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Holyoke’s Keys to the City – September 30 to October 22 2023 – a selfie photo contest with cash prizes – a HPT event – Read more at the link and get your first CLUE.

Read some more about the contest at EVENTBRITE. And a press release at DOC.

October 28th there will be a formal Keys to the City event at 1 PM at the front steps of Holyoke City Hall. You will get a key and a tour in the city hall.

Answers to the Key to the City event:

Location 1 – Holyoke City Hall (High Street side)

Location 2 – Holyoke Public Library (4th Floor)

Location 3 – Massachusetts National Guard Armory in Holyoke

Location 4 – Wistariahurst (Gardens)

Location 5 – Wauregan Paper Mill (Fame Restaurant)

Location 6 – Holyoke Heritage State Park (Merry-Go-Round)

Location 7 – Veterans Memorial Park (Columbia Statue)

Location 8 – Pulaski Park (formerly Hampden Park or the Patch)

Location 9 – Sue Ellen Panitch River Access Center (Holyoke Rows)

Location 10 – Ashley Reservoir (Elks Club entrance)

Location 11 – Dinosaur Tracks (Trustees of Reservations in northern Holyoke)

Location 12 – Jones Point Park

Location 13 – Forestdale Cemetery (at its central Holyoke entrance)

Location 14 – Murals in Holyoke (select any one)

Streets of Holyoke

Montgomery Avenue, River Terrace, and Wyckoff Avenue.

Wyckoff Avenue was called Hampshire Terrace from its inception in 1896.

Montgomery Avenue was called Highland Terrace from its inception in 1896 but in 1912 its name was changed.

2 Montgomery
3 Montgomery
4 Montgomery	Dr. Richard Dickson	1915	Colonial Revival
6 Montgomery	John Montgomery	1911	craftsman (English Revival)
7 Montgomery
10 Montgomery
12 Montgomery	Dr Stanley Cox house	1915	Colonial Revival
20 Montgomery
33 Montgomery
37 Montgomery
46 Montgomery
47 Montgomery
50 Montgomery
54 Montgomery	F A Davis and Machine Sales and Service	1912	Colonial Revival – concrete facade
65 Montgomery
28 River Terrace	Alfonso de Olloqui	1923	craftsman bungalow
24 River Terrace
40 River Terrace
4 River Terrace	Fontana	1900	Colonial Revival
3 River Terrace
2 River Terrace
1126 Northampton	Dunlop and Sullivan	1917	craftsman
1125 Northampton	La Loma – Joseph Ranger House
1116 Northampton	Calvin Coolidge and Henry Toepfert	1895	Victorian
1108 Northampton
1104 Northampton	Donald Ross	1890	Victorian
1098 Northampton
1070 Northampton	Herbert Cooley	1915	craftsman
16 Wyckoff
9 Wyckoff
10 Wyckoff	William Pringle House (1907 to at least 1923)	1907	Victorian
7 Wyckoff	Chauncey Cooley	1923	his father owns the house in back of this one (1070 Northampton)
8 Wyckoff

Sanborn 1915

Sanborn 1949

Sanborn 1956

Basilica of Saint Stanislaus Bishop Martyr was started in 1890. In September 1897 the school started for the first time and the nuns Franciscan Sisters of the Felician Order were the teachers. In 1902 the Franciscans priests took over. In July 25 1909 the present church was dedicated. The nuns would live at Saint Clare’s Convent since 1906.

School – LINK

Lawrence Cyman had the rectory of the Assumption Church moved to the St Stanislaus Church.

Franciszek Chałupka	1890
Stanislaus Czelusniak			FINDAGRAVE
Lawrence M Cyman	1914	1939	FINDAGRAVE
Eugene Piasecki	1939	1945	FINDAGRAVE
Josephat Piast	1946		FINDAGRAVE
			FINDAGRAVE
			FINDAGRAVE

Sanborn map 1902

Sanborn map 1910

Sanborn map 1915

Saint Constantine and Helen Church

Saint George Church is the modern name of the Saint Joachim Church of Chicopee. The name change happened on August 23 1924. This is when the modern church built from 1922 to 1924 was completed. This is on Belcher Street.

Saint Joachim Church was founded in 1893 at the request of the Springfield Diocese bishop. Alexis Delphos was made the first pastor.

pastor	starts	ends	burial
Alexis Delphos	1893	1911	FINDAGRAVE
George A Gagnon	1911	1937	FINDAGRAVE
Silvio J Desautels	1938		FINDAGRAVE
			FINDAGRAVE
Ronald Lussier	1975	2002	FINDAGRAVE
			FINDAGRAVE

Old Church

The old church Saint Joachim was on Maple Street. It was made in 1896.

