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Babcock Block

Field	Value
name	Babcock Block
image	WorcesterMA_BabcockBlock.jpg
caption	2019 photo
location	596 Main St., Worcester, Massachusetts
coordinates
locmapin	Massachusetts#USA
area	less than one acre
built
added	March 05, 1980
mpsub	Worcester MRA
refnum	80000611

The Babcock Block is a historic commercial building at 596 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in the 1860s, it is a rare example of granite construction in the period. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Description and history

The Babcock Block is located on the south side of Worcester's central business district, at the northwest corner of Main and Austin Streets. It is a five-story masonry structure, built with load-bearing brick and stone. The Main Street facade has a single storefront on the ground floor, with display windows flanking a recessed entrance, and the main building entrance to its right, also recessed. The upper floors are separated from each other by projecting cornices, and are four bays wide, with each bay occupied by large sash windows. The facade is composed of granite blocks that are structural (i.e. not just a facing in front of brick or other material), while the Austin Street facade is secondary in nature, composed of pressed brick studded with star-shaped metal tie rod plates. Most windows on this facade are set in segmented-arch openings; those nearest Main Street are shallower, and are set in rounded-arch openings.

Chester Babcock, its first recorded owner, was a mover of buildings. It was built in the 1860s, probably about the same time as Colton's Block, just to its north. The granite facade is unique among surviving period buildings in Worcester's commercial districts.

References

{{NRISref. 2008a
"NRHP nomination for Babcock Block". Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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