{"id":638,"date":"2009-08-20T08:42:16","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T15:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=638"},"modified":"2009-08-20T08:42:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T15:42:16","slug":"merrick-homestead-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/20\/merrick-homestead-sold\/","title":{"rendered":"Merrick Homestead Sold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>August 20, 1908, page 10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rev. P. B. Phelan the Buyer &#8212; Belief That Home for Working Girls May be Established There.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_639\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/remerrick.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-639\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-639\" title=\"remerrick\" src=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/remerrick-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"Country Seat of Timothy Merrick\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/remerrick-300x209.jpg 300w, http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/remerrick.jpg 514w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Country Seat of Timothy Merrick<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A big real estate deal was closed yesterday, when Rev. P. B. Phelan, pastor of the Sacred Heart church, purchased the Merrick homestead of the Merrick estate.   The property is considered one of the most valuable pieces of land in Elmwood, and contains a large house with land frontage of 387 feet on Northampton street and 638 feet on Westfield road, containing in all 269,000 square feet.   The valuation given on the land is $32,500, and although the price paid could not be learned last evening, it probably was a great deal more that that sum.   The estate has recently received offers of from $27,000 to $30,000 for the property, and it is believed that it will be able to obtain at least $37,000 for the homestead.   Rev. Mr. Phelan could not be reached last evening to learn what use he would place the newly acquired property, bit there are some rumors about for some time that he was thinking of establishing a home for working girls, and it may be that it will be used for that purpose.   The new purchase will make a valuable addition to the Sacred Heart property.<\/p>\n<p>From <em>The Springfield Republican<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 20, 1908, page 10 Rev. P. B. Phelan the Buyer &#8212; Belief That Home for Working Girls May be Established There. A big real estate deal was closed yesterday, when Rev. P. B. Phelan, pastor of the Sacred Heart church, purchased the Merrick homestead of the Merrick estate. The property is considered one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,102],"tags":[181,182,183],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638"}],"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=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}