{"nrhp_refnum":"92001725","name":"North High Street Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["See Also:North High Street Historic District","Holyoke City Ha"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"233--411 High St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Holyoke","county":"Hampden County","state":"MA","lat":42.20568388050006,"lon":-72.60899547832588,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-12-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary increase to an existing historic district in downtown Holyoke, Massachusetts, covering three blocks of High Street (233-411 High Street) between Dwight and Essex Streets plus the City Hall Annex. It holds mostly commercial buildings from 1880 to 1930, along with a church complex.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district extends the original North High Street district's story of Holyoke's commercial growth, showing the city's peak prosperity from 1880 to 1930. It is cited for its sequence of late Victorian and early 20th-century commercial architecture, including Romanesque Revival, Beaux Arts and Renaissance Revival styles. It is of local significance under criteria A and C, with a religious-use consideration for the church complex.","narrative":"Three blocks of High Street in downtown Holyoke, between Dwight and Essex Streets, make up this extension of the North High Street district. A nearly continuous row of commercial buildings, joined by party walls and built flush to the sidewalk, faces the granite City Hall, which is set back behind grass and trees. Most of the buildings went up between 1880 and 1930, when Holyoke reached its peak prosperity as a retail and banking center. The facades show changing fashions: brownstone and brick Romanesque Revival blocks from the 1880s, cream cast-stone Beaux Arts fronts such as the Steiger Building of 1899 and 1901, and yellow brick Renaissance Revival towers like the eight-story J.S. Smith Building. A Gothic church complex and the 1913 City Hall Annex are also included. Together the buildings document the city's commercial growth and its architectural development, and the area was found significant at the local level.","period_of_significance":"1871-1930","architect_builder":"Alderman, George P.B.; Clough, James A.; Allens & Collens; Johnson, P.B.; Kilburn, H.F.; Reid, W.B.","architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Gothic, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival, Renaissance Revival); Late 19th & Early 20th C. Revivals (Classical Revival, Tudor Revival); Modern Movement (Art Deco)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Several buildings are noted as unoccupied or vacant with boarded windows, including the Steiger and Woolworth buildings and the LaFrance Block, while many other commercial buildings remain in use. Many storefronts have been remodeled at street level.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.990797-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/9/7952/63795209/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/92001725.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001725/da2bc28044-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001725/da2bc28044-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:North_High_Street,_Holyoke_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:North_High_Street,_Holyoke_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795209","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-boundary-increase-92001725/"}