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Forest Park, Springfield, Massachusetts

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Within the park for which the neighborhood is named are a zoo, walking and hiking trails, promenades, playgrounds, lakes and ponds, a formal rose garden, the Barney Carriage House, sculptures, baseball diamonds, basketball courts, tennis courts, bocce courts, lawn bowling fields, and a hockey arena,
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Cyr Arena. During the winter holiday season, the park features a lighting display, Bright Nights, a 2.6-mile trail of large, intricate, animated lighting displays. The 18-hole Franconia Municipal Golf Course is also in the neighborhood.
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Forest Park also contains a branch library, the Jewish Community Center, and a commercial district known as the "X," at the intersection of Sumner Avenue, Belmont Avenue, and Dickinson Street.
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in 2010. East of the park is the Trafton Road area with Colonials and Tudors dating from the 1920s. Further east in this tree-filled neighborhood are pockets of
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Georgetown, on the Longmeadow town line, is the neighborhood's largest condominium complex, and there are smaller condo complexes in the area.
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separates Forest Park from the Connecticut River. A 195-acre section of the neighborhood was listed on the
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homes. This neighborhood was named one of the Northeast's "Best Old House Neighborhoods" by
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This article is about the Forest Park neighborhood. For the municipal park, see
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was developed between 1890 and 1910, and includes gracious
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Forest Park Heights Historic District
Forest Park (Springfield, Massachusetts)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Forest Park, Springfield, Massachusetts is located in Massachusetts
Forest Park, Springfield, Massachusetts is located in the United States
Springfield, Massachusetts
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Victorian
Springfield, Massachusetts
Forest Park
I-91
National Register of Historic Places
Forest Park Heights Historic District
Colonial Revival
Tudor Revival
Queen Anne
Shingle Style
This Old House
American Craftsman

National Register of Historic Places listings in Springfield, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampden County, Massachusetts


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service

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