{"nrhp_refnum":"80000602","name":"Harris-Merrick House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"41 Fruit St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.26822582600005,"lon":-71.81044427899997,"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-story, side-hall plan Greek Revival house at 41 Fruit Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, built around 1832-1844 and moved to its present site in 1874 from 11 Chestnut Street.","why_significant":"It is one of the earliest houses remaining from the initial development of Worcester's west side, which began in the early 1830s on land subdivided from the Sever Farm. It retains most of its original Greek Revival features. It is associated with two stages of the city's nineteenth-century westward residential expansion.","narrative":"Built between about 1832 and 1844, this two-story, side-hall plan house at 41 Fruit Street in Worcester is a surviving example of Greek Revival design. Corner pilasters with simple wooden frets, floor-to-ceiling first-floor windows and an original entry with side lights mark its character. Only the porch has been rebuilt, in the 1970s, with a stone base and fluted replacement columns. The house originally stood at 11 Chestnut Street, in the first wave of development on Worcester's west side after Governor Levi Lincoln subdivided the Sever Farm in the early 1830s. It was built either for bookseller Clarendon Harris or for judge and attorney Pliny Merrick. Later owners included attorney Frederick W. Gale and physician Henry Clarke. In 1874 Edward W. Lincoln moved it to Fruit Street, then an open tract, and converted it to a two-family house. Lincoln later built rental houses nearby, linking the building to two phases of the city's residential growth.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Present use is residential; the porch was rebuilt in the 1970s with a modern stone base and replacement fluted columns.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.879006-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/29/7929/63792929/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/80000602.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000602/2f7dfcceb6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000602/2f7dfcceb6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harris-Merrick_House,_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:Harris-Merrick_House,_Worcester_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792929","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris-Merrick_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5664714"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/harris-merrick-house-80000602/"}