Abbey, C. C. House

A contributing property in the McKnight District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Laid out by developers John and William McKnight beginning in 1870, this Springfield neighborhood was one of the earliest large planned residential suburbs in the country. Roughly 500 houses went up between the 1870s and about 1910, constructed dozens per year on graded lots with planted yards, sidewalks, and small triangular corner parks set with fountains. The streetscapes are dominated by picturesque Queen Anne design mixed with Italianate, Stick, Shingle, and Colonial Revival styles, leaving a remarkably intact and unified example of late 19th-century suburban development that helped earn Springfield its nickname the City of Homes.

Abbey, C. C. House is a landmark in Springfield, Hampden County. It is one of 3,654 landmarks documented in Hampden County, among 3,815 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.

The site sits at 42.1148, -72.5703 near Springfield. The nearest cataloged historic site is Lathrop, E. H. House (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Johnson, Richard S. House, Wheeler, Ernest J. House, and Chapin, H. A. House.

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