Green Family Mansion
The Green Family mansion was built in 1850 and stood until 1957, replacing the original family homestead built by Dr. John Green in 1757. That original homestead was divided in two (side by side) and the new ‘mansion’ was build in-between, complete with forty-two rooms.
While the mansion facilitated the sprawling, family farming business, the grounds near the mansions were carefully planted and maintained as rolling, landscaped lawns sloping towards to the pond.
The mansion existed as part of Green Hill Park, after the land was purchased as parkland in 1905. In 1906, two rooms of the mansion were opened and used as ‘resting rooms’ for women and children. One room was used as a laboratory for students studying native birds and another was used as a lecture, assembly, and meeting room by the Worcester Natural History Society. That first year, the largest daily mansion attendance was 912.
In 1906, the Worcester City Missionary Society used two of the upper floors as a ‘vacation spot’ for mothers with sick children and for others needing convalescent care.
In 1957, after fifty-two years of public use, the wooden mansion was torn down, with plights of vandalism, damage from the hurricane of 1948, and high maintenance costs contributing to the decision to destroy the historic structure.
The Green Mansion, date unknown, Photo Credit: Worcester Historical Museum
The Green Mansion, date unknown, Photo Credit: Worcester Historical Museum
The Green Mansion, date unknown, Photo Credit: Worcester Historical Museum
The Green Mansion as seen across Green Hill Pond, Photo Credit: Worcester Historical Museum
Inside the Green Mansion in the main hall, date unknown, Photo Credit: Worcester Historical Museum
Inside the Green Mansion in the dining room, date unknown, Photo Credit: Worcester Historical Museum
The Green Mansion nearing its last years, Photo Credit: Brian McCarthy