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Emmanuel Baptist or the Main Street Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church building at 717 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is the only example of Norman Style architecture in the city.
Lake Avenue/Quinsigamond Lake spans several neighborhoods in South Worcester and East Worcester. [2] Park Ave skirts the eastern edge of West Worcester. [2] The Edgemere neighborhood is primarily in neighboring Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. [2] The Arts District spans several neighborhoods in Central City. [3]
Eversource Energy is a publicly traded, Fortune 500 energy company headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut, and Boston, Massachusetts, with several regulated subsidiaries offering retail electricity, natural gas service and water service to approximately 4 million [7] customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.
The Notre Dame des Canadiens was a landmark church which faced Salem Square and Worcester Common from 1929 to 2018. [5] In the 1920s, the Catholic Church purchased the Baptist Church on Salem Square and razed it in 1927 to build a new church to serve the city's French Catholic population, the cathedral-like Notre Dame des Canadiens. [5]
St. Mark's Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church building at Zero Freeland Street in Worcester, Massachusetts.The Romanesque Revival stone building was designed by local architect Stephen C. Earle, and built in 1888 for a congregation established the preceding year.
The foundation was established as an independent research center under the name Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology (WFEB) in 1944 by Hudson Hoagland and Gregory Pincus. It was best known for the development of the combined oral contraceptive pill by Pincus and Min Chueh Chang , an important development in modern birth control , and ...
Worcester resident Harvey Ball's iconic smiley face. 1776 – July 14, the Declaration of Independence was first publicly read in Massachusetts by Isaiah Thomas in Worcester. [1] 1840 – The monkey wrench was invented by Loring Coes of the Coes Knife Company. [2] 1847 – The first commercial valentine card was mass-produced in Worcester by ...
The Massachusetts Avenue Historic District in Worcester, Massachusetts is a 5-acre (2.0 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. At that time, it included 11 contributing buildings and one other contributing site. Josephine Daniels Jones House (1907)