Major Bibliographical References (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Previous documentation on file (NPS): Primary location of additional data: _ preliminary determination of individual listing (36 X State Historic Preservation Office CFR 67) has been reguested _ previously listed in the National Register _ Oederal ageagency - previously determined eligible by the National Register - Universernment _ designated a National Historic Landmark X Other _ recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Name of repository: Connecticut Valley Historical Museum - recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page - 1 8.
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Indian Orchard Branch Library Springtield (Hampden Co.), MA Springfield's first branch library, the Indian Orchard branch is a well-preserved example of an early 20*-century Classical Revival public building. As a significant example of the secular work of Springfield diocesan architect John W. Donohue, the library meets criterion C in the area of Architecture. The library represents a time when Springfield was beginning to undergo suburban growth, and beginning to recognize the need to provide more services and amenities to its outlying neighborhoods. Hence, the building meets criterion A in the area of Community Planning and Development. Growth of Indian Orchard Located along the banks of the Chicopee River in the northeastern corner of Springfield, Indian Orchard remained undeveloped for most of Springfield's first two centuries.
While the area that is now Springfield's central business district was inhabited from the 1630s onward, residents did not begin building homes in Indian Orchard until after 1800. While many colorful (and largely apocryphal) stories have been invented to explain Indian Orchard's name, the most creditable simply states that an island in the Chicopee River was once used by Native Americans to cultivate an orchard. A 1912 newspaper account claims that when the river's water level was low during repairs to a dam, workers discovered the island and remnants of the orchard (Springfield Republican, 23 June 1912). Whether or not the story is true, archaeologists have discovered evidence of Indian occupation in the area along the Chicopee River's banks. It took a long time for Springfield's settlers to move into Indian Orchard after its original inhabitants moved out.
Originally known as the "inward commons," Indian Orchard's lands were divided among Springfield residents in 1688, in order to avoid Governor Andros' order to return ungranted lands to the crown. No one seems to have settled on the land until after 1800, however. Even as late as 1850, Indian Orchard only had about two dozen homes. In the 1820s, Springfield businessman Charles Stearns began acquiring land in the Orchard with the intention of harnessing the Chicopee's rapidly moving water in order to establish some sort of manufacturing facility. Stearns' plans never amounted to anything, however, and he sold most of his holdings in the 1820s. By 1839, the Indian Orchard Canal Company had acquired most of his land, and in 1845 the company had (continued) NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet 2 Section number Indian Orchard Branch Library Springfield (Hampden Co.), MA Page bought up many of the holdings of the Springfield Manufacturing Company (which had already developed industrial sites across the river to the nórth in Ludlow and to the west in the town of Chicopee). The company engaged mason Charles McClallan to build textile mills and boarding houses. In 1853 the Indian Orchard Canal Company conveyed its holdings to the Ward Manufacturing Company, which later turned them over to the Indian Orchard Manufacturing Company. By 1879, Indian Orchard included about 100 buildings, including four hotels, eight stores, three churches, and a post office.
(Everts, 1879,869) The Indian Orchard Company's textile manufacturing complexes dominated Indian Orchard's early history. Manufacturers played a strong role in the development of the community, installing streets and sewers, sidewalks and even street trees. Indian Orchard's industries sponsored the community's earliest libraries. The Indian Orchard Canal Company, for example, cultivated a reputation as a progressive employers, establishing a library and lyceum for its employees in the 1850s. Indian Orchard maintained a separate identity from Springfield proper, with residents often acting as if the village were a distinct town. The community had its own Main Street, along with a network of other roads whose names duplicated those found in downtown Sp. In 1856, the village joined with other Springfield neighborhoods in an unsuccessful attempt to secede from the city.
Residents proposed to split into a new town named "Delano," after Warren Delano, a director of the Indian Orchard Canal Company (who also happened to be Franklin Delano Roosevelt's grandfather.) A century later, in the 1950s, the village attempted a second unsuccessful secession campaign. By the 1870s, Indian Orchard was a lively industrial community with a population that was beginning to include French-Canadian immigrants along with the Yankee population. French Canadians began to move into the community in the 1870s, finding jobs in the factories. They came in such large numbers that by 1880 more than half of Indian Orchard's three thousand residents were of French-Canadian ancestry. (Culture Corner: "The French Canadians," The Register, January 23, 1980, p. 8) The French Canadians were followed by the Poles in the 1880s, and the Portuguese in the 1890s.
