Photos: Worcester past and present

Worcester City Hall is inside the downtown area where the Urban Revitalization Plan will take place. Anne Hanson for The Boston Globe

March 29, 2013

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Across from Worcester’s majestic 1898 City Hall, the Glass Tower skyscraper, built in 1974, stands as an icon of urban renewal architecture of the 1960s and 1970s.
Worcester commercial artist Harvey Ball designed the original Smiley Face in 1963 as part of a “friendship campaign” for an insurance company, a Worcester Historical Museum exhibit explains.
Sarah Blatt, a partner in Crimson and Clover, arranged a display of handmade fabric creations in her booth at the Crompton Collective vintage and arts market in the Worcester Canal District.
Salisbury Mansion, built in 1772 as the home and store of colonial merchant Stephen Salisbury, has been restored to its 1830s-era appearance.
Kari Kipper, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Objects Conservation at the Worcester Art Museum, explained how she is restoring an Assyrian low relief wall slab of a winged genie dating from the ninth century B.C.
Women around the country once wore corsets manufactured by the Royal Worcester Corset Company, such as this one on display at the Worcester Historical Museum.