Arthur Provost Three-Decker
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The Arthur Provost Three-Decker is a historic
triple decker A three-decker or triple-decker, in the United States, is a three-story ( triplex) apartment building. These buildings are typical of light-framed, wood construction, where each floor usually consists of a single apartment, and frequently, or ...
house in
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. Built c. 1910, it is a locally rare instance of the form built in brick. It was also originally noted for its fine Queen Anne porches, which have been removed. The building was listed on the
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in 1990.


Description and history

The Arthur Provost Three-Decker is located southeast of downtown Worcester, on the south side of Thorne Street in the city's Franklin Plantation neighborhood. It is a three-story structure, built out of red brick and covered by a hip roof. Windows and doors are set in segmented-arch openings, and there is a polygonal window bay on the left side of the front facade. The right side originally had a stack of wooden porches with elaborate Queen Anne styling, including turned posts, spindled balusters, and bracketed eaves; the porches have subsequently been entirely removed, and the upper-floor doorways filled by wood framing and windows, while the ground-floor entrance is now fronted by an open porch with iron railing. The house was built about 1910, during an eastward expansion of residential development into the area. Its first known owner, Arthur Provost, was a bookkeeper, and many of its early tenants were of French Canadian extraction.


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National Register of Historic Places listings in eastern Worcester, Massachusetts There are 98 properties and historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Worcester, Massachusetts, east of I-190 and the north-south section of I-290, which are listed below. Two listings overlap into other parts of Worcester: ...


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