Brightside Apartments

Brightside Apartments
Location 2 King St., Worcester, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°15′20″N 71°48′50″W / 42.25556°N 71.81389°WCoordinates: 42°15′20″N 71°48′50″W / 42.25556°N 71.81389°W
Built 1889
Architect Fuller & Delano
Architectural style Romanesque
Governing body Private
MPS Worcester MRA
NRHP Reference #

80000635

[1]
Added to NRHP March 05, 1980

The Brightside Apartments is a historic apartment house at 2 King Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is one of the more expensive of a series of apartment houses built in the Main South area of Worcester in the 1880s, and the most ornate to survive. The four story brick and sandstone apartment house was built in 1888 at a cost of $40,000, and was probably built to a specific plan, unlike other buildings which were built from standard plans. It features symmetrical round bays flanking a center entrance, which is recessed behind a pair of fluted sandstone columns that are topped by a balcony that still sports original wrought iron railings. Between the upper floors are decorative sandstone panels, and there is a course of rockfaced sandstone between the fourth floor windows and the roof, where the projecting window bays are topped by (again, original) railings.[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980,[1] even though it had recently experienced some damage due to a minor fire.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "NRHP nomination for Brightside Apartments". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-07.