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Old Town Hall, Springfield Mass
Springfield’s old town hall building on State Street near Main Street, around 1892.  Image from Picturesque Hampden (1892). The scene in 2015: The building in the first photo once served as...
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State and Main Streets, Springfield Mass
Foot’s Block at the southwest corner of State and Main Streets in Springfield, around 1892. Image from Picturesque Hampden (1892). The location around 1910. Image from View Book of Springfield (1910)...
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State Street, Springfield, Mass
The view looking west on State Street from Myrtle Street in Springfield, around 1913. Image from Progressive Springfield, Massachusetts (1913). State Street in 2015: The first photo shows roughly the...
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Alexander House, Springfield, Mass
The Alexander House on State Street in Springfield, around 1905. Image from Springfield, Present and Prospective (1905). The site in 2015: The Alexander House was one of many elegant homes that once...
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First Baptist Church, Springfield, Mass
First Baptist Church at the corner of State and Spring Streets in Springfield, around 1892. Image from Picturesque Hampden (1892). The scene in 2015: For several centuries, Congregationalism was the...
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Olivet Church, Springfield, Mass
The Olivet Congregational Church on State Street in Springfield, around 1892. Image from Picturesque Hampden (1892). The scene in 2015: For the first two centuries of Springfield’s history, most of the...
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Westminster Street from State Street, Springfield, Mass
Looking north on Westminster Street from State Street in Springfield, probably around 1900-1920. Image courtesy of Jim Boone. The scene in 2017: About 50 years before the first photo was taken, this...
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Unitarian Church, Springfield, Mass
The Unitarian church at the corner of State and Willow Streets in Springfield, probably sometime in the 1860s. Image from Picturesque Hampden (1892). The scene in 2017: Â For nearly 200 years, the...
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Brewer Building, Springfield, Mass
The Brewer Building at 119-125 State Street, near the corner of Main Street in Springfield, around 1938-1939. Image courtesy of the Springfield Preservation Trust. The scene in 2017: This four-story...
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Radding Building, Springfield, Mass
The Radding Building, at the corner of State and Willow Streets in Springfield, around 1938-1939. Image courtesy of the Springfield Preservation Trust. The building in 2017: This eight-story, Classical...
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James Scutt Dwight House, Springfield, Mass
The house at the northwest corner of State and Dwight Streets in Springfield, around 1893. Image from Sketches of the old inhabitants and other citizens of old Springfield (1893). The scene in 2018:...
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429-435 State Street, Springfield, Mass
The building at 429-435 State Street in Springfield, around 1938-1939. Image courtesy of the Springfield Preservation Trust. The scene in 2019: This building was probably constructed sometime around...
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423-427 State Street, Springfield, Mass
The building at 423-427 State Street in Springfield, around 1938-1939. Image courtesy of the Springfield Preservation Trust. The scene in 2019: It seems difficult to determine exactly when this...
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High School of Commerce, Springfield, Mass
The High School of Commerce on State Street in Springfield, around 1915-1920. Image from the Russ Birchall Collection at ImageMuseum. The school in 2019: During the late 19th and early 20th centuries,...
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Monarch Life Insurance Company Building, Springfield, Mass
The offices of the Monarch Life Insurance Company at 365 State Street in Springfield, around 1938-1939. Image courtesy of the Springfield Preservation Trust. The building in 2019: This building was...
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James W. Kirkham House, Springfield, Mass
The house at 265 State Street in Springfield, around 1938-1939. Image courtesy of the Springfield Preservation Trust. The house in 2019: This house was completed in 1883 as the home of James W....
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State Street Baptist Church, Springfield, Mass
The State Street Baptist Church, at the corner of State and Dwight Streets in Springfield, around the 1870s or 1880s. Image courtesy of the New York Public Library. The scene in 2019: The State Street...
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Alexander House Interior, Springfield, Mass
The east room on the first floor of the Alexander House in Springfield, on December 2, 1938. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey collection. The room in 2019:...
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Alexander House Staircase, Springfield, Mass
The main staircase of the Alexander House in Springfield, on December 2, 1938. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey collection. The scene in 2019: As discussed...
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