Lucius Knowles House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	838 Main Street, Worcester, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°15′18″N 71°48′53″W / 42.25500°N 71.81472°W / 42.25500; -71.81472
Built	1870
Architectural style	Italianate
MPS	Worcester MRA
NRHP reference  No.	80000628 [1]
Added to NRHP	March 05, 1980

The Lucius Knowles House is a historic house located at 838 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is locally significant as one of the city's best preserved Second Empire style buildings.

Description and history

The three-story, wood-framed house was built around 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 the house around 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 on March 5, 1980. ^[1]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in southwestern Worcester, Massachusetts
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Worcester County, Massachusetts

References