McKnight, Springfield, Massachusetts (and Mason Square)

McKnight was built on land originally considered to be "unimprovable pine barrens" when the Springfield Armory and the area around it was laid out in the 1780s.

McKnight contains Massachusetts' largest array of Victorian houses outside of Greater Boston.

[2] The neighborhood's 900 ornate homes are part of a district listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

[1][3] Several small decorative open spaces were built by the original developers of the community and still grace the neighborhood.

It features a branch library, the original Indian Motorcycle Company building, American International College, and a monument to the first-ever basketball game on the game's original site at Springfield College.

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