Memorial Square is a neighborhood located in

Springfield, Massachusetts Springfield is the most populous city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States, and its county seat. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers: the western Westfield River, the ea ...

. A predominantly Puerto Rican neighborhood with several parks, Memorial Square is within walking distance of Springfield's three nationally ranked hospitals, Baystate Medical Center, Shriner's Children's Hospital, and Mercy Medical. Always a neighborhood of immigrants, Memorial Square was a primarily

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neighborhood from the

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until the Great Latino Immigration of the 1980s to the present. The architecturally brilliant St. George's Greek Orthodox Cathedral, founded in 1907 and built in 1940, is a testament to Memorial Square's past as a vibrant Greek enclave. A portion of the neighborhood was listed on the

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in 1977 as the Memorial Square District.

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Neighborhoods in Springfield, Massachusetts {{HampdenCountyMA-geo-stub