By the 1910s, Indian Orchard's population included Poles, Armenians, French- Canadians, Italians, Russians, Greeks, Portuguese and Germans. The installation of trolley lines in 1892 and the subsequent introduction of the automobile in the 20th century lessened Indian Orchard's isolation from Springfield proper. By this time, however, the neighborhood had firmly established its identity as a (continued) MPS Form 10-900-a 8-861 OM8 ApprovalNo. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet 3 Indian Orchard Branch Library Springfield (Hampden Co.), MA Section number. Page . distinct village.
One writer commented that "Indian Orchard has been forces to develop its own economic and social system to such an extent that it has become a small town in itself." ('Is Indian Orchard Branch Justified?" typescript June 3, 1952. Vertical Files, Connecticut Valley Historical Museum) Although 1920s suburban development began to blur to edges of Springfield's outlying neighborhoods, Indian Orchard retained a strong sense of community identity. (See 1910 Richards Atlas map of Indian Orchard, attached) Development of Springfield's Library System Springfield's first libraries were small private collections maintained by social clubs, businesses and literary societies. In 1796, the Springfield Library Company formed the city's first know library, consisting of about 300 volumes. Industrial workers formed their own libraries for technical and general literature.
The Hampden Mechanics Association, for example, formed a library and evening school in 1824, while the workers at the United States Armory formed the Franklin Library Association in 1844 (which later became the Young Men's Institute). In 1854, another group formed the Young Men's Literary Institute. These were private libraries, usually available only to a specific membership, and often for a fee. In 1855, 1200 citizens petitioned the city for a public library. City officials made sympathetic noises; for two years, however, they gave priority to other projects over a library. In 1857, the City Library Association was finally organized. The Springfield Institute and the Young Men's Library Association gave the project a jump start when they turned their collections over to the newly former association. For nearly fifteen years the library used space in City Hall.
In 1871, with the completion of the new Victorian-style library building halfway up State Street hill, the Springfield Public Library finally had a home of its own. Indian Orchard Branch Library Indian Orchard's earliest library was a private one founded by the Indian Orchard Mills Corporation in 1859. By 1884 this library has 1500 volumes, including newspapers, journals and periodicals available free of charge to the public. The library was one of a number of private libraries in the city at this time. Run by businesses, individuals, or service organizations, some of these libraries, like the Indian Orchard one, were free to all; others charged borrowers a fee. (continued) NPS Form 10-900-a 8-86) OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet 8 4 Indian Orchard Branch Library Springfield (Hampden Co.), MA Section number Page. By the late 19" century, Springfield's public library system had numerous branches. These were simply small collections of several dozen to a few hundred library books loaned out on a long-term basis to schools, churches, Sunday schools, businesses, and even post offices, fire stations, and carbarns for use by their members or employees or for lending to citizens. The city, however, had no permanent branches designated solely for library use. Indian Orchard's branch consisted of a collection of nearly 900 volumes borrowed from the central library and managed by a volunteer.
In 1901, Henry Kirke Wight, a businessman and life member of the City Library Association, began working to organize a more substantial branch library for Indian Orchard. A Brimfield native, Wight had worked for several manufacturers in Ludlow, Wilbraham, In O before settling in Indian O in 1874. The following year he built the Wight and Chapman block on Main Street and operated a grocery store there for ten years. This brick Victorian commercial building later became the Indian Orchard Branch Library's first home. In 1889, Wight turned his hand to manufacturing again, buying the Indian Orchard Company. Wight became involved in a number of different industries, serving as an officer for the Chapman Valve Company, the Metallic Drawing Roll Company, and the Hodges Fiber Carpet Company, as well as his own Wight-Thayer Company, which he organized in 1898.
