Fayette Amidon House
8 Germain Street
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This formerly magnificent house is in the Hammond Heights District, which is a handsome, well-preserved, suburban neighborhood developed in the late 1800s. The area’s architecture offers a range of styles and house types that were popular in the middle and upper middle-class suburbanization of Worcester’s West Side at the turn of the century.
The house known as the Fayette Amidon House was designed by the architectural firm Earle and Fisher. It is a two and one-half storey, shingled Queen Anne Style house built in 1898. It has a corner tower, porte cochere, oriels, dormers and a front porch with Doric columns. Behind the house is a large stable of which part is used as a garage. The house stands vacant without heat, has been vandalized with architectural elements and copper piping removed and is currently under foreclosure.