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Knox joined with his former employer, Elihu H. Cutler of the Elektron Company to form the Knox Automobile Company in Springfield Massachusetts in 1900. [2] The Waltham Watch Company factory was purchased and Knox built 15 cars in their first year. [3] The Knox Model A was a three-wheel runabout with a 5-hp one-cylinder air-cooled engine.
Founded by Charles Duryea and his brother Frank, the company built the Duryea Motor Wagon, a one-cylinder four-horsepower car, [1] first demonstrated on September 21, 1893, in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Taylor Street in Metro Center. It is considered the first successful gas-engine vehicle built in the U.S.
Interstate 291 (I-291), also known as the Springfield Expressway, [3] is a 5.44-mile (8.75 km) auxiliary Interstate Highway in Massachusetts that links I-91 in downtown Springfield with I-90 (Massachusetts Turnpike) in Chicopee. I-291 is roughly a northeast–southwest highway. It merges with I-91 at its southwestern terminus, via a flyover.
See: List of tallest buildings in Springfield, Massachusetts. As of 2011, Springfield's skyline features relatively fewer skyscrapers than most of its peer cities. The reason for this has to do with the 1908 construction of Springfield's neo-classical 1200 Main Street building, also known as 101 State Street. The building stands at 125 feet (38 ...
Granville Brothers Aircraft was an aircraft manufacturer from 1929 until its bankruptcy in 1934 that was located at the Springfield Airport in Springfield, Massachusetts. [1] The Granville Brothers—Zantford, Thomas, Robert, Mark and Edward—are best known for the three Gee Bee Super Sportster racers, the Models Z , R-1 and R-2 .
Primus P. Mason donated Mason Square to the city for public use and sold considerable land to the McKnight Brothers, which became their eponymous neighborhood. In 1870, a group of business people led by brothers William and John McKnight planned the McKnight District as a residential community; most of it was constructed between 1870 and 1900.
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Pine Point is a neighborhood in Springfield, Massachusetts. Located along Boston Road-- one of Springfield's commercial thoroughfares, was home to the Eastfield Mall-- the middle-class Pine Point neighborhoods features streets of cozy capes and ranches as well as some of the most interesting Craftsman style bungalows in the region. [1]