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Grace Church

The Grace Church started as a school group first on Feb 2 1879. It would become a church group on March 28 1894 as a branch of the Second Congregational Church.

Edwin Robinson was its most popular minister. FINDAGRAVE

Dickenson and Clark Paper

Sanborn 1884 map

Sanborn 1889 map

Sanborn 1895 map – gone

Sanborn 1915 map – gone

Daniel O’Connell

Daniel O’Connell’s Sons – office 480 Hampden Street and a yard on Meadow Street in Chicopee.

general contractor

road builders

masons

graders

Sanborn map analysis

Sanborn 1895 map – their home is at 188 Hampden Street

Sanborn 1915 map – work is at 480 and home is at 522 Hampden due to renumbering

Dandy Rolls

C H Smith a dandy roll maker of the hollow truss type.

North Chestnut Street School and William Whiting School

North Chestnut Street School and William Whiting School (1910)

contains high school 1852 to 1862

William Whiting School was built in 1910 where the North Chestnut Street School stood. There was a playground along its side that functioned as a school and a city playground. Its name was Chestnut Street Playground and retained that name even after the 1910 new school was put in place.

To its north was the Emerald Fire Station which remained there until 1919. In 1977 Holyoke Catholic High School purchased the school and gradually turned it into their cafeteria and then their fourth building for classrooms.

Across the street from the school is the Quaker Meeting Home. It was only used as such for 10 years from 1856 to 1866.

Sanborn map analysis

Sanborn 1884 map

Sanborn 1889 map

Sanborn 1949 map