{"nrhp_refnum":"89002431","name":"Ridyard, Albert, Three-Decker","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5 Mount Pleasant St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.25395065300006,"lon":-71.81235523899994,"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 Colonial Revival three-decker residence at 5 Mount Pleasant Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, built around 1914 in the Main South neighborhood. The architect is unknown.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it represents multi-family residential development in the Main South area during the 1910s, a period of local economic growth and population expansion. It is also an unusually well-preserved and well-detailed example of the more modest local Colonial Revival three-decker type. It was found to meet criteria A and C at the local level.","narrative":"Built around 1914, this three-decker at 5 Mount Pleasant Street in Worcester's Main South neighborhood shows how multi-family housing filled in the area just south of downtown. It has a shallow hip roof, wood clapboard siding with shingle bands between stories, and a side-hall plan. The asymmetrical front has a recessed three-tier porch with simple Tuscan columns beside a three-story bay window, and modillion blocks run beneath the roof overhang. Geometric stained glass fills the upper lights of the front bays. The first owner, Albert Ridyard, was a plumber who owned more than 20 rental properties in the city. Later owners also held other rental buildings and did not live here, while tenants included a machinist and the owner of a snowguard company. The house is recognized as a well-preserved, modest local example of Colonial Revival three-decker construction and as a record of neighborhood growth in the 1910s. It has seen no major alterations and remains in excellent condition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial Revival Three-Decker","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition described as excellent; present use is residential, with no major alterations and no outbuildings.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.655699-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/95/7932/63793295/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89002431.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002431/d09c8543e5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002431/d09c8543e5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:5_Mount_Pleasant_St,_Worcester_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</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:5_Mount_Pleasant_St,_Worcester_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793295","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Ridyard_Three-Decker","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4711107"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/ridyard-albert-three-decker-89002431/"}