Rectory

The church rectory is from the 1840s. It was the Pliny Cadwell House. He was a merchant in Chicopee. Alfred Rutotels briefly owned it in the 1880s. In 1895 it became a rectory.

Carriage House

Alfred Rutotels Carriage House is behind the rectory. It is from 1894.

Churchyard

Old Convent

James Bly House was sold to the church in 1893 and this would be the first church for the parish. It would later be the convent. Sold in 2004.

School

The school Ecole St Georges was started in 1927. Sold in 2016.

Convent

The convent is on Maple Street and is from 1927.

Neighborhood

The Victoria 1914 made by DeGray

Hamilton Fay House 1845

Sanborn map analysis:

1896 map

1902 map

1910 map

Sanborn 1915 map

Saint Patrick’s Church of Chicopee was on Sheridan Street. See the 1896 Sanborn map below.

The church was dedicated on December 15 1872. The rectory was built in 1872 and this became the convent in 1880. In the spring of 1873 the cemetery was made. The cemetery is explained HERE. The school was made in 1880 and was staffed by the Sisters of Saint Joseph. They lived in the St Joseph’s Convent. A new rectory was made nearby. Both the school and rectory were made on Columba Street which is a few streets away from Sheridan Street.

pastor	starts	ends	burial
Patrick Stone	1872	1905	FINDAGRAVE
	1905		FINDAGRAVE
John R Murphy	1922	1934	FINDAGRAVE
Patrick F Doyle	1935		FINDAGRAVE
W Alton O’Toole	1936	1937	FINDAGRAVE
John R Rooney	1938	1946	FINDAGRAVE
Francis William Hafey	1946	1948	FINDAGRAVE
Thomas Curran	1948		FINDAGRAVE
			FINDAGRAVE
Joseph C Fenton			FINDAGRAVE
			FINDAGRAVE
			FINDAGRAVE

In 1938 a new location was bought for the church and the rectory. Construction did not start until March 1947 and the first mass was Feb 13 1949. Wendell Phillips was the architect and Edward Larkin the builder.

The old St Patricks School was replaced in April 17 1970 with a new one.

Sanborn maps

Sanborn 1896

Sanborn 1902

First Church of Chicopee was organized on September 27 1752.

The first mass of the Saint Anthony of Padua Parish was August 9 1925. The first campus building was built to be a school but the second floor was changed into a church. The first mass there was April 10 1927 (Palm Sunday). The first pastor was Celestine Rozewicz. The cornerstone was blessed May 29 1927. The rectory was ready for Christmas of 1928.

In 1942 the church hall was transformed via renovations from a hall look into a religious church look. A new church was ready for July 7 1971 and blessed on October 24 1971. The old church became a social center. The history of the parish is explained very nicely at LINK. The campus is bounded by St Anthony Street to the south (formerly Senecal Street), Celestine Street to the north (formerly Enright Street), Meadow Street to the east, and Chicopee Street to the west. Within this neighborhood is the Chapin School and this was where religious classes were held.

Saint Anthony of Padua Parish would use the Saint Stanislaus Cemetery as its burial ground.

pastors

Celestine Rozewicz	1926	1939	BURIAL
Michael M Cieslik	1939	1940	BURIAL
Benign M Ziemski	1940	1948	BURIAL
Raphael Wisniewski	1966	1979	BURIAL
Placid Kaczorek	1988	1990	BURIAL
Benedict Fagone			BURIAL
Gerard Maciejewski			BURIAL
			BURIAL

Sanborn maps – nothing

Tour Route for the Mount Tom Golf Course

Stop A – Oldest Club House

stop B – Gates to the Mount Tom Golf Course

stop C – Wyckoff House and 1899 Club House

stop D – Mount Tom Drive

stop E – Location of the Club House from 1911 to 1955

Stop F – Steiger house

stop G – Club House from 1956 to 1966

Stop H – End of Mountain View Drive

Saint Anne Church of the Fairview neighborhood of Chicopee was a mission church of the Saint Patrick’s Church of South Hadley from 1899 to 1912. John Donohue is the architect.

John O’Connell	burial	1912-1919
Victor Epinard	burial	1919-1925
Stanislaus Guillet	burial	1925-1928
Leon Ruty	burial	1928-1944
Henry Auger	burial	1944-1955
Edward Authier	burial	1955-1970
William Breen	burial	1970-1972
Raphael Posco	burial	1972-1973
Francis Sullivan	burial	1973-1985
Roland Galipeau	burial	1985-1995
Victor Carrier	burial	1995-2003
William Rousseau	burial	2003-2014
Richard Turner	burial
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