Walking tours of Worcester
Queen Anne is the label the register puts on more Worcester buildings than any other, 45 of them. Fuller & Delano is named on more of them than any other architect.
6 themed routes run through those listings. Of the routes below, five follow a single style and one follows one kind of building. A subject becomes a route only where the register holds enough of it close enough together to walk.
Every listing in Worcester → · 290 in all
The routes
- StyleGreek Revival houses in Worcester10 stops · 1.8 miles · stops last changed Sep 18, 2026Greek Revival buildings carry low pitched gables, heavy cornices and columned porticoes modelled on Greek temples.
- StyleQueen Anne architecture in Worcester14 stops · 1.9 miles · stops last changed Sep 18, 2026Queen Anne is a late Victorian manner of irregular plans, steep roofs, turrets, bay windows and wrapping porches.
- StyleRenaissance Revival architecture in Worcester11 stops · 2.0 miles · stops last changed Sep 18, 2026Renaissance Revival draws on the Italian palazzo, with a rusticated ground floor, round arched windows and a strong horizontal cornice.
- StyleNeoclassical architecture in Worcester11 stops · 2.1 miles · stops last changed Sep 18, 2026Neoclassical buildings borrow the columns, pediments and symmetry of Greek and Roman temples. The Worcester examples on this route went up between 1851 and 1926.
- StyleColonial Revival architecture in Worcester10 stops · 2.3 miles · stops last changed Sep 18, 2026Colonial Revival reworks the symmetry, shutters and classical doorways of American colonial building. The Worcester examples on this route went up between 1914 and 1928.
- Building typeHouses and mansions in Worcester15 stops · 0.9 miles · stops last changed Sep 18, 2026The route links the houses the register carries in Worcester. Many are private homes and the stops are meant to be seen from the sidewalk.
Every route holds at least ten stops and stays under two and a half miles. Routes are computed from the coordinates in the National Park Service National Register spatial data or, where it has no point, Wikidata, and the distances are straight lines between stops. Listings with a restricted address in the Register are never mapped and never become stops. Data refreshed November 02, 2026.
Local history books for Worcester
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Worcester County's Polish communityBarbara Proko and Janice Baniukiewicz Stickles, 2007Find at Bookshop.org
Guidebooks to historic places and travel in Massachusetts
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