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Holyoke Dam Channel into the Connecticut River

The turbine channel was dug out of bedrock in 1952 parallel to the Connecticut River. It had to be made deep in order to allow the water from the turbines to flow.

Slim Shad Point in Holyoke

There is a fishing location below the southern end of the bridge. It is as of a few years ago handicap accessible.

Fairmount Square in Holyoke

Leslie White made starting in 1885. Fairmount Square ran from Cabot to Hampshire Streets. Notice the curbing at all four corners of the intersection of Cabot and Oak. They are rounded. This also occurs at two corners of Hampshire and Oak. These are the only locations in Holyoke where streets that meet at right angles are with rounded curbing.

Fairmount Square was at the corner of Oak and Hampshire Streets. There once was a large basin in the middle of this square. See at beautiful picture of it at the LINK.

Oak	1880s owner	job	1916 owner	image	built
243	Isaac Montague	Montague and Adams Clothiers at 237 High	Isaac Montague		1887
245	Chloe Evans or Maria Outterson		Eliza Newton (dies July 4 1945)
247	Louise Gallup	Gallup Clothing Store on High Street	Augustus Gallup
249	Lewis Hayward		Sydney Whiting
251	Alice Hemingway		Charles Hemingway
253			Ettie Richards Lovering School
244	Henry Russell		Russell		1885
246	Amelia Whiting	coal merchant	Edward Whiting
248	Albert Magna		Magna
250	Ettie Richards		John Shea
252	Alice Bennett	lawyer	Alice Bennett
254	Julia Heywood		Charles Heywood

Nautilus Building in Holyoke

Nautilus at 245 Cabot is a gorgeous building. This was the home of a magazine called the Nautilus. Published from 1899 until 1953, it was a monthly new thought magazine. You would expect a high degree of symmetry in such a building and it does come very close. Notice though the fenestration at left compare to at right. The architect was trying to hide something in 1911. There is an 1886 Victorian home below the left side of the house and then they had limited space to the right so they moved some elements in closer. This is on the Oak Street tour since the address of the house underneath was 242 Oak Street and thus the front door faced to Oak. The 242 Oak home was made by the Charles and Etta Richards family (left it in 1905). In 1906 Elizabeth and William Towne would buy the house.

FINDAGRAVE for Charles Richards

Second Baptist Church Parsonage

Second Baptist Church Parsonage LINK is at 235 Oak. It was built in 1899 and was used as their parsonage until past the 1940s. Milan Warner IMAGE

Oak Apartments on Oak Street in Holyoke

Here along the eastern edge of the city block, there is a line of apartments. As you look at them from right to left they are the Ideal, Oak, Oak Center (two buildings), Oakhill, Oakwood, and Arzelia (two buildings). Across Oak Street from the Arzelia is the Odell and across Appleton Street from the Odell is the Virginia. One location of interest is 201 Oak which in 1982 was called the Sisters of Providence Epiphany House.

name	address	image
Ideal
Oak
Oak Center	196 and 200
Oakhill
Oakwood
Arzelia

Everett Street Village

This Everett Street area was constructed in 1917 to 1918 as homes for mill workers.

Sanborn
1884 to 1902	all nothing
1910	nothing	nothing	nothing	New City
1916	WB Mills	WB Mills	Ferry St Mills	New City

New City in Easthampton

The oldest homes are 1860s and are located on Ferry, Emerald, and Lincoln. When West Boylston arrived they made more in 1903 – on Harrison and Oakdale. Later in 1920 more were made – on Dartmouth, Exeter, Federal, and Clinton.

This schoolhouse started in 1902 as the Hampton Mills School but in 1908 became the
Parsons Street School. It was doubled in size in 1913.

street	built	houses	notes
Emerald Place	1865
Harrison Avenue	1903
Lincoln Street	1865
Ferry Street	1865
Oakdale Street	1903
Dartmouth Street	1917
Exeter Street	1917
Federal Street	1917
Clinton Street	1917

Hampton Terrace and the Pleasant Green in Easthampton

Most of these homes are from 1920.

street	built
Ridgewood Terrace	1922
Pleasant Green East	1920
Pleasant Green West	1920
Hampton Terrace	1865 and 1903
Arlington Street	1909
Berkeley Street	1909 and 1910
Pleasant Street	1865 and 1920
Terrace View	1922

Saint Mary’s Churchbell