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Opera House, Chicopee

A opera house in Chicopee, Massachusetts, named in 3 atlases between 1885 and 1902.

The line reading Wells Opera House in the 1885 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1885 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1885Wells Opera Housethe scanned index
1902De Grays Opera Housethe scanned index
1902Wells Opera Housethe 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.

Opera House
De Grays Opera House
Wells Opera House

Named in the 1884 county history

The history of Hampden County was published 1 year before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

Numbered among the leading similar concerns of Massachusetts, and having a reputation for reliability second to none, is the Ely Lumber Company, located at the corner of Cabot and Canal streets. The present firm is successor to Watson Ely & Son, a lumber concern founded thirty years ago, and, in its day, a peer among others in Massachusetts. Monuments to their structural ability may be seen in the Holyoke City Hall, Holyoke Opera House, Windsor Hotel and several of the great paper mills of the city. Two years after the death of Mr. Ely, in 1S!)6, the present company was formed and incorporated in January, 1898, with a capital of $40,- 000. It is officered by Franklin W. Ely, president; George S. Lewis, treasurer, and L. A. Williston, secretary and manager.

Read the chapter on Holyoke City.

Named in the same survey

17 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 Advent Church in the 1885 atlasAdvent Churchchurch1885
The index line reading Baptist Church in the 1885 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1885
The index line reading Church of the Holy Name in the 1885 atlasChurch of the Holy Namechurch1885
The index line reading Episcopal Church in the 1885 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1885
The index line reading Ritter, W., Brewery in the 1885 atlasRitter, W., Brewerybrewery1885
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1885 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1885
The index line reading Bank Block in the 1902 atlasBank Blockbank1902
The index line reading Francis, R. B., Machine Shop in the 1902 atlasFrancis, R. B., Machine Shopmachine shop1902
The index line reading Grammar School in the 1902 atlasGrammar Schoolschool1902
The index line reading High School in the 1902 atlasHigh Schoolschool1902
The index line reading Mill Pond in the 1902 atlasMill Pondmill1902
The index line reading Massowanno Hotel in the 1902 atlasNassowanno Hotelhotel1902
The index line reading Public School in the 1902 atlasPublic Schoolsschool1902
The index line reading St. Paul's Universalist Church in the 1902 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1902
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1902 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1902
The index line reading Week's Hotel in the 1902 atlasWeeks Hotelhotel1902
The index line reading Cushman, S. F., Woolen-mills in the 1902 atlasWoolen Millsmill1902

Other opera houses in the atlases

2

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 Chicopee, 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.