{"nrhp_refnum":"80000605","name":"Oxford-Crown Extension District","other_names":["See also:Oxford-Crown Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Properties along Ashland, Austin, Chatham, Congress, Crown, and Pleasant Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.26224300000004,"lon":-71.80881951710626,"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":"An irregularly shaped residential district in Worcester, Massachusetts, including properties on Austin, Chatham, Congress, Crown, Pleasant and Ashland Streets, with buildings dating from about 1849 to 1888. It extends the adjoining Oxford-Crown Historic District.","why_significant":"The district holds Greek Revival and early Victorian houses of similar design and history to those in the neighboring Oxford-Crown district. Together the two areas preserve a large part of one of Worcester's earliest residential neighborhoods, built up during the boom years of 1845-1860. It also contains rarer building types and late-1800s brick blocks that mark the north ends of Oxford and Crown Streets.","narrative":"This residential district in Worcester, Massachusetts, extends the neighboring Oxford-Crown Historic District across Austin, Chatham, Congress, Crown and Pleasant Streets. Most of its buildings date from about 1851 to 1870, when the streets were opened and quickly filled with side-hall houses with gabled or pedimented facades. Early residents were artisans, small-scale manufacturers and businessmen. Many houses are Greek Revival, while others mix that style with Italianate brackets and porches. Rarer examples include 98 Austin Street, one of the city's few temple-front Greek Revival houses, and 16 Congress Street, a three-and-a-half-story architectural curiosity. Along Pleasant Street, brick apartment and row house blocks from 1870 to 1888 reflect late nineteenth-century redevelopment of main roads. Granite walls, gate posts and stairways add to the area's character. Together with the adjoining district, it preserves a large share of one of Worcester's earliest residential neighborhoods.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1849-1888","architect_builder":"Emerson & Fehmer (1-7 Ashland Street); Barker & Nourse (8-10 Congress Street, 187 and 195 Pleasant Street)","architectural_style":"Mixed Victorian: Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne and Victorian Gothic elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Primarily residential with some commercial use; condition ranges from poor to excellent. Some demolitions have occurred, but most buildings built before 1870 remain.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.923236-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/43/7932/63793243/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/80000605.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000605/54e656171c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000605/54e656171c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"User:Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WorcesterMA_24_28_CrownStreet.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793243","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford-Crown_Extension_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7115212"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/oxford-crown-extension-district-80000605/"}