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Decorative drawing: a nineteenth-century shop front seen close. Not a photograph of this place.

Central Hotel

A hotel in Worcester County, Massachusetts, named in 6 atlases between 1887 and 1906.

The line reading Central Hotel in the 1887 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1887 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1887Central Hotelthe scanned index
1892Central Hotelthe scanned index
1896Central Hotelthe scanned index
1898Uentral Hotelthe scanned index
1903Central Hotelthe scanned index
1906Central Hotelthe scanned index

How the name was read

Each atlas was set in type by a different hand and scanned decades later, so the same establishment comes back spelled differently. Every reading below was produced by the recogniser from the sheets; none was corrected or invented. They are published so a search for any of them finds this page.

Central Hotel
Uentral Hotel

Named in the 1889 county history

The history of Worcester County was published 2 years after the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

In 1833, Mr. Tolman formed a co-partnership with Mr. Samuel L. Hunstable, and advertised to do chaise and harness-making in the yard of the Central Hotel. At this time a Mr. Goddard had a harness shop north of the Bay State House, near where the Waldo Block now is. Benjamin Goddard was a carriage maker, and had a shop on the corner of Waldo and Exchange Streets, where Walker's ice office now is.

Read the chapter on Worcester City.

Named in the same survey

24 of 47 establishments shown

The surveyors walked Worcester County once and wrote down what they found. These are the other establishments from the same atlas, each with the line it was read from. See all 47 in Worcester County.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Baptist Church in the 1887 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1887
The index line reading St. Bernard Catholie Church in the 1887 atlasCatholie Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Champion Mills in the 1887 atlasChampion Millsmill1887
The index line reading Calvin Congregational Church in the 1887 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Exchange Street Hotel in the 1887 atlasExchange Street Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading High School in the 1887 atlasHigh Schoolschool1887
The index line reading Wood Works in the 1887 atlasM. Estate, Wood Worksworks1887
The index line reading Massasoit Hotel in the 1887 atlasMassasoit Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1887 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Miller, C.,Furniture Fact in the 1887 atlasMiller, C.,Furniture Factmill1887
The index line reading National Hotel in the 1887 atlasNational Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Opera House in the 1887 atlasOpera Houseopera house1887
The index line reading Orthodox Church in the 1887 atlasOrthodox Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Catholic Church in the 1887 atlasRoman Catholic Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Union Hotel in the 1887 atlasUnion Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1887 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1887 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Valley Mill in the 1887 atlasValley Millmill1887
The index line reading Allan, G, Cotton Mill in the 1892 atlasAllan, G, Cotton Millmill1892
The index line reading Goodspeed, G. N., Machine Shop in the 1892 atlasGoodspeed, G. N., Machine Shopmachine shop1892
The index line reading Grove School in the 1892 atlasGrove Schoolschool1892
The index line reading Hotel Winchendon in the 1892 atlasHotel Winchendonhotel1892
The index line reading Jufton Bros., Satinet Mill in the 1892 atlasJufton Bros., Satinet Millmill1892
The index line reading Methodist Epise. Church in the 1892 atlasMethodist Epise. Churchchurch1892

Other hotels in the atlases

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Every other establishment of the same trade the surveyors named in Worcester County, with the years each one appears.

Provenance

Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Worcester County, Massachusetts, held by the Library of Congress. Sanborn atlases published before 1930 are in the public domain. Only names that at least three of four independent readings agreed on are published, and no spelling has been corrected: what appears here is what the recogniser returned from the ink.