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Union Station (Interior)
Union Station is one of the most well known buildings in Worcester Mass. Located on two Washington Square, Union Station is the city’s main source of transportation. In 1835 the first trains arrived in Worcester, beginning the industrial…
Tags: buildings, railroads, Union Station
Asa Water’s Mansion and the Taft House, Millbury MA
The mansion itself was built in 1826 by Asa Waters II a local man of the Millbury/Sutton area. The reason that Mr. Waters was able to afford this giant and historical house was the he and his brother were gunsmiths that got most of their fortune from…
Tags: Asa Waters, buildings, houses, Millbury, Taft House, underground railroad
Worcester State Hospital - Main Building
Worcester State Hospital was once known as the Worcester Lunatic Asylum and the Bloomingdale Asylum. Located on 305 Belmont Street, this hospital dates back to the 1830’s. It was on January 12, 1833 that the Worcester Insane Asylum held its…
Pleasant Street Firehouse
The Pleasant Street Firehouse was built in 1873 and was finished in 1874. The Pleasant Street Firehouse was one of the oldest fire houses in Worcester. This building was one of the three firehouses that were built in this time period. One of them is…
Tags: buildings, firehouses, Pleasant Street
Boynton Hall - Two Towers
The “Two Tower Tradition” is something that Worcester Polytechnic Institute students pride themselves on. The Two Tower’s became a symbol of higher education; balancing theory and practice.[3] These two towers, which are on Tech…
Morgan Co./ Siemens Building
Morgan Construction was a family owned business that was opened right here in Worcester in 1888. The company was sold to Siemens in 2008, but the original factory is still operated in Worcester on Crescent St. Morgan Construction Company designs,…
Tags: buildings, business, factories, Machine Shop, Morgan, Morgan Co., Rolling Mill, Siemens
Worcester Insane Asylum (Kirkbride Building)
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…
Kirkbride Building
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.…
The "New Normal School"
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…
Washburn-Moen Building, Northworks
This building was built in 1831 as the manufactory of the Washburn and Moen Wire Company. The company was one of the largest employers in the city of Worcester for over one hundred years. When the company was acquired by US Steel, Andrew Carnegie had…
Tags: Andrew Carnegie, buildings, factories, US Steel, Washburn and Moen, wire
