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Decorative drawing: a nineteenth-century shop front seen close. Not a photograph of this place.

Bank Building

A bank in Hampden County, Massachusetts, named in 3 atlases between 1887 and 1918.

The line reading Bank Building in the 1887 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1887 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1887Bank Buildingthe scanned index
1918National Bank Buildingthe scanned index
1918Saving Bank Buildingthe scanned index

How the name was read

Each atlas was set in type by a different hand and scanned decades later, so the same establishment comes back spelled differently. Every reading below was produced by the recogniser from the sheets; none was corrected or invented. They are published so a search for any of them finds this page.

Bank Building
National Bank Building
Saving Bank Building

Named in the 1884 county history

The history of Hampden County was published 3 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

When asked to define electricity the great Edison declared it was impossible of definition, that it was an unknown power yet in its infancy. All the same the Preston-Moore Electric Co., located in the new City National Bank Building, are doing a good deal in Holvoke and nearby towns with this wonderful power. They are electrical contractors and dealers in electrical supplies of every description. A specialty is installing and repairing and also storage batteries. Gas and electric fixtures are kept in stock and they keep in touch with the very latest improved designs on the market. Ernest T. Preston and Clifford S. Moore became established in November of last year, having for several years previously been with electrical contractors in the city. Mr.

Read the chapter on Holyoke City.

Named in the same survey

11 establishments

The surveyors walked Hampden County once and wrote down what they found. These are the other establishments from the same atlas, each with the line it was read from.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1887 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Ellis, D. W., & Son, Woolen Mill in the 1887 atlasEllis, D. W., & Son, Woolen Millmill1887
The index line reading Methodist Church in the 1887 atlasMethodist Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Monson Hotel in the 1887 atlasMonson Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Reynold, R. M. & T., Woolen Mills in the 1887 atlasReynold, R. M. & T., Woolen Millsmill1887
The index line reading Cushman, S. F., Woolen Mills in the 1887 atlasWoolen Millsmill1887
The index line reading Century Hotel in the 1918 atlasCentury Hotelhotel1918
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1918 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1918
The index line reading Mill Pond in the 1918 atlasMill Pondmill1918
The index line reading Public School in the 1918 atlasPublic Schoolsschool1918
The index line reading Ricketts & Shaw, Woolen Mill in the 1918 atlasRiclketts & Shaw, Woolen Millmill1918

Other bank in the atlases

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Every other establishment of the same trade the surveyors named in Hampden County, with the years each one appears.

Provenance

Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Hampden County, Massachusetts, held by the Library of Congress. Sanborn atlases published before 1930 are in the public domain. Only names that at least three of four independent readings agreed on are published, and no spelling has been corrected: what appears here is what the recogniser returned from the ink.