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Worcester Corset Company Factory
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	30 Wyman St., Worcester, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°14′56″N 71°49′10″W / 42.24889°N 71.81944°W / 42.24889; -71.81944
Built	1895
Architect	Arthur F. Gray
Architectural style	Romanesque
MPS	Worcester MRA
NRHP reference No.	84000097
Added to NRHP	October 4, 1984

The Worcester Corset Company Factory is an historic factory building at 30 Wyman Street in Worcester, Massachusetts in the Main South neighborhood. The oldest part of the factory was built in 1895, with expansion of the facilities taking place up to 1909. The buildings were designed by Arthur F. Gray for the Worcester Corset Company, whose origins date to an 1861 business by David Hale Fanning making hoops for skirts, but shifted to manufacturing corsets after fashions changed. Fanning's business was immensely successful, and he became one of Worcester's larger employers. At one point it employed over 2000 women. After the Corset Company folded in 1940, the facility was used to manufacture military-style boots. The factory is now an apartment complex.

The factory was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

See also

• Baystate Corset Block, NRHP-listed in Springfield, Massachusetts
• Kraus Corset Factory, NRHP-listed in Derby, Connecticut
• Strouse, Adler Company Corset Factory, NRHP-listed in New Haven, Connecticut
• National Register of Historic Places listings in southwestern Worcester, Massachusetts

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. "MACRIS inventory record for Worcester Corset Company Factory". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-06.
3. Duckett, Richard (Mar 14, 2012). "Tour precedes high school production of 'The Royal Worcester Corset Company'". The Telegram and Gazette. Retrieved 1 December 2019.

External links

• Waist Cincher Corset Archived 2018-08-15 at the Wayback Machine

v t e Corsets and corsetmaking
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	Corset fetishism	Body modification Bondage corset Neck corset Tightlacing Training corset Wasp waist
	Corset manufacturers	Baystate Frederick's of Hollywood Kraus Spirella Strouse, Adler Vollers The Warner Brothers Corset Co. Worcester
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