Hadley Falls Company Worker Housing (HLY.39)

The Hadley Falls Company Housing District in Holyoke comprises five rows of mid-19th-century workers' housing built beginning in 1848 by the Hadley Falls Company, the firm whose incorporation in 1847 launched Holyoke's development as a major industrial center. Ranged along Center, North Canal, Grover, and Lyman Streets, each two-and-a-half-story brick row contains eight to ten units, with pedimented dormers, paired recessed entrances, paired chimneys straddling the party walls, sandstone lintels, and a simple brick entablature. Designed by mill engineer John Chase and built by contractor Charles McClallan, the blocks were among the largest domestic groupings of their period and type in Massachusetts and represent the earliest company-built worker housing in Holyoke and the best tenement architecture of its era. The company, whose founders sought to replicate the success of Lowell, built a great dam across the Connecticut River along with canals, factories, and associated housing. The district is significant under Criterion C for its architecture and for its industrial and social history.

Hadley Falls Company Worker Housing is a landmark in Holyoke, 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 42.2080, -72.5980 near Holyoke. The nearest cataloged historic site is Hadley Falls Company Worker Housing (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Hadley Falls Company Worker Housing, Hadley Falls Company Worker Housing, and Hadley Falls Company Worker Housing.

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