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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

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

Shaker South Family Dwelling House, South Shaker Road, Harvard, Worces...

Survey number: HABS MA-888 Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shaker South Family Dwelling House, South Shaker Road, Harvard, Worces...

Survey number: HABS MA-888 Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Edgar Tower, Worcester, England] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "11027". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More

[Worcester County] Court House, Fitchburg, Massachusetts.

Entrance front. Photogravure copyrighted by F.E. Bower & Co., Fitchburg. Reference copy may be in County Court Houses of the United States microfiche 86 (D3). This record contains unverified, old data from capt... More

[Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Salisbury Laboratories, Worcester, M...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lake Quinsigamond, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Public domain photograph of historic park, 19th-century vintage card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lake in Elm Park, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Green Hill Park, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Title from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500964. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Corridor, 3rd floor, Worcester Art Museum

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Worcester, Massachusetts., Elm Park] - Public domain image. Dry plate...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Renaissance sculpture gallery, auditorium, Worcester Art Museum

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 072175. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Mrs. Mary George, 74 Southbridge Street, Worcester, Massachusetts. Mot...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 3142. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Shaker Family Church, General Views, Shaker Road, Harvard, Worcester C...

Survey number: HABS MA-862 Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Milestone, East End of Town Common, West Brookfield, Worcester County,...

Survey number: HABS MA-1200 Public domain photograph of a graveyard monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Thirty-four-mile Stone, Milford, Worcester County, MA

Survey number: HABS MA-128-4 Building/structure dates: 1773 Initial Construction

Thirty-one-mile Stone, Bolton, Worcester County, MA

Survey number: HABS MA-128-28 Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New England hurricane. Farmer clearing debris of chicken house between...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New England hurricane. Barn near Worcester, Massachusetts

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Worcester (vicinity), Massachusetts. A cornfield on the farm of H.L. B...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Consistent democracy. The elective franchise for women. Twenty-five te...

Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 63, Folder ... More

Eli Adams House, Oakham, Worcester County, MA

Survey number: HABS MA-284 Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Simonds Manufacturing Company, 23-55 North Street, Fitchburg, Worceste...

Significance: The former Simonds Manufacturing Company complex is significant for its historical role in the industrial development of Fitchburg, a noted manufacturing center in the late 19th and early 20th cen... More

Simonds Manufacturing Company, 23-55 North Street, Fitchburg, Worceste...

Significance: The former Simonds Manufacturing Company complex is significant for its historical role in the industrial development of Fitchburg, a noted manufacturing center in the late 19th and early 20th cen... More

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

S. B. Watson Cottage, 297 Belmont Street, Worcester, Worcester County,...

Significance: Original farmhouse, owned by S.B. Watson, purchased by Commonwealth of Mass. in 1870's for use as housing for Worchester State Lunatic Hospital staff. Part of Multi-Resource National Register Pro... 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

"Fruitlands", Fruitlands Museum, Prospect Hill Road, Harvard, Worceste...

Significance: Fruitlands, an early 18th century farmhouse, served as the site of Amos Bronson Alcott's "new Eden," an experiment in communal living modeled on the ideas of this leading educational reformer, Tra... More

"Fruitlands", Fruitlands Museum, Prospect Hill Road, Harvard, Worceste...

Significance: Fruitlands, an early 18th century farmhouse, served as the site of Amos Bronson Alcott's "new Eden," an experiment in communal living modeled on the ideas of this leading educational reformer, Tra... More

Cushing Flour & Grain Mill, Laurel Street Bridge vicinity, Fitchburg, ...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Covered Bridge, Millville, Worcester County, MA

Survey number: HABS MA-440 Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Simonds Manufacturing Company, Building No. 5, 23-55 North Street, Fit...

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Henry's Grove, Fassett Point, Stephen Decatur Memorial Road vicinity, ...

Survey number: HABS MD-150 Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Higgins Armory, 100 Barber Avenue, Worcester, Worcester County, MA

Significance: Built of steel frame construction for the Worcester Pressed Steel Co. (J.W. Higgins, Pres.) its believed to have been the 1st building in the U.S. constructed entirely of steel & glass. While Hig... 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

102 Willow Street (Commercial Building), 102 Willow Street, Pocomoke C...

Significance: This building, when first opened, served several typical different businesses. Survey number: HABS MD-1047

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

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

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

Nassawango Iron Furnace, Furnace Road, 1.2 miles west of Maryland Rout...

