{"id":4959,"date":"2012-09-24T00:50:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T04:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=4959"},"modified":"2012-09-24T00:50:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T04:50:47","slug":"merwin-loomis-house-1845","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=4959","title":{"rendered":"Merwin Loomis House (1845)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/51-Court.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Loomis House, Westfield\" width=\"500\" height=\"367\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/51-Court.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/51-Court-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mhc-macris.net\/Details.aspx?MhcId=WSF.145\">The house<\/a> at 51 Court Street in <a href=\"http:\/\/newsite2.iacl.org\/localnews\/Westfield\/downtowntransforme\/\">Westfield<\/a> was built in 1845-1846 for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/cgi-bin\/fg.cgi?page=gr&#038;GRid=64264563\">Merwin Loomis<\/a>, a prominent grocer, and his wife, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/cgi-bin\/fg.cgi?page=gr&#038;GRid=64264779\">Lydia<\/a>.  Later, the house was the residence of his granddaughter, Florence, and her husband, Harold Stevens, a former bank treasurer for the Hampden National Bank.  Today, the house is home to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lydiasgatheringplace.com\/\">Lydia\u2019s Gathering Place<\/a>, a by-reservation-only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslive.com\/living\/index.ssf\/2012\/04\/lydias_gathering_place_in_westfield_offers_unique_dining_experience.html\">dining alternative<\/a> for Small Group Gatherings named for Lydia Loomis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The house at 51 Court Street in Westfield was built in 1845-1846 for Merwin Loomis, a prominent grocer, and his wife, Lydia. Later, the house was the residence of his granddaughter, Florence, and her husband, Harold Stevens, a former bank treasurer for the Hampden National Bank. Today, the house is home to Lydia\u2019s Gathering Place, a by-reservation-only dining alternative for Small Group Gatherings named for Lydia Loomis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,8,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greek-revival","category-houses","category-westfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4959"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4992,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions\/4992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}