{"nrhp_refnum":"83000746","name":"Driscoll's Block","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"211-13 Worthington St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Springfield","county":"Hampden County","state":"MA","lat":42.104144656000074,"lon":-72.59215178299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-02-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Driscoll's Block is a four-story brick commercial building at 211-13 Worthington Street in Springfield, Massachusetts, built in 1894 for original owner J.R. Driscoll. The architect is unknown.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building was the first finished on the site of the 1893 Worthington Street fire, so it played a role in the street's redevelopment. It is also a well-designed local example of late 19th century commercial architecture, with a collection of 20th century advertising stencils on its east wall. It also has associations with several commercial and industrial concerns.","narrative":"Driscoll's Block is a small four-story brick commercial building at 211-13 Worthington Street in downtown Springfield, completed in 1894 for J.R. Driscoll. Its upper floors keep their original character, with segmental arched windows on the second and third stories, round arched windows on the fourth, and an elaborate corbeled entablature. The storefronts were altered beginning in the 1950s. The east wall carries a collection of advertising stencils painted after 1940, when the neighboring building was demolished. The block was the first to be finished on the site of the 1893 fire that destroyed five large buildings on the south side of Worthington Street, so it marks the street's rebuilding. Tenants have included a bowling alley opened in 1895, later with a billiard parlor, followed by manufacturing and warehouse firms such as U.S. Rubber Co. and Collins Electric Co., a Sears & Roebuck store around 1930, and a photo supply business. It was listed for its history and design.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Panel Brick/Romanesque Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is commercial; storefronts were altered from the 1950s onward while the upper stories remain intact.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:56.901635-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/76/7902/63790276/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83000746.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000746/e8ca0cdfe7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000746/e8ca0cdfe7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Driscolls_Block,_Springfield_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:Driscolls_Block,_Springfield_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790276","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driscoll%27s_Block","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5307794"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampden-county/driscolls-block-83000746/"}