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The Frederick Daniels House is a historic house at 148 Lincoln Street in
Worcester, Massachusetts Worcester ( , ) is a city and county seat of Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Named after Worcester, England, the city's population was 206,518 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the second-List of cities i ...
. Built about 1885, it is a well-preserved example of Queen Anne Victorian architecture, home to
Frederick H. Daniels Fred Harris Daniels (June 16, 1853 – August 31, 1913) was an American engineer and corporate director. Life Daniels was born in Hanover Center, New Hampshire on June 16, 1853, the son of William Pomerory Daniels, a lumber merchant and contra ...
before he became president of Washburn and Moen, a leading Worcester industrial firm. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1980.


Description and history

The Frederick Daniels House is located northeast of downtown Worcester, in the city's Brittan Square neighborhood. It is on the left side of Lincoln Street (
Massachusetts Route 70 Route 70 is a north–south state highway in Worcester County, Massachusetts. Its southern terminus is at Route 9 in Worcester and its northern terminus is at Route 2 in Lancaster. Along the way it intersects Interstate 290 (I-290) in Wor ...
), just south of Perkins Street. It is a -story structure, with a brick first floor and wood-frame upper levels, covered by a complex gabled roof. The ground floor is trimmed with terra cotta panels and sandstone, with windows set in segmented-arch openings, while the upper floors are finished in a combination of clapboards and decorative shingles. It has porches on the first and second floors, with decorative posts that have jigsawn brackets at the top. The entry porch, set on the left side of the house, has a starburst motif in a gable above its main stairs; a second starburst is found above the street-facing first-floor window. The house was built about 1885. Its first owner, Frederick Daniels, was at that time a supervisor at the Washburn and Moen Wire Company who had worked his way up from humble beginnings. He later rose to become company president, and was a director of
U.S. Steel United States Steel Corporation, more commonly known as U.S. Steel, is an American integrated steel producer headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with production operations primarily in the United States of America and in severa ...
and a local bank.


See also

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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: ...


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Daniels, Frederick, House Houses in Worcester, Massachusetts Queen Anne architecture in Massachusetts Houses completed in 1885 National Register of Historic Places in Worcester, Massachusetts Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Worcester County, Massachusetts