{"nrhp_refnum":"89002427","name":"Dodge, Helen, Three-Decker","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"570 Pleasant St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.264881563000074,"lon":-71.82193423899997,"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 three-decker apartment house at 570 Pleasant Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, built around 1912 by an unknown architect. It sits in a row of three-deckers facing a park, in an urban multi-family neighborhood.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an unusual example of fashionable, middle-class three-decker housing built at a parkside location on Worcester's high-status West Side. It is also a well-preserved, well-detailed example of eclectic early 20th century local three-decker design. It meets criteria A and C at the local level.","narrative":"Built around 1912 at 570 Pleasant Street in Worcester, this three-decker faces Elm Park and belongs to a row of ornate multi-family houses. It was part of the westward spread of three-decker construction into the city's fashionable West Side, along the Pleasant Street streetcar corridor. Its design is eclectic and unusually complex. The entry sits in an end bay with a three-tier porch, arched openings on the lower two levels and brackets on the third. A three-story square bay projects from the front, a second angled bay sits at the opposite corner, and a third projects from the side. Wood clapboard covers the walls, with shingle bands between stories and geometric-pattern window lights. The house is the best preserved of the group built opposite the park. Early residents were middle-class, white-collar tenants such as clerks, a telephone operator and a manager. It was listed for its architecture and for its place in the neighborhood's development, and it remains residential in very good condition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Eclectic Queen Anne Three-Decker","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is residential, same as the original use; condition is described as very good, with no major alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.155538-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/27/7933/63793327/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89002427.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002427/b809f43173-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002427/b809f43173-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Pvmoutside","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helen_Dodge_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:Helen_Dodge_3_Decker.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793327","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Dodge_Three-Decker","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5702144"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/dodge-helen-three-decker-89002427/"}