Group helps save historic Spfld home

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) - Over the years so many of western Massachusetts' historic buildings were torn down. But that won't happen to one vintage 1830 house in the heart of Springfield's historic Maple Street, near where Dr Seuss spent his childhood.

The building is being renovated with city money, thanks to a group called Springfield Preservation Trust.

Architect Bill Devlin told 22News, "We are still losing so many buildings in the city for no good reason. This building was structurally threatened, and it would have been hopeless trying to save it," said Devlin.

77 Maple Street will become condominiums. The building's got a lot of history. It started as a girl's school in 1830.