{"nrhp_refnum":"89002430","name":"Dworman, David, Three-Decker","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"159 Providence St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.24483188100004,"lon":-71.79122497299994,"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 Craftsman style three-decker apartment house at 159 Providence Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, built around 1926 by the Dworman Building Company as a family residence and rental property.","why_significant":"It is tied to the Jewish, middle-class, multi-family neighborhood that grew along Providence Street in the Vernon Hill highlands in the 1920s, and to the Dworman family, who appear to have developed much of the area. It is also a well-preserved, finely executed Craftsman three-decker from the last era of local three-decker design.","narrative":"Built around 1926 at 159 Providence Street in Worcester, this Craftsman style three-decker was constructed by the Dworman family, who worked as carpenters, contractors and realtors. It faces the Vernon Hill Playground, in an area where Jewish middle-class families moved from the lower Providence Street neighborhood on Grafton Hill. The Dwormans appear to have built much of the three-decker housing in the Woodford Street area during the 1920s, and this house served as a family residence with tenants on other floors. The building has a side-hall plan, a hip roof with a central front dormer, a recessed porch on squat square posts, and a three-story projecting side bay capped by a pedimented gable with a diamond stained-glass light. Wide clapboard covers the first story and shingle the upper two. It was listed for its link to the neighborhood's development and as a notably well-detailed example of late three-decker design.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Dworman Building Company","architectural_style":"Craftsman","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition is described as excellent, with no major alterations; present use is residential.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.550633-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/21/7933/63793321/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89002430.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002430/c856ff1569-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002430/c856ff1569-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Pvmoutside","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Dworman_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:David_Dworman_3_Decker.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793321","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dworman_Three-Decker","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5233138"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/dworman-david-three-decker-89002430/"}