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The Franklin Wesson House is an historic house at 8 Claremont Street in the
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. It is one of the finest High Gothic Victorian houses in the city. It was designed by architect Amos Porter Cutting. The -story brick structure was built in 1874 for Franklin Wesson, one of the founders of
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, a major Worcester arms manufacturer. It is roughly rectangular in form, but has a number of protrusions, most notably a three-story tower over its entrance that is capped by a steeply pitched slate hip roof. The body of the house is also topped by a hip roof with a major bay on the right side whose steeply pitched roof rises to its own peak. The windows of the house are predominantly narrower with rounded tops, and there are horizontal bands of decorative brickwork at several levels. The house was listed on the
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in 1980.


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John Legg House The John Legg House is a historic house at 5 Claremont Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The Queen Anne style house was built in 1892 to a design by noted local architect Stephen Earle for John Legg, owner of the Worcester Woolens Company, on ...
, 5 Claremont Street, also owned by a major Worcester businessman *
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