Springfield Canal Company Worker Housing (CHI.160)

A contributing property in the Dwight Manufacturing Company Housing District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. Built largely in the 1830s and 1840s in Chicopee Center, once known as Cabotville, this district preserves a rare surviving group of brick textile-mill workers' housing from one of western Massachusetts' most important early industrial centers. Following the Lowell model and financed by Boston investors such as Edmund Dwight, the Dwight Manufacturing Company and affiliated firms housed their recruited female operatives in supervised corporate boarding houses, later renting the dwellings to immigrant mill families. The buildings, chiefly the work of builder Charles McClallan, range from large multistory Greek Revival brick boarding houses with fine brickwork to smaller single-family units and a later Stick Style block. The district is significant as an example of a planned nineteenth-century industrial community and of factory-owner paternalism toward workers.

Springfield Canal Company Worker Housing is a landmark in Chicopee, 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 42.1476, -72.6108 near Chicopee. The nearest cataloged historic site is Springfield Canal Company Boarding House (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Springfield Canal Company Worker Housing, Springfield Canal Company Worker Housing, and Ballard, Benjamin E. House and Store.

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