{"id":5098,"date":"2012-10-10T00:53:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T04:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=5098"},"modified":"2012-10-10T00:53:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T04:53:58","slug":"caledonian-building-1874","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=5098","title":{"rendered":"Caledonian Building (1874)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Caledonian-1874.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Caledonian, Holyoke\" width=\"500\" height=\"485\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5099\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Caledonian-1874.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Caledonian-1874-300x291.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archiplanet.org\/wiki\/Caledonia_Building\">The Caledonian Building<\/a>, located at 185-193 High Street in Holyoke, was built in 1874 as the Crafts Block by <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalgraveyard.com\/bio\/coxe-crago.html#966.46.56\">Roswell P. Crafts<\/a>, a businessman who served as <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/Inaugural_Address_of_His_Honor_Roswell_P.html?id=VLX2HAAACAAJ\">mayor of Holyoke<\/a>.  The eclectic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caledonia_Building\">building<\/a> combines a French Second Empire Mansard roof, two floors fronted in brownstone and a ground level that utilizes cast iron pieces purchased from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/cu\/lweb\/eresources\/exhibitions\/treasures\/html\/47.html\">Architectural Iron Works of New York<\/a>.  Starting in 1879, the <a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/2011\/11\/02\/golden-jubilee-of-caledonians-at-holyoke-on-the-23rd\/\">Caledonian Benefit Club<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holyokemass.com\/transcript\/people\/clubs3.html\">a group<\/a> of Scots immigrants, used the building&#8217;s fourth-floor concert hall for their meetings.  In 1907, the Club purchased the building from the Crafts estate.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Caledonian Building, located at 185-193 High Street in Holyoke, was built in 1874 as the Crafts Block by Roswell P. Crafts, a businessman who served as mayor of Holyoke. The eclectic building combines a French Second Empire Mansard roof, two floors fronted in brownstone and a ground level that utilizes cast iron pieces purchased from the Architectural Iron Works of New York. Starting in 1879, the Caledonian Benefit Club, a group of Scots immigrants, used the building&#8217;s fourth-floor concert hall for their meetings. In 1907, the Club purchased the building from the Crafts estate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,170,124,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-businesses","category-holyoke","category-organizations","category-second-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098","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=5098"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5103,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098\/revisions\/5103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}