Wight was active in city affairs, serving several terms on the board of Aldermen and the school board. His son, Ralph Waldo Wight, followed in his father's footsteps and became an alderman as well. When Henry Wight died in 1912, his obituary said: "He might as well be called 'the father of Indian Orchard,' as he had for a long term of years been the leader in all things which were for the benefit and upbuilding of that section of the city." Wight took an interest, not only in promoting Indian Orchard's future, but also in studying its past. When he died in 1912, Wight left behind a partially completed history of the community that he helped build.
(Henry Kirke Wight obituary, June 4, 1912, Connecticut Valley Historical Museum) In 1901, Wight donated space on the ground floor of his business building on the corner of Oak and Main Streets for the creation of a branch of the Springfield City Library. Nellie B. Dodge served as the branch's first librarian (Dodge later became the reference librarian at the central library). Wight persuaded a number of businesses to donate supplies and services for the new library. The United Electric Wire Company wired the room and provided a year's worth of electricity free of charge. George G. Makepeace donated s stove, Wight-Thayer Company contributed fuel, and Hodges Fiber Company donated curtains, while publishers G. & C. Merriam provided a dictionary. When the library formally opened, it became the city's first true branch library, with its own facilities and staff.
(continued) NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OM8 Approval No. 1024-0018 8 5 Indian Orchard Branch Library Springfield (Hampden Co.), MA Section number Page. At first the library's collection consisted primarily of children's literature and fiction. However, Indian Orchard's industrial workers quickly demanded technical literature and works in their native languages. Soon the library had a permanent collection of over a thousand books. The library responded to the neighborhood's needs by stocking books and periodicals in German, Polish, Russian, French, Italian, Swedish, and Armenian and by acquiring a large collection of technical and scientific literature. The new branch saw heavy use almost as soon as it opened.
It its first year circulation reached 6,035 volumes, which nearly doubled the following year. By 1907 the library was so heavily used that it was frequently standing room only; the next year "readers could not be seated" because the library was so well-used. In barely seven years the neighborhood had outgrown its library. The early 1900s were a time of new library construction in Springfield, due to the receipt of a large grant from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie gave funds for the construction of a new main library on State Street to replace the older Victorian Gothic building, which was now too small for the heavy use it received. Along with funding for the main library, Carnegie contributed $50,000 for the construction of three branch libraries: in Forest Park, in the North End and one in Indian Orchard.
Indian Orchard branch founder Wight began working with John Heydt, owner of the Indian Leap Hotel, to find a site for a permanent library building. The two businessmen donated a prime lot of land at the corner of Worcester and Oak Streets. A building committee selected an architect in a competition specifically restricted to Springfield designers. The committee chose John W. Donohue from the designers who competed for the project. A Springfield native, Donohue began his career working with his father, a master mason, in the civil engineering office of the Boston & Albany Railroad. Upon leaving this job, Donohue went to work with Francis Richmond, a prominent Springfield architect.
After opening his own office, Donohue made his reputation as the premier architect for Springfield's Catholic diocese, and was responsible for a number of churches and schools, including the campus for the College of Our Lady of the Elms in Chicopee. His Springfield church projects included Holy Family, Our lady of Hope, All Souls, Mount Carmel, and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. He also designed church and school buildings in Holyoke, Amherst, Worcester, West Springfield, Milford, Northampton and North Adams. Donohue worked in a number of historically based styles, from Gothic Revival to Spanish Mission Revival to Classical Revival. An obituary noted that "Mr. Donohue's chief contribution..lay...
in the true proportions, relative (continued) NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Indian Orchard Branch Library Springfield (Hampden Co.), MA Section number - Page - 6 simplicity and the uniform correctness with which he employed familiar architectural motifs and, by adapting them to their setting, gave them the stamp of his individuality." (undated obituary, March 5, 1941, Vertical Files, Connecticut Valley Historical Museum) The simple but elegant Classical Revival design Donohue created for the Indian Orchard Branch Library received national as well as local recognition. In 1911, The American Architect published an article featuring Donohue's design.
