{"nrhp_refnum":"89002397","name":"Roynane, Catharine, Three-Decker","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"18 Ingalls St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.25732524600005,"lon":-71.79589797499995,"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 Queen Anne style three-decker residence at 18 Ingalls Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, built around 1890 on the northwest slope of Grafton Hill. The architect is unknown.","why_significant":"The building is tied to the spread of Worcester's Irish residential district up the northwest slope of Grafton Hill in the late 19th century. It is also described as an outstanding, well-preserved and unusually ornate example of local Queen Anne three-decker design from the 1890s. It is significant at the local level.","narrative":"Built around 1890 at 18 Ingalls Street in Worcester, this three-decker reflects the movement of Irish families out of the inner city into newly subdivided neighborhoods on the East Side hill slopes. It sits in the earliest core of modestly fashionable three-deckers on the northwest slope of Grafton Hill, an area that became a major ethnic, working-class district. The first known owner, Catherine Ronayne, held it through 1900, and early tenants included a moulder, a machinist and a clerk. Architecturally, it is an unusually ornate early Queen Anne example with a hip roof, side-hall plan, and a three-story projecting bay window. The single-story porch has turned posts and a vine-and-wheel frieze, while paired brackets decorate the cornice and window caps carry bull's-eye details. Clad in clapboard and unaltered, it remains one of the outstanding buildings of the Grafton Hill area.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Recorded as in good condition, with no major alterations and no outbuildings; present use is residential.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.644366-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/7/7934/63793407/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89002397.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002397/cf9aa7a754-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002397/cf9aa7a754-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WorcesterMA_CatharineRoynaneThreeDecker.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_CatharineRoynaneThreeDecker.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793407","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharine_Roynane_Three-Decker","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5052108"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/roynane-catharine-three-decker-89002397/"}