Springfield

Buildings Index

Ames Hill Drive
6 George W. Kyburg House (1929)

Armory Street
1 Springfield Armory National Historic Site & Springfield Technical Community College

Carew Street
90 Carew Street Chapel – Gardner Memorial AME Zion Church (1885)
118 St. Peter and St. Paul Orthodox Church (1944)

Chestnut Street
35 Christ Church Cathedral (1876)
63 Philip Kilroy House (1905)

Court Street
34-36 Springfield Municipal Group (1913)

Edwards Street
21 Elijah Blake House (1839)
21 George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum (1895)
21 Springfield Science Museum (1899)
21 D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts (1934)
21 Connecticut Valley Historical Museum – Dr. Seuss Museum (1927)

Elliot Street
29-37 Henry Alexander, Jr. House (1811)

Elm Street
3 Byers Block (1835)
31 Court Square Building (1892)
50 Old First Church (1819)

Fairfield Street
14 W. F. Clark House (1902)
60 Alfred White House (1902)
74 (1903)

Garfield Street
4 First Park Memorial Baptist Church – Stairway to Heaven Church of God in Christ (1901)

Howard Street
29 State Armory (1895)

Madison Avenue
48 Henry Sterns House (1827)

Main Street
1248 Chicopee Bank Building (1889)
1351 Union Trust Company Building (1907)
1655 Board of Trade Block (1892)
1665 Hampden Savings Bank (1918)
2273 Springfield Street Railway Trolley Barn (1897)
2291-2295 Memorial Square Building (1911)
2309 Memorial Church Parish House (1894)

Maple Street
45 South Congregational Church (1875)
201 Foot-Wallace House (1844)
241 David Ames, Jr. House (1826)
270 Frederick Harris House (1905)
313 Julius H. Appleton House (1886)

Mattoon Street
41-47 (1871)
50-52 (1872)

Mill Street
141 Rev. Samuel G. Buckingham House (1875)
185 Solomon B. Griffin House (1904)

Oxford Street
17 A.K. McGinley House (1913)

Pineywoods Avenue
168 D. H. DeLand House (1904)

Saint George Road
22 Memorial Congregational Church – St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral (1869)

Salem Street
18-20 North Congregational Church – Iglesia Apostolica Renovacion (1873)

State Street
50 Hampden County Courthouse (1874)
115-117 Old Masonic Building (1893)
127 Springfield Safe Deposit & Trust Company Building (1933)
195 Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance Company (1905)
220 Springfield City Library (1911)
235 Classical High School (1898)
260 St. Michael’s Cathedral (1860)
339-341 Former Masonic Temple (1924)

Sumner Avenue
150-152 William May House (1911)
182 Smith H. Platt House (1893)
188 F.W. Lathrop House (1899)
194 E. A. Dexter House (1898)
202 R. L. Nichols House (1893)

Union Street
French Congregational Church – First Spiritualist Church (1887)

Washington Road
61 F. Nichols House (1896)
73 F. L. Brigham House (1902)

Links

Springfield-History.com
http://www.springfield-history.com/

Springfield Preservation Trust
http://www.springfieldpreservationtrust.org/

Houses of Springfield
http://www.housesofspringfield.com/

Townhouse Turnaround
http://townhouseturnaround.wordpress.com/

Springfield East
http://eastspringfield.blogspot.com/

Springfield Museums
http://www.springfieldmuseums.org/

Springfield Armory National Historic Site
http://www.nps.gov/spar/index.htm

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
http://www.hoophall.com/

Shays’ Rebellion & the Making of a Nation
http://shaysrebellion.stcc.edu/

Hampden County History
http://www.hampdencountyhistory.com/

Books

The First Century of the History of Springfield: the Official Records from 1636-1736; with an Historical Review and Biographical Mention of the Founders, Vol. I (1898), by Henry M. Burt

The First Century of the History of Springfield: the Official Records from 1636-1736; with an Historical Review and Biographical Mention of the Founders, Vol. II (1899), by Henry M. Burt

Springfield, 1636-1886: History of Town and City: Including an Account of the Quarter-Millennial Celebration at Springfield, Mass., May 25 and 26, 1886 (1888)

The History of Springfield in Massachusetts for the Young (1911), by Charles H. Barrows

Programme, 275th Anniversary of the Founding of Springfield, Mass (1911)

An Address, Delivered at the Town-Hall in Springfield, March 24, 1828; Containing Sketches of the Early History of that Town, and Those in its Vicinity (1828), by George Bliss

An Historical Address, Delivered on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of Springfield, May 25, 1836 (1881), by Oliver B. Morris

An Historical Address Delivered Before the Citizens of Springfield in Massachusetts at the Public Celebration, May 26, 1911, of the Two Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Settlement (1916), by Charles H. Barrows

Springfield Memories: Odds and Ends of Anecdote and Early Doings, Gathered from Manuscripts, Pamphlets, and Aged Residents (1876), by Mason A. Green

Sketches of the Old Inhabitants and Other Citizens of Old Springfield of the Present Century and its Historic Mansions of “Ye Olden Tyme” (1893), by Charles Wells Chapin

Guides and Picture Books

King’s Handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts (1884), edited by Moses King

Springfield, Mass.: Her Picturesque Beauty and Commercial Enterprise (1889)

View Book of Springfield, Massachusetts (1910)

Views and Facts of Springfield, Mass. The Magnet City (1910)

The City of New England is Springfield, Massachusetts (1910)

Springfield, Massachusetts Illustrated (1911), compiled and published by George S. Graves

Picturesque Springfield and West Springfield, Massachusetts (1912)

Progressive Springfield, Massachusetts (1913)

The Picturesque City, Springfield, Massachusetts (1913)

Springfield Present and Prospective (1905), edited by James E. Tower

Culture and Institutions

Historical Memoir of the Springfield Cemetery: Read to the Proprietors at their Meeting, May 28, 1857, by George Bliss, their President; Accompanied by an Address Delivered at the Consecration of the Cemetery, September 6, 1841, by Rev. Wm. B.O. Peabody (1857)

History of the “Old High School” on School Street, and the “Female Seminary” on Maple Street, Springfield, Massachusetts (1890), by Charles Wells Chapin

A Souvenir of the Art Museum of the City Library Association, Springfield, Mass. (1895)

Springfield in the Spanish American War (1899), by Walter W. Ward

The Birds of Springfield and Vicinity (1901), by Robert O. Morris

The Poets and Poetry of Springfield in Massachusetts From Early Times to the End of the Nineteenth Century (1907), by Charles H. Barrows

History of the Central Labor Union of Springfield, Mass: with Some of the Pioneers; Brief Sketches of Affiliated Unions; 1887-1912 (1912), edited and compiled by A. F. Hardwick

The Revised Ordinances of the City of Springfield (1891)

A City Plan for Springfield, Mass.: Progress Report of the Planning Board; May, 1922 (1922)

Churches

History of the First Church in Springfield: An Address Delivered June 22, 1875 (1875), by Henry Morris

Manual of the First Church of Christ and Names of all the Members: From the Year 1735 to Nov. 1, 1885 (1885), compiled by Theo. W. Ellis

First Church of Christ in Text and Picture: 1637-1912 (1912)

The First Church, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1637-1915; Milestones Through Twenty-Seven Decades (1915)

The Fortieth Anniversary of the South Congregational Church of Springfield, Sunday, March 26, 1882 (1882), by Rev. Noah Porter

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