Tour of Armenian Sites in Worcester, 1.5 Hours

Tour of Armenian Sites in Worcester, 1.5 hours Conducted by Dr. Martin Duranian April 10, 2010

LEAVE: Strassler Center, take Downing Street to

LEFT: on Main Street to Worcester City Hall (between Franklin and Front Streets)

460 Main Street Site of Reform Hall where the first Armenian Apostolic Church service was held in America on July 28, 1889, by Very Reverend Hovsep Sarajian (now Sovereign Bank)

418 Main Street Site of Temperance Hall, first meeting of the Armenian Club or Academy on September 16, 1888, led by Mugrditch Topanelian (now Shavarsh Jewelers at 420 Main Street)

340 Main Street Site of Brinley Hall where Armenian Apostolic Church services were held afterward until 1891 (now State Mutual Building)

RIGHT: on Foster Street, proceed to the Washington Square rotary at Union Station , go three quarters around and

RIGHT: on Summer Street On left, Mission Chapel (brick building with yellow trim) built in 1854 by Icabod Washburn for the City Missionary Society. The Reverend Assodour Antreassian began preaching here in 1888.

LEFT: on Bridge Street immediately, first street

RIGHT: on Foster Street

RIGHT: on Main Street Mechanics Hall, on right, at 321 Main Street, built in 1857, where General Antranig spoke at a fund raiser on February 15, 1920. Continue on Main Street to Lincoln Square.

RIGHT: on Belmont Street, up hill.

RIGHT: on Edward Street

LEFT: on Laurel Street First Armenian Apostolic Church of Our Saviour, 63-65 Laurel Street built 1891, used until 1952.

LEFT: on Eastern Avenue

LEFT: on Belmont Street 130 Belmont Street was a tenement house occupied by Varaztad H. Kazanjian, 1900-02, while a worker at the wire mill. He became the “World’s Most Famous Plastic Surgeon.”

RIGHT: on Lincoln Street

LEFT: on Salisbury Street

RIGHT: on Grove Street Wire Mill, on the right (1837), 100 Grove Street, where 265 Armenians were employed in 1889

LEFT: on Lancaster Street and

RIGHT: on Salisbury Street Armenian Apostolic Church of Our Saviour (1952 to present), 87 Salisbury, successor of church on Laurel Street.

LEFT: on Dean Street RIGHT: on Highland Street

LEFT: on Ormond Street Armenian Church of the Martyrs -Protestant (1901 to present), 22 Ormond Street

LEFT: on Ashland Street

LEFT: on Highland Street

RIGHT: on Park Avenue, past Worcester Polytechnic Athletic Field, [stay in middle lane] for

LEFT: on Salisbury Street, American Antiquarian Society (1812 to present), brick building on left, 185 Salisbury Street

RIGHT: on Forest Street

LEFT: on Grove Street Armenian Apostolic Holy Trinity Church, 635 Grove Street, turn around in church parking lot

RIGHT: on Grove Street which intersects with Forest Street which intersects with Salisbury Street

RIGHT: on Park Avenue

LEFT: on Downing Street to Strassler Center