Multi-Family House at 55-57 Church St

A contributing property in the Westfield Center Commercial Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. Occupying two blocks of Elm Street, this district contains a concentration of 19th- and early-20th-century masonry commercial buildings erected to serve the industrializing town of Westfield and its surrounding neighborhoods. It housed a cross-section of businesses typical of a mixed-use downtown, from early tradespeople to department stores, banks, and auto shops, with upper floors used for offices, residences, and professional tenants, alongside civic and social institutions. The district is significant for these changing forms of commerce and for a representative range of building styles, from Italianate and Queen Anne to Classical and Colonial Revival, spanning a period of significance of 1867 to 1958.

Multi-Family House at 55-57 Church St is a landmark in Westfield, 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 42.1225, -72.7514 near Westfield. The nearest cataloged historic site is Multi-Family House at 53 Church St (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Multi-Family House at 33 Washington St, Multi-Family House at 49 Church St, and Mill at 51 Church St.

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