Shaker Church Family Square House, Shaker Road, Harvard, Worcester Cou...
Significance: This building was originally the dwelling of Shadrach Ireland and his "New Light" followers. It then became the early headquarters for the Shaker movement in Harvard, Massachusetts. It was used ... More
Shaker Church Family Square House, Shaker Road, Harvard, Worcester Cou...
Significance: This building was originally the dwelling of Shadrach Ireland and his "New Light" followers. It then became the early headquarters for the Shaker movement in Harvard, Massachusetts. It was used ... More
Lovett Bridge, Spanning Mumford River, Douglas, Worcester County, MA
Significance: Lovett Bridge is significant as a largely intact example of a method of construction that was common for small bridges in the period 1870-1920: a vaulted concrete deck supported on metal beams. I... More
Worcester Consolidated Street Railway, Administration Building, 99-109...
Significance: Originally designed as a car barn, this structure contributed to the growth and development of Worchester. The buildings intricate corbeling and arcading, in addition to the distinctiveness in si... More
Worcester Consolidated Street Railway, Administration Building, 99-109...
Significance: Originally designed as a car barn, this structure contributed to the growth and development of Worchester. The buildings intricate corbeling and arcading, in addition to the distinctiveness in si... More
Boston & Worcester Railroad, Bogastow Brook Viaduct, Spanning Bogastow...
Significance: The Bogastow Brook Viaduct is a 260 foot long, 8 arch stone viaduct. It carries the tracks of the Boston & Worcester Railroad across Bogastow Brook, and also spanned the tailrace of the Holliston... More
Fifth Street Bridge, Spanning MBTA Fitchburg Commuter Rail Line tracks...
Significance: The Fifth Street Bridge is the only reinforced concrete through-arch highway bridge presently known in Massachusetts and one of only eight Massachusetts highway bridges to include open-spandrel co... More
Fifth Street Bridge, Spanning MBTA Fitchburg Commuter Rail Line tracks...
Significance: The Fifth Street Bridge is the only reinforced concrete through-arch highway bridge presently known in Massachusetts and one of only eight Massachusetts highway bridges to include open-spandrel co... More
Fifth Street Bridge, Spanning MBTA Fitchburg Commuter Rail Line tracks...
Significance: The Fifth Street Bridge is the only reinforced concrete through-arch highway bridge presently known in Massachusetts and one of only eight Massachusetts highway bridges to include open-spandrel co... More
Fifth Street Bridge, Spanning MBTA Fitchburg Commuter Rail Line tracks...
Significance: The Fifth Street Bridge is the only reinforced concrete through-arch highway bridge presently known in Massachusetts and one of only eight Massachusetts highway bridges to include open-spandrel co... More
Fifth Street Bridge, Spanning MBTA Fitchburg Commuter Rail Line tracks...
Significance: The Fifth Street Bridge is the only reinforced concrete through-arch highway bridge presently known in Massachusetts and one of only eight Massachusetts highway bridges to include open-spandrel co... More
Fifth Street Bridge, Spanning MBTA Fitchburg Commuter Rail Line tracks...
Significance: The Fifth Street Bridge is the only reinforced concrete through-arch highway bridge presently known in Massachusetts and one of only eight Massachusetts highway bridges to include open-spandrel co... More
Genesar, State Route 611, Berlin, Worcester County, MD
Significance: Genesar was noted, at one time, to have perhaps the finest example of glazed brickwork in the state of Maryland. Until it was vandalized in 1941, it also contained some of the finest transitional... More
Chestnut Hill Meetinghouse, Chestnut Street, Millville, Worcester Coun...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-10 Survey number: HABS MA-122 Building/structure dates: 1769 Initial Construction
Chestnut Hill Meetinghouse, Chestnut Street, Millville, Worcester Coun...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-10 Survey number: HABS MA-122 Building/structure dates: 1769 Initial Construction
Simperton, Watermelon Point, Bayside Road, Girdletree, Worcester Count...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
U.S. Post Office & Courthouse, 595 Main Street, Worcester, Worcester C...
