Lucius Knowles House

Historic house in Massachusetts, United States
United States historic place
Lucius Knowles House
42°15′18″N 71°48′53″W / 42.25500°N 71.81472°W / 42.25500; -71.81472
Built1870
Architectural styleItalianate
MPSWorcester MRA
NRHP reference No.80000628 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 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

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "NRHP nomination for Lucius Knowles House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
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