{"nrhp_refnum":"86001376","name":"North High Street Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Caledonian Building","North High Street Historic Dist"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"High St. between Dwight and Lyman Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Holyoke","county":"Hampden County","state":"MA","lat":42.20814392650004,"lon":-72.60659228962982,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-06-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A commercial historic district in Holyoke, Massachusetts, made up of 37 mostly brick buildings on both sides of High Street between Dwight and Lyman Streets, plus three buildings just east on Dwight and John Streets. Most were built between the 1840s and 1890s.","why_significant":"The district is described as the largest, most representative and most coherent group of mid- to late-19th century commercial buildings surviving in Holyoke. It illustrates the growth of the city's business center during the 1860s and 1870s, built largely by local entrepreneurs. The buildings also show the shift from restrained pre-Civil War design to more elaborate Italianate and later styles.","narrative":"North High Street in Holyoke, Massachusetts, is a two-block commercial corridor of 37 buildings, most of them brick, lying between Dwight and Lyman Streets. Once known as \"the Hill,\" it grew as one of the city's two major business centers during the mid-nineteenth century. The oldest surviving building is the Gallaudet Block, built around 1847. Most of the rest went up in the 1860s and 1870s, many for local businessmen such as Roswell P. Crafts and John Fuller. Earlier buildings are plain, with corbelled brick cornices, while post-Civil War blocks add round-arched windows, stone and iron trim, and elaborate cornices in the Italianate manner. Later additions include the six-story Ball Block of 1898 and a Jacobethan Revival building from about 1925. Storefronts have often been altered, but upper floors are largely intact. The district was listed because it is the largest and most coherent group of nineteenth-century commercial buildings left in Holyoke.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"George P. B. Alderman (architect, Taber Building); builders include John Fuller, Roswell P. Crafts, Luther A. Taber and Pierre Bonvouloir","architectural_style":"Italianate (predominant), with Second Empire, Victorian Gothic, Italian Renaissance palazzo and Jacobethan Revival examples","criteria":[],"status_note":"Buildings retain their commercial and office functions, with some upper floors used as apartments; many storefronts are altered. The district has four noncontributing 20th-century intrusions and five empty lots.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.448224-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/5/7952/63795205/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/86001376.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001376/da2bc28044-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001376/da2bc28044-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"John Phelan, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:North_High_Street,_Holyoke_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795205","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_High_Street_Historic_District_(Holyoke,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7055614"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampden-county/north-high-street-historic-district-86001376/"}