National Register of Historic Places
Westfield Center Historic District
Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts
The record
- Listed
- June 25, 2013
- Type
- Historic district
- Address
- 0-362 Elm, 2-86 Broad, 0-83 Court, 2-24 Main, 0-71 N. Elm, Chestnut, W. Silver & Union Sts., Westfield
- County
- Hampden
- State
- Massachusetts
- Contributing resources
- 430 buildings, 14 structures, 39 sites, 19 objects
- Coordinates
- 42.12296, -72.75223
- Reference number
- 13000441
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The story
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The Westfield Center Historic District is a 157-acre district in Westfield, Hampden County, with addresses on Elm, Broad, Court and Main streets, among others. Its buildings range in style from Georgian and Federal to Italianate, Queen Anne and Art Deco.
Why it's listed
It was listed in the National Register in 2013 with local significance in architecture, commerce, and community planning and development.
Physical character
Red and yellow brick walls stand beside walls of limestone, granite and clapboard, on foundations of granite, fieldstone or brick, under slate, metal or asphalt-shingle roofs. Features among the buildings include a cast-iron storefront, a corner tower, colossal fluted piers, and Art Deco spandrels with a pattern of triple inset squares. One house was moved to its present location between 1850 and 1870, and around 1900 a house was given Colonial Revival alterations, including a pent roof on the south and east elevations and two shed-roof dormers on the south roof. Work in the district is attributed to architects including Charles Bulfinch, Chauncy Shepard and the firm of Clough and Reid.
Historical context
Westfield was incorporated in 1669, the year Woronoco petitioned to become a separate township, and a second meetinghouse stood by 1721. Between 1936 and 1946 O'Masters' Home Store replaced the Woodbine Building, and in 2009 a bridge was replaced.