Significance: The U.S. Post Office and Courthouse was constructed in 1930-32 and marked the first presence of the U.S. District Court in Worcester. Designed in 1928-30 by the Supervising Architect of the Treas... More
U.S. Post Office & Courthouse, 595 Main Street, Worcester, Worcester C...
Significance: The U.S. Post Office and Courthouse was constructed in 1930-32 and marked the first presence of the U.S. District Court in Worcester. Designed in 1928-30 by the Supervising Architect of the Treas... More
U.S. Post Office & Courthouse, 595 Main Street, Worcester, Worcester C...
Significance: The U.S. Post Office and Courthouse was constructed in 1930-32 and marked the first presence of the U.S. District Court in Worcester. Designed in 1928-30 by the Supervising Architect of the Treas... More
Providence & Worcester Railroad, Freight House, Canal Street, Providen...
Significance: The freight house was part of one of the first major railroad stations in America. It was also one of the first structures built in the Romanesque style and one of the only surviving structures o... More
![[Promenade, Worcester, England] view, photochrome print postcard.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDEvcHJvbWVuYWRlLXdvcmNlc3Rlci1lbmdsYW5kLWM2YzJlYS0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/30/webp "[Promenade, Worcester, England] view, photochrome print postcard.")
[Promenade, Worcester, England] view, photochrome print postcard.
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "11026". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More
![[Lake Quinsigamond from lake park, Worcester, Massachusetts.]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MDYvMDEvMDEvbGFrZS1xdWluc2lnYW1vbmQtZnJvbS1sYWtlLXBhcmstd29yY2VzdGVyLW1hc3MtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/31/webp "[Lake Quinsigamond from lake park, Worcester, Massachusetts.]")
[Lake Quinsigamond from lake park, Worcester, Massachusetts.]
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, pond, water reflection, romantic landscape, 18th-19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Worcester, Massachusetts., Elm Park - Public domain image. Dry plate n...
Title from jacket. "6" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 0500963. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
5 minutes to 9 A.M. Eleven-year-old girl running home with a twenty-po...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Milestone, Route 9 at Collier's Corner, Leicester, Worcester County, M...
Survey number: HABS MA-1197 Public domain photograph of a memorial plaque, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
D. T. Dudley & Son Company, Providence Road, Wilkinsonville, Worcester...
Significance: The Dudley Firm, producers of wood shuttles for power textile looms, traces its origins to 1825. The present shop site was purchased and built on in 1867. In that year the business was reorganiz... More
Milestone, Route 9, Brookfield, Worcester County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-1194 Public domain photograph of a graveyard monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Food in England. Old grass slopes are plowed for planting at Worcheste...
Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Pocomoke City Bridge, built in 1920 in Worcester County, Maryland
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Shaker Church Family Barn (Ruins), Shaker Road vicinity, Harvard, Worc...
Survey number: HABS MA-861 Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Shaker Church Family Herb Drying House, Shaker Road, Harvard, Worceste...
Survey number: HABS MA-1091 Public domain photograph of architectural diagram, building plan, section, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Blackstone Canal Millbury Segment, Beginning northwest of State Route ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an arch stone structure, bridge, or tunnel, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Blackstone Canal Millbury Segment, Beginning northwest of State Route ...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Colonel J. Crosby House, Main Street, Brookfield, Worcester County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-133 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction
Colonel J. Crosby House, Main Street, Brookfield, Worcester County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-133 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction
Colonel J. Crosby House, Main Street, Brookfield, Worcester County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-133 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction
Colonel J. Crosby House, Main Street, Brookfield, Worcester County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-133 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction
Colonel J. Crosby House, Main Street, Brookfield, Worcester County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-133 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction
Schoolfield Farm House, Hillman Road, Pocomoke City, Worcester County,...
Significance: The house is a typical lower Eastern Shore cottage which reflects the hangover of transitional style at the end of the eighteenth century. Survey number: HABS MD-225 Building/structure dates: 17... More
Schoolfield Farm House, Hillman Road, Pocomoke City, Worcester County,...
Significance: The house is a typical lower Eastern Shore cottage which reflects the hangover of transitional style at the end of the eighteenth century. Survey number: HABS MD-225 Building/structure dates: 17... More
Schoolfield Farm House, Hillman Road, Pocomoke City, Worcester County,...
