Morgan Street – Canal Days

Morgan Street crosses Northampton Street at its western edge and Nonotuck Street at its eastern edge.

Northampton Street

Even Side

Frank Simmons House at 178 Morgan Street in Holyoke from 1910. He was with the HWP company of Holyoke. This is a bungalow style house.

Clifton Tilley House at 168 Morgan Street of Holyoke was made in 1898. Tilley was a merchant in downtown Holyoke.

Joseph Ely House at 158 Morgan Street and is from 1924. William Chase House at 148 Morgan Street was made and designed by himself as was the twin house at 158 Morgan Street. They are in the Craftsman English Revival style and were built and designed in the same year. William married Vena Houston and Joseph Ely married Ada Josephine Houston. Vena and Ada Josephine were sisters.

at 138 Morgan St Holyoke 1950

at 128 Morgan St Holyoke 1920 the Herman Harrigan family – he was the chief engineer at the American Writing Paper Company of Holyoke

at 120 Morgan St Holyoke 1900

at 116 Morgan St Holyoke 1937

at 112 Morgan St Holyoke 1946

at 46 Morgan St Holyoke 1945

at 42 Morgan St Holyoke 1950

at 40 Morgan St Holyoke 1890 the Phileas McCarthy family

at 36 Morgan St Holyoke 1890 the Edward Smith family and he was a machinist

at 30 Morgan St Holyoke 1890 the Joseph Waugh family – by 1930 Michael Moneghan was here as a renter and he was a dyer in a woolen mill and also then in 1930 on the second floor was Edward Ryan a park keeper

at 20 Morgan St Holyoke 1890 the Thomas Lester family – he worked as an auto mechanic in a garage in Holyoke

at 16 Morgan St Holyoke 1890 the Robert Newell family – he worked as an overseer in a weaven woolen mill in Holyoke – on the second floor were the McGuire sisters that worked in paper mills

Odd Side

15 Morgan St Holyoke 1890 the Maurice Ferriter family

21 Morgan St Holyoke 1890 the Wilfred Pearson family

25 Morgan St Holyoke 1890 the Harrington Fay family

27 Morgan St Holyoke 1890

Morgan Street Park 1948

93 Morgan St Holyoke 1988

107 Morgan St Holyoke about 1958

Joseph Parker House at 129 Morgan Street of Holyoke. It is from 1892 and is the second oldest on the street. Parker worked at the Newton Paper Mill.

139 Morgan St Holyoke is from about 1890. It is from 1892 and is the oldest on the street. Clifton Tilley might have had this house built.

The Patrick Carmody house at 149 Morgan Street of Holyoke is from 1895. This is a colonial revival house. Patrick was the head of the Holyoke Water Works commission for about a half century.