Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1972. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“The Hadley Falls Company Housing District is a residential historic district encompassing a compact tract of factory worker housing in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Built in 1847-48, it is one of the earliest and largest surviving examples of company-built worker housing in the state.”
Wikipedia article Hadley Falls Company Housing District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 123 National Register listings in Hampden County · listed in 1972 · category: District.
National Register reference number.72000133- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
333 since 2014
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 333 fires within 5 miles of Hadley Falls Company Housing District between
2014 and 2020, burning about 190 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
138
Equipment and vehicle use
122
Debris and open burning
29
Natural
28
Recreation and ceremony
11
Smoking
2
Arson/incendiarism
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 2,167 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Hadley Falls Company Housing District between 1831 and
1975: 1,082 Plantae, 713 Animalia, 343 Fungi, 14 Chromista, 9 Unrecorded, 5 Protozoa, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Albee, A. B. Seymour, A. C. Gibson and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
22 workings within 5 miles of Hadley Falls Company Housing District: 11 past producers, 10 producers, 1 plant.
11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Brick Clay, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Holyoke, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 5 flood, 3 hail.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Four golfers were struck by lightning while standing in a shelter at the Wycoff Country Club. All were wearing cleats. Three were seriously injured and the other received minor injury. Two went into cardiac arrest. Three of the injured were recovering at local area hospitals. The lightning apparently struck a nearby tree and then jumped to the shelter.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
From the nomination file
2,397 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Statement of significance
The Hadley Falls Company Housing District consists of five rows of workers' housing, \the work of the mill engineer John Chase and contractor Charles McClallan. Construction having begun in 1848 by the Hadley Falls Company, these blocks belong to what was the largest domestic grouping of its period and type in Massachusetts. In Holyoke, they represent not only the earliest of the few examples of housing built by a manufacturing firm specifically for its employees, but also the best tenement architecture of this and the next decade. The incorporation of the Hadley Falls Company in 1847 initiated the development of Holyoke as a major diversified industrial center in the northeastern United Statesa Founders of the Company, including Thomas H. Perkins, George W.
Lyman and Edmund Dwight, intended to duplicate the successful Lowell venture by erecting and maintaining a massive dam across the Connecticut River, developing a system of locks and power and navigational canals, raising and operating verious industrial establishments with their associated workers' housing, and selling the remaining water privileges. T61 RECEIVED SO 1972 REGIST
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 72000133, 14 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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