{"nrhp_refnum":"89002426","name":"Wescott, John, Three-Decker","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"454 Pleasant St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.263369718000035,"lon":-71.81750235399994,"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 454 Pleasant Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, built around 1892. It is clad in wood clapboard and shingle, with an unknown architect.","why_significant":"It is argued to be a representative example of the working-class housing built in the late 19th century west of downtown along the Pleasant and Chandler Street corridors in the Piedmont neighborhood. It is also an unusually well-preserved and ornate local example of Queen Anne three-decker design. It meets criteria A and C at the local level.","narrative":"Built around 1892 at 454 Pleasant Street in Worcester, this three-decker is an ornate example of local Queen Anne design. Its long side serves as the main facade, an adaptation to a long, narrow lot. The asymmetrically placed entry has paneled double doors under a three-tier porch with lathe-turned posts, large brackets and open balustrades, beside a three-story bay window. Walls are wood clapboard, with shingles on the bay and porch bay and in bands between stories. The hip roof has a wide cornice with paired and corner brackets. The house was built during the boom in three-decker construction in the Piedmont neighborhood, a mixed area of single- and multi-family homes housing blue- and white-collar residents, including Irish and French-Canadian families. Its first owner, John Wescott, ran a grocery on Pleasant Street. Early tenants included a cutter, a teller and a machinist. It was listed as a well-preserved representative of working-class housing and of local Queen Anne three-decker construction.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne Three-Decker","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is residential; condition is described as excellent, with some porch balustrades replaced in the mid-20th century.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:05.001008-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/83/7933/63793383/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89002426.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002426/5a1eff9bf7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002426/5a1eff9bf7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Pvmoutside","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Wescott_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_Wescott_3_Decker.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793383","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wescott_Three-Decker","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6263516"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/wescott-john-three-decker-89002426/"}