The color postcard shows the Old South Church, which was on the corner of Main and Wellington. My family lived on Jacques Ave. and this was our polling place. I remember accompanying my mom when she voted for JFK in 1960.

The Old South Church on one of the pictures can be seen aside the Old City Hall, hence the marker at the New City Hall indication where the reading of the Declaration of Independance was given by Isaiah Thomas.

The postcard circa 1915 shows the church built in circa 1890 at Main Street corner of Wellingtin Street. This structure was built to replace the "Old South Church" which was removed to make room for the present City Hall. The structure is now a homeless shelter, "People on Peril" at 700 main Street.

My father, Rev. Ralph E. Tupper, was once the minister of Old South Church. Does anyone remember him?

"The words Old South Church" in Worcester ring of many churchs, built over the years, this being a Congrigational church, 1717 logs, 1719 framed, 1763 2nd framed at City Hall, and 1889 as in picture. Old South Church. In relation to the first church at Worcester the Rev. Peter Whitney, in his History of Worcester County, published in 1793, makes the following definite statement: " In the year 1719 the first meeting-house was erected, and here a church was gathered." In the absence of any record to the contrary this testimony of one who probably saw and conversed with some of those who attended the early religious meetings held in the town would seem to be conclusive as compared with what are acknowledged to be matters of tradition. Mr. Whitney was a thorough investigator, and a careful historian. This first meeting-house, of which he speaks, was erected on the spot so long occupied by the familiar " Old South Church " on the Common. The first structure was demolished in 1763, and the later one stood until 1887, when it too, went the way of all earthly things. The new and costly edifice, at the corner of Main and Wellington streets, was dedicated Sept. 17,1889. It cost (including land) probably $150,000. It is of brown stone throughout, and of novel architecture, and there are few handsomer churches in the state. The amount awarded the Parish in 1887, when the old building was removed from the Common, was $148,500; but a compromise was effected by which the City paid $115,395.25, and gave the old bell in addition. The congrigation had churches 1717, 1719, 1763, and this one pictured