Lars Petterson-Fred Gurney Three-Decker

Lars Petterson-Fred Gurney Three-Decker
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	2 Harlow St., Worcester, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°17′0″N71°47′33″W / 42.28333°N 71.79250°W / 42.28333; -71.79250
Area	less than one acre
Built	1910
Architect	Petterson, Lars
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
MPS	Worcester Three-Deckers TR
NRHP reference No.	89002368 [1]
Added to NRHP	February 9, 1990

The Lars Petterson-Fred Gurney Three-Decker is a historic triple decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built about 1910, it is a good local example of Colonial Revival architecture, built by prominent local builder Lars Petterson. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. ^[1]

Description and history

The Lars Petterson-Fred Gurney Three-Decker is located northeast of downtown Worcester, in the Brittan Square neighborhood. It is set on the north side of Harlow Street, between Lincoln and Paine Streets. It is a three-story wood-frame structure, its third floor under a cross-gabled gambrel roof, and its exterior finished mainly in wooden clapboards. The front facade is asymmetrical, with porches on the left, and a polygonal window bay on the right. The porches of the first two floors are supported by square posts with arched peaks between them; the second-story porch has been enclosed in glass. The third-floor porch is set in a round-arch recess under the gambrel roof. ^[2]

The house was built c. 1910 by Lars Petterson, a local builder who developed a number of other properties in Worcester. He retained ownership of this house into the 1920s, when he sold it to Fred Gurney, a superintendent at a wire factory. Early tenants appear to have been employed either at the Norton Company factory in northern Worcester, or in one of the nearby steel and wire factories. ^[2]

See also

• Lars Petterson-James Reidy Three-Decker, 4 Harlow Street
• Lars Petterson-Adolph Carlson Three-Decker, 76 Fairhaven Road
• Lars Petterson-Silas Archer Three-Decker, 80 Fairhaven Road
• National Register of Historic Places listings in eastern Worcester, Massachusetts

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. "NRHP nomination for Lars-Petterson-Fred Gurney Three-Decker". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved April 22, 2014.