Johnson, R. B. Block

A contributing property in the North High Street Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. A concentration of mid- to late-19th-century commercial buildings along High Street in Holyoke, representing the largest, most coherent surviving group of such buildings from the city's early years as a planned industrial community. Maple and High Streets were being built up with frame commercial buildings by 1849-1850, soon replaced by brick blocks, as Holyoke, laid out with the most ambitious canal system of any Massachusetts mill town, grew into a world-renowned paper manufacturing center. The district is significant as the highest-concentration commercial survival from Holyoke's formative decades as an industrial city.

Johnson, R. B. Block 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 42.2077, -72.6073 near Holyoke. The nearest cataloged historic site is Colby - Carter Block (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Caledonia Building, Ball Building, and Taber Building.

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