About this site
School Street Barn is a landmark in Agawam, 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 42.0741, -72.5928 near Agawam. The nearest cataloged historic site is House at 12 Longmeadow St (landmark), about 0.7 miles away. Others within a short drive include Cordner, Andrew House, Spencer, George G. House, and Goldthwait, William W. Carriage House.
This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
This is the last nineteenth-century barn standing in Agawam, roughly 51 by 41 feet with a 30-foot gable, sided in vertical tongue-and-groove boards over post-and-beam framing three stories deep. Its double-ramp form — concrete ramps to big doors at both gable ends — is rare in the Connecticut River valley, where bank barns and single-ramp barns dominate, and it is the only known example in town. Absentee owners' tenants probably built it. River flooding in 1938 ended private farming here; the county then ran the land as Hampden County's jail farm, worked by inmates from the Springfield York Street jail, until the late 1980s. It now sits in School Street Park, and was listed on the National Register in 2012.
Sources: en.wikipedia.orgmhc-macris.net
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