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The Lucius Knowles House is a historic house located at 838 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is locally significant as one of the city's best preserved Second Empire style buildings.

The Elliot Smith House was a historic house located at 839 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 5, 1980. It was demolished in 1982.

Castle Street Row is a historic rowhouse block at 4-18 Castle Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built c. 1873 by Worcester industrialist and developer Eli Thayer, the row of 8 units is the largest collection of rowhouse units remaining in the city from a somewhat larger number built around that time. The three story brick buildings are Second Empire in style, with mansard roofs. Although they were designed as single family homes, most of them had been subdivided by the late 1880s.The rowhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

The Albert Ridyard Three-Decker is a historic triple decker in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1914, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990 for its exterior Colonial Revival styling, most of which has since been removed or covered over (see photo).

The Hammond Organ Reed Factory is a historic former factory building at 9 May Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1868 and enlarged in 1886, it is one of the city's few surviving Second Empire factory buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. In 2007–2009, the building was restored and converted for use as affordable housing.

The James Schofield House is a historic Second Empire house at 3 Mt. Pleasant Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was built sometime before 1860, making it an early example of the style. It is a basically square structure, 2.5 stories high. At the time of its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, it featured an entry porch with turned pillars, and quoins on the corners of the house, but these have been removed or covered over by subsequent replacement of the siding (see photo).

The C.H. Fitch House is a historic house at 15 Oread Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The 2+1⁄2-story brick building was built c. 1878 for Charles H. Fitch, owner of boot manufacturing businesses. Its styling has both Italianate and Gothic Revival elements, including deep eaves with brackets (an instance of the former), and stone banding in the walls along with a porch decorated with jigsaw scrolling that are typical of the latter.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

The Dowley-Taylor House is a historic house at 770 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1842 to a design by architect Elias Carter, it is one of the best-preserved high-style Greek Revival mansions in the city. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

The Edward Stark House is a historic house at 21 Oread Street in Worcester, Massachusetts.

The Franklin Wesson House is an historic house at 8 Claremont Street in the Main South neighborhood of Worcester, Massachusetts. It is one of the finest High Gothic Victorian houses in the city. It was designed by architect Amos Porter Cutting. The 2+1⁄2-story brick structure was built in 1874 for Franklin Wesson, one of the founders of Harrington & Richardson, a major Worcester arms manufacturer. It is roughly rectangular in form, but has a number of protrusions, most notably a three-story tower over its entrance that is capped by a steeply pitched slate hip roof. The body of the house is also topped by a hip roof with a major bay on the right side whose steeply pitched roof rises to its own peak. The windows of the house are predominantly narrower with rounded tops, and there are horizontal bands of decorative brickwork at several levels.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

The Moody Shattuck House is a historic house at 768 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The Queen Anne style house was constructed in 1885 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Moody Edson Shattuck, founder of the M.E. Shattuck Cigar & Tobacco Company, was born in Waterville, Vermont on May 9, 1835. In 1858 he arrived in Worcester, Massachusetts and purchased a cigar store in the Lincoln House block, moving to the Walker Building two years later. Over the next several decades he would continue to develop his cigar business. At one time, it was one of the largest in New England. Moody Shattuck married Helen Augusta Prouty on January 12, 1863. He built the house at 768 Main Street in 1885. Moody Shattuck died April 10, 1892. His wife remained in the house after his death. Mrs. Shattuck died in 1907. Both are buried at the Worcester Rural Cemetery.

Worcester Junior College was a private junior college located in Worcester, Massachusetts. Prior to its closure in 1989, Worcester Junior College offered associate degrees in the fields of liberal arts and sciences, and was accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.