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
Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author of The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts - A Northern Factory Town's Perspective on the Civil War; Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke, Massachusetts; States of Mind: New England; as well as books on classic films and several novels. Her latest book is Christmas in Classic Films. TO JOIN HER READERS' GROUP - follow this link for a free book as a thank-you for joining.
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