Significance: The house is a typical lower Eastern Shore cottage which reflects the hangover of transitional style at the end of the eighteenth century. Survey number: HABS MD-225 Building/structure dates: 17... More
215 North Main Street (House), Millbury, Worcester County, MA
Significance: 215 North Main Street, originally a boarding house, is significant as one of the few vestiges of a hamlet serving the Burling Mills on the Blackstone River, a highly industrialized waterway runnin... More
Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland...
Significance: Hastings Bridge represents a type of construction that was once common but rarely survives, the wooden truss. It is the oldest extant timber pony truss bridge identified in the Massachusetts stat... More
Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland...
Significance: Hastings Bridge represents a type of construction that was once common but rarely survives, the wooden truss. It is the oldest extant timber pony truss bridge identified in the Massachusetts stat... More
Alden Research Laboratory, Rotating Boom, Holden, Worcester County, MA
Significance: This rotating boom played an important part in the testing and improvement of current meters, aircraft propellers, ships' logs, pitot tubes and minesweeping paravanes. Survey number: HAER MA-60-A... More
Rider Tavern, Stafford Street (opposite Northside Road), Charlton, Wor...
Survey number: HABS MA-1224 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1842 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1939 Subsequent Work
Rider Tavern, Stafford Street (opposite Northside Road), Charlton, Wor...
Survey number: HABS MA-1224 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1842 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1939 Subsequent Work
Ashton Viaduct, State Route 116 (Washington Highway) spanning Blacksto...
Significance: The Ashton Viaduct is one of the State of Rhode Island's largest engineering projects. It is a fine example of open spandrel design and, as the northern terminus of the Washington Highway, an imp... More
Ashton Viaduct, State Route 116 (Washington Highway) spanning Blacksto...
Significance: The Ashton Viaduct is one of the State of Rhode Island's largest engineering projects. It is a fine example of open spandrel design and, as the northern terminus of the Washington Highway, an imp... More
Banister House, Brookfield, Worcester County, MA
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-123 Survey number: HABS MA-345
Bartlett's Bridge, Spanning French River on Clara Barton Road, Oxford,...
Significance: Bartlett's Bridge is a well-preserved, representative example of a common, rural, nineteenth-century masonry bridge type found in New England. The notable details are the stone parapet with proje... More
George B. Slater Carriage House, 216 North Main Street, Webster, Worce...
Significance: Chief significance is its association with several generations of the Slater family, who were responsible for Webster's founding and its success as an important textile manufacturing center during... More
Shaker Ministry's Shop, Shaker Road, Harvard, Worcester County, MA
Significance: This is one of the later buildings at Harvard. Survey number: HABS MA-807 Building/structure dates: 1847 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1936 Subsequent Work
Simonds Manufacturing Company, Building Nos. 2 & 3, 23-55 North Street...
Significance: The building is significant as part of the plant of Simond Manufacturing Company, a maker of circular saws, band saws, and machine knives. From the late 19th century to the present, the company h... More
Simonds Manufacturing Company, Building Nos. 2 & 3, 23-55 North Street...
Significance: The building is significant as part of the plant of Simond Manufacturing Company, a maker of circular saws, band saws, and machine knives. From the late 19th century to the present, the company h... More
Masonic Building & Courthouse, Uxbridge, Worcester County, MA
Significance: An early example of public-private partnership, the citizens of Uxbridge and the Solomon's Temple of the Freemasons joined forces to build a two story brick edifice on the north end of the town co... More
Masonic Building & Courthouse, Uxbridge, Worcester County, MA
Significance: An early example of public-private partnership, the citizens of Uxbridge and the Solomon's Temple of the Freemasons joined forces to build a two story brick edifice on the north end of the town co... More
Masonic Building & Courthouse, Uxbridge, Worcester County, MA
Significance: An early example of public-private partnership, the citizens of Uxbridge and the Solomon's Temple of the Freemasons joined forces to build a two story brick edifice on the north end of the town co... More
First Parish Church (Unitarian) & Carriage Shed, Maple & Elm Streets, ...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-49 Survey number: HABS MA-242 Building/structure dates: 1820 Initial Construction
Crown & Eagle Mills, 123 Hartford Avenue East, North Uxbridge, Worcest...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Crown & Eagle Mills, 123 Hartford Avenue East, North Uxbridge, Worcest...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Crown & Eagle Mills, 123 Hartford Avenue East, North Uxbridge, Worcest...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a chamber, cell, interior, underground vault architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Crown & Eagle Mills, 123 Hartford Avenue East, North Uxbridge, Worcest...
