{"nrhp_refnum":"89002448","name":"Lumb, Thomas, Three-Decker","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"44 Winfield St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.26004197800006,"lon":-71.82099084399994,"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 44 Winfield Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, built around 1894 in the Queen Anne style. The architect is unknown.","why_significant":"It is a representative example of the three-deckers built as Worcester's Piedmont neighborhood expanded westward in the late 19th century into an ethnic, working-class, multi-family district. It is also an unusually finely detailed local example of Queen Anne elements used in three-decker construction. The form finds it significant at the local level under criteria A and C.","narrative":"Built around 1894 at 44 Winfield Street in Worcester, this three-decker sits at the western edge of a working-class residential district that grew up west of downtown in the late 19th century. The area mixed cottages, multi-family houses and light industry, and the Dewey Street and Winfield Street blocks saw concentrated three-decker construction. The first known owner was Thomas Lumb, a saloon keeper who also owned the house at 80 Dewey Street. Early tenants included a blacksmith, a teamster, a clerk and a machinist. The building has a side hall plan, wood clapboard with shingle bands between stories, and a shallow hip roof with a wide cornice and corner brackets decorated with vine motifs and pendants. A recessed three-tier porch with turned posts and spindle friezes sits beside a three-story bay window. Window and door caps carry rope molding. It remains well preserved and was recognized as a representative and finely detailed example of local three-decker building.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is residential and condition is very good; porch balustrades have been replaced.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.371014-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/97/7933/63793397/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89002448.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002448/d0bf362042-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002448/d0bf362042-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:44_Winfield_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:44_Winfield_St,_Worcester_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793397","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Lumb_Three-Decker_(Winfield_Street)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7791972"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/lumb-thomas-three-decker-89002448/"}