Aurora Hotel

Worcester, United States

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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The Aurora Hotel is a six-story Classical Revival building at 652–660 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, designed by the architectural firm Barker & Nourse and completed in 1898. Built for Charles Stevens, a lawyer and major landowner in the city, the hotel showcases hallmark features of its era, including decorative carved stone panels, bay windows adorned with pressed metal ornamentation, and an elaborate pressed metal cornice. The building underwent renovations in 1929 and 1940, though by the late twentieth century it had fallen into disrepair. After closing in October 1982, it was sold in 1985 and converted to residential apartments. The Aurora Hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.