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The Antiquarian Hall is located at 185 Salisbury Street in Worcester, on the corner of Park Avenue. This hall is the third Antiquarian Hall to be built because of overcrowding in the first two. The Antiquarian Society was founded in 1818 by Isaiah…

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…

The Higgins Armory Museum evolved from a private collection of arms and armor from medieval and Renaissance Europe, Feudal Japan and ancient Greece and Rome into a world-renowned museum. The founder, John Woodman Higgins, a leading Worcester…

The fascinating past history of Worcester State College known as State Normal School, as reported by the Worcester Board of Trade in their 1899 annual report.

Excerpts from a history of the Worcester Police department, published in 1900. These pages (frontispiece, 176 and 46) show photographs of the department's members, patrolmen (all but one sporting a distinguished Victorian mustache) and the police…

Article from the June 1909 issue of Worcester Magazine Illustrated. Chronicles the history of Freemasonry in Worcester, with accompanying photographs of founders, and of the numerous meeting halls used by Masons in Worcester.

Dr. John Green was the founder of the Worcester Public Library, and this biographical booklet was published in 1874 by members of the Worcester Fire Society.