{"nrhp_refnum":"89002386","name":"Davis, Wesley, Three-Decker","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"7 Albert St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.24853985800007,"lon":-71.81999292699999,"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 residential building at 7 Albert Street in the University Park neighborhood of Worcester, Massachusetts, built about 1890. The architect is unknown, and the first known owner was Wesley Davis, a physician.","why_significant":"It is a representative example of the earliest phase of three-decker development in the Main South area in the early 1890s, tied to industrial expansion and an influx of immigrant workers, especially French-Canadians. It is also one of a handful of well-preserved local three-deckers that keep elaborate Stick style porch details.","narrative":"Built around 1890 at 7 Albert Street in Worcester's University Park neighborhood, this wood-clapboard three-decker reflects the first wave of three-decker construction southwest of downtown, between Main Street and the railroad tracks. It follows a three-bay, side-hall plan and keeps a three-story front porch with turned posts, balustrades and curved decorative brackets. A shallow hip roof has wide eaves with regularly spaced brackets, and the windows are 2/1 sash with dentilled caps. Wesley Davis, a physician living elsewhere, is the first known owner. Later owners and tenants were mostly laborers and factory workers employed at places such as the Crompton and Knowles Loom Works and the Worcester Corset Works. The first known residents had French surnames, reflecting the neighborhood's French-Canadian immigrant community, and later residents included Irish and Swedish families. It was listed for its representation of early three-decker development and for its well-preserved Stick style porch details, which are uncommon locally.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Stick style Three-Decker","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition described as good; present use is residential, the same as its original use. Storm doors were added to the main entries in the 1970s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.942413-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/11/7934/63793411/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89002386.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002386/3ce46b9589-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002386/3ce46b9589-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tim Pierce","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:7_Albert_St_Worcester_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim Pierce</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:7_Albert_St_Worcester_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793411","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Davis_Three-Decker","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7983904"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/davis-wesley-three-decker-89002386/"}