{"nrhp_refnum":"89000532","name":"Phillips, E. M., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"35 Dresser St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Southbridge","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.073832838000044,"lon":-72.03607473599999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-06-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A single-family Italianate house at 35 Dresser Street in Southbridge, Massachusetts, built around 1870-1875 on an L-plan with clapboard walls. It is part of the Southbridge Multiple Resource Area.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house reflects the town's mid-19th century real estate development and adapts the Italianate style to the familiar gable-front form. It is well preserved, retaining its original window sash and shutters. It is judged significant at the local level under criteria A and C.","narrative":"Built around 1870-1875 at 35 Dresser Street in Southbridge, this clapboard house follows an L-plan and shows Italianate design adapted to the familiar gable-front form. The main block is three bays wide and one room deep, a pattern often seen in Central Massachusetts. Details include broad eaves with a frieze and paired brackets, gable returns, and round-arched windows in the gables. The entrance is unusual, placed on the side next to the ell rather than facing the street. The street was among the first areas developed south of Main Street and east of Elm Street, and E. M. Phillips, an insurance agent with an office in the Ammidown Block, built the house. In the early twentieth century Herbert E. Wells, son of Hiram C. Wells of the American Optical Company, lived there, and in the 1930s and 1940s the company used it as employee housing. The house keeps its original window sash and shutters, and it is valued for its link to the town's mid-nineteenth century growth and its Italianate design.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Built by E. M. Phillips, an insurance agent; architect unknown","architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition described as good; present use is residential. Part of the attached carriage house was removed and converted to living space around 1900.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.815023-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/15/7935/63793515/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89000532.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000532/91e3281b2e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000532/91e3281b2e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:E.M._Phillips_House,_Southbridge_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:E.M._Phillips_House,_Southbridge_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793515","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.M._Phillips_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5321635"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/phillips-e-m-house-89000532/"}