{"nrhp_refnum":"89002429","name":"Battelle, Marion, Three-Decker","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"13 Preston St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.258666910000045,"lon":-71.81098911099997,"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 13 Preston Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, built around 1896 in the Piedmont neighborhood southwest of downtown. The architect is unknown.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a representative multi-family home from the working-class, ethnic neighborhood that developed in Piedmont in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is also an unusually well-preserved and finely detailed example of Queen Anne three-decker construction, with a standout turret-like round bay window.","narrative":"Built around 1896 at 13 Preston Street in Worcester, this three-decker is part of a cluster of similar houses erected in the Jacques Avenue and Preston Street area during the 1890s. The surrounding neighborhood southwest of downtown was largely Irish and French-Canadian and working class. Marion Battelle was the first owner and lived in the house through 1920. Early tenants included a harnessmaker, a bookkeeper, machinists, a clerk, a stenographer, a policeman and an ironworker. The building has a side-hall plan, wood clapboard and several types of cut shingle, a hip roof with a centered gable dormer, wide bracketed eaves, and a three-tier porch with turned posts. Its most striking feature is a massive round, turret-like bay window covered in bands of patterned shingle. It is listed as a well-preserved, finely detailed Queen Anne three-decker and as a representative home of its working-class neighborhood, with no major alterations recorded.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne style Three-Decker","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Recorded as in very good condition with no major alterations; present use is residential, same as original use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.582887-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/39/7933/63793339/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89002429.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002429/b099f1966f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002429/b099f1966f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WorcesterMA_MarionBattelleThreeDecker.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WorcesterMA_MarionBattelleThreeDecker.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793339","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Battelle_Three-Decker","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6765080"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/battelle-marion-three-decker-89002429/"}