Ingleside is a neighborhood in Holyoke, Massachusetts located to the south of the city center, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) from downtown. The neighborhood features access to the Connecticut River through the Sue Ellen Panitch River Center and the Land of Providence reservation. Ingleside is also home to the Holyoke Mall, the Nuestras Raices farm, the Sisters of Providence of Holyoke, the Providence Behavioral Health Hospital, and several recreational and historical venues.

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Ingleside
Neighborhood of Holyoke
McCleary Manor on Brightside Hill, Ingleside
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Coordinates: 42°10′30.33″N 72°37′58.32″W
Country	United States
State	Massachusetts
City	Holyoke
Wards	2, 5
precincts	2A, 5A
Area [1]
• Total	0.69 sq mi (1.8 km2)
Elevation [2]	161 ft (49 m)
ZIP code	01040
Area code	413
GNIS feature ID	608757[2]

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While Ingleside holds the same ZIP code as the rest of Holyoke, it is served by its own post office, maintained at the Holyoke Mall.^[3]

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Engravings of the Ingleside Hotel and its campus, prior to 1875

Prior to the annexation of Holyoke from West Springfield in 1850, Ingleside was the site of a ferry known as the Jones' ferry,^[4] its landing sites are known as Jones Ferry Road on both the Holyoke and Chicopee sides of the Connecticut River today.^[5]

The word ingle, stemming from a Gaelic word for fire,^[6] may have been chosen for lime kilns which were once in the vicinity in its time as a part of West Springfield.^[7] The origin of the name Ingleside itself seems to stem from the eponymous Ingleside Hotel, a large complex constructed by one Jones S. Davis, a key figure in the creation of the city's Lyman Mills, which are now known as Open Square.^[8][9]

Completed in 1868, the hotel cost Mr. Davis a total of $162,000 (approximated $3.6 million in 2016 US Dollars), and opened on July 4. On July 21, 1871, the hotel hosted the first college rowing regatta in the United States held by the Rowing Association of American Colleges, one of the country's earliest intercollegiate undergraduate sporting events. Held on the banks of the Connecticut River, Massachusetts Agricultural College won the event in an upset against the teams of Harvard, Yale, and Brown.^[10] This would be one of the only significant events in the resorts history however, as following the Panic of 1873, it would be sold at auction to one N.S. Chandler "for a little less than $30,000".^[8] The hotel, which featured a farm, telegram station, gasworks, and railway stop, was short-lived however, and closed in the winter of 1874 due to low attendance in the midst of an economic depression.^[11] The hotel was razed by fire on July 25, 1875, with some indication that the blaze "was the work of an incendiary".^[12][13] The hotel and its contents were insured in total for $20,000.^[14] Though the hotel itself stood on the shores of the Connecticut for less than a decade, the Ingleside name would persist as that of the surrounding area long after its absence.^[15]

The contemporary boundaries of Ingleside are defined by Rt 91 to its west, railroad tracks to its north west, Springdale park to its northeast, the Connecticut River to its east, and West Springfield to its south.^[1]