{"nrhp_refnum":"89002428","name":"McPartland, James, Three-Decker","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"17 Pond St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.25729568500003,"lon":-71.79710888499994,"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 residence at 17 Pond Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, built around 1888 in the Queen Anne style. The architect is unknown.","why_significant":"It is described as a rare surviving representative residence in the Green Street neighborhood, one of the original core areas of Worcester's East Side Irish community. It is also called the best preserved three-decker in the area and a very early Queen Anne example with fine details. It meets criteria A and C at the local level.","narrative":"Built around 1888 at 17 Pond Street, this three-decker stands in a row of late 19th century three-deckers on Worcester's East Side, at the edge of downtown. It reflects the Green Street corridor, an established Irish, working-class neighborhood that was an early focus of three-decker construction. The house has a side-hall plan with a side-wall jog, a hip roof, and unusually ornate brackets in the cornice, along with a projecting three-story bay window and a three-tier porch that appears to be an early 20th century replacement. It is clad in clapboard and shingle. The earliest known owner was James McPartland, a cutter, and later owners included Catharine McPartland and Catharine Halpine. Tenants over the years included machinists, laborers, a fireman, a clerk and a boot and shoe maker. It is considered the best preserved three-decker in its area and an early, finely detailed example of the Queen Anne style.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne style Three-Decker","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition fair; some trim lost and two windows enclosed. Present use is residential. The porch was rebuilt in the early 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 02:13:03.92156-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/59/7933/63793359/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89002428.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002428/26a0107286-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002428/26a0107286-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tim Pierce","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_McPartland_Three-Decker.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim Pierce</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:James_McPartland_Three-Decker.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793359","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McPartland_Three-Decker","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6139550"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/mcpartland-james-three-decker-89002428/"}