MassachusettsThe Maplewood Hotel at 328-330 Maple Street in Holyoke consists of two interconnected buildings: the Romanesque Revival style hotel proper at 328 Maple Street and an adjoining Tudor Revival style townhouse at 330. The hotel, constructed in 1889-1890 by woolen manufacturer Frank Beebe, was the earliest residential hotel in the city and reflected the economic expansion of the 1880s. It is H-shaped in plan, rising four and a half to five stories, with distinctive features including a pressed-metal cornice, corner turrets with conical slate roofs, Romanesque arched entrances with carved floral capitals, and decorative brickwork. Much of the property's significance derives from its association with Frank Beebe, a wealthy industrialist who retired in 1901 and devoted his life to philanthropy, later conveying the property for charitable and social-settlement uses tied to the Gladden House plan. It meets National Register criteria A, B, and C.
Maplewood Hotel
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Maplewood Hotel 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 42.2039, -72.6116 near Holyoke. The nearest cataloged historic site is Skinner Memorial Chapel (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Second Congregational Church, Essex, The, and War Memorial Building.
This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
Frank Beebe, who took over and expanded his father's Beebe and Webber textile mills, built Holyoke's first residential hotel here and lived in one of its units. The 2½-story brick block at 330 Maple Street went up between 1884 and 1889; the four-story building at 328 followed about 1890 and opened as the Maplewood, offering furnished and unfurnished full-service residences to the city's middle and upper classes. Beebe retired from business in 1901 for philanthropy and handed the Maplewood to a social services organization in 1921, which joined the two buildings internally in 1924 and preached his gospel of better living and self-help to the tenants.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
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