Historical Marker

Hampden Park Flagpole

Holyoke · Hampden County

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The Story

A contributing property in the Hampden Park Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. A designed park and surrounding city blocks in Holyoke that illustrate mid-19th-century industrial city planning, growing out of an 1848 plan that set public parks within a street grid intended for mill workers' homes, stores, churches, and civic buildings. The formally symmetrical park reflects later-19th-century landscape design ideals, while the buildings represent Gothic Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Classical, and Colonial Revival styles. The district is also significant as the site of Holyoke's first Roman Catholic parish, whose church, convents, schools, and charitable institutions served immigrant, largely Irish, populations. Its period of significance runs from 1848 to 1962.

About this site

Hampden Park Flagpole is a historical marker in Holyoke, Hampden County. It is one of 129 historical markers documented in Hampden County, among 3,815 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.

The site sits at 42.2083, -72.6084 near Holyoke. The nearest cataloged historic site is Hampden Park - Holyoke Civil War Monument (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Hampden Square, Hampden Park - Holyoke World War II Monument, and Hampden Park - Holyoke Vietnam War Memorial.

This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

This historic flagpole stands in Holyoke, Hampden County. It was erected in 1960. It is a contributing feature of a National Register historic district.

📍 42.2083, -72.6084 · Holyoke, Hampden County
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