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holyoke

3 Porch Notes tagged “holyoke,” from counties across Colorado.

History and culture - Phillips County

Why Phillips County's towns line up the way they do

Holyoke, Haxtun, Paoli, and Amherst grew up as evenly spaced railroad towns along a line built across the plains in the late 1800s.

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History and culture - Phillips County

Holyoke's courthouse is a New Deal landmark you can walk right up to

The 1935 Phillips County Courthouse in Holyoke is a Moderne-style Public Works Administration building on the National Register, and the only surviving PWA project in the county.

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History and culture - Phillips County

The Heginbotham House: a banker's home that became Holyoke's library

Holyoke's public library sits in the historic W.E. Heginbotham House, a 1920s brick home built for a local banker and documented by History Colorado.

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