See apartment in Worcester’s newest historic building

• Posted by Homes September 29, 2019 - Filed in Homes - #downtown  #01608  #historic  #Apartments  #DupreyBuilding  - 8,051 views

  

  The newest Worcester building on the National Register of Historic Places is a downtown building recently rehabbed and turned into apartments on the top five of six floors.

  The Duprey Building, 16 Norwich St., joined the list of historic buildings on Sept. 5. 

  

  In 2017 and ‘18 the building underwent extensive renovation inside and outside. The renovations turned the floors 2-6 into apartments. According to online searches, just one of the five apartments remains available.

  All of the apartments are similar, meaning all are roughly 2,500 square feet, have four bedrooms, five bathrooms (one in each bedroom, plus a spare) and come with a lofty price tag of at least $3,000 a month. 

  

  The listing for apartment 3, presumably the fourth floor, reacs, “Historic building carefully restored in 2017-2019. Each floor has been converted into a large, 2,500 sq. ft., loft-style apartment, featuring four bedrooms with individual bathrooms, a luxury kitchen with granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances, in-unit laundry room, central A/C, internet and cable TVs.”

  If a bathroom per bedroom sounds a bit excessive, remember this: The Duprey building sits acrossthe street, directly across the street, from the Mass College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

  As for the historic significance of the building, Philip H. “Duprey was one of Worcester’s most prominent real estate developers, and is best known for his residential developments in the Hillcroft and Indian Lake Park neighborhoods, which were laid out in the 1910s,” according to the application for national status. “His career also included financial interests, including an early stint as an appraiser for the Worcester Mechanic Savings Bank, later serving as one of its board of directors; president of the People’s Loan Association; and a representative of the Home Owners Loan Association. Many of Duprey’s business concerns were housed on the top floor of the Duprey Building after its construction, including the administrative offices for the Worcester Lunch Car and Carriage Manufacturing Company (WOR.2359), formerly housed in the Slater Building, 390 Main Street, Worcester. Duprey’s civic contributions involved service as a member of the Worcester Common Council and director and chairman of the public library (Worcester Telegram 1966; Walsh 2016).”

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  Additionally, ”The building was designed by Worcester architect Jasper Rustigian and is the only known downtown Worcester office building designed by him. It is also only one of two known collaborations between Rustigian and Duprey; the other was an office expansion for the Worcester Lunch Car Company complex at 4 Quinsigamond Avenue, Worcester (WOR.2359).”

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