The Star Theater at 147 High Street is a former Nickelodeon Era theater that lasted from September 17 1908 to 1918. It was in the Craft’s Building on its ground floor. For a short time it was at 344 High Street. It was owned by Theater Eastern Amusement.
Sanborn map analysis:
Sanborn 1915 map shows the “Picture Show” note and they entered from 145 and 147.
The Berkshire Fine Spinning Mill had many mills.
It mill number 4 was at the very end of the first level canal.
made in 1923 by Farr Alpaca
bought by Berkshire in 1939
used by AmPad in 1980s
Sanborn 1915 map shows a totally empty lot
Sanborn 1949 map as a cotton yarn mill
111-115 High
Sanborn map analysis:
Sanborn 1884 map it is 4 stories and has a couple of saloons here
Sanborn 1915 map
Sanborn 1949 map has the entire first floor being one store and a paint store at that
Highlights on the remainder of High Street.
Gingras’ Block at 45 to 49 High Street
Doyle’s Block at 50 to 52 High Street
Frank Octo was at 63 to 75 High Street. He sold parlor stoves.
Corde’s Building at 83 to 85 High Street
Sanborn 1895 map for Octo Block
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435 to 439 High Street was a block called the O’Neil Block. It is where the Cuban Market is now and is a good starting point. This was a three story building. This was the Red Men’s Hall for the Improved Order of the Red Men. In 1900, there were a multitude of other fraternal groups that used this building. One such group was the Catholic Order of the Foresters.
Coughlin’s Block at 401 High Street
Sullivan and Wesely at 488 to 494 High
Shea’s Block at 515 and 518 High
In 1900 also the Caledonia Benefit Club meets here. Likewise, the Ladies’ Catholic Benevolent Society.
Sanborn map analysis:
Sanborn 1915 map shows it as a 4 floor building with store fronts
The Pottin and Kinney Block is at 348-356 High Street.
In 1907 it is the Johnson Book Store with a parent company in Springfield.
By 1930 it had become the Jacobson Block.
That block is now two separate modern blocks.
As for firms at that location, there was the Booth Meat Company at 354 High Street.
Sanborn map analysis:
Sanborn 1889 map shows three 4 floor buildings in a row
Sanborn 1915 map shows three 4 floor buildings in a row
Sanborn 1949 map shows a 4 floor building with a stone faced facade
Sanborn 1956 map shows that it was built in 1955 and is one floor for two separate buildings
The Pease Building at 349-355 High Street has historically been three one floor buildings in a row. In 1922, it is being called the Isenburg Building.
In 1920 there is the Hatch Cloak firm at 349 High and the Kelton Meat Market at 355.
From at least 1922 to 1927 Holyoke City Market was at 355 High Street.
Sanborn map analysis:
Sanborn 1884 map nothing there
Sanborn 1915 map shows a one floor structure there
Sanborn 1949 map shows a two floor structure there
Sanborn 1956 map shows a two floor structure there
Pictures of the Gates on Northampton Street for Entrance for those Driving Northward into Mountain Park.
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Pictures of the Gates on Northampton Street for Entrance for those Driving Southward into Mountain Park.
Whiting Street Reservoir after the Hurricane of August 18 and 19 1955
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The Lynch Brothers Block at 313-319 High Street was a two and four floor block.
In 1922, at 313 High was Brown’s Bootery.
By 1930 it had become the next home of the YMHA and the YWHA.
In 1883 at 317 High was Lamay Paper Hanging.
Sanborn map analysis:
Sanborn 1884 map it is a 4 floor structure with some tiny buildings to its side
Sanborn 1889 map shows the same
Sanborn 1949 map shows a two and four floor block
Sanborn 1956 map shows a two and four floor block
The Reservoir Gate on Old Easthampton Road was built in 1937 as a WPA Works Progress Administration Project.
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