Memorial Square is a neighborhood located in Springfield, Massachusetts. A predominantly Puerto Rican neighborhood with several parks, Memorial Square is within walking distance to Springfield's three nationally ranked hospitals,

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, 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-present. The architecturally brilliant St. George's Greek Orthodox Cathedral, founded in 1907, 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