Public domain photograph of window, architectural element, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Crown & Eagle Mills, 123 Hartford Avenue East, North Uxbridge, Worcest...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Crown & Eagle Mills, 123 Hartford Avenue East, North Uxbridge, Worcest...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Stephen Salisbury Mansion (second), Worcester, Worcester County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-574 Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Atherton Bridge, Spanning Nashua River on Bolton Road, Lancaster, Worc...
Significance: The Atherton Bridge is an example of a hybrid pony-truss that bears a similarity to the Post truss. The bridge is 72 feet long, 18 1/2 feet wide, and is comprised of eight panels. It rests on gr... More
Atherton Bridge, Spanning Nashua River on Bolton Road, Lancaster, Worc...
Significance: The Atherton Bridge is an example of a hybrid pony-truss that bears a similarity to the Post truss. The bridge is 72 feet long, 18 1/2 feet wide, and is comprised of eight panels. It rests on gr... More
Atherton Bridge, Spanning Nashua River on Bolton Road, Lancaster, Worc...
Significance: The Atherton Bridge is an example of a hybrid pony-truss that bears a similarity to the Post truss. The bridge is 72 feet long, 18 1/2 feet wide, and is comprised of eight panels. It rests on gr... More
Atherton Bridge, Spanning Nashua River on Bolton Road, Lancaster, Worc...
Significance: The Atherton Bridge is an example of a hybrid pony-truss that bears a similarity to the Post truss. The bridge is 72 feet long, 18 1/2 feet wide, and is comprised of eight panels. It rests on gr... More
McNamara House & Store, 455-457 Millbury Street, Worcester, Worcester ...
Significance: The McNamara House and Store is an early and largely intact example of the multistory commercial/residential building type in Worcester. It is notable for its Stick Style architecture. Developed... More
Oliver Wight House, State Route 131, Sturbridge, Worcester County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-217 Building/structure dates: 1783 Initial Construction
First Parish Church, Town Green, Thayer Drive, Lancaster, Worcester Co...
Public domain photograph of a church interior, gothic architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Wyman-Gordon Company, Grafton Plant, 18000 Ton Press, 244 Worcester St...
Survey number: HAER MA-82-B Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Wyman-Gordon Company, Grafton Plant, 50000 Ton Press, 244 Worcester St...
Significance: The Wyman-Gordan Forging Press, along with a similar press owned by the Alcoa Company of Cleveland, Ohio, represents the culmination of many years' attempts to build heavy presses. Motivated by C... More
Shaker Church Family Trustees' Office (second), Shaker Road, Harvard, ...
Significance: This is the largest and most impressive of the Harvard Shaker Dwellings (see also the almost identical dwelling in the South Family). Its construction occurred at the peak of the Shaker Community... More
Lower Rollstone Street Bridge, Spanning Nashua River on Rollstone Stre...
Significance: The (Lower) Rollstone Street Bridge is one of only five known surviving Parker patent trusses in the United States, and the oldest of the three located in Massachusetts. It is also one of the two... More
Photographs of the Harold D. Donohue Federal Building and Courthouse i...
Images show exterior and interior views of the Harold D. Donohue Federal Building and Courthouse in Worcester, Massachusetts, including details of the courtroom, the cupola, the fountain, doorways, windows, and... More
General Salem Towne House, Old County Road (moved to Sturbridge Villag...
Survey number: HABS MA-2-38 Building/structure dates: 1796 Initial Construction
Shaker South Family Barn, South Shaker Road, Harvard, Worcester County...
