{"nrhp_refnum":"89002372","name":"Fay Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"4--6 Fay St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.25708204100005,"lon":-71.78740172999994,"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 Fay Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, made up of two Queen Anne style three-decker houses (4 and 6 Fay Street) built around 1896, plus a modern non-contributing garage.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the pair is a representative and unusually well-preserved example of late 19th century three-decker construction in the Wall Street area of Grafton Hill. The area housed Irish, French-Canadian, and later Syrian factory and railyard workers. It is considered among the best surviving late 19th century examples in the neighborhood, meeting criteria A and C at the local level.","narrative":"Two three-decker houses at 4 and 6 Fay Street in Worcester form a tiny district of about a quarter acre, along with a modern garage. Built around 1896, both are Queen Anne style, with hip roofs, side-hall plans, end-bay entries under projecting porches with turned posts and brackets, and three-story bay windows. They are clad in clapboard with shingle bands and retain their 2/2 sash windows. The houses were part of the northward spread of three-decker building into the Wall Street area, where workers from the Graton and Knight leather belt company, railyards, warehouses, and meat packing plants lived. The neighborhood began with Irish and French-Canadian families and later became a focus of the city's Syrian and Lebanese communities. Contractor James A. McDermott probably built the pair and owned them through 1910. The district was recognized as a well-preserved, representative example of local three-decker design and of working-class neighborhood development.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Probably built by James A. McDermott, a general contractor","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is residential; general condition is described as very good.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.477536-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/89/7933/63793389/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89002372.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002372/85ad10e63e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002372/85ad10e63e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:4-6_Fay_Street,_Worcester_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:4-6_Fay_Street,_Worcester_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793389","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fay_Street_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5438938"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/fay-street-historic-district-89002372/"}