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Commemorative booklet, published by the Our Lady of Angels Parish.

On November 29, 2009 I attended a Sunday Mass at Christ the King, a Catholic church located on Pleasant Street in Worcester. I arrived early and found a handful of people were involved in personal prayer. I could hear the church choir singing hymns…

For my site visit, I attended a service at the Freedom Worship Center in West Boylston. I chose this house of worship because I want to explore a non-mainstream church for this project, one not affiliated with a major denomination. It is affiliated…

One of the two buildings of the Worcester "Voke" Vocational High School for Boys, located in Lincoln Square.

The Worcester Boy's Trade School was founded in 1909 by Milton Higgins of the Norton Company. The building itself opened in the year 1910. This trade school was the first of its kind in the state of Massachusetts. The school was run by an independent…

The old Worcester asylum building which had opened in 1833 was the first of its kind in the state of Massachusetts. But by the 1870’s it was no longer adequate to fulfill the states needs. There was overcrowding which led to the construction of a…

The photo is of the employees and officers gathered on the front grasses in front of the Royal Worcester Corset Company factory. David Hale Fanning, founder of the Royal Worcester Corset Company, opened the doors in 1861, located at 45 Grand Street.…

In 1833, the Worcester Lunatic Asylum became the first psychiatric facility of its kind in Massachusetts. It was originally used as a shelter for the insane but quickly became overcrowded. Forced to expand its size, the asylum called in Ward P.…

Worcester's new Normal School opened on January 5, 1932. It was located on May and Chandler Street (present location of Worcester State College). The school cost $365,000 to build. On May 7, 1930, the Governor approved the bill which authorized…