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Warner Conservation Area

The Hahn-Warner Arboretum is behind the Smith Middle School.

The Forestdale Cemetery Walking Tour booklet available from me. They cost $5 for a black-and-white stapled copy. Each additional copy after that is $3 more when shipped together. For a color copy, the cost is $8 and each additional copy in color is $6.

Email me from my contact page for details. The booklets that you order will be mailed to you via USPS so I need a physical address. Other booklets are available at the BOOKLET page.

Follow the tour HERE

The Leaping Well Nature Trail MAP from Kestrel Land Trust might help.

The Leaping Well Brook starts about 2 miles to the south of the conservation land.

The Wakelin house at 1067 Northampton Street has its entrance on Mountain View Drive. The front lawn is an Olmsted Brothers design from 1924.

The James Wakelin house is on the corner of Northampton Street and Mountain View Drive. It is an Olmsted Brothers landscape. James Wakelin was the owner of the McAuslan-Wakelin department store on Dwight Street.

Prior to the 1924 home and landscape, this was the location of the Mt Tom club house. It was on the house to the south – the William Anger house. Notice the steps along the southern border of the Wakelin land and along the southern border of the Anger land. I believe these twin steps bracketed the Mt Tom club house.

The James Wakelin at 1067 Northampton Street is an Olmsted Brothers landscape.

The plans for the grounds have never been found as of 2022. This is most likely a double planned lot with the Anger lot to its south. They share a common front wall. They both also have outdoor steps to the south of each lot coming down against each southern boundary.

James Wakelin is the owner of the McAuslan Wakelin department store.

The Joseph B Woodruff home on Central Park Drive is a gorgeous home in the Tudor style.

This house at 28 Central Park Drive has an Olmsted designed landscape that was planned in 1923 and the landscape built in 1924. GROUNDS plans and HOME plan. FINDAGRAVE. The house was not ready until 1930.

Look at the shed in back since it too has the same design as the house. The steps down to the terrace and the terrace itself are Olmsted designs.

In 1924 there were sidewalks put in at the start of Mountain View Drive near the highway. In 1955 Mountain View Drive and Central Park Drive finally got some more sidewalks but not many more.

Thanks to Jeffrey Trask for the images below of the exterior and the interior of the home.

The Rock Valley Cemetery in Holyoke is the smallest of all the cemeteries in the city.

The Smith’s Ferry Cemetery walking tour booklet is available from me. They cost $4 for a black-and-white stapled copy. Each additional copy after that is $3 more when shipped together. For a color copy, the cost is $5 and each additional copy in color is $4.

Email me from my contact page for details. The booklets that you order will be mailed to you via USPS so I need a physical address. Other booklets are available at the BOOKLET page.

Follow the tour HERE

The Holyoke Contagious Disease Hospital was on Cherry Street in Holyoke. It is also called the Holyoke Sanatorium. It would open in 1912. It would close in December of 1937.

Sanborn map analysis:

Sanborn 1915 map

Sanborn 1949 map

Sanborn 1956 map and map A

The Pulaski Park walking tour booklet is available from me. They cost $5 for a black-and-white stapled copy. Each additional copy after that is $3 more when shipped together. For a color copy, the cost is $8 and each additional copy in color is $6.

Email me from my contact page for details. The booklets that you order will be mailed to you via USPS so I need a physical address. Other booklets are available at the BOOKLET page. You can follow this tour at LINK.