Higgins Armory Building (Worcester, Massachusetts)

 restaurant, interesting place, event manager

Former site of the Higgins Armory Museum which was dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition, and interpretation of arms and armor. One of his most important purchases by founder and industrialist, John Woodman Higgins, was eight full suits of armor from the collection of George Jay Gould in 1927. In 1929, he had the present structure designed by Joseph Leland to house his growing collection of over 2,000 objects and 24 full suits of armor, dating back as old as 3000 and 1500 B.C. While the exterior was done in the International Style to a design by J.D. Leland & Co., the interior was designed to resemble Prince Eugene of Savoy's Hohenwerfen Castle in Austria with bold Gothic arches. The lower level was originally designed to hold office space with the museum on the second floor.

The building was sold in 2014 and the collection was transferred over to the Worchester Art Museum. The former armory building is now adaptively reused as an events space.

www.johnwhigginsarmoryllc.com/
usmodernist.org/AF/AF-1931-01-1.pdf
usmodernist.org/PA/PP-1931-06.pdf
www.higgins.org/