{"nrhp_refnum":"89002413","name":"Kaller, Erick, Three-Decker","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"148 Eastern Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.27388610200006,"lon":-71.78887038299996,"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 148 Eastern Avenue in Worcester, Massachusetts, built around 1894 as multi-family housing. The architect is unknown, and it sits in a row of similar three-deckers.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is tied to the Scandinavian, working-class, multi-family neighborhood that grew north of Belmont Street in the late 19th century. It is also a well-preserved, well-detailed early example of the Queen Anne style three-decker popular in Worcester in the 1890s. It is argued to meet criteria A and C at the local level.","narrative":"Built around 1894, this three-decker at 148 Eastern Avenue in Worcester is a Queen Anne style multi-family house on a hillslope north of Belmont Street. The area was an early center of three-decker building and was home mostly to families of Swedish, Finn-Swede and Finnish background. Many residents worked at the nearby North Works of the Washburn and Moen Company, later American Steel and Wire, or at other firms employing skilled metal workers. Erick J. Kaller, a wireworker, owned the house through 1910 and lived next door at number 146; the family kept both buildings into the 1920s. Tenants over the years included a foreman, a grocer, a machinist and paper hangers. The house keeps its hip roof, side-hall plan, side-wall jog, a single-story porch with turned posts and spindle frieze, a three-story bay window, clapboard siding, and unusually large gear-like corner brackets. Its intact detailing and its link to a working-class immigrant neighborhood support its listing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne Three-Decker","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is residential, the same as its original use. Condition is described as good, with no major alterations and no outbuildings.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.588685-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/73/7933/63793373/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89002413.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002413/d93f542615-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002413/d93f542615-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Pvmoutside","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Erick_Kaller_3_Decker_2.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_3_Decker_2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793373","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erick_Kaller_Three-Decker","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20888378"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/kaller-erick-three-decker-89002413/"}