Lucius Knowles House
Lucius Knowles House | |
| Location | 838 Main Street, Worcester, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°15′18″N 71°48′53″W / 42.25500°N 71.81472°W |
| Built | 1870 |
| Architectural style | Italianate |
| MPS | Worcester MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 80000628 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 05, 1980 |
The Lucius Knowles House is a historic house located at 838 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is locally significant as one of the city's best preserved Second Empire style buildings.
Description and history
The three-story, wood-framed house was built around 1870 for industrialist Lucius Knowles, best known for his innovations in the manufacture of looms. It has a symmetrical front facade with mansard roof, and a front entry sheltered by an elaborately decorated porch. Another entry on the south side also had a decorated porch, now glassed in, above which there is an oriel window. A unique music room was added to the northeast corner of the house around 1880, to a design by Stephen Earle, which featured stained glass skylights (now covered over but still in place).[2]
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 5, 1980.[1]
See also
- National Register of Historic Places listings in southwestern Worcester, Massachusetts
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Worcester County, Massachusetts
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Lucius Knowles House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved January 13, 2014.