Nichols Block

A contributing property in the Monson Center Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. This compact, linear district along a one-block stretch of Main Street formed the commercial and institutional heart of Monson from the Federal period onward, with most of its resources dating to the town's prosperous heyday of about 1865 to 1915. Predominantly two-story wood-frame commercial and residential buildings are punctuated by dominant public structures, Memorial Hall and the Universalist Church, built of locally quarried Monson granite. The center's growth followed a shift in the town's civic focus driven by its nineteenth-century granite, straw-goods and textile industries, and it reflects that surge in prosperity as well as the later transition toward a modern suburb.

Nichols Block is a landmark in Monson, 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 42.0977, -72.3136 near Monson. The nearest cataloged historic site is Commercial Building at 172-176 Main St (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Noble Block, Woodbine Block, and Monson Universalist - Unitarian Church.

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