Included in this designation are St. Jerome's Church (built during the late 1850s), the Convent of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Lourdes (1869), and the former Central Fire Station (1914), and other buildings.

[2] Veterans Park is located in downtown Holyoke, occupying an entire city block bounded by Chestnut, Hampden, Maple, and Dwight Streets.

Surrounded by granite curbing and wrought iron fencing at the center is the city's monument to its Civil War dead, designed by Henry Jackson Ellicott and erected in 1876.

St. Jerome's Church was built in the 1850s to cater to the many Irish Catholic immigrants who settled in Holyoke and worked in its industries.

After Holyoke City Hall was built a block away, the park became a central open space for civic and social gatherings, in particular its Memorial Day commemorations.