Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Worcester, United States

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Number of sights 6 sights
Distance 2.7 km
Ascend 71 m
Descend 53 m

Explore Worcester in United States with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Worcester

Sight 1: Emmanuel Baptist Church

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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. The brick church was built in two parts: the chapel was built in 1853, and the main church body was built in 1855. The elements characteristic of this particular style include recessed wall paneling, the corbelled roofline, buttresses, and the recessed entry framed by an arch. The church was built for the Third Baptist congregation, which merged with the First Baptists in 1902, at which time the building was sold to the First Presbyterian Church of Worcester.

Wikipedia: Emmanuel Baptist (Worcester, Massachusetts) (EN)

559 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 2: Worcester Central Spanish Seventh-day Adventist Church

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Worcester Central Spanish Seventh-day Adventist Church

The South Unitarian Church is an historic church building at 888 Main Street in the Main South neighborhood of Worcester, Massachusetts. The Romanesque Revival building was designed by Earle & Fisher and was built by the Norcross Brothers in 1894 for the South Unitarian Society, established in 1890. The building is made of sandstone blocks, laid in courses alternating in width. The front (eastern) facade features a high pitched gable, with two rows of three windows, then a pair of windows topped by a large half-round window To the right is the church entrance, a smaller projecting gable section with a doorway recessed in a round archway, topped by three smaller windows. To the rear behind the entrance is a square tower with a partial half-round side tower.

Wikipedia: South Unitarian Church (EN)

564 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 3: Pilgrim Congregational Church

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Pilgrim Congregational Church is a historic Congregational church building at 909 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The brick Romanesque Revival building was constructed in 1887 to a design by local architect Stephen Earle. The buildings windows and other details are trimmed in sandstone, and a tower with projecting rounded corners rises from one corner. It features an open belfry with round-arch openings and is capped by a steeply pitched roof, with decorative finials at the corners.

Wikipedia: Pilgrim Congregational Church (Worcester, Massachusetts) (EN), Website

389 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 4: Saint Peters Catholic Church

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St. Peter's Catholic Church is a historic church building at 935 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built-in 1884, the church is one of the city's finest and most ornate examples of Gothic Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is home to an active parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester.

Wikipedia: St. Peters Catholic Church (Worcester, Massachusetts) (EN)

468 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 5: University Park

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University Park, also called Crystal Park, is a public park in the Main South neighborhood of Worcester, Massachusetts. The 13-acre (53,000 m2) park was acquired by the city from 1887 to 1889, costing nearly 62,000 dollars. It is located across Main Street from Clark University, thus the name. University Park Campus School, a local nearby public high school founded with help from Clark, is named after the park.

Wikipedia: University Park (Worcester, Massachusetts) (EN), Website

679 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 6: Saint Mark's Episcopal Church

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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. On March 5, 1980, the church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places as St. Marks. The current priest is the Rev. Robert Carroll Walters.

Wikipedia: St. Mark's Episcopal Church (Worcester, Massachusetts) (EN)

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