Franklin Wesson House

The Franklin Wesson House is an historic house at 8 Claremont Street in the Main South neighborhood of Worcester, Massachusetts. It is one of the finest High Gothic Victorian houses in the city. It was designed by architect Amos Porter Cutting.

Franklin Wesson House
Front of the house
Location8 Claremont St., Worcester, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°15′16″N 71°49′2″W
Built1874
ArchitectAmos P. Cutting
Architectural styleHigh Victorian Gothic
MPSWorcester MRA
NRHP reference No.80000603[1]
Added to NRHPMarch 5, 1980

The 2 12-story brick structure was built in 1874 for Franklin Wesson, one of the founders of Harrington & Richardson, a major Worcester arms manufacturer. It is roughly rectangular in form, but has a number of protrusions, most notably a three-story tower over its entrance that is capped by a steeply pitched slate hip roof. The body of the house is also topped by a hip roof with a major bay on the right side whose steeply pitched roof rises to its own peak. The windows of the house are predominantly narrower with rounded tops, and there are horizontal bands of decorative brickwork at several levels.[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]

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