{"nrhp_refnum":"89002408","name":"Johnson, John, Three-Decker","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"140 Eastern Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.27334047000005,"lon":-71.78908880799997,"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 140 Eastern Avenue in Worcester, Massachusetts, built around 1894 by an unknown architect. It is clad in wood clapboard and sits in a row of three-deckers.","why_significant":"It is significant for its association with the Scandinavian, working-class, multi-family neighborhood that developed north of Belmont Street in the late 19th century. It is also an unusually well-preserved and well-detailed early experimental variant of the Queen Anne three-decker, notable for its centrally placed front bay window.","narrative":"Built around 1894 at 140 Eastern Avenue in Worcester, this wood-clapboard three-decker belongs to a row of similar buildings on the hillslope north of Belmont Street, an early area of three-decker development. It follows the local Queen Anne pattern of the 1890s, with a hip roof and side-hall plan, but departs from it by placing the front bay window at the center, which gives the facade unusual symmetry. Details include lathe-turned porch posts, two-over-two windows with sawtooth molding on many caps, and a wide cornice with regularly spaced brackets. The neighborhood was largely home to Swedish, Finn-Swede and Finnish families, many employed at the nearby Washburn and Moen North Works or other metalworking firms. John Johnson, a woodworker, owned the building through 1930 without living there. Tenants included wireworkers, laborers and a machinist. The building was listed for this neighborhood association and for its well-preserved design.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne Three-Decker","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Recorded in good condition in 1988, in residential use; porch balustrades have been replaced.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.144834-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/69/7933/63793369/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89002408.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002408/018f89eb52-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002408/018f89eb52-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Pvmoutside","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Erick_Kaller_Three_Decker_1.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:Erick_Kaller_Three_Decker_1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793369","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Johnson_Three-Decker","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6241951"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/johnson-john-three-decker-89002408/"}