{"nrhp_refnum":"89002400","name":"Shea, Bridget, Three-Decker","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"21 Jefferson St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.25384062100005,"lon":-71.79477417699997,"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 apartment house at 21 Jefferson Street on Grafton Hill in Worcester, Massachusetts, built around 1888. The architect is unknown.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is tied to the earliest three-decker development on Grafton Hill, a neighborhood whose residents were mostly of Irish descent. It is also an unusually well-preserved example of the modest Queen Anne three-deckers typical of this late 19th century hillside working-class area.","narrative":"Built around 1888 at 21 Jefferson Street in Worcester, this wood-frame three-decker sits in the early core of an Irish residential district that grew on the northwest slope of Grafton Hill in the 1890s. It is clad in clapboard and cut shingle and has a hip roof with large decorative corner braces under the cornice. The side-hall plan includes an asymmetrical facade with a one-story projecting porch beside a three-story square bay window. The double-leaf entry door and stairwell windows hold stained glass lights. Only the porch balustrade and posts have been replaced. Bridget Shea is the earliest known owner, and the Shea family lived here until about 1920. Later residents included machinists, molders, laborers, a weaver and a clerk, reflecting the working-class character of the area. The house was listed for its link to early three-decker development on Grafton Hill and for its well-preserved, modest Queen Anne design, at the local level of significance.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne style Three-Decker","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition is described as very good; present and original 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 02:13:03.667237-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/65/7933/63793365/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89002400.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002400/ae0b2a4ede-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002400/ae0b2a4ede-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Pvmoutside","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bridget_Shea_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:Bridget_Shea_3_Decker.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793365","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Shea_Three-Decker","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4966753"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/shea-bridget-three-decker-89002400/"}