Notable Buildings and Landmarks
- American Antiquarian Society
- Bancroft Tower
- Blackstone River/Blackstone Canal
- City Common
- City Hall
- Elm Park
- Green Hill Park
- Mechanics Hall
- Salisbury Mansion
- Triple deckers
- Union Station
- Worcester Art Museum
- Worcester Memorial Auditorium
Hills
- Bancroft Hill
- Belmont Hill
- Grafton Hill
- Green Hill
- Pakachoag Hill
- Vernon Hill
- Indian Hill
- Newton Hill
- Wigwam Hill
Finding Aids
- 80 William Street Collection
- The Bohemians Collection (carriage house)
- Bullock House Construction Records, 70 Cedar Street (1905-1912)
- Elbridge Boyden Papers (architect)
- Broad Meadow Brook Collection
- Carlson Home Collection
- Electrical League of Worcester County Collection
- George H. Clemence Papers (architect)
- Joseph Deignan Photograph Collection (Worcester buildings)
- Green Hill Park Collection
- Lake Quinsigamond Collection
- Merrifield Buildings Trust Collection: Part 1, Part 2
- Charles L. Morse Collection (60 William Street)
- Matthew P. O’Regan Collection (building appraiser)
- Salisbury Mansion 1983 Restoration Collection
- Salisbury Mansion Associates Records
- Salisbury Mansion Associates, Inc., Records
- Charles H. Sawyer Papers (Salisbury Mansion)
- William H. Sawyer Papers (New City Hall)
- Soldiers’ Monument Collection
- Isaiah Thomas House Collection
- Worcester Horticultural Society Building Renovation Records
Online Resources
- The City of Worcester, Massachusetts: Its Public Buildings and Its Business (1886)
- Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts (1907)
- Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System (MACRIS)
- National Register of Historic Places
- The Worcester Sewage and the Blackstone River (1882)
Books
- Sawyer, Charles Henry and Louisa Dresser (1946). The Salisbury Houses. Worcester, Mass.: Worcester Art Museum.
- Warren, Stacy (1987). Housing and Ideology: The Menace of the Three-Decker. Master’s thesis, Clark University.
Do you have any images or articles about the Poor Farm and the Soldier’s Farm? TIA
I have a copy of A souvenir Section Nov.24th, 1977.Tel.& gazette Mechanics Hall: Grand Old Lady . I would like to see it go somewhere other than the trash when I die. Gerald E.Roy former resident of Worcester and Graduate of the Wors. Art museum School in 1962.
Hi Gerald. I sent you an email with our address. Send it to us.
I’m trying to locate any information of the use of this building when originally built at 237 Chandler St in Worcester MA 01609 I believe is the zip code if
You or anyone can help me understand anything about the history of this place it’d be most helpful Ty
237 Chandler was the Coates Clipper Manufacturing Co. established 1877, manufacturer of clippers of all types. Incorporated 1894, company taken over in 1925 by new corporation Coates Clipper & Mfg. Co. The company was gone from Worcester after 1946.