Upper Worthington Historic District

Upper Worthington is a compact neighborhood of about 28 buildings on a plateau just east of downtown Springfield, made up largely of four-story brick apartment blocks erected between 1908 and 1929. Most are Georgian Revival, with a Jacobethan Revival building and Tudor Revival examples, and they share consistent scale, setbacks and landscaped buffers. Summit Street, laid out with a curving plan and mature trees, gives the area a picturesque character unlike other apartment districts in the city. The land was once occupied by large homes and estates, including the Kibbe estate, demolished in 1912 to create Summit Street. The contracting firm of Gagnier and Angers, followed by their sons' firm, built most of the district, with Pierre Angers listed as architect for nearly all of their work. Three early blocks were built by Edward Jenks Pinney. The district is valued locally for its architecture, its builders and its role in Springfield's early 20th century housing boom.