Developer proposes 55-plus apartments on site of historic mansion
Courtesy | City of Worcester
757 Salisbury St. in Worcester
An Ohio developer is proposing to demolish a 1901 mansion and former home of a prominent Worcester family to build an over-55 apartment community.
Hills Properties wants to demolish the 8,100-square-foot Bramble Hill mansion and other ancillary structures on the 17-acre property off Salisbury Street near the Holden town line.
Proposed on the site are 123 apartment units in three three-story buildings on the site, which is adjacent to an existing over-55 community where another developer wants to expand the Salisbury Hills community by adding 114 single-family homes.
Both pieces of land, totaling 135 acres, were long the home of Milton and Alice Higgins, a prominent family in the educational and cultural life of Worcester, according to Preservation Worcester.
Both were associated with Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Clark University, while Milton Higgins was chairman and president of the former Norton Company, now part of Saint-Gobain.
The mansion has been vacant since 2007 and was sold to current owners Premier Property Group of Dunstable in August 2018 for just $820,000.
According to Preservation Worcester Executive Director Deborah Packard, the property is in need of significant repair if it were to be rehabilitated. The building has been on the organization’s Most Endangered Structures List six times, including this year.
According to a previous real estate listing, the property was updated in 2006, but broken pipes caused more damage to the building.
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