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Opera House

A opera house in Hampden County, Massachusetts, named in 8 atlases between 1885 and 1906.

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
1889Opera Housethe scanned index
1895Opera Housethe scanned index
1896Opera Housethe scanned index
1900Opera Housethe scanned index
1902De Grays Opera Housethe scanned index
1902Wells Opera Housethe scanned index
1906Opera 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
Wells Opera House
De Grays 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

24 of 32 establishments shown

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. See all 32 in Hampden County.

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 Congregational Church in the 1885 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1885
The index line reading Episcopal Church in the 1885 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1885
The index line reading High School in the 1885 atlasHigh Schoolschool1885
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 Germania Hotel in the 1889 atlasGermania Hotelhotel1889
The index line reading Japanese Paper Mill in the 1889 atlasJapanese Paper Millmill1889
The index line reading Methodist Episc. Church in the 1889 atlasMethodist Episc. Churchchurch1889
The index line reading Normal School,: in the 1889 atlasNormal School,:school1889
The index line reading Presbyterian Church in the 1889 atlasPresbyterian Churchchurch1889
The index line reading Rail Road Hotel in the 1889 atlasRail Road Hotelhotel1889
The index line reading Woolen Mills in the 1889 atlasWoolen Millsmill1889
The index line reading Bank Block in the 1896 atlasBank Blockbank1896
The index line reading Catholic Church in the 1896 atlasCatholic Churchchurch1896
The index line reading Century Hotel in the 1896 atlasCentury Hotelhotel1896
The index line reading Ellis, D. W., & Son, Woolen Mill in the 1896 atlasEllis, D. W., & Son, Woolen Millmill1896
The index line reading Holden & Fuller, Woolen Mills in the 1896 atlasHolden & Fuller, Woolen Millsmill1896
The index line reading Hutchinson, L., Wagon Works in the 1896 atlasHutehinson, L., Wagon Worksworks1896
The index line reading Methodist Church in the 1896 atlasMethodist Churchchurch1896
The index line reading Massowanno Hotel in the 1896 atlasNassowanno Hotelhotel1896
The index line reading Grist Mill 22 in the 1896 atlasNewton, J. D., Grist Millmill1896

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.