{"id":7117,"date":"2015-05-21T11:30:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T15:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=7117"},"modified":"2015-05-21T11:31:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T15:31:01","slug":"parks-building-1873","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=7117","title":{"rendered":"Parks Building (1873)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Parks-Building.jpg\" alt=\"Parks Building (1873)\" width=\"500\" height=\"526\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Parks-Building.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Parks-Building-285x300.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=BOBCAQAAMAAJ&#038;lpg=PA509&#038;ots=q8cAF45Sge&#038;dq=%22oren%20b.%20parks%22%20westfield&#038;pg=PA509#v=onepage&#038;q=%22oren%20b.%20parks%22%20westfield&#038;f=false\">Oren B. Parks<\/a> operated a grocery store in Westfield and became <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=l2FBAQAAMAAJ&#038;lpg=PA538&#038;ots=ZZ9T78-PRY&#038;dq=%22oren%20b.%20parks%22%20westfield&#038;pg=PA538#v=onepage&#038;q=%22oren%20b.%20parks%22%20westfield&#038;f=false\">a successful businessman<\/a> and civic leader in the late nineteenth century. He played a major role in developing the Northside section of Westfield. Around 1873 he built <a href=\"http:\/\/mhc-macris.net\/Details.aspx?MhcId=WSF.86\">the three-story commercial building at 57-59 North Elm Street<\/a> to accommodate his expanding business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oren B. Parks operated a grocery store in Westfield and became a successful businessman and civic leader in the late nineteenth century. He played a major role in developing the Northside section of Westfield. Around 1873 he built the three-story commercial building at 57-59 North Elm Street to accommodate his expanding business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,58,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-businesses","category-italianate","category-westfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117","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=7117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7120,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117\/revisions\/7120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}