Booklet containing 8 old pictures
 
 

1910 Panoramic Photo of Grafton Center
Click photo for a LARGE panoramic view

circa 1900	1931	1931 LARGE Version (419k)
Main St. Farnumsville (Photos/description courtesy of Gordon Larrivee) Cross street visible in the background, Fisher's mill (and the Blackstone river) down the road to the left. This building housed a grocery and dry goods store on the first floor.

Howard Johnson's Restaurant
Was in Grafton Center a few yards to the left of where "Cumberland Farms" is now located. (across the street from post office) Soda Fountain was at right - Booths for dining to the left. Appears to be a passing train in background?

Nearly same view as above, except appears to have been taken just before/after. Building was torn down 1960's? Was also a "Sure" gas station just to the right of it near RR tracks with an outdoor car lift. HoJo photos courtesy of Doris and Ted Clark.

The top of Worcester Street in Grafton Center in 1940's

The top of Worcester Street in Grafton Center in 1800's

Grafton Town Hall in Grafton Center in 1800's

Side view of Grafton Town Hall

Grafton Town Hall/Unitarian Church

North Street scene with old trolley
Central Sq. looking toward South Street

Grafton Sq. in Worcester, MA scene from old postcard

Grafton Town Center from old photo

Barn on North Street Hurricane of 1938 destroyed this! Photo was taken while barn was still new. Scene shows buggy in barn and Theodore Sr., Harold & Dorothy Clark

Frank Donahue's barn in Grafton Center by Edward S. Clark

Donahue's old barn at Upton St. in Grafton
See Leonards house in rear, telephone exchange was in here

Little Girls Parade (Note:,This photo is very similar to, but not the same as another on this page.) Franklin Clark, Rachel Dodge Kilmer, Winifred Leonard Riggs, Martha McClellan, Clara Buxton Clark, Mildred Leonard Summers?, Vivian Pratt Cutler, Pearl Walker, Mildred (Buxton) Cheever, Priscilla McClellan, Irving Leonard & Robert Leonard.

Scene of July 1923 showing brick house in background that was later torn down for Grafton Library building Also in scene is Prouts ice cream parlor. The two girls are Evelyn Beauregard and Dorothy Jordan.

Grafton Center and school bus taken by Edward S. Clark early 1900's

Scene from hill on South Street looking toward Providence Rd
This is thought to be a scene of Albert Jordan's' farm looking toward Blackstone River.

Old "Hotel Kirby" in Grafton Center (Today "The Grafton Inn")

Another View of the "Hotel Kirby"

Future concepts for Grafton Center

Grafton Library from common area.

Old saltbox house where Lydia Pratt Buxton lived on North St.

Congregational Church in 1895

View of East Side of Common

1910 view of East Side of Common

Grafton Center 1895

North St. 1895

Worcester St. 1895

Quinsigamond River Bridge 1895

St. Philips Church 1895

Grafton Town Hall

Mid Hill Rest Home on Millbury St.

The "Old Oak" on Oak St. (of course)

The "Otis Adams" Farm on Merriam Rd.
(also formerly Wiegersma, currently Polar)

West side of Common
Building next to Congregational Church now a dirt parking lot for church.
A note from Amy Brown (June, 2000) states that "the building next to the church, (which stood where the parking lot is currently located) was the shell of the original meeting house -- erected in the 1730's on the Common. Around 1831 the church decided to build a new meeting house and sold the building. The original porches were taken off and the building was moved to the west side of the common and used as a store for many years. It was condemned and torn down in the 1950's."

Old view of looking down Worcester St.

A small view of Jr. Sr. High School (Now Municipal Center) at top
Bottom is looking South towards where library is now located.

Autumn Scene of the Common

Southward View of Grafton Inn Area

Grafton Grange before 1907  Later became Rosetti's Pharmacy approx. 1960's-1990's. Had a "soda fountain" during the early years of being a pharmacy.
Postcard courtesy of Mark Liasson

Very small image of 3 Postcards

Town Hall and Unitarian Church

Hotel Kirby/Grafton Inn - 4th of July?

View of Grafton Inn with porch

First U.S. Asylum 1910
1037. Colony 1.  No.Grafton
Worcester I Asylum.
The Worcester State Asylum - said to be the first asylum in the United States and that many of the buildings were lost in a tragic fire.
Published and hand colored by L.L. Lester, Lowell, Mass.

Unknown Event- House in back belonged to Pete Fleming
Photo courtesy of Bill Burke

Bandstand when new
Photo courtesy of Bill Burke
 
 

The following group of 6 photos courtesy of Richard Fisher. Originally obtained from Mrs. Frances McGarry of North St./Merriam Rd. area. The last 4 are unfamiliar as Grafton.

North St.(Looking South towards common) Note from Richard Fisher: The nearest house on the right is the one I used to live in. My parents (William & Jane Fisher) bought it around 1955 fom the Clapps. The large wing on this side (right back side) of the house was removed long before we lived there. My father purchased the brick building (actually 4 apartments) on the other side of the house in the 60s and tore it down in the late 60s when some structural problems made it not cost effective to restore. General Haggerity now owns the house and the lot where the brick building stood. The house was numbered 17 North Street in my days, but now its been changed to 9 North St.

Unitarian Church Before it was painted white

On the G&U Rail? - Is this Grafton?

Unknown 1 - Is this Grafton?

Unknown 2 - Adams Lumber Co. - Is this Grafton?

Unknown 2 (Closeup) - Is this Grafton?