{"nrhp_refnum":"89002355","name":"Anderson, Ludwig, Three-Decker","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4 Fairbanks St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.244929144000025,"lon":-71.79462280699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-02-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","European","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-decker apartment house at 4 Fairbanks Street on Vernon Hill in Worcester, Massachusetts, built around 1896 for grocer Ludwig Anderson. It is a wood-clapboard building in the Italianate style.","why_significant":"It is an early example of three-decker development on the summit of Vernon Hill, where many Swedish families settled and worked in nearby steel wire mills. It is also a well-preserved example of the modest Italianate three-decker design popular in the late 19th century. It was judged significant at the local level.","narrative":"Built around 1896 at 4 Fairbanks Street in Worcester, this wood-clapboard three-decker was home to its first owner, Ludwig Anderson, a grocer, and to tenant households on the other floors. It sits on the summit of Vernon Hill, where a number of Swedish families settled in the late 19th century. Many residents worked at the Washburn and Moen South Works or the Quinsigamond Works, both steel wire mills nearby. Early tenants included machinists, a woodworker and wireworkers. The building stayed in the Anderson family through the 1930s. Architecturally, it has a side-hall plan, a shallow hip roof, an asymmetrical facade with a side entry, original two-over-two windows with rope-molded caps, and regularly spaced cornice brackets. The projecting gabled porch is a later replacement. Because it is one of the earliest three-deckers on the hill and a well-preserved Italianate example, it was listed for its local significance in settlement history and architecture.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate Three-Decker","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is residential, condition is fair, and a mid-20th century porch replacement is noted.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.218983-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/33/7933/63793333/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89002355.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002355/5a0ca0b41f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002355/5a0ca0b41f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Pvmoutside","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ludwig_Anderson_3_Decker.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:Ludwig_Anderson_3_Decker.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793333","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Anderson_Three-Decker","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6699176"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/anderson-ludwig-three-decker-89002355/"}