(photo #11) The site was surveyed by Durkee, White and Towne, and a barn and building occupied by the Frontenac Club moved to that construction could begin in June 1908 Construction work was done by R.E. and M.A. Davis and J.G. Roy and Company. E.C. Atwater and Company did the metal work, John McLeary and Sons installed the slate roof, George R. Estabrook furnished the heating equipment, and George Smith did the plumbing. The ornamental terra cotta was supplied by the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company of New York. Springfield stores Forbes and Wallace and Meekins, Packard and Weeks supplied most of the oak desks, chairs, and other furnishings, while the T.M. Walker company designed the oak shelving. Alderman Ralph W. Wight donated the loam for grading and landscaping.Poplar and hemlock trees were planted in a border along the western and northern property lines.
Some of the original hemlocks remain today. On March 18, 1909, the old library was closed, and its contents moved into the new building. A grand reception was held at the library's opening on March 26, 1909. The local paper noted that the "rooms were prettily decorated with ferns, palms, cut flowers, and dashes from the wild in pussy willows, pines, etc., and being brilliantly lighted, presented a most cheerful appearance." (Indian Orchard [no newspaper listed], March 27,1909) A description of the library's original color scheme appeared in a fiftieth anniversary history of the branch: "The vestibule was painted a deep, rich old rose, while the walls of the reading room were a soft, dull green. The Reference Room and librarian's office were a beautiful mauve. Fireplaces in either end added to its attractiveness." (History of the Indian Orchard Branch Library, Typescript, March 9, 1959.
Vertical Files, Connecticut Valley Historical Museum) By 1926 the library boasted a collection of 13,000 volumes and 19,000 pictures. Circulation grew rapidly during the first decades of the library's existence as Indian Orchard's population grew. The neighborhood doubled in size between 1903 and 1922, with the majority of the new residents coming from Springfield's new immigrant groups. By 1926 the Indian Orchard library had a collection of 650 foreign-language books (about 5 percent of the total collection) in German, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Armenian, Polish, Russian, French and Greek. (continued) NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 7 Indian Orchard Branch Library Springfield (Hampden Co.), MA Section number Page - The branch became actively involved in helping the new residents to become citizens, with library staff assisting in citizenship classes part of the National Citizen Education Program. The branch's 1920-21 annual report, describing the library staff's assistance with Americanization classes for immigrants, noted that "the branch is called upon to fill the place of a community house." A news article celebrating the library's twenty-fifth anniversary in 1926 commented of the Americanization of Indian Orchard's immigrant population. By that time, more than half of the area's foreign-born residents had become homeowners in the neighborhood, making the community their permanent home.
From its founding the Indian Orchard Branch Library has been active in outreach to area schools, both public and parochial. Annual reports are full of notations about library orientation classes for students, or special sections set aside for reserved reading for pupils. The library also functioned as a "mini-museum" for patrons, exhibiting displays of items from the Springfield Library and Museums collections, bringing those collections to patrons who could not make the trip downtown. Reading clubs and speakers were also popular among library patrons. In 1929, for example, Newberry Medal winning author Dr. Eric P. Kelly spoke about Polish art, literature, and music. In 1937, noted children's author and nearby resident Thornton Burgess drew a large audience.
During the Depression, the Indian Orchard Branch Library served as an important resource for neighborhood residents who had lost their jobs. A 1931-2 annual report attributes a sudden rise in circulation to the recent unemployment, with residents seeking information to help them find new jobs, inexpensive entertainment, or productive ways to spend their enforced leisure hours. The library's role as a social, as well as an educational, institution is emphasized in many of the branch's early annual reports. The branch's popularity as a local hang- out even caused problems among the staff, who founds themselves occasionally calling in local police to eject disruptive youngsters. The 1934-5 annual report comments favorably on the opening of a new E.R.A. activity center on Myrtle Street, which, it was hoped, would relieve some of the library's discipline problems.
"For the first time since the present Branch Librarian has been here, there has been a free place available for all ages, where it was light, warm and comfortable, and where people could be sociable and talk...the Branch offered the only free diversion before." A 1952 essay written in defense of the library noted that "when people have a problem they automatically think of the library." The writer emphasized the community's dependence on the branch, (continued) NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 8 8 Section number. Indian Orchard Branch Library Springfield (Hampden Co.), MA Page citing heavy library use by schools, immigrant residents, churches, and clubs.
