Beaven Kelly Home for Aged Men
This home was actually started at the girls orphanage location in 1893 (when the boys’ orphanage moved). The men finally got a home of their own in 1907. This house is now a respite. Read more at their LINK. Bishop Thomas Beaven started this home and named it after his parents – Thomas Beaven and Nancy Kelly.
Holy Family Chapel
The Holy Family Parish was started to serve the people in the Brightside and Ingleside area. Brightside extends into West Springfield so many people from West Springfield attend Sunday mass at the Holy Family Chapel. The chapel had 4 pastors during its existence. They are listed in the grid below. The Holy Family Parish was started in 1892 but did not have its own pastor until 1904. On January 29 1949 Holy Family Parish became a canonical parish. It was not until 1968 that the chapel was finally given official designation as a parish. But it did not last long since two years later in 1970 the church status was gone. Still since it was an official parish, it needed an official rectory so in 1969 the Edward Whiting home on Northampton Street was moved to Holy Family Road and used as a rectory and as a chapel.
| pastor | years | burial |
| John Daley | 1904 to 1919 | unknown |
| Francis Lahey | 1920 to 1938 | unknown |
| Henry Sullivan | 1939 to 1948 | unknown |
| Raymond O’Brien | 1950 to 1970 | unknown |
Bethlehem Foundling Home of Holyoke
The Bethlehem Foundling Home was built in the year 1900 as a home for children under 2 years old. It was remade in 1909 after a fire in 1907. It stayed in this role from that era to the 1954 move into the West Springfield border area. In 1959 it was made into a student nurses’ home and a convent. The Our Lady of the Victory Convent nearby had been used for the function – good thing they moved since in 1960 it blew up.
It is one of the few buildings left in the Brightside or Ingleside area. It is now the McCleary Manor and functions as a home for men that are recovering from addiction. Read about the PROGRAM. It is run by the Providence Ministries. A similar program of theirs is at the Broderick House in South Holyoke. For men that are still at less than a year of sobriety check out the Loreto House. It has existed since 1987. To read about the tour of Precious Blood Church area that gives the history of the programs than go to this LINK.
Holy Name of Jesus Church of Chicopee
The church was originally a wooden clad church that was built from 1839 to 1843. This was Saint Matthews Church and was on Pleasant Street.
The brick church of the Holy Name of Jesus was built in 1857 and 1858. (Land was purchased in 1854.) The dedication was May 29 1859. This brick church had been designed by Patrick Keeley.
William Blenkinsop the third pastor had the brick church built.
In 1874 the organ was installed.
Henry Lorenzo Robinson Gravestone in Chicopee
More about Father Robinson is at this FINDAGRAVE page.
During the 1820s Rev Fitton WIKIPEDIA travelled around the area having masses from place to place. He celebrated a mass in 1831 in Cabotville. In 1838 the first Catholic parish in Western Massachusetts was formed. The cousin of the John Brady below served as a pastor in Hartford. FINDAGRAVE That Holy Trinity Church is gone but the successor is still there. ENTERNAL LINK
Holy Name Science School in Chicopee
The Holy Name Science School was made in 1925. In September of 1962 this building also housed the Holy Name High School for Girls.
Holy Name Boys’ School in Chicopee
The Holy Name Boys’ School (LOCATION) was made in 1881 in the back of the church and convent. This was called the St Joseph’s School. Until 1882 classes were held in the girls’ school. The monks that taught here were from the De La Salle Christian Brothers. They taught here from 1881 to 1906.
Chapel at Holy Name of Jesus Church in Chicopee
This chapel was built in 1871. A second chapel was built attached to the back of the convent.
Sacred Heart of Mary Convent
The Sacred Heart of Mary Convent (LOCATION) was built in 1867 for the Notre Dame nuns who staffed the girls school. It had a small front on South Street but a longer section along Clinton Street. It gained a chapel in 1899.
Notre Dame de Namur nuns – EXTERNAL LINK
Holy Name Girls’ School
This was the first Catholic school in Western or Central Massachusetts. It was built in 1868 between the church and the convent. This was the Saint Joseph School. The school (LOCATION) was only for girls. In 1894 Holy Name campus finally gained a high school but it was only for girls also – Holy Name High School.
In the early days the classrooms (September 2 1867) were in the side chapel of the church.
