Moody Shattuck House

Moody Shattuck House
Location 768 Main St., Worcester, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°15′25″N 71°48′38″W / 42.25694°N 71.81056°W / 42.25694; -71.81056Coordinates: 42°15′25″N 71°48′38″W / 42.25694°N 71.81056°W / 42.25694; -71.81056
Built 1885
Architect Fuller & Delano
Architectural style Queen Anne
MPS Worcester MRA
NRHP Reference #

80000626 [1]

[2]
Added to NRHP March 05, 1980

The Moody Shattuck House is a historic house at 768 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The Queen Anne style house was constructed in 1885 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Moody Edson Shattuck, founder of the M.E. Shattuck Cigar & Tobacco Company, was born in Waterville, Vermont on May 9, 1835. In 1858 he arrived in Worcester, Massachusetts and purchased a cigar store in the Lincoln House block, moving to the Walker Building two years later. Over the next several decades he would continue to develop his cigar business. At one time, it was one of the largest in New England.

Moody Shattuck married Helen Augusta Prouty on January 12, 1863. He built the house at 768 Main Street in 1885. Moody Shattuck died April 10, 1892. His wife remained in the house after his death. Mrs. Shattuck died in 1907. Both are buried at the Worcester Rural Cemetery.

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  1. ↑ National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Rice, Franklin, P: Worcester of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-eight: Fifty Years a City : A Graphic Presentation of its Institutions Industries and Leaders, page 745–746. F.S. Blanchard and Company Publishers, 1899.


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