- This is part of the Holyoke Heritage Trail so after visiting here get back onto the trail.
- Parks of Holyoke
- A self-tour is available for anyone using the maps and text seen below at the link. – LOCATION
In general, please see the tour as made by the Holyoke Library. It is vastly more developed than the general scheme I have below.
https://holyoke.oncell.com/en/index.html (from the Holyoke Public Library)
This is an outside tour but the inside of the library is also very interesting since there are murals and special rooms. Once there was a Holyoke Museum in here.
Stop 1 – Massasoit and Alleyway
Stop 2 – Maplewood Hotel and Unity Church
The Women’s Christian Temperance Union was in the Liberal Christian Congregational Church (Unitarian) at the corner of Maple and Essex.
Between the Congregational Church and the Telephone Building in the 1950s there were two apartment buildings – the Lawnview and Wentworth Hall.
The Maplewood in the 1950s was called the Holyoke Community Center Building. It was home to the Holyoke Family Service Society and the Holyoke Home Information Center.
stop 3 – Row Houses and Library
In 1870 the library started at the Appleton Street School. In 1876 the library moved to City Hall. It has been here since 1902.
stop 4 – Sons of Zion Synagogue
At first this building served the Quebecers of Holyoke – it was called Salle Canadienne – and was built in the 1870s. The St Jean Baptiste Society met there.
stop 5 – Lawrence School and Library Park
Stop 6 – Notre Dame of Perpetual Help Church
Stop 7 – Masonic Temple and the Presbyterian Church
Stop 8 – The Essex and Barlow
Between the Masonic Hall and the Essex, there was a tenement building – The Jefferson.
You are back to the modern library.
Sanborn map analysis:
