During the late 19th and early 20th centuries Holyoke saw an influx of Franco-Americans, predominantly French-Canadians, who immigrated to Massachusetts to work in the city's growing textile and paper
Le Cercle Rochambeau drama troupe performing a play for the city centennial, 1973
The charred ruins of the first Precious Blood Church c. June 1875; the new building appears under construction to the right, with the Loreto House of Providence Ministries visible in the background, used at one time as the Precious Blood School
The second building of the Precious Blood Church, a.k.a. L'Eglise du Precieux Sang, 1891
The original site of the Notre Dame du Perpetual Secours church, by known today in English as "Our Lady of Perpetual Help", adjacent to Pulaski Park
Oscar Beauchemin
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Oscar Beauchemin was an American architect, and civil engineer based out of Holyoke, Massachusetts who designed a number of tenements and commercial blocks in the Greater Springfield area, and whose w
Portrait of Beauchemin, c. 1938
The J.R. Smith Building, also known as the Prew Building, built 1906
The former Central Fire Station, redeveloped as the Holyoke Transportation Center in 2010
Gauthier Block, built c. 1910