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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 Country Club was designed by renowned architect Donald Ross [1]. The prestigious club opened its doors in 1913, with a crowd of onlookers including immediate past President William Howard Taft, who was actually the first person to hit a…

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…

Assumption College is located on Salisbury St. in Worcester, Massachusetts. The college was first opened as a combined college and prep school in 1904 by the Augustinians of Assumption. This Catholic group was founded by Emmanuel d'Alzon in Southern…

Parker Metal Corporation was incorporated in 1922. Jordan Levy owned the company in Worcester. Parker Metal Corporation was located at 150 Grove Street, and then was relocated to 143 Stafford Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The company was…

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…

Stanley Kunitz was born on July 29, 1905 in Worcester, MA. He lived in this house at 4 Woodford St. from the years of 1919-1922 until he moved out and went to Harvard for college. His mother, Yetta Helen Jasspon, had immigrated to the US from…

Robert Goddard’s grave site can be found in a cemetery in Worcester, MA called Hope Cemetery. Hope Cemetery is a city owned cemetery that was dedicated in 1852, and is situated on about 168 acres of land.[1] One lot in this cemetery, lot…

The Providence and Worcester Railroad is a regional company which operates a series of trains within Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York. The operations of the railroad are based in Worcester, Massachusetts and can be traced back to…