Significance: This is a fine example of Shaker stone work. Survey number: HABS MA-808 Building/structure dates: 1835 Initial Construction
Benchley House, 6 1/2 King Street (rear of 6-8 King Street), Worcester...
Significance: This is one of the earliest homes to appear during this area's initial development, and it stands out as the only Colonial style home in a predominantly Victorian style neighborhood. Survey numbe... More
Benchley House, 6 1/2 King Street (rear of 6-8 King Street), Worcester...
Significance: This is one of the earliest homes to appear during this area's initial development, and it stands out as the only Colonial style home in a predominantly Victorian style neighborhood. Survey numbe... More
General Rufus Putnam House, Main Street, Rutland, Worcester County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-2-71 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72001330
Simonds Manufacturing Company, Building No. 1, 23-55 North Street, Fit...
Significance: The building is significant as part of the plant of Simonds Manufacturing Company, a maker of saws and machine knives. From the late 19th century to the present, the company has been one of Fitch... More
Simonds Manufacturing Company, Building No. 1, 23-55 North Street, Fit...
Significance: The building is significant as part of the plant of Simonds Manufacturing Company, a maker of saws and machine knives. From the late 19th century to the present, the company has been one of Fitch... More
Worcester Consolidated Street Railway, Administration Building, 99-109...
Significance: Originally designed as a car barn, this structure contributed to the growth and development of Worchester. The buildings intricate corbeling and arcading, in addition to the distinctiveness in si... More
Shaker Church Family Dwelling House (second), Shaker Road, Harvard, Wo...
Significance: This is a good example of an early Shaker dwelling house. Survey number: HABS MA-810 Building/structure dates: 1795 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1860 Subsequent Work
Old Saw Mill, Oakham, Worcester County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-287 Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Crompton Loom Works, Green Street Worcester, Massachusetts. - George C...
This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bufford, John Henry.
Bob's Yankee Diner, Route 20, Charlton, Worcester County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-1242 Public domain photograph of cabinet interior, office, living or dining room, furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bob's Yankee Diner, Route 20, Charlton, Worcester County, MA
Survey number: HABS MA-1242 Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Fifth Street Bridge, Spanning MBTA Fitchburg Commuter Rail Line tracks...
Significance: The Fifth Street Bridge is the only reinforced concrete through-arch highway bridge presently known in Massachusetts and one of only eight Massachusetts highway bridges to include open-spandrel co... More
Fifth Street Bridge, Spanning MBTA Fitchburg Commuter Rail Line tracks...
Significance: The Fifth Street Bridge is the only reinforced concrete through-arch highway bridge presently known in Massachusetts and one of only eight Massachusetts highway bridges to include open-spandrel co... More
Fifth Street Bridge, Spanning MBTA Fitchburg Commuter Rail Line tracks...
Significance: The Fifth Street Bridge is the only reinforced concrete through-arch highway bridge presently known in Massachusetts and one of only eight Massachusetts highway bridges to include open-spandrel co... More
Fifth Street Bridge, Spanning MBTA Fitchburg Commuter Rail Line tracks...
Significance: The Fifth Street Bridge is the only reinforced concrete through-arch highway bridge presently known in Massachusetts and one of only eight Massachusetts highway bridges to include open-spandrel co... More
Genesar, State Route 611, Berlin, Worcester County, MD
Significance: Genesar was noted, at one time, to have perhaps the finest example of glazed brickwork in the state of Maryland. Until it was vandalized in 1941, it also contained some of the finest transitional... More
Genesar, State Route 611, Berlin, Worcester County, MD
Significance: Genesar was noted, at one time, to have perhaps the finest example of glazed brickwork in the state of Maryland. Until it was vandalized in 1941, it also contained some of the finest transitional... More
Genesar, State Route 611, Berlin, Worcester County, MD
Significance: Genesar was noted, at one time, to have perhaps the finest example of glazed brickwork in the state of Maryland. Until it was vandalized in 1941, it also contained some of the finest transitional... More
Genesar, State Route 611, Berlin, Worcester County, MD
Significance: Genesar was noted, at one time, to have perhaps the finest example of glazed brickwork in the state of Maryland. Until it was vandalized in 1941, it also contained some of the finest transitional... More