Holyoke, Massachusetts

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The North High Street in Holyoke

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Holyoke is a city in southwestern Massachusetts. It is close to Springfield. The city was settled in 1745 and incorporated in 1850. Holyoke had almost 40,000 people at the 2020 census.

Holyoke, Massachusetts Media

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  Mount Tom, c. 1865, by Thomas Charles Farrer, oil on canvas, as seen at the National Gallery of Art

• The last stone is laid at the Holyoke Dam, 3 p.m., January 5, 1900.

• A Wason streetcar operated by the Holyoke Street Railway interurban system, shortly before its dismantlement in 1937. The railway was first in the nation to use thermite welding for its tracks.

• High Street, c.  1920

• The Casper Ranger House, a rare example of a building designed by its namesake contractor, whose construction work encompassed many of Holyoke's neighborhoods as well as prominent buildings on Mount Holyoke College's campus.

• Gauthier Block, one of several Italianate brick tenements designed by architect Oscar Beauchemin

• The Albion Paper Mill, designed by internationally renowned mill architect David H. Tower, c. 1869, an example of Second Empire industrial architecture in the city

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  The town seal used from 1850 to 1874; it contains a beehive, in heraldry symbolizing industriousness and cooperation.

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  Mater Dolorosa Parish, Holyoke Massachusetts