Haynes Hotel

The Haynes Hotel (also known as the Waters Building) at 1386-1402 Main Street in Springfield is a brick Italianate-style commercial block built in 1865 for local merchant Theodore 'Tilly' Haynes. It is significant under Criteria A and C as one of downtown's largest and most ornate Italianate blocks and as one of two early intact surviving hotels; its facade remains virtually intact above the first floor with ornate window hoods, quoining, and a bracketed projecting cornice. Haynes, who ran the 'Oak Hall' men's clothing store, built the structure after an 1864 fire to house his store, other shops, and a hotel; when completed the hotel was considered one of the largest and most elegant in the city, with an open central skylit court and, in 1874, the city's first hydraulic elevator. In 1883 it was renovated for H.H. Waters, after whom it has since been commonly known; the hotel rooms were later converted to office space.

Haynes Hotel 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 42.1022, -72.5902 near Springfield. The nearest cataloged historic site is Republican Block (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Union Trust Company Building, Springfield City Hall, and Springfield Municipal Complex.

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