoutside","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leonard_Sturtevant_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:Leonard_Sturtevant_House_Worcester_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792927","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Sturtevant_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6525764"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/sturtevant-leonard-house-80000591/"}