Trinity Block

Trinity Block

Trinity Block
Location 266-84 Bridge Street
Springfield, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°6′15″N 72°35′35″W / 42.10417°N 72.59306°W / 42.10417; -72.59306Coordinates: 42°6′15″N 72°35′35″W / 42.10417°N 72.59306°W / 42.10417; -72.59306
Built 1923
Architect Green,Samuel M.
Architectural style Early Commercial
MPS Downtown Springfield MRA
NRHP Reference #

83000771

[1]
Added to NRHP February 24, 1983

The Trinity Block is a historic commercial building at 266-284 Bridge Street in downtown Springfield, Massachusetts. The three story building is faced in cast stone and terra cotta, and exhibits a variety and creativity of uses of Classical Revival design elements. The building has retail space on the first floor and offices above. It was built in 1923 by local developer Samuel F. Green on the site previously occupied by Trinity Methodist Church.[2] and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]

Trinity Church

Trinity Church

The Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, established in 1844 as the Union Street Methodist Church, was built on this site in 1869.[3] The building, designed by Perkins & Gardner of Springfield,[4] was built in the Romanesque Revival style. It was demolished in 1922.[5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "NRHP nomination for Trinity Block". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2013-12-14.
  3. ↑ King's Handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts: A Series of Monographs, Historical and Descriptive. Ed. Moses King. Springfield: James D. Gill, 1884.
  4. ↑ Withey, Henry F. and Elsie Rathburn Withey. "Gardner, Eugene C". Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased). Los Angeles: New Age Publishing, 1956.
  5. ↑ "SPR.44". mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n.d.
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