Lucius Knowles House

Lucius Knowles House
Location 838 Main St., Worcester, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°15′18″N 71°48′53″W / 42.25500°N 71.81472°WCoordinates: 42°15′18″N 71°48′53″W / 42.25500°N 71.81472°W
Built 1870
Architectural style Italianate
Governing body Private
MPS Worcester MRA
NRHP Reference #

80000628

[1]
Added to NRHP March 05, 1980

The Lucius Knowles House is a historic house at 838 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is one of the city's best preserved Second Empire buildings. The three story wood frame building was built c. 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 house c. 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 in 1980.[1]

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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. ↑ "NRHP nomination for Lucius Knowles House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-13.