{"nrhp_refnum":"89002391","name":"Nelson, Christina, Three-Decker","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"45 Butler St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.234454276000065,"lon":-71.79949197999997,"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 Colonial Revival three-decker apartment house at 45 Butler Street in the Quinsigamond Village area of Worcester, Massachusetts, built around 1916 by an unknown architect.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a representative example of the three-deckers built in Quinsigamond Village, where Swedish immigrant families came for jobs at the Quinsigamond Works steel wire plant. It is also an unusually well-preserved example of typical Colonial Revival three-decker design. It is described as perhaps the best surviving three-decker of any style in the area.","narrative":"Built around 1916 at 45 Butler Street in Worcester's Quinsigamond Village, this three-decker is a well-preserved example of modest Colonial Revival housing from the early twentieth century. It is clad in wood clapboard with shingle on the porches and between stories, and has a gable roof with a full pediment, a side-hall plan, and a recessed three-story porch with Tuscan columns beside a curved bay window. The house belongs to a building boom of three-deckers in the neighborhood between 1890 and 1920, as Swedish immigrant families moved in to work at the Quinsigamond Works, a steel wire manufacturer. Early residents included a toolmaker, a wiredrawer, a machinist, and later a ropemaker and wireroller, reflecting the local industrial workforce. The first known owner was Christina Nelson, whose household lived nearby on Keach Street. The building was listed locally significant for its association with this immigrant working community and for its largely unaltered design, which survives in very good condition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial Revival Three-Decker","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is residential; condition is described as very good, with no major alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:12:59.749589-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/89/7932/63793289/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89002391.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002391/fcd46b2053-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002391/fcd46b2053-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Pvmoutside","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christina_Nelson_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:Christina_Nelson_3_Decker.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793289","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Nelson_Three-Decker","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5110838"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/nelson-christina-three-decker-89002391/"}