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
- 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.