[1] The former English High School building is located a few blocks west of Worcester City Hall, at the northwest corner of Irving and Chatham Streets.

The Romanesque Revival building has rectangular massing, with entrances on Chatham and Irving Streets and a five-story, hip roofed chateau-style tower on the corner.

The tower features elaborate brick corbelling, gabled wall dormers on each face, and a ring if iron cresting at the top of the roof.

Gable sections have decorative brickwork, and the third story windows have arched heads, a feature continued in other parts of the building's exterior and interior.

It was the city's second high school building; the first, designed by H. H. Richardson, is no longer standing.