National Register of Historic Places
Hampden County Training School
Agawam, Hampden County, Massachusetts
The record
- Listed
- August 17, 2018
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 702 S Westfield St., Agawam
- County
- Hampden
- State
- Massachusetts
- Contributing resources
- 1 building
- Coordinates
- 42.04428, -72.67347
- Reference number
- 100002781
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The story
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Hampden County Training School is a Classical Revival building at 702 S Westfield St. in Agawam, built starting in 1916 and completed in November 1917. George Perkins Bissell Alderman was the architect, and general contractor John J. O'Neill built it under a 1916 contract with Hampden County.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with local-level significance in architecture, education, politics/government and social history. Its period of significance runs from 1916 to 1972, the years the Hampden County Training School was in operation.
Physical character
The building has a central two-story flat-roofed entry portico with four colossal Roman Ionic wooden columns, and its basement is faced in cast concrete while the two upper floors are red brick under a hipped slate roof. Windows are mostly 6/6 or 8/8 sash with matching transoms set in pairs, and the doors are Kalamein, white pine covered with 24-gauge steel.
Historical context
The school opened in 1916 and closed in June 1972; a 1930 census counted 13 employees and 50 inmates there. The building was renovated in 1984 as a police academy training center, stood vacant from 2005 to 2017, then was rehabilitated that year by Soldier On as housing for homeless veterans.