North High Street Historic District

CLICK on the small pictures within the last column of the grids to get a much larger picture.

• This is part of the Holyoke Heritage Trail so after visiting here get back onto the trail.
• Low cost booklets for this tour can be found at the BOOKLETS page.
• Streets of Holyoke
• a VIDEO introduction
• a PODCAST introduction
• Private GROUP TOUR (COSTS) is two hours long for this High Street and Neighborhood walking tour. Also a one or two hour indoor presentation can be given.
• A free public tour comes up every year generally in the fall.
• A self-tour is available for anyone using the maps and text seen below. – LOCATION

A green text in the title of each block means that it contributes to the National Register. Yellow means that it does NOT contribute.

This district is 4 and a half blocks long starting in the south at a point half way between Essex and Appleton Streets to in the north at Lyman Street. The best way to tour the street is by walking on the eastern sidewalk and looking at the western edge buildings from Essex Street to Lyman Street. Then tour the other side of the street by walking on the western sidewalk and looking at the eastern edge buildings from Lyman Street to Essex Street. To do this park near the back of the Congregational Church.

Western Side of High Street between Essex and Appleton Streets – LOCATION

address	buildings	information	year	picture	style
419-433 High	Empire Theater	information
413-417 High	Beebe Building	information
405-411 High	LaFrance Block	information	1909		Romanesque Revival
399-403 High	Skolnik Block	information
395 High	Congregational Church	information	1884		Romanesque Revival
	Skinner Chapel	information
	Congregational Church Rectory	information

Western Side of High Street between Appleton and Suffolk Streets – LOCATION

address	building	information	year	picture	style
357-369	YMCA Building	information	1893
349-355 High	Pease Building	information
345-347 High	YMCA Building	information	1884		Romanesque Revival
341-343 High	Rigali	information	1887		Romanesque / Queen Anne
337-339 High	Dowling’s Block	information
333-335 High		information
329-331 High	Munn Block	information
325-327 High	Fitzsimmons Block	information
321-323 High	Hafey Block	information
313-319 High	Lynch Brothers Block	information
309-311 High	Ducharme Building	information
301-307 High	Conway Block	information	1887

Western Side of High Street between Suffolk and Dwight Streets – LOCATION

address	building	information	year	picture	style
293-299 High	Naumkeag Building	information	1910
289-291 High		information
285-287 High	Bishop Block	information	1890		Renaissance Revival
281-283 High	Taber Block	information	1884		Renaissance Revival
273-279 High	Childs Block	information	1912		Beaux Arts
259-271 High	Steiger Building	information	1899		Beaux Arts
253-257 High	Woolworth’s Building	information	1912		Beaux Arts
249-251 High	Mayberry	information	1881		Renaissance Revival
245-247 High	Clough’s Building	information	1885		Renaissance Revival
233-243 High	Odd Fellows Hall	information
walk onto Dwight and Maple
229-243 High St 530-558 Dwight St 230-234 Maple St	McAuslan Wakelin	information	1920		Renaissance Revival
530-558 Dwight and 230-234 Maple Streets	J J O’Connor Medical Buildings	information
236 1/2 Maple St 230 Maple St	Saint Jerome’s Temperance Society Building	information	1888

Western Side of High Street between Dwight and Hampden Streets – LOCATION

address	building	information	year	picture	style
223-227 High	Ball Block	information	1898		Renaissance Revival
217-221 High	Ball Block	information
211-215 High	Ball Building	information	1870		early Italianate/ 20th c. alterations Georgian Revival
203-209 High	Colby Carter Building	information	1850		Victorian Commercial
197-201 High	Johnson Block	information	1880		Italianate
195 High St	Johnson Building	information	1880		Italianate
185-193 High	Caledonia	information	1874		Second Empire
181-183 High	Taber Building	information	1870		Victorian Italianate
177-179 High	Dougherty’s Block	information	1885		Italianate
173-175 High		information	1855		Italianate
169-171 High		information	1855		Italianate
161-167 High		information

