{"id":2099,"date":"2011-11-04T09:23:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T16:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2011-11-04T09:23:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T16:23:39","slug":"george-perkins-bissell-alderman-well-known-architect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/04\/george-perkins-bissell-alderman-well-known-architect\/","title":{"rendered":"George Perkins Bissell Alderman, Well Known Architect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2101\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mhcholyoke43.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2101\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2101\" title=\"Holyoke High School\" src=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mhcholyoke43-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"Holyoke High School\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mhcholyoke43-300x184.jpg 300w, http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mhcholyoke43.jpg 409w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holyoke High School<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On 03 November 1942, well-known architect George Perkins Bissell Alderman died, his obituary appeared in newspapers the following day.     At the time of his death, Alderman resided at 76 Westfield Road and had been in Holyoke Hospital for nearly a week. A few of   the numerous buildings Alderman designed are listed below, but if you are from or have lived in Holyoke you have   seen (and probably been inside) G. P. B. Alderman&#8217;s work:<\/p>\n<ul> Park National Bank<br \/>\nRackliffe Building on Suffolk Street<br \/>\nElks Home<br \/>\nMasonic Temple (Chestnut Street)<br \/>\nBuildings for A. Steiger &amp; Co. in Holyoke, Springfield, New Bedford, Fall River and Port Chester, NY.<br \/>\nFirst Congregational Church<br \/>\nMater Dolorosa Church<br \/>\nEvangelical Lutheran Church<br \/>\nHolyoke High School, Trade School and William Whiting School<\/ul>\n<p>The Masonic Lodge:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2103\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mas1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2103\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2103\" title=\"Holyoke's Masonic Lodge\" src=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mas1-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"Holyoke's Masonic Lodge\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mas1-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mas1.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holyoke&#39;s Masonic Lodge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Alderman family plot is in Forestdale cemetery, Section P-1.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2104\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/s14-046a.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2104\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2104\" title=\"Alderman Tombstone, Forestdale Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/s14-046a-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"Alderman Tombstone, Forestdale Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/s14-046a-300x227.jpg 300w, http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/s14-046a.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alderman Tombstone, Forestdale Cemetery<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2105\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/s14-046.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2105\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2105\" title=\"Alderman Tombstone, Forestdale Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/s14-046-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"Alderman Tombstone, Forestdale Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/s14-046-300x219.jpg 300w, http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/s14-046.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alderman Tombstone, Forestdale Cemetery<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 03 November 1942, well-known architect George Perkins Bissell Alderman died, his obituary appeared in newspapers the following day. At the time of his death, Alderman resided at 76 Westfield Road and had been in Holyoke Hospital for nearly a week. A few of the numerous buildings Alderman designed are listed below, but if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,40,7],"tags":[460,129],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2109,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions\/2109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}