The library was so much a part of the community, the writer concluded, that Indian Orchard residents "would never let it go without a bitter fight." ("Is Indian Orchard Branch Justified?") Throughout the library's history, Indian Orchard residents have given it strong support, contributing funding, supplies, time and labor to maintain and improve it. In 1938, for example, two Boy Scouts, Arthur Winter and William Peterson, carved a pair of massive wooden totem poles and installed them in the children's room, where they have been a popular fixture for fifty years. More recently, in 1983 the Indian Orchard Citizens Council coordinated a neighborhood project to landscape the library's site, enlisting youth volunteers, merchants, library staff and city government to plant shrubs around the building.
The project received an Urban Beauty Award from the Springfield Women's Club, which cited the "commitment of an entire community....to improve and enhance something very dear and important to all involved." (Frances Gagnon, quoted by Suzanne Strempek, Daily News, February 14, 1983, p. 20) In 1982 and again in 1990, when the branch was threatened with closing, residents came out in force to petition city officials to keep the library, demonstrating their recognition of the library's value as a community resource. Archaeological Significance Historic archaeological resources described above have the potential to provide detailed information on the settlement of a 19th century Springfield neighborhood and the ways it adapted to suburban growth.
Careful mapping of structural remains from the Frontenac Club and barn combined with detailed analysis of occupational related features can provide information relating to the growth of the French Canadian community. These studies can indicate the extent to which the French Canadian community adapted to life with the local Yankee population or reinforced its ethnicity and the role social clubs played in this process. Archaeological resources associated with the barn can also contribute information relating to 1gth century modes of transportation available to the local population. (end) NPS Form 10-900-2 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number - Page - 9. BIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Indian Orchard Branch Library Springfield (Hampden Co.), MA - Bauer, Frank.
At the Crossroads: Springfield, Massachusetts, 1636-1975. Springfield: USA Bicentennial Committee of Springfield, Inc., 1975 Biographical Review. Boston: Biographical Review Publishing Co., 1895 City Library Association. Annual Reports, 1902-1983. Connecticut Valley Historical Museum. Local History Vertical Files: "Biography: Donohue, John W.", "Biography: Wight, Henry Kirke," "History: Indian Orchard," "Museums and Libraries: City Library - Branches - Indian Orchard." Connecticut Valley Historical Museum. "Springfield Scrapbooks." D'Amato, Donald J. Springfield - 350 Years: A Pictorial History. Norfolk, VA: Donning, 1985. Everts, Louis H. History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1879. Frisch, Michael H.
Town Into City: Springfield, Massachusetts and the Meaning of Community, 1840-1880. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972. Gagnon, Frances. "Indian Orchard: Village with a Separate Identity," Springfield Journal, August 23, 1990, p. 1 Indian Orchard Branch Library. Annual Reports, 1920-1974. Insurance Maps of Springfield, Massachusetts. New York: Sanborn Map Co., 1886, 1896, 1911, 1931. Johnson, Clifton. Hampden County, 1636-1936. New York: American Historical Society, 1936 King, Moses, ed. King's Handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts. Springfield: James D. Bill, Publisher, 1884. (continued) NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet 2 Section number Page OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Indian Orchard Branch Library Springfield (Hampden Co.), MA Konig, Michael, and Kaufman, Martin.
Springfield, 1636-1986. Springfield, 1987. Richards Map of the City of Springfield. Springfield: L.J. Richards Map Co., 1899, 1910, 1920 Springfield City Directories, 1890-1920. Springfield Library and Museums Association. Trustees Records, May 1864-June 1925. Springfield's Ethnic Heritage: The French and French Canadian Community. Springfield: USA Bicentennial Committee of Springfield, Inc., 1976. Wright, Harry Andrew. The Story of Western Massachusetts. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1949. (end) Indian Orchard Branch Library Name of Property 10. Geographical Data Hampden, MA County and State Acreage of Property less than one UTM References See continuation sheet. (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet) 1. 18 706160 4670240 Zone Easting Northing 2.18 706220 4670230 Zone Easting Northing 3. 18 706220 Zone Easting 4.
