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Jerome Marble House

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258:-story brick structure, with a slate mansard roof providing a full third floor. The building's corners have brick quoining, and the main facade is symmetrical, with polygonal bays (rising to the roof level) flanking a center entrance. The entrance is sheltered by an open porch that spans the inner front corners of the flanking bays, and is topped on the second level by two narrow round-arch windows set in a single segmented-arch opening. The windows of the flanking bays are set in rectangular openings, with stone beltcourses serving as sills, and stone lintels above. The roof is studded with dormers, some with round-arch openings and windows, others with center-gable caps and pointed-arch windows. 65: 883: 90: 51: 895: 427: 872: 97: 72: 265:, and is a little-altered example of the Second Empire style in the city. It was built for Jerome Marble, a dealer in pharmaceuticals and chemicals. Marble was also a director of the Quinsigamond Bank, and made an unsuccessful foray into establishing an excursion railroad. 940: 510: 818: 813: 274: 808: 441: 506: 486: 481: 476: 446: 279: 496: 466: 368: 501: 491: 471: 451: 840: 461: 456: 845: 793: 673: 627: 560: 723: 698: 658: 586: 555: 534: 935: 803: 739: 708: 663: 648: 643: 798: 703: 693: 596: 713: 688: 678: 653: 606: 591: 581: 565: 539: 749: 744: 718: 683: 668: 611: 601: 361: 775: 770: 875: 377: 354: 765: 920: 850: 416: 406: 855: 244:
The Marble House is located on the west side of Harvard Street, a north–south road paralleling downtown Worcester's Main Street on a rise to the west. It is a
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National Register of Historic Places listings in northwestern Worcester, Massachusetts
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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Worcester County, Massachusetts
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Jerome Marble House is located in Massachusetts
Jerome Marble House is located in the United States
Worcester, Massachusetts
42°16′6″N 71°48′11″W / 42.26833°N 71.80306°W / 42.26833; -71.80306
E. Boyden & Son
MPS
80000567
Worcester, Massachusetts
Elbridge Boyden
National Register of Historic Places
E. Boyden & Son
National Register of Historic Places listings in northwestern Worcester, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places listings in Worcester County, Massachusetts


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