The Enterprise Building is an historic commercial building located at 542, 554, 556, and 558 Main Street in downtown Worcester, Massachusetts. Constructed in 1900, this five-story brick building was designed by the local firm Fuller & Delano. It was built for William Dexter, a prominent local real estate developer who owned the adjacent buildings. Although building permits indicate it was intended as an annex to those buildings, the structure is substantially more architecturally sophisticated.
The building is a narrow five-story structure with a facade just two bays wide. The ground floor features a single modern storefront topped by a metal cornice. The second floor has four sash windows separated by round columns and topped by a frieze band. The third and fourth floors each have two slightly projecting polygonal bay windows, with the bays separated and flanked by pilasters topped with limestone cartouches.
The fifth floor features round-arch windows with terra cotta surrounds and swag panels, finished with a band of dentil moulding and a pressed metal cornice. The building's elaborate Beaux Arts decorations were a notable feature at the time of its construction. It was subsequently listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
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