Housing styles in Chicopee range from historic Georgians and Victorians to newly constructed contemporaries. Housing types range from condominiums and apartments to single-family. Chicopee’s tax rates, local financial institutions and municipal programs work to keep homes affordable for first-time buyers and maintainable for fixed income retirees. For those who do not wish to own their own homes, rental units are available throughout the city. Renters can choose from turn-of-the-century (19th and 20th!) apartment complexes, interesting converted mills and schools, and modern duplexes.

Ames Manufacturing Company (now Ames Privilege), established in 1829, produced bronze and brass cannons. It gained worldwide recognition when it cast the first set of bronze doors for the Senate wing of the nation’s Capitol in 1868. Also cast at the Ames Foundry were the Ben Franklin Memorial on the Boston Common, the Dewitt Clinton statue in New York City, the "Washington on Horseback" in New York and in Boston, and the world famous "Minuteman" statue in Concord. The former mill building houses a mix of apartments and office space, and is a fine example of the reuse of obsolete industrial space.

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