{"id":7562,"date":"2016-11-26T12:32:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T17:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=7562"},"modified":"2016-11-26T12:32:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T17:32:04","slug":"old-holyoke-railroad-station-1883","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=7562","title":{"rendered":"Old Holyoke Railroad Station (1883)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Station-001.jpg\" alt=\"station\" width=\"500\" height=\"361\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Station-001.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Station-001-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The City of Holyoke has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nashuacitystation.org\/image.php?id=9304013240&#038;mark=00\">a railroad station<\/a> designed by the famed architect <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Hobson_Richardson\">H. H. Richardson<\/a>. Located at 12 Bowers Street, it was built in 1883-1885 as the <a href=\"http:\/\/mhc-macris.net\/Details.aspx?MhcId=HLY.41\">Boston and Maine Railroad Station<\/a>, also known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=gBDXfLHsnc4C&#038;lpg=PP1&#038;pg=PA323#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">Connecticut River Railroad Station<\/a>. No longer a station, <a href=\"http:\/\/valleyadvocate.com\/2009\/06\/18\/holyokes-famous-rail-station\/\">its later history<\/a> included use as the Star Automotive Warehouse. It is currently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holyokehome.com\/2011\/05\/friday-holyoke-fix-hh-richardson-train.html#axzz4R8VngduY\">an endangered building<\/a>.<br \/>\nCheck out the following PDF documents:<br \/>\nOn the history of the station: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holyokeredevelopment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Depot-Sq.-Presentation-Boards-FINAL-small-file.pdf\">http:\/\/www.holyokeredevelopment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Depot-Sq.-Presentation-Boards-FINAL-small-file.pdf<\/a><br \/>\nOn the <a href=\"http:\/\/scholarworks.umass.edu\/larp_ms_projects\/27\/\">potential reuse<\/a> of the station: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holyokeredevelopment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Part-1-from-RICHARDSON_Report_FINAL.pdf\">http:\/\/www.holyokeredevelopment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Part-1-from-RICHARDSON_Report_FINAL.pdf<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Station-002.jpg\" alt=\"station\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Station-002.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Station-002-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Holyoke has a railroad station designed by the famed architect H. H. Richardson. Located at 12 Bowers Street, it was built in 1883-1885 as the Boston and Maine Railroad Station, also known as the Connecticut River Railroad Station. No longer a station, its later history included use as the Star Automotive Warehouse. It is currently an endangered building. Check out the following PDF documents: On the history of the station: http:\/\/www.holyokeredevelopment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Depot-Sq.-Presentation-Boards-FINAL-small-file.pdf On the potential reuse of the station: http:\/\/www.holyokeredevelopment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Part-1-from-RICHARDSON_Report_FINAL.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170,55,165],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-7562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holyoke","category-richardsonian-romanesque","category-stations","tag-hh-richardson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7562","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=7562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7570,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7562\/revisions\/7570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}