18 706160 Zone Easting _ See continuation sheet 4670190 Northing 4670180 Northing Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Prepared By name/titleMichele Plourde-Barker, Consultant, with Betsy Friedberg, MHC, NR Director organization_Massachusetts Historical Commission street & number 220 Morrissey Boulevard date January 1999 617-727-8470 city or town Boston _ state_MA telephone _zip code_ 02125 Additional Documentation Submit the following items with the completed form: Continuation Sheets Maps A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. A sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. Photographs Representative black and white photographs of the property.
Additional items (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) Property Owner (Complete this item at the request of the SHPO or FPO.) name _ Springfield Library and Museum Association street & number 220 State Street city or town Springfield telephone_ state MA 413-263-6800 zip code 01103 Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings. Response to this request is required to obtain a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C.
470 et sea.), Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimatedto average 18.1 hours per response including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of this form to the Chief, Administrative Services Division, National Park Service, P.0. Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127; and the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Project (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503.NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) (PSFom 10-900-2 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet 10 Section number 1 Page - OMB ApprovalNo. 1024-0018 Indian Orchard Branch Library Springfield (Hampden Co.), MA 10.
GEOGRAPHICAL DATA Verbal Boundary Description and Justification The boundary for the property is the same as the boundary for the building lot on which the structure stands. The property begins at the northwest corner of Worcester and Oak Streets and runs northerly along Oak Street 150 feet, thence westerly 170 feet, thence southerly 150 to Worcester Street, thence easterly 170 feet to the point of beginning. (end) (IPSFomm 10-200-s United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number photos Page OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Indian Orchard Branch Library Springfield (Hampden Co.), MA PHOTOGRAPHS Photographer: Michele Plourde-Barker Date: February, 1998 Negatives: Connecticut Valley Historical Museum 1. Oak Street, view facing southwest 2. Neighborhood setting, facing north 3.
Oak Street facade, view facing northwest 4. Worcester Street facade and rear, view facing northeast 5. Vestibule, view facing east 6. Interior, view facing north 7. Children's section, fireplace and totem pole, facing north 8. Reading room and fireplace, facing south 9. Study area, camera facing southeast (end) : VEméL LIBRARLAM 6 x 11 M REERENCE =* TACK PerT TORL 167 PNSAGE 5 icLa STVDY RCOM 8"12.6° Dunczy Derk Drinrey - - READING ROOM- -CMIDREN- 2-0 156 - RIADING ROOM.. - ADYLTU- iA.o remorLE CLO aa TPOrCH. Apoticial aroltar - J00sif Cubiral contents, botta of foting,tamran hrigbt of not, nol'inclading chinag starkuoe minar projeetion - 88,458.
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16320 FENCE STORE HOUSE STREET 65.55 PICKER WOOX MILL "2 119,14 25706 172.16 199.63 STREET 1219 BRIDGE EgOn BL. 886 WASTE TTIN BRIDGE 26.00 PLATEORM - T7IW IDGE STORE 988 LLSABER PiS 3A0 3SNOH MILL "4 STABLE GARAGE BOILER HOUSE 209415 1.00010. CHICOPEE RIVER NO.1 ELL 91:35 DATA CORPEETE TA W.P.A. PROPERTY SURVEY PROJECT 203 BUILDING DEPARTMENT ETRD BY MAXTIN 2.50 993 ES'DEPETIE CRAL JOVE LINEIAT The Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth January 12, 1999 Massachusetts Historical Commission Ms. Carol Shull National Register of Historic Places Department of the Interior National Park Service Mail Stop 2280, Suite 400 1849 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20240 Dear Ms.
Shull: Enclosed please find the following nomination form: Indian Orchard Branch Library, 44 Oak Street, Springfield (Hampden Co.), MA The nomination has been voted eligible by the State Review Board and has been signed by the State Historic Preservation Officer. The owners of the property were notified of pending State Review Board consideration 30 to 45 days before the meeting and were afforded the opportunity to comment. Sincerely, beti Betsy Friedberg National Register Director Massachusetts Historical Commission enclosure cc: Emily Bader, Director, Springfield Library and Museum Association Michele Plourde-Barker, Preservation Consultant, Connecticut Valley Historical Museum Frances M. Gagnon, Chair, Springfield Historical Commission Hon.
Michael Albano, Mayor, City of Springfield Bonnie Parsons, PVPC 220 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125 - (617) 727-8470 www.state.ma.us/sec/mhc
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