Ware

Ware is defined by Quabbin Reservoir

CANALS

Gilbert Mill Canal

Stevens Woolen Mill Canal

Otis Company Canals of Ware

Ware Millyard Historic District

Churches

All Saints Parish – 17 North Street – www.warecatholic.org 1860 – Rectory: 60 South Street

St. Mary Parish – 57 South St and shares rectory 1905 – Polish

Ware Center Congregational Meeting House – https://warecentermeetinghouse.org/

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church – Pleasant Street from 1923 – 1871 parish formed and 1872 church made on Bank Street – 1887 school and rectory made on Convent Hill Road – architect is Joseph Jackson – Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Rectory on Convent Hill from 1887 – Mt. Carmel School from 1887 (in the 60s became a public school)

Saint William’s Catholic Church

Trinity Episcopal Church – on Park Street – 1888

Unitarian Church – 120 Main Street 1868 – rectory at 89 Church Street

East Congregational Society Chapel – 2 Church Street 1881

Cemeteries

Aspen Grove Cemetery – corner of Pleasant and Aspen Streets 1852 rural garden style – from Orrin Sage

Walnut Grove Cemetery

Ware Center Cemetery – Greenwich Plains Road 1799 for ministers

West Cemetery – Greenwich Plains Road 1795 for individuals

West Street Burial Ground – West Street Route 32 (Palmer Road) near Robbins Street 1761 to 1826 – family cemetery

Old Saint William Cemetery – West Street near Vermont Street 1850 – near the Saint William Church that was built in 1853 (services started in 1850 in a home) – church in 1888 (completed in 1894) moved to North Street where they had a new structure and and new name All Saints Church

New Saint William Cemetery – Belchertown Road

Quabbin Park Cemetery

Mount Carmel Cemetery – Crescent Street 1879

Saint Mary’s Cemetery – at juncture of South Street and West Ware Road

Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Cemetery – past West Main Street on Belchertown Road near Wildflower Drive 1929

other

Church Street Historic District

Grenville Park – 1907

Quabbin Reservoir

Ware Town Hall – 126 Main Street 1885 – replaces one at the site beforehand – Romanesque Revival

Ware Business District

Casino Theater – 121 Main Street 1908

Young Men’s Library Association Building – 37 Main Street 1881 Ruskinian Gothic style

Grenville Park – made in 1907 from the designs of Arthur Shurcliff from the benefit gift of the parents of Grenville Gilbert

Ware High School – Church Street 1893

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