Most of Salem Square was eliminated in the early 1970s as part of the Worcester Center urban renewal project, which replaced the plaza with an office building, shopping mall, and parking garage.

[4] The Notre Dame des Canadiens was a landmark church which faced Salem Square and Worcester Common from 1929 to 2018.

[5] Worcester City Hall was designed by Peabody & Stearns and built by the Norcross Brothers in 1898.

Its tower shares some similarity to that of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy, and the interior of the building extensively uses marble, commonly seen in Italian Renaissance buildings, and features an interior courtyard where the upper floors have balconies supported by decorated round arches.

Near the center of the Common is the meeting house's burial ground, marked by gravestones and the Bigelow Monument.