{"nrhp_refnum":"99000558","name":"Cabotville Common Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"School, Chestnut, Park and West Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicopee","county":"Hampden County","state":"MA","lat":42.14494200000004,"lon":-72.6110349533898,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-05-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Entertainment/Recreation","Industry","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A six-block working-class residential historic district in the center of Chicopee, Massachusetts, centered on a nearly two-acre park known as The Common (now Lucy Wisniowski Park). It contains dwellings dating from 1845 to 1910 and a fraternal meeting hall from 1913.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be significant as a cohesive nineteenth- and early twentieth-century neighborhood built to house workers of Chicopee's industries. It was developed by individual owners on lots sold by the Springfield Canal Company rather than by mill-owned boarding houses, and it became the city's largest Irish neighborhood. The Common was the city's first open space designated for public use.","narrative":"Cabotville Common Historic District is a six-block residential neighborhood in the center of Chicopee, Massachusetts, organized around a nearly two-acre park that has served as public open space since 1845. Its 54 contributing resources are mostly small wood-frame and brick houses built between about 1846 and 1910, along with a fraternal meeting hall from 1913. Greek Revival is the dominant style, often updated later with Italianate, Queen Anne or Colonial Revival details such as door hoods and porches. Unlike the mill-owned boarding houses to the north, lots here were sold to individuals who built homes for themselves or as rentals. Mason Charles McClallan built many of the early brick houses, recognizable by corbelled gable eaves and denticulated cornices. Residents were machinists, overseers and other skilled workers, and the area became Chicopee's largest Irish neighborhood, nicknamed \"the Patch.\" The district preserves this modest, densely settled mill-era neighborhood.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Charles (\"Captain Mac\") McClallan, master mason, credited with many early masonry buildings; Michael C. Collins, mason, probably built the Collins Block and the Wood House","architectural_style":"Greek Revival; Italianate; Second Empire; Queen Anne; Colonial Revival; Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Current functions listed include single and multiple dwellings, a park and a meeting hall; a Spruce Street School once at the edge of the Common no longer exists.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.877694-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/57/7952/63795257/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/99000558.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000558/9a8323e346-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000558/9a8323e346-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Commons,_Chicopee_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:The_Commons,_Chicopee_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795257","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabotville_Common_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5015791"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampden-county/cabotville-common-historic-district-99000558/"}