Nichols, R. L. House

A contributing property in the Forest Park Heights Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Developed at the turn of the 20th century in southwestern Springfield, this planned residential suburb grew across three sections between roughly 1893 and 1927 after the arrival of the electric trolley, built out by companies such as the Mutual Investment Company and the Forest Park Heights Company. Its roughly 700 largely single-family houses reflect a deliberate design philosophy in which no two dwellings were alike, yielding a rich mix of Queen Anne, Shingle, Stick, and Arts and Crafts work alongside Georgian, Tudor, and Mission Revival styles, all unified by consistent scale, setbacks, and street plantings. Governed by cost covenants and an elaborate landscaping plan of contour-following streets, malled boulevards like Magnolia Terrace, and small parks, the neighborhood embodies middle-class community planning during Springfield's industrial golden age.

Nichols, R. L. House 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 42.0843, -72.5691 near Springfield. The nearest cataloged historic site is Dexter, E. A. House (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Lanthrop, F. W. House, Clark, F. House, and Brown, S. P. House.

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