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Forest Acres – aka the Kibbe Tract – is Converse – Ellington – Oxford – Durham

South Park Terrace includes Roseland, Birchwood, Hazelwood, Benedict, and more. On May 30 1898 the lots opened for sale. There are colonial revival, craftsman, and Victorian.

Longmeadow Country Club

Bliss Park and Laurel Park were to be one park called Longmeadow Park.

The Olmsted firm drew up plans for the Longmeadow Park in 1934. OLMSTED PLAN

West end of park – LINK

Amos Parker House – Orphanage – 315 Longmeadow Street 1820

This once was the area of the Longmeadow Water Works. The standpipe was razed in 1936. ERA workers developed the park a bit.

Dam and Reservoir

Josiah Cooley and Captain Luther Colton House

Laurel Manor is mostly defined by Laurel, Chatham, and Harwich. Most homes are Tudor Revival and Colonial Revival.

Colony Hills is a neighborhood that is both in Springfield and in Longmeadow. It was designed by the Olmsted firm.

Charles Parsons in 1921 with the Olmsted firm and Smith and Bassette – Greenwich – Wendover – Brittany – Colony – and a lot of Park Drive

NEIGHBORHOODS

Colony Hills	Williams Street Area	Davis Court
Laurel Manor	Colton Place	Maple Road Area
South Park Terrace	Chandler Avenue	The Elms
Forest Acres	Western Drive	Edgewood
Kibbe Tract West	Homestead Lawn	Emerson
Westmoreland Avenue	Smith Tract	Glen Arden
		Crescent Road

Longmeadow Street

Storrs Public Library is at 693 Longmeadow Street and is from 1932.

EXTERNAL LINK

It is in the Georgian Colonial style.

Rev Richard Salter Storrs

First Church of Christ Scientist Building is at 539 Longmeadow Street. It is in the Colonial Revival style. The year of build is not known. It was the E O Hibbard house and the Christian Scientists took over in 1924.

It is now the Hatch Library part of Bay Path University.

Saint Mary’s Roman Catholic Church is at the corner of Bliss Road. The Saint Mary’s Parish started in 1868 and was dedicated in 1870. It was a mission church only from that point until 1931. The mission church is at the right of the image below. It is across the street for the eastern edge of the cemetery. It is listed as R. C. Ch. that is Roman Catholic Church. The structure that was used was the Lawton School which had been moved from its prior location to the William Street location. It was used up to 1924 when a portable church was made on Bliss Street.

The church was built in 1931 in the Gothic Revival style. The first mass was on Christmas Day of that year. John Donohue was the architect.

Springfield Roman Catholic Bishop’s House is from the same year in the Colonial Revival style.

EXTERNAL WEB SITE and they are at 519 Longmeadow Street.

The Saint Mary’s School opened in September of 1967.

Social Center 2011

Lady’s Chapels

Rectory

Inside