Orrell's Block

A contributing property in the North High Street Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. A concentration of mid- to late-19th-century commercial buildings along High Street in Holyoke, representing the largest, most coherent surviving group of such buildings from the city's early years as a planned industrial community. Maple and High Streets were being built up with frame commercial buildings by 1849-1850, soon replaced by brick blocks, as Holyoke, laid out with the most ambitious canal system of any Massachusetts mill town, grew into a world-renowned paper manufacturing center. The district is significant as the highest-concentration commercial survival from Holyoke's formative decades as an industrial city.

Orrell's Block 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 42.2080, -72.6064 near Holyoke. The nearest cataloged historic site is Allyn Building (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Transcript Building, Martin, W. L. Block, and Commercial Building at 161 High St.

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