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This expansions encompasses the growth of Holyoke during the height of its commercial success, between 1880 and 1930; it also includes the separately-listed Holyoke City Hall. [2] [3] The district was extended a third time, in 2008, adding a complex of three buildings at Dwight and Maple Streets that now houses the Holyoke Health Center. [2]
Jack Doyle (1869–1958), Irish American baseball player who settled in Holyoke and served as police commissioner 1908–09 [62] Jeff Eisenberg (born 1956), professional hockey and advertising executive, whose first position as a general assistant manager of a sports team began with the Holyoke Millers in the summer of 1980 [63]
The Holyoke Mall location subsequently reopens as a Filene's. [178] 1996 – July 6: A memorial plaque is dedicated at the site of the 1946 Mount Tom crash, with many small pieces of the B-17 still being found by that time. [179] 1997 – Holyoke Gas & Electric launches its first fiber optics communications services. [77]
In recent years the Holyoke Saint Patrick's Day Parade typically attracts 350,000 to 450,000 people each year. [184] Featured in the parade every year since the first in 1952 is the Holyoke Caledonian Pipe Band, [185] founded in 1910, it is the oldest pipe band continuously operating in the United States. [186] [187]
Holyoke Plush Company operated out of there by 1911. 12: Old Smith Cotton Mill: c. 1820: Before 1884: Gatehouse and Hadley Mill Road: Initially a wool fulling mill built by Chapin family, converted to cotton mill by Edward Smith. [51] Replaced by expansion of Parsons No. 1. [52]: 55 13: Parsons Paper No. 1: c. 1852: After 1957: Gatehouse and ...
Whiting Farms is a neighborhood in Holyoke, Massachusetts, located to the southwest of the city center, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) from downtown.Following the construction of Whiting Farms Road in 1961, the area was developed as a residential and commercial area in the 1960s and 1970s. [1]
Oakdale is a neighborhood in Holyoke, Massachusetts located to the west of the city center, adjacent to downtown. Developed as a streetcar suburb in the late nineteenth century, today the neighborhood contains many Victorian houses, and about 460 acres (190 ha) of mixed residential and commercial zoning, as well as Forestdale Cemetery, Saint Jerome Cemetery, Rohan Park, and Holyoke Medical Center.
Holyoke City Hall is the historic city hall of Holyoke, Massachusetts.It is located at 536 Dwight Street, on the south east corner of High Street and Dwight Street. Serving both as the city administrative center and a public timepiece for the industrial city's workers, construction began on the Gothic Revival structure in 1871 to a design by architect Charles B.