Wednesday, January 4, 2023

Nonotuck to Roger Smith to Holyoke House - Holyoke, Massachusetts


The Nonotuck Hotel, pictured in this 1919 postcard, opened in 1915 on the corner of Suffolk and Maple streets.  It later became the Roger Smith Hotel, part of the chain of hotels that began in Connecticut in 1928.  This one in Holyoke joined the chain and changed its name in 1937.  (The chain no longer exists - there is only one Roger Smith Hotel remaining in Manhattan.)


By the 1960s, the Roger Smith in Holyoke became The Holyoke House.  The building was sold at auction in 2014.

photo by JT Lynch


photo by JT Lynch




 

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