Houses and mansions in Worcester
This tour visits places the Register records as dwellings, among them single houses, rowhouses and mansions. Many are private homes and the stops are meant to be seen from the sidewalk. More of the Worcester register is houses than any other kind of building, 71 listings of it in all.
15 stops, 0.9 miles end to end.
Distances are straight lines between the coordinates in the National Park Service Register data, so the walk on the street will be longer. Nobody has walked or checked this as a route, and a listing does not mean a place is open to visitors. Stops last changed Sep 18, 2026.
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Map
Coordinates come from the National Park Service National Register spatial data, or from Wikidata where the spatial data has no point. The solid line joins the stops in walking order and is not a street route. Listings with a restricted address in the Register are never mapped and never become stops. Data refreshed November 02, 2026.
Walking order
- 1Marcus Hobbs House16 William St.Building · listed 1980start
- 2George Cobb House24 William St.Building · listed 1980302 ft from stop 1
- 3Gov. Levi Lincoln House4 Avalon Pl.Building · listed 1980303 ft from stop 2
- 4John Hastins Cottage31 William St.Building · listed 1980208 ft from stop 3
- 5Alexander Marsh House57 Elm St.Building · built 1848 · listed 19800.1 mi from stop 4
- 6William Hogg House54 Elm St.Building · listed 1980131 ft from stop 5
- 7Katz and Leavitt Apartment House53 Elm St.Building · listed 1980217 ft from stop 6
- 8Joseph Davis House41 Elm St.Building · listed 1980262 ft from stop 7
- 9Emory Bannister House3 Harvard St.Building · listed 19800.2 mi from stop 8
- 10Jerome Marble House23 Harvard St.Building · listed 19800.1 mi from stop 9
- 11Otis Putnam House25 Harvard St.Building · listed 1980131 ft from stop 10
- 12W.H. Goulding House4 Dix St.Building · listed 1980206 ft from stop 11
- 13Samuel Copeland House31 Harvard St.Building · listed 1980130 ft from stop 12
- 14Henry Goulding House26 Harvard St.Building · listed 1980177 ft from stop 13
- 15Tilley Raymond House12 George St.Building · listed 1980364 ft from stop 14
0.9 straight-line miles over 14 legs.
Taking it along
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- Open all 15 stops in Google MapsSet the mode to walking once it opens
- Open the first stop in Apple MapsThe Apple Maps web link carries one destination, so this is stop 1 only
Other walks in Worcester
- Greek Revival houses in Worcester10 stops · 1.8 milesGreek Revival buildings carry low pitched gables, heavy cornices and columned porticoes modelled on Greek temples.
- Queen Anne architecture in Worcester14 stops · 1.9 milesQueen Anne is a late Victorian manner of irregular plans, steep roofs, turrets, bay windows and wrapping porches.
- Renaissance Revival architecture in Worcester11 stops · 2.0 milesRenaissance Revival draws on the Italian palazzo, with a rusticated ground floor, round arched windows and a strong horizontal cornice.
- Neoclassical architecture in Worcester11 stops · 2.1 milesNeoclassical buildings borrow the columns, pediments and symmetry of Greek and Roman temples. The Worcester examples on this route went up between 1851 and 1926.
- Colonial Revival architecture in Worcester10 stops · 2.3 milesColonial Revival reworks the symmetry, shutters and classical doorways of American colonial building. The Worcester examples on this route went up between 1914 and 1928.
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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