. King's handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts : a series of monographs, historical and descriptive. y, and George B. Chandler, of Manchester,; George C. Kimball of Grand Rapids, Mich.; James M. Warner ofAlbany, ; Martin A. Knapp of Syracuse, ; John R. Redfield ofHartford, Conn.; Remington Vernam and John F. Anderson of New York :and John K. Marshall of Brookline, Mass. The office of the company was in rented rooms in Foots Block from1851 until early in 1868, when it was removed to the companys own hand-some and well-known building on Main Street. The next move was asudden one; fo
. King's handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts : a series of monographs, historical and descriptive. y, and George B. Chandler, of Manchester,; George C. Kimball of Grand Rapids, Mich.; James M. Warner ofAlbany, ; Martin A. Knapp of Syracuse, ; John R. Redfield ofHartford, Conn.; Remington Vernam and John F. Anderson of New York :and John K. Marshall of Brookline, Mass. The office of the company was in rented rooms in Foots Block from1851 until early in 1868, when it was removed to the companys own hand-some and well-known building on Main Street. The next move was asudden one; for on the evening of Feb. 5, 1873, a ^re broke out in the lowerpart of the building (which was rented for mercantile purposes), and ragedall night, destroying all the rear and much of the front part of the companys safes, and most of its books and papers, were preserved ; andbusiness was transacted, with but little interruption, in temporary quartersin the Hampden House Block on Court Street. By December of the sameyear the companys own building had been rebuilt, re-arranged, and im-. THE MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE-INSURANCE BUILDINGOn Main Street. 36 KINGS HANDBOOK OF SPRINGFIELD. proved, under the supervision of George Hathorne, the New-York architect,and its own offices were re-occupied. The lofty brown-stone front and ironmansard roof form a handsome and conspicuous feature of the street: whilethe Masonic lodges and other organizations that occupy the floors overthe companys offices, and the stores that are on the ground floor, make theinside of the building familiar to a great number of people. It will probably be a surprise to many, even of its neighbors, to knowthat the business of the Massachusetts Mutual at the home office givesconstant employment to three officers and fifteen clerks, besides janitor,real-estate man, and the local agency force ; while, in nearlv all the NorthernStates it has a force of agents at work securing new business. Rut when it
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