Built in 1912, the well preserved, architecturally eclectic building is representative of the final stages of three-decker development, and its penetration into the fashionable upper-class west side of the city.

[1] The Helen Dodge Three-Decker is located in a residential setting west of downtown Worcester, on the south side of Pleasant Street opposite the city's Newton Hill Park.

Prominent features of its front facade include an angled projecting rectangular bay on the left side, and a stack of three porches on the right.

The porch is distinctive for its semi-circular arch openings, and there are bands of decoratively cut shingles between the floors.

[2] The house was built about 1912, and was one of a number of more architecturally sophisticated three-deckers built on the city's fashionable west side, its middle-class working residents gaining access to the downtown via a streetcar line that ran down Pleasant Street.