Ware is defined by Quabbin Reservoir
CANALS
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
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
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
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