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Home Office Building, Massachusetts Mutual, Springfield, MA, 1944

Subject
Commercial Buildings
Card type
Linen
Date
c. 1944 (Linen)
Front of Home Office Building, Massachusetts Mutual, Springfield, MA, 1944, Mr & Mrs Howard Graham, PA, USA, c. 1944 linen postcard
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Back of Home Office Building, Massachusetts Mutual, Springfield, MA, 1944, Mr & Mrs Howard Graham, PA, USA, c. 1944 linen postcard
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About this postcard

The Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company's Home Office Building in Springfield, Massachusetts, fills the view as a long red-brick Georgian Revival office block with white colonnades and a central tower topped by a gold dome. Its formal facade and landscaped grounds presented the insurer as a stable civic institution; MassMutual had been founded in Springfield in 1851 and ranked among the city's major financial firms. The card was mailed in 1944 by a corporal stationed at Westover Field, the wartime Army airfield near Springfield, to family in Pittsburgh. That correspondence links the city's insurance landmark to the movement of service members through the region during World War II.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Dear Folks: Guess you know how I arrived here last Saturday night and every thing ok. Nothing had happened as yet. Will write when Dan. Love ++

Home Office Building, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., Springfield, Mass.
PostmarkedSpringfield, MA, March 11, 1944, 21:30
Addressed to
Mr & Mrs Howard Graham

1528 Bradhead St. Pittsburgh, PA 6

FromCpl. Calland, Westover Field, MA

Postcard record

Postmarked, Springfield, MA
ConditionFair
Place addressedMr & Mrs Howard Graham, 1528 Bradhead St., Pittsburgh, PA, 6
Place sent fromCpl. Calland, Westover Field, MA
NotesWhite border; linen texture; visible creases at upper left and top center; edge and corner wear. Postmark: SPRINGFIELD MASS. MAR 11 9:30 PM 1944. Machine slogan cancel "GIVE Address RED CROSS WAR FUND" beside the datestamp. Handwritten "Free" frank for servicemen's mail. Divided-back linen-era card with white border; card soiled, edge-worn and creased, with a torn spot at bottom center.

Cite this card

Home Office Building, Massachusetts Mutual, Springfield, MA, 1944, postcard, c. 1944. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/home-office-building-massachusetts-mutual-springfield-ma-194. Accessed November 2, 2026.