{"nrhp_refnum":"89002416","name":"Johnson, John and Edward, Three-Decker","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"31 Louise St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.24193108900005,"lon":-71.79570228599994,"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 multi-family house at 31 Louise Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, built about 1918 by an unknown architect. It sits on the southern slope of Vernon Hill.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it reflects the growth of an ethnically mixed, working-class, multi-family neighborhood on Vernon Hill in the early 20th century. It is also described as an unusually well-preserved example of local Colonial Revival three-decker design, meeting criteria A and C at the local level.","narrative":"Built around 1918 at 31 Louise Street in Worcester, this three-decker is a well-preserved local example of Colonial Revival multi-family housing. It has a side-hall plan, a gable roof with a pediment, and a full-length first-floor porch carried on unusually heavy Tuscan columns. At the entry bay the porch rises three tiers, with slimmer paired columns above. A three-story bay window flanks the entry, and wood clapboard is banded with shingles between the stories. The house stands on the southern slope of Vernon Hill, the city's largest concentration of twentieth-century three-deckers. Many residents worked at the nearby South Works and Quinsigamond Village Works steel mills, and Irish and Swedish working-class families settled here. The first known owners were John Johnson, a machinist, and Edward Johnson, a wireworker, who both lived in the house through 1930. Its intact design and its link to this neighborhood's development are the reasons for its recognition at the local level.","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 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 02:13:04.353023-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/77/7932/63793277/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89002416.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002416/d7f3bd71a8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002416/d7f3bd71a8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Pvmoutside","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Edward_Johnson_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:John_Edward_Johnson_3_Decker.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793277","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_Edward_Johnson_Three-Decker","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6265373"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/johnson-john-and-edward-three-decker-89002416/"}