{"nrhp_refnum":"89002441","name":"O'Brien, Richard, Three-Decker","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"43 Suffolk St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.25844316600006,"lon":-71.78697684199994,"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 43 Suffolk Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, built around 1890 in the Queen Anne style. The architect is unknown.","why_significant":"It represents ethnic immigrant, working-class, multi-family housing that grew up near the city's main railyard district, and is tied to Irish and Italian leatherworkers employed by the Graton and Knight Company. It is also an unusually well-preserved and well-detailed example of the earliest phase of Queen Anne three-decker design in Worcester.","narrative":"Built around 1890 at 43 Suffolk Street in Worcester, this three-decker is a modest Queen Anne house in a mixed neighborhood of multi-family homes and industry, facing a large factory complex. It is clad in wood clapboard with a hip roof and a side-hall plan. Its narrow three-story bay window has cut shingle panels beneath the second- and third-story lights, a detail the nomination says survives on no other local three-decker. Bracketed cornices, ornate corner brackets, a portico on lathe-turned posts and original 2/2 sash add to its character. Only a mid-20th-century porch balustrade replacement is noted as a major alteration. The house also reflects the immigrant working-class district south and east of the Franklin Street industrial corridor. Richard O'Brien, a painter, is the first known owner, and his family held it through 1910. Later residents were Irish and then Italian families, many working as leatherworkers at Graton and Knight or in the railroad yards.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition described as fair; the present use is residential, the same as the 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 02:13:04.662519-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/1/7934/63793401/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89002441.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002441/d1d6e7ba78-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002441/d1d6e7ba78-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WorcesterMA_RichardOBrienThreeDecker.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_RichardOBrienThreeDecker.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793401","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_O%27Brien_Three-Decker","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7328121"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/obrien-richard-three-decker-89002441/"}