Cabotville Common Historic District

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.