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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

Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church is at 335 Longmeadow Street. It is from 1924. Both the church and the parish house is in the neo-Tudor style.

WEB SITE

The Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church Parish House is from 1948.

Columbarium

Southwick Cemetery is from 1770. It was expanded in 1854. There is a tomb in the Southwick Cemetery that replaced a dead house. There also was once a hearse house. When the expansion happened, an old cemetery on Vining Hill Road was moved to this cemetery. This burial site was behind 201 College Highway. (Thanks to Macris SOU.800 for this data.)

New Southwick Cemetery – on Route 10 / 202 just past Klaus Anderson Road. It is from 1902.

MAP

Tomb

Abigail Smith

Southwick Christ Lutheran Church

568 College Hwy

1965

Southwick

Ranch Golf Club and Southwick Country Club

Southwick Public Library 1892 – 475 College Hwy

Farmington Canal

Southwick Inn 1906 – 479 College Hwy

General Cigar Company Tobacco Barns – 686 College Hwy

Charles Gillett Cigar Factory and Warehouse – 215 College Hwy – Gillett, Charles J. Cigar Factory Tobacco Barn from 1880 – same address – Cigar Factory and Warehouse 1872 same – Gillett’s Cigar Factory Stripping Room and Warehouse from 1880 – 8 Vining Hill Rd

CEMETERIES

New Southwick Cemetery – on Route 10 / 202 just past Klaus Anderson Road

Southwick Cemetery

Burial Grounds of Southwick throughout its History LINK

CHURCHES

Our Lady of the Lake Parish 1951 – 224 Sheep Pasture Rd

Our Lady of the Lake Roman Catholic Church Convent – 220 Sheep Pasture 1880 – 1960s to 1992

Southwick Christ Lutheran Church

Southwick Congregational Church – 488 College Hwy 1824

Southwick Methodist Episcopal Church – 222 College Hwy 1824 – Southwick Methodist Church Parsonage at 230 College – 1882 built as parsonage