Outing Park Historic District

Outing Park is a compact neighborhood of 23 four-story brick apartment buildings at the southern edge of downtown Springfield, Massachusetts. Built between 1914 and 1926 by the development firm Gagnier & Angers, the buildings stand close to the street along short, tree-lined roads east of Main Street. The earlier buildings, dating before 1917, use Georgian Revival styling with bowed bays and small porticoes. Later buildings, up to 1926, are larger and show Classical Revival details in cast stone, including keystones, quoins and heavy cornices. The original development once included 44 buildings, but twenty that had become badly run down were removed by the city's redevelopment authority, leaving the surviving core largely intact. Alterations are mostly limited to replaced doors and windows, and many interiors keep their vestibules, stairhalls and trim. The district was listed for its architecture and its role in community planning and development, as the largest group of apartment blocks the firm built in the city. Nearly all buildings remain in residential use.