{"nrhp_refnum":"89002440","name":"Simpson, Clara, Three-Decker","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"69 Piedmont St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.26016343600003,"lon":-71.81238914799997,"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 multi-family house at 69 Piedmont Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, built around 1888 by an unknown architect. It is a wood-clapboard Italianate building on a mixed commercial and residential urban street.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it represents the earliest phase of three-decker development in the Piedmont neighborhood, an ethnic, working-class area west of downtown. It is also described as one of the best preserved, well-detailed Italianate three-deckers in that part of the city. It is listed under criteria A and C at the local level.","narrative":"Built around 1888 at 69 Piedmont Street in Worcester, this three-decker is a wood-clapboard house with a hip roof, a side-hall plan with a side-wall jog, and an asymmetrical facade. A full-length first-floor porch has chamfered posts and heavy, curved brackets, and paired decorative brackets sit under the roof cornice above a frieze of narrow vertical bands. Windows are two-over-two sash with simple crowns. The house went up in a mixed Irish and French-Canadian working-class district then developing west of downtown. The earliest known owner, in 1890, was Clara C. Simpson, who was listed in Framingham by 1900. John T. Fennelly, a molder, owned it by 1910 and lived there through 1930. Early tenants included a clerk, a shoemaker and an upholsterer. It is valued as a representative example of the earliest three-decker building in the Piedmont neighborhood and as a well-preserved, finely detailed Italianate example. It has no recorded major alterations and remains in residential use.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate style Three-Decker","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is residential; 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 02:13:04.339451-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/29/7933/63793329/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89002440.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002440/245e03a4c9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002440/245e03a4c9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WorcesterMA_ClaraSimpsonThreeDecker.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_ClaraSimpsonThreeDecker.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793329","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Simpson_Three-Decker","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5126045"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/simpson-clara-three-decker-89002440/"}