{"nrhp_refnum":"83000778","name":"Willy's Overland Block","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"151-157 Chestnut and 10-20 Winter Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Springfield","county":"Hampden County","state":"MA","lat":42.10606849800007,"lon":-72.58941833599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-02-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story buff brick commercial block at 151-157 Chestnut Street and 10-20 Winter Street in Springfield, Massachusetts, built in 1916 for Willy's Overland, Inc. as an auto sales and service building.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the block reflects Springfield's growth as an automobile center, especially in the Apremont Triangle and Chestnut Street area. It also holds architectural interest as a largely unaltered building whose commercial-looking facade conceals its industrial use. It was considered one of the finest buildings of its kind in the East.","narrative":"Built in 1916 at the corner of Chestnut and Winter Streets in Springfield, this four-story block was constructed for Willy's Overland, Inc. to house auto sales, service and a 1000-car garage. Designed by Mills, Rhines, Bellman & Nordhof, it is faced in buff-colored brick, measures twelve bays by twelve bays, and has windows grouped in fours with decorative spandrel panels between stories. Its facade reads as commercial architecture and hides the building's industrial function. Before about 1915 the surrounding Apremont Triangle area was mostly residential, but pressure from downtown turned it into an automobile sales and showroom district. Springfield was chosen for a branch plant because of its skilled craftsmen and standing as an automotive center. The company distributed Willys-Knight and Overland cars until the branch closed in 1921. The building has seen minimal exterior alteration and was regarded as one of the finest of its kind in the East.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Mills, Rhines, Bellman & Nordhof (architect)","architectural_style":"20th C. Commercial","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is commercial; the form reports no major alterations since completion.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.235494-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/49/7903/63790349/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83000778.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000778/2088c0e551-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000778/2088c0e551-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Willys_Overland_Block,_Springfield_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Willys_Overland_Block,_Springfield_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790349","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willys%E2%80%93Overland_Block","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8022516"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampden-county/willys-overland-block-83000778/"}