Western Massachusetts just got walloped with two big snow storms and most of us are snowed in. While working from home today I asked on Twitter if there was anything real estate related that my Western Massachusetts friends would like me to write about. I got this question from Karen Lynn @sipclipandgo on Twitter, who owns a 1953 brick home in the area:
I’d like to know why there are so many brick homes in South Hadley and Chicopee.
So, I embarked on some good old fashioned research on Google and discovered a few clues, but not as much information as I would have thought.
I suspected that there must have been a local brickyard and after quite a lot of digging around I found that South Hadley was home to Robinson’s Brickyard. Interestingly, there isn’t much information available on this business, at least that I could find.
What I did discover, though, was that the heyday of this brickyard was in the late 1800’s and the brick homes that are in question were built largely in the 1950’s.
So, I turn this question over to you…
Do you know why brick construction is so prevalent in South Hadley and Chicopee, MA? Inquiring minds want to know!
