The Munn Block is at 329 to 331 High Street. It was a four floor building.
In about the 1930s, the building was lowered and remodeled to an Art Deco look.
Sanborn map analysis:
Sanborn 1884 map shows a 2 floor stone structure
Sanborn 1889 map shows an empty lot
Sanborn 1895 map shows a 4 floor building
Sanborn 1915 map shows a 4 floor building
Sanborn 1949 map it is one floor
Sanborn 1956 map it is one floor
The Connor Brothers Woolen and Shoddy Mill are the makers of cassimeres, overcoating, cloakings, wool shoddies, flocks, extracts, wool waste, gig, and shear flocks.
They had two locations in Holyoke. One at the crossing of the Second and Third Levels and then at the First near the Skinner Mill. While there they were called Connor Brothers Satinette.
The A T Stewart Mill is from 1864. It would be run as the New York Mill until the early 1880s. The Connor Brothers would operate this until a 1901 bankruptcy.
1892 ad
Gig here means to raise the nap on fabric. Gig has many other meanings.
See also New York Woolen.
Sanborn map analysis:
Sanborn 1915 map – taken down and replaced by Farr Alpaca Weave Shed – Read about the Farr Alpaca HERE
Holyoke 150th Commemorative Book
(The city is hosting events and also any outside events can promote their event with a 150th logo. See exploreholyoke.com)
Volleyball Time Capsule from 2023 to be opened in 2073
150th anniversary in 2023 – sesquicentennial
175th anniversary in 2023
125th anniversary in 2023
100th anniversary in 2023
Past celebrations of Holyoke’s anniversaries:
25th year in 1898
50th year – Semi-Centennial in 1923
75th year in 1948
100th year in 1973
there was no 125th year celebration
the 200th year anniversary is in 2073
The Marvellum Company were at 141 Race and then 28 Appleton Street. They were incorporated in March 1921.
Sanborn map analysis:
The Perfect Safety Paper Company was on Winter Street
Sanborn 1895 map – hard to find
Sanborn 1949 map – not there
Eureka started out as Eureka Ruler and Binder Company at the end of Winter Street in 1890.
Sanborn 1895 map – not there
Sanborn 1956 map
The 390 – 392 High block is from 1900.
By 1930 it had become the Hertzmark Building.
Sanborn map analysis:
Sanborn 1884 map shows an empty city block
The Lyman Block at 358-364 High Street is still there. It was made in 1886 in a commercial style. Starting in 1912 Schermerhorn Fish Market (LINK) is here.
In 1922 Lynch and Smith Jewelers are here.
Sanborn map analysis:
Sanborn 1884 map has nothing
Sanborn 1889 map shows 4 floors
Sanborn 1895 map shows 4 floors
Sanborn 1915 map shows 4 floors
Sanborn 1949 map shows 4 floors
Sanborn 1956 map shows 4 floors
Maple Street is a very interesting street in Holyoke. It has Veteran Park and the Central Fire Station and more. Park at Pulaski Park at the northernmost end of Maple Street.
block 0 – Connecticut River to Pulaski Park
Read about Pulaski Park HERE
Read about the Holyoke Canal gatehouse HERE
block 1 – Pulaski Park to Saint Kolbe Drive
Read about the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church campus HERE
Read about the Mater Dolorosa campus HERE
block 2 – Fr Kolbe to Lyman
The church was on this city block. Read about the Mater Dolorosa campus HERE
Kosciuszko Park in Holyoke – LINK
block 3 – Lyman to Hampden
Samosett House – The Samosett was opened on April 8 1850 or so. It was a hotel in the beginning and had 50 rooms. The parapeted cornice is quite unique.
28 Aug 1888
block 4 – Hampden to Dwight
Read about the Veterans’ Park area HERE
Read about the St Jerome’s Church and campus HERE
block 5 – Dwight to Suffolk
This city block has the McAuslan Wakelin Building. Read about it HERE
At the Phoenix there was in 1915 Clark Florist. The Phoenix is on Dwight but also on Maple Street.
Also the St Jerome Temperance Hall. Read HERE
The side of the Holyoke House later called the Roger Smith Hotel is here. It was also called the Nonotuck.
The John Tilley block is at the NE corner of Maple and Suffolk.
block 6 – Suffolk to Appleton
Read about the Strand Theater HERE
block 7 – Appleton to Essex
Read about the Congregational Church HERE
block 8 – Essex to Cabot
Read about the Maplewood Hotel HERE at stop 5
Read about the Holyoke Library HERE
block 9 – Cabot to Hampshire
Read about the Sons of Zion HERE
Read about the Lawrence School HERE
The Maple Street Playground was formed in about 1910. A 1911 scene is shown in the image just above. This park was located at the location now occupied by the Lawrence School.
block 10 – Hampshire to Sargeant
There are many tenement houses on this block. Housing went up very fast as the mills started to succeed in Holyoke. The Armand at 413 Maple Street and 129 Sargeant Street is from 1907.
block 11 – Sargeant to Franklin
The Richmond at 462-464 Maple Street is from 1910. It was designed by the famous Holyoke architect George Alderman.
Sacred Heart Church and Campus HERE
block 12 – Franklin to Jackson
The Alba block at 470 Maple Street is from 1911.
The Falcetti Towers is one of the many low income housing sites around Holyoke. Behind it and to its south is a plot of land that will be used for low income housing.
block 13 – Jackson to South Street
Sheard Park is part of the Elmwood Park – read HERE at stop 3
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| Hampden to Dwight | map | map | map | map | map | map A B |
| Dwight to Suffolk | map | map | map | map | map | map A B |
| Suffolk to Appleton | map | map | map | map | map | map A B |
| Appleton to Essex | map | map | map | map | map | map A B |
| Essex to Cabot | map | map | map | map | map | map A B |
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The Curran Building at 288-290 High Street is in the Renaissance Revival style.
In 1940 it is being called the Dunbar Block.
Sanborn map analysis:
Sanborn 1884 map shows an empty lot
Sanborn 1915 map shows a hall on both the third and the fourth floors
Sanborn 1949 map shows those same halls
