{"nrhp_refnum":"80000623","name":"Legg, John, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5 Claremont St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.25410448200006,"lon":-71.81708947999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-03-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story frame Queen Anne style house at 5 Claremont Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, built in 1896 and designed by Stephen Earle for textile manufacturer John Legg.","why_significant":"The house is an opulent, largely unaltered example of Queen Anne architecture with abundant decorative detail. It is also tied to John Legg, who managed the Worcester Woolen Mills Company, which became one of the city's largest textile producers.","narrative":"Built in 1896 at 5 Claremont Street in Worcester, this Queen Anne style house was designed by architect Stephen Earle for John Legg, a woolen manufacturer. It is a two-and-a-half-story frame building with an asymmetrical plan, set above the street and reached by two flights of granite stairs. Notable features include a three-sided bay window, a gambrel dormer with a Palladian window, a fanlighted entry, Ionic porches, a pedimented oriel window and elaborate stained glass in the stair hall. A rock-faced granite retaining wall runs along the street frontage. Legg, born in 1851, came from a family of British weavers and learned woolen manufacturing in Rhode Island. After his father's death in 1890 he became general manager of the Worcester Mills, which grew into one of the city's largest textile producers with more than 300 workers. Legg lived in the house from 1896 to 1912, then moved to Lenox, a new residential park on the city's west side. The house later served as an institutional residence.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Stephen Earle","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Present use is listed as an institutional residence; the only noted alteration is mid-20th-century synthetic siding over the original clapboard and wooden shingles.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.727918-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/25/7930/63793025/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/80000623.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000623/2828e312a6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000623/2828e312a6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Namiba","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JohnLeggHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Namiba</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:JohnLeggHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793025","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Legg_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6244450"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/legg-john-house-80000623/"}