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  • Collection: Chicopee Falls Urban Renewal Survey Photographs

Main Street in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts looking towards the Chicopee River and the Falls Bridge in the 1920s. People are out walking dressed in…

Trollies, run by the Holyoke Street Railway Company, were used extensively in Chicopee until the late 1930s. Shown here is one that has crossed over…

View of the Royal Theater located at the intersection of Main Street and Montgomery Street.

The Hotel De Gray at the corner of Main and Church Streets in Chicopee Falls decked out for the Fourth-of-July around 1910.

The Falls Theater, on Main Street near Belcher Street, was the location in the Falls for movies and entertainment. The Falls View Apartments are…

View of the American House from 1919. It was on Main and Court Streets where the current District Court building is located.

Tausher Diner, located on the corner of Church and Court Street in 1966.

Stanley's Medical Center on Main Street in Chicopee Falls was located across from the post office and near the train station.

Market Street in Chicopee Falls showing the St. Michael's Church at the end of the block.

Savage Arms Company facility looking south along Broadway Street in Chicopee Falls. Broadway Street runs through the manufacturing plant facilities…

Savage Arms Company facility along Broadway and Linden Streets in Chicopee Falls. Broadway Street runs through the manufacturing plant facilities with…

A color post card showing Main Street in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts looking towards the Chicopee River and the Falls Bridge.

What was once the Hotel De Gray, a three story hotel in the heart of Chicopee Falls, became a two story center for small businesses, including…

Main Street and the Old Skip Cafe. One of the many cafes and watering holes that catered to the mill and manufacturing workers in Chicopee Falls…

Main Street in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts looking towards the Chicopee River and the Falls Bridge in the 1920s.

Main Street in Chicopee Falls looking West along the Mitchell's Bakery building. The freight train station is at the end of he block with a men's club…

Intersection of Main and Church Streets in Chicopee Falls showing the Falls Inn, the Rex Club and Frank's Hardware Store.

MacArthur's Ball is named for Chicopee native Lt. General Arthur MacArthur Jr., Medal of Honor Recipient in the Civil War. The monument, a five ton…

Entrance and parking lot of the Joseph Orwat and Sons Inc., General Contractors on Main Street in Chicopee Falls.

Ziemba's storefront on Church Street in Chicopee Falls. The store sold shoes, furnishings, dry goods and notions. Edward J. Ziemba, Chicopee Mayor…

The original J. Stevens Arms building in 1864. J. Stevens Arms was an American firearms manufacturer founded by Joshua Stevens in 1864 in Chicopee,…

The entrance of Grattan Street across the Chicopee River from Chicopee Falls showing the Deady Memorial Bridge and the Chicopee Manufacturing Company.

View of Frank's Hardware store located at the corner of Church and Main Streets in Chicopee Falls.

View of the front of the Church Street School, which was the USO during World War II and then the Community Center for Chicopee Falls. It was torn…

A color post card showing the Chicopee Falls Savings Bank on Main Street in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts.

Belcher Street looking North towards the Baptist Church and its attached buildings. The church is still located in the same place today.

Aerial of the Savage Arms Company facility along Broadway Street in Chicopee Falls. Broadway Street runs through the manufacturing plant facilities…

Looking across the Falls Bridge at the Chicopee Manufacturing building. The Lamb Knitting Company and Savage Arms also used the building before it…

Eighty-eight Church Street is the house located to the right of the Church Street School. It belonged to the Whitimore family before being torn down…

117 Court Street was a Queen Anne Style house that was among the buildings torn down in the Chicopee Falls Urban Renewal project.

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