Court Square Historic District
Springfield War Memorials at Court Square
– Main and East Court
Miles Morgan
statue 1892
Court Square Ornamental Fountain
Temperance Fountain
George Washington at the Parsons Hall
Court Square Building
1892 31 Elm
Byers Block
1832 at 3 Elm
Grand Army of the Republic GAR Building
Endeavor Chapel Mission was at the corner of West and Mosher Streets. Originally, it was called the Ward One Mission.
It would become the Saint Michael’s Byzantine Old Slavonic Church.
In 1956 the same.
Quaboag River
Mill River of Northampton
West Branch of the Mill River in Williamsburg
Hampden Brewing Company
First Presbyterian Church of Holyoke
DiNapoli Plaza in Holyoke Massachusetts
Holyoke Canal
South Hadley Canal
Chicopee Canal
Ludlow Canal
Congregation Sons of Zion Synagogue
The Sons of Zion Cemetery is in Chicopee. Read about it HERE.
This group started in Holyoke in 1904. They chartered at their present home and they added to it. The left is an addition and the right is mostly the old building. The building started out as Salle Canadienne and was mostly used as the home for the Society of Saint Jean Baptiste run by Quebec people. In 1915 the Sons of Zion would move into the building. They would expand it twice in the 1940s and it was officially dedicated during the week December 1 to 7 of 1950. This building is at the southeast corner of Cabot and Maple Streets.
First Congregational Church of Holyoke
It started its own cemetery in 1828 across the street at the corner of Hampden and Northampton Streets. That cemetery was moved in 1886 to mostly the Forestdale Cemetery. The church also changed location – this time to the church that now stands on Pleasant Street.
The first construction at this location was the chapel that was completed in 1887. It had a steeple. See the Sanborn map below. One can see the angled trim off the chapel’s steeple. This proves that the chapel and church were made at different times.
The main church was built alongside it and was completed by 1893. The parsonage was from the 1820s to the 1886 changeover was adjacent to the Northampton Street church. It bordered it to the north.
The Second Congregational Church of Holyoke was opened in 1853 at the corner of Dwight and High Streets. It moved in the late 1800s to the corner of Appleton and Maple Streets. The churches began to unify and that recent history is at this LINK. The Grace Church (which started in the fall of 1878) is one of the churches that it unified with. [A fine book called Amazing Grace by Dr Stanley from 2012 is worth the read.]
