{"nrhp_refnum":"80000633","name":"Stark, Edward, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"21 Oread St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.255257561000064,"lon":-71.81047388599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-03-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half-story brick Queen Anne style house at 21 Oread Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, built around 1880 and designed and built by J.B. Woodworth for boot and shoe manufacturer Edward Stark.","why_significant":"The house is described as an early example of Queen Anne architecture in Worcester and is unaltered. Together with the neighboring Charles Fitch House, it is a rare reminder of Oread Street when it was home to many of the city's manufacturers in the late nineteenth century. It is also considered among the best of Woodworth's known designs.","narrative":"Built around 1880 at 21 Oread Street in Worcester, this two-and-one-half-story Queen Anne house was designed and built by J.B. Woodworth for Edward Stark, a boot and shoe manufacturer. It rises from a rock-faced sandstone foundation, with upper stories of pressed brick and dressed sandstone trim. Its asymmetrical facade includes a rounded bay topped by corbelling, a gabled dormer and a turret, a porch with turned posts, double front doors, a gable with decorative brickwork, and chamfered sandstone lintels. The original granite stoops and retaining wall along Oread Street survive. A building notice published in 1880 put the cost at $15,000. Woodworth practiced in Worcester from 1877 until his death in 1893, and most of his other known work consists of simple cottages and apartment blocks of lesser quality. The house is considered an early local example of the Queen Anne style. With the neighboring Charles Fitch House, it recalls the street's character as a late nineteenth-century home for the city's manufacturers.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"J.B. Woodworth (architect and builder)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Present use is residential; the form states the house is unaltered and has not been moved.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.667825-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/47/7929/63792947/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/80000633.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000633/167b281709-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000633/167b281709-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Pvmoutside","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edwin_Stark_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:Edwin_Stark_House_Worcester_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792947","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Stark_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5345422"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/stark-edward-house-80000633/"}