Significance: The Nassawango Iron Furnace is a significant industrial landmark because it survives as a rare representative of the transition from cold to hot blast in American ironmaking. While only remnants ... More

Nassawango Iron Furnace, Furnace Road, 1.2 miles west of Maryland Rout...

Significance: The Nassawango Iron Furnace is a significant industrial landmark because it survives as a rare representative of the transition from cold to hot blast in American ironmaking. While only remnants ... 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...

Public domain photograph of attic, house frame, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Stephen Salisbury Mansion (second), Worcester, Worcester County, MA

Survey number: HABS MA-574 Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lieutenant Simeon Wheelock House, North Main Street, Uxbridge, Worcest...

Significance: Lieutenant Simeon Wheelock's house stands as an example of vernacular architecture; it is also one of Uxbridge's most well preserved eighteenth-century structures. Survey number: HABS MA-412

Lieutenant Simeon Wheelock House, North Main Street, Uxbridge, Worcest...

Significance: Lieutenant Simeon Wheelock's house stands as an example of vernacular architecture; it is also one of Uxbridge's most well preserved eighteenth-century structures. Survey number: HABS MA-412

Lieutenant Simeon Wheelock House, North Main Street, Uxbridge, Worcest...

Significance: Lieutenant Simeon Wheelock's house stands as an example of vernacular architecture; it is also one of Uxbridge's most well preserved eighteenth-century structures. Survey number: HABS MA-412

300 Clarke Avenue (Commercial Building), 300 Clarke Avenue, Pocomoke C...

Significance: This building was used as furniture store for many years. (Smullen's Furniture) This building is typical of commercial architecture of the period. Survey number: HABS MD-1046 Building/structur... 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

Oliver Wight House, State Route 131, Sturbridge, Worcester County, MA

Survey number: HABS MA-217 Building/structure dates: 1783 Initial Construction

Ponakin Road Bridge, Spanning Nashua River on Ponakin Road, Lancaster,...

Significance: The single span Ponakin Road Bridge is 100 feet long and 20 feet wide, with vertical end posts. The bridge has diagonal compression members and diagonal eye-bar tension members that extend two pa... More

Ponakin Road Bridge, Spanning Nashua River on Ponakin Road, Lancaster,...

Significance: The single span Ponakin Road Bridge is 100 feet long and 20 feet wide, with vertical end posts. The bridge has diagonal compression members and diagonal eye-bar tension members that extend two pa... More

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, 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

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

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

General Salem Towne House, Old County Road (moved to Sturbridge Villag...

Survey number: HABS MA-2-38 Building/structure dates: 1796 Initial Construction

Shaker Meetinghouse, Shaker Road, Harvard, Worcester County, MA

Significance: This building is a good example of an early Shaker Meetinghouse. Survey number: HABS MA-806 Building/structure dates: 1791 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1936 Subsequent Work B... More

Shaker North Family Dwelling House, Shaker Road, Harvard, Worcester Co...

Survey number: HABS MA-1090 Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shaker North Family Dwelling House, Shaker Road, Harvard, Worcester Co...

Survey number: HABS MA-1090 Public domain photograph of architectural diagram, building plan, section, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

North Village Bridge, Spanning French River on North Main Street, Webs...

Significance: The North Village Bridge is one of only five known surviving Parker patent trusses in the United States, and the second oldest of the three located in Massachusetts. The bridge was built by the N... More

North Village Bridge, Spanning French River on North Main Street, Webs...

Significance: The North Village Bridge is one of only five known surviving Parker patent trusses in the United States, and the second oldest of the three located in Massachusetts. The bridge was built by the N... 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

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

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

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.

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.

Old Stone Building, Blackstone, Worcester County, MA

Survey number: HABS MA-459 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

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

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

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

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

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

Shaker South Family Dwelling House, South Shaker Road, Harvard, Worces...

Survey number: HABS MA-888 Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shaker South Family Dwelling House, South Shaker Road, Harvard, Worces...

Survey number: HABS MA-888 Public domain photograph of attic, house frame, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shaker South Family Dwelling House, South Shaker Road, Harvard, Worces...

Survey number: HABS MA-888 Public domain photograph of architectural diagram, building plan, section, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charm of the East--Chewing tobacco--O.P. Shattuck, Worcester, Massachu...

Tobacco label showing half-length portrait of a woman holding a tray with carafe and glass. 1086C(?) U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Allen & Ellis.

[Worcester College, Oxford, England] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "10123". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More

Lake in Elm 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.

Lake Quinsigamond, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.