Upcoming Events
Preservation Worcester presents a series of summertime walking tours of Worcester’s downtown and residential neighborhoods. Tours, each lasting about 45 minutes, will be held on Wednesdays during July and August. Downtown tours will begin at noon and neighborhood tours will begin at 5:30 pm. Tours are free to Preservation Worcester members and $5 per person for non-members.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 Walking Tour
Lincoln Square
12 Noon
Meet at the General Devens statue in front of the Old Worcester County Courthouse
Walk around Lincoln Square and learn how it has changed since the first Worcester County Courthouse was built here in 1732. Find out why some of the city’s finest buildings stand in this section of the city today. See where the1772 Georgian style Salisbury Mansion once stood and take a look at it today.
Bring your lunch and eat with us at one of the sites afterward
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 Walking Tour
Massachusetts Avenue
5:30 PM
Meet at the American Antiquarian Society, Regent Street side, corner Salisbury Street
Walk through this comfortable residential neighborhood, home since the turn of the 20th century to some of Worcester’s most influential families. In this parklike setting, enjoy architect-designed houses in the Colonial Revival, Shingle, Renaissance Revival, Tudor, and Arts and Crafts styles typical of this period.
Cool off afterward with a glass of lemonade afterward in the backyard of one of the houses
Wedneday, August 18, 2010 Walking Tour
Hammond Heights
5:30 PM
Meet at Rogers-Kennedy Memorial, corner Park Avenue and Highland Streets
(Park on Westland Street)
Take a walk through this tree-shaded, late-19th-early-20th-century residential neighborhood. Learn about how industrial
prosperity pushed development west of Park Avenue during this period and see the large Queen Anne and Arts and Crafts style houses built for important Worcester families.
Cool off afterward with a glass of lemonade on the porch of one of the houses
Wednesay, August 25, 2010 Walking Tour
Crown Hill
5:30 PM
Meet on the corner of Pleasant and Oxford Streets
Walk through one of the city’s oldest well-preserved residential neighborhoods, built up in the 1840’s and 1850’s. See one of the densest concentrations of modest Greek Revival style architecture in Massachusetts and learn how the opening of the Blackstone Canal and the advent of railroads in the 1830’s caused the development of this section of the city.
Cool off afterward with a glass of lemonade in Herron Park on Crown Street
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Better Than Your Average Yard Sale
12 Noon to
3 PM
Rain or Shine
10 Cedar Street, Worcester
** Information is subject to change without notice.