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Harding Street was created in the 1850s by filling in a portion of the Blackstone Canal, and this area developed as a center of Worcester's footwear industry. Three of the buildings, all built in 1870, were built for the Walker Shoe Company, founded in 1862 by two brothers.
The Crompton Loom Works is located south of downtown Worcester, at the junction Green and Harrison Streets. It is a complex of connected brick buildings, ranging in height from one to three stories. The building's style is industrial Italianate, with quoined building corners and corbelling on the eave of the main tower.
The complex is located north of downtown Worcester, between Grove and Prescott Streets north of Faraday Street. It consists of thirteen brick buildings, the oldest of which was built in 1863. Located at the southern end of the complex, the Cotton Mill manufactured cotton that was used to wrap crinoline wire that was used in hoop skirts. When ...
WORCESTER — A draft ordinance to allow construction of accessory dwelling units by right in Worcester received a unanimous endorsement from the city Planning Board Wednesday, along with a few ...
WORCESTER — In response to recent reports of businesses facing restrictions due to a lack of sprinklers, City Council voted Tuesday to request City Manager Eric D. Batista to look into possible ...
The Worcester location is one of many nationwide that sit empty. Another one is taking shape in Charlton, which Kelly said Tuesday, is still "very much a part of our plans."
Mechanics Hall is a concert hall in Worcester, Massachusetts.It was built in 1857 in the Renaissance Revival style and restored in 1977. [2] Built as part of the early nineteenth-century worker's improvement movement, it is now a concert and performing arts venue ranked as one of the top four concert halls in North America and in the top twelve between Europe and the Americas. [3]
He took a job at the Worcester Drop Forge Works where he worked as an accountant. The Worcester Drop Forge Works would soon become the Wyman-Gordon Company, which became a leading manufacturer of bicycle parts, railroad couplers, copper wire, and automobile and aircraft parts. It would be in Wyman-Gordon Company that George Fuller would make ...