{"nrhp_refnum":"89002442","name":"McCarron, Andrew, Three-Decker","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3 Pitt St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.24474387500004,"lon":-71.80588599199996,"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 wood-clapboard Colonial Revival three-decker apartment house at 3 Pitt Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, built around 1918. The architect is unknown.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a representative example of multi-family housing built in the Cambridge Street neighborhood during a period of industrial expansion. It is also an unusually well-preserved and ornate local example of Colonial Revival three-decker construction. It is considered significant at the local level under criteria A and C.","narrative":"Three Pitt Street in Worcester holds a wood-clapboard three-decker built around 1918 in the Colonial Revival style. It sits in a working-class, largely Irish-descended neighborhood off Cambridge Street, close to the South Works of American Steel and Wire and opposite the Church of the Sacred Heart. Its first known owner, Andrew McCarron, was a woolsorter who lived in the house and owned about half a dozen other buildings in the city. The building is notable for its massive, balanced form, a four-bay front, a steeply pitched pedimented gable roof, and a full-length porch rising to three tiers at the entry, supported by fluted square columns. It lacks the bay windows and side-wall jogs common to three-deckers. It is remarkably well preserved, with no recorded major alterations. It was listed as a representative example of neighborhood multi-family housing and as an ornate local interpretation of Colonial Revival design.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial Revival Three-Decker","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is residential, the same as its original use. Condition is described as excellent, 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 02:13:03.547554-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/85/7932/63793285/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89002442.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002442/3ba0d820b8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002442/3ba0d820b8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Pvmoutside","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrew_McCarron_3_Decker_Worcester_MA.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:Andrew_McCarron_3_Decker_Worcester_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793285","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_McCarron_Three-Decker","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4757924"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/mccarron-andrew-three-decker-89002442/"}