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Stevens' Building

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Built
  
1851

NRHP Reference #
  
80000615

Architectural style
  
Italianate architecture

MPS
  
Worcester MRA

Opened
  
1851

Added to NRHP
  
5 March 1980

Stevens' Building

Location
  
24-44 Southbridge St., Worcester, Massachusetts

Similar
  
Wachusett Reservoir, DCU Center, Green Hill Park, Salisbury Mansion and Store, Elm Park

Stevens' Building is an historic commercial building at 24-44 Southbridge Street in downtown Worcester, Massachusetts. It is one of the city's most imposing mid-19th century buildings. The brick building is four stories for most of its length on Southbridge Street, and also presents a finished facade to Burnside Court. The central portion rises to a full five stories with a flat roof, while the north and south sections are four floors with a low pitch roof. The oldest portion of the building was the central portion, built sometime in the 1850s. The Stevens Brothers, manufacturers of wooden architectural building parts, purchased this building c. 1867, extended it northward to Burnside Court, and used it as factory space. By 1870 they had bought the land south of the building, and erected as a freestanding building seven bays of the present building. The two buildings were then joined together later in the 1870s. The fifth floor of the central section was probably added after a fire in the early 1900s.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

References

Stevens' Building Wikipedia


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