A contributing property in the Hampden Park Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. A designed park and surrounding city blocks in Holyoke that illustrate mid-19th-century industrial city planning, growing out of an 1848 plan that set public parks within a street grid intended for mill workers' homes, stores, churches, and civic buildings. The formally symmetrical park reflects later-19th-century landscape design ideals, while the buildings represent Gothic Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Classical, and Colonial Revival styles. The district is also significant as the site of Holyoke's first Roman Catholic parish, whose church, convents, schools, and charitable institutions served immigrant, largely Irish, populations. Its period of significance runs from 1848 to 1962.
O'Callaghan, Rev. Jeremiah Memorial
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O'Callaghan, Rev. Jeremiah Memorial is a historical marker in Holyoke, Hampden County. It is one of 129 historical markers documented in Hampden County, among 3,815 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.
The site sits at 42.2095, -72.6081 near Holyoke. The nearest cataloged historic site is Saint Jerome's Roman Catholic Church (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Saint Jerome's Roman Catholic Church Rectory, Whiting, William School, and Sisters of Notre Dame Convent.
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This memorial in Holyoke honors the Reverend Jeremiah O'Callaghan, an early Catholic priest associated with the industrial city's large Irish immigrant community. It is a contributing feature of a National Register historic district.
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