{"nrhp_refnum":"89002365","name":"Woodford Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"35--39 and 38--40 Woodford St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.243362000000076,"lon":-71.79021541386277,"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 small residential historic district on Woodford Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, made up of five three-decker houses and five garages, all built around 1926 on five subdivided lots covering 0.67 acres.","why_significant":"It is a representative suburban subdivision of stylish three-deckers from the late 1920s, built in the last phase of local three-decker construction. It was first occupied largely by middle-class Jewish families who moved from older inner-city neighborhoods. The houses are a well-preserved group with Craftsman and Colonial Revival detailing.","narrative":"Five three-decker houses and their five rear garages make up this small district at the southern end of Woodford Street in Worcester. All were built around 1926 as part of an automobile-oriented suburb east of the Vernon Hill Playground. Each house has a gable roof with a pedimented facade, a three-tier porch, wide bracketed cornices, and clapboard on the first story with shingles above. Porch openings vary between semicircular, peaked and basket-handle shapes, and the garages are cinderblock. The district is notable for how well this late group of three-deckers has been preserved. It also records a pattern of settlement: the first owners and tenants included grocers, merchants, a brick company president and craftsmen, many of them Jewish families who had left the older Grafton Hill neighborhood along Providence Street. The area was judged significant locally for its history and its architecture, and it retains its original character.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Eclectic Colonial Revival/Craftsman (three-deckers)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is residential; general condition is described as good to excellent.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:00.165592-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/25/7933/63793325/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89002365.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002365/0b832471a4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002365/0b832471a4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WorcesterMA_WoodfordRoadHD.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WorcesterMA_WoodfordRoadHD.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793325","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodford_Street_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8032665"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/woodford-street-historic-district-89002365/"}