{"nrhp_refnum":"80000630","name":"Woodland Street Firehouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"36 Woodland St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.25724690900006,"lon":-71.81747193199993,"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 brick fire station at 36 Woodland Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, built in 1886 and designed by Fuller & Delano. It has a square tower at its southwest corner.","why_significant":"The form calls it one of the finest of Worcester's Victorian firehouses, because it is unaltered and its original design is of high quality, combining Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival elements. It is nearly identical to the Cambridge Street Firehouse, also by Fuller & Delano in 1886. It was built to serve a residential area that grew quickly in the 1880s and 1890s as large estates were subdivided.","narrative":"Woodland Street Firehouse, at 36 Woodland Street in Worcester, is a two-storey brick fire station completed in 1886 to designs by Fuller & Delano. Its rectangular plan includes a square tower at the southwest corner that rises about four stories to a belfry framed by paired arches and capped by a high hip roof. The east facade sits on a base of rock-faced granite and centers on an arched entry with its original doors, topped by tripartite windows and a gable with sandstone coping and a finial. A slate-covered hip roof encloses the main block. The building is regarded as one of the finest of Worcester's Victorian firehouses, valued for its unaltered condition and for a design that blends Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival styles. It closely resembles the Cambridge Street Firehouse, also designed by Fuller & Delano in 1886. It was built to serve a residential neighborhood that grew dramatically in the 1880s and 1890s as large lots and estates were subdivided for suburban development. It remains a fire station owned by the city.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Fuller & Delano","architectural_style":"Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Present use is fire station; the building is described as unaltered and not moved.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.226166-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/49/7929/63792949/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/80000630.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000630/43a3e27370-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000630/43a3e27370-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodland_St_Firehouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger)</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodland_St_Firehouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792949","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodland_Street_Firehouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8032886"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/woodland-street-firehouse-80000630/"}