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Mount Holyoke Summit House Mt Holyoke Hotel, showing summit house and covered electric tram circa 1931. In 1821, an 18-by-24-foot (5.5 by 7.3 m) guest cabin was built on Mount Holyoke by a local committee—one of the first New England summit houses.
The state park surrounds Mount Holyoke, the westernmost peak of the Mount Holyoke Range. At the summit is the historic Prospect House, an old hotel first opened in 1851. [3] The park is managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. [4]
Mount Holyoke Summit House In 1821, an 18-by-24-foot (5.5 by 7.3 m) guest cabin was built on Mount Holyoke by a local committee—one of the first New England summit houses. The property changed hands several times between 1821 and 1851, when it was bought and rebuilt as a two-story, eight-room hotel.
Left to right: Different versions of the Mount Tom Summit House; the first proposed design, unbuilt, c. 1897; the first summit house, which President McKinley visited in 1899, razed in a fire in 1900; the second summit house with its iconic tower, built in 1901 and razed by fire in 1929, it and the first were designed by Holyoke architect James ...
English: The first Summit House of the Mount Tom Railroad, as seen in an 1898 postcard. Note the many flags adorning its roof line, including Cuba, Germany, Canada (pre-maple leaf flag), among possible others. This was the Summit House which President McKinley and his wife would visit in 1899.
The Mount Tom Summit House. Postcard dated 1898–1900. In 1861, following the success of the hotel on the summit of Mount Holyoke across the river, William Street opened a summit hotel on Mount Nonotuck and named it Eyrie House.
President McKinley and First Lady Ida Saxton leaving the Summit House on Mount Tom, June 20, 1899. 1899; February 26: A meeting is held between the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste d'Holyoke and counterparts in other cities to form the Union Saint-Jean-Baptiste d'Amérique, a Franco-American benefit society. [65]
The district includes much of the area in Hadley west of Mount Holyoke and east of the river. Its formal boundaries run from Hockanum Cemetery in the southwest, following the river and the summit ridge of Mount Holyoke to the northeast corner of J.A. Skinner State Park. It includes the summit area of Mount Holyoke, including the Summit House ...