Western Side of High Street between Hampden and Lyman Streets – LOCATION

address	building	information	year	picture	style
155-159 High	Hutchins Hotel	information		to 1971
149-153 High	Corser’s Block	information		to 1971
141-147 High	Craft’s Building – Star Theater	information	1875		Italianate
137-139 High	Stratton Block	information	1865		Italianate
125-135 High	Delaney Block	information	1870		lowered in 1964
121-123 High	Holyoke Lock Company	information	1870		Second Empire
117-119 High	Higgins Block	information	1860		Italianate
111-115 High	GONE	information	1860 to 2020	none	Italianate
107-109 High		information	1895		Renaissance Revival
103-105 High	Bonvouloir Building	information	1884		Victorian Italianate
99 – 101 High	Royal Theater	information	1917		Vernacular Commercial
95-97 High	Gallaudet Block	information	1847		Italianate

Highlights on the remainder of High Street that is either to the north or south.

[Now cross the street so that you are on the western sidewalk and heading south.]

Eastern Side of High Street between Lyman and Hampden Streets – LOCATION

address	building	information	year	picture	style
96-100 High and 136 Lyman	Wright	information	to 1970
102-104 High	Wright Block	information	1869		Italianate
106-108 High	Wright Building	information	1869		Italianate
110-120 High	Wright	information	1870		Italianate
122-124 High	Hotel Carmody	information	1878 to 1986
Oliver Street crosses
126-130 High	John Fuller’s Building	information	1850		Greek Revival / Italianate
134-138 High		information	1870		Italianate
140-144 High	John Fuller’s Block	information	1857		Italianate
146 High		information			late Italianate
148-154 High	William Martin Block	information	1860		Italianate

Eastern Side of High Street between Hampden and Dwight Streets – LOCATION

address	building	information	year	picture	style
156-162 High	Orrell’s Block	information	1865		Italianate
164-170 High	Allyn Building	information	1871		Italianate
172-174 High	Transcript Building	information	1925		Jacobethan Revival
176 High	Transcript Block	information	1869		Italianate
178-186 High	Wedge and Ward Block	information	1860
John Street crosses
30 John	The Bud	information
188-196 High	Cleary Building	information	1879
198-210 High	Marble Building	information	1885

Eastern Side of High Street between Dwight and Suffolk Streets – LOCATION

address	building	information	year	picture	style
515-521 Dwight Street	GONE	information	1884
525-527 Dwight Street		information	1894		Victorian Gothic
536 Dwight Street	City Hall	information	1871
536R Dwight Street	City Hall Annex	information	1913		Renaissance Revival
270-276 High	Smith Building	information	1906		Renaissance Revival
278-282 High	Masonic Hall	information
284-286 High	Wylie and Perkins Block	information	1910		Renaissance Revival
288-290 High	Curran Building	information	1908		Renaissance Revival
292-300 High	Besse System Building	information

Eastern Side of High Street between Suffolk and Appleton Streets – LOCATION

address	building	information	start	picture	style
302-308 High	Dunbar and Mahoney Block	information
310-318 High	Young Men’s Hebrew Building	information	1917
320-322 High	Dean Brothers Block	information	1890
324-326 High	Guyott Building	information	1892		Romanesque Revival
328-330 High	Guyott House Hotel	information	1886		Romanesque Revival
Division Street crosses
344-346 High	Proulx Block	information
348-356 High	Pottin and Kinney Block	information			Park National Bank Building
358-364 High	Lyman Block	information	1886		Commercial Block
366-368 High	Baker Building	information	1880		Commercial Block
370-372 High	Curran Block	information	1886

Eastern Side of High Street between Appleton and Essex Streets – LOCATION

address	building	information	year	picture	style
374-380 High	Senior Block	information	1898		Renaissance Revival
382-384 High	McLean Building	information	1895
386-388 High	McLean Block	information	1880		Commercial Block
390-392 High	Hertzmark Building	information	1900
394-398 High	Walker Block	information	1915
400-406 High	Lafrance Building (Hotel Essex)	information	1907		Renaissance Revival

The North High Street Historic District is a beautiful zone in urban Holyoke. There are retail stores and residents here mixed with government and theatres. The Caledonia and the City Hall buildings are within the North High Street Historic District but are also on the National Register by itself.

Highlights on the remainder of High Street.