Goldberg Building
building in Massachusetts, United States
The Goldberg Building is a historic commercial building located at 97-103 Water Street in the Canal District of Worcester, Massachusetts.
Description and history
This four-story brick building, occupying a corner lot at Water and Harrison Streets, was built c. 1908. Its street-facing facades are laid in yellow brick, while the other two sides are in red brick; all are laid in running bond. There are eight window bays facing Harrison Street, seven facing Water Street, and one diagonal bay at the corner. The store fronts on the first level, recently restored to their original appearance, consist of large plate glass display windows topped by smaller transom windows, separated in groups by brick piers. The main entrance, on the diagonal, is recessed and canted inward, allowing for display windows on either side of the doorway. Windows on the upper floors are topped by segmented arches, and the main facades of the building are topped by a corbelled cornice.
The interior of the building has very little of its original substance. The ground floor stores have no remaining historic materials, and the upper floors were effectively gutted down to the timber framing.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5579005. Authority coordinates are 42.256, -71.796. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1908.
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