Leonard Sturtevant House
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| Location | 84 Mulberry St., Worcester, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°16′12″N 71°47′35″W / 42.27000°N 71.79306°W / 42.27000; -71.79306 |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | c. 1849 (1849) |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| MPS | Worcester MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 80000591 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 05, 1980 |
The Leonard Sturtevant House is a historic house at 84 Mulberry Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built c. 1849, it is a locally distinctive variant of Greek Revival styling, and a rare surviving element of the early development of the city's Belmont Hill area. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]
The Leonard Sturtevant House is located southeast of downtown Worcester, at the southeast corner of Mulberry and Prospect Streets near the base of Belmont Hill. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and exterior clad in modern siding. The house has a T shape, with projecting rectangular sections on each side. Both the front gable and the gables of the projections are fully pedimented; the main gable has an arched window in the tympanum, while the side gables have small octagonal windows. The cross of the T is topped by a square cupola. An open porch supported by Doric columns wraps around to the sides of the house.[2] Portions of the house's originally more elaborate Greek Revival design have been obscured or lost by the application of modern siding.
The house was built about 1849, a period when Belmont Hill saw a brief boom of middle-class housing set on spacious lots. This period did not last, because of the area's close proximity to industrial sites and a notoriously problematic immigrant quarter, and was largely redeveloped with more dense lower-class worker housing later in the 19th century. Leonard Sturtevant, the first documented owner, was a tailor who lived here in the late 19th century.[2]
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References
- 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- 1 2 "NRHP nomination for Leonard Sturtevant House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
