St. Michael's Cathedral (Springfield, Massachusetts)

The style of the architecture is  Italianate, Federal. The structure was expanded in 1996, with the addition of the Bishop Marshall Center,  a chapel that seats 60 people, a TV studio for the daily broadcast of the Mass, a parish hall that can seat 120 people and a kitchen. 

St. Michael's Cathedral is the mother church of the Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts, United States.

The parish was established in 1847 as the church of St. Benedict.Rev. Michael P. Gallagher, the first priest, began construction of the current building in 1860. In recognition of Fr. Gallagher's work, the parish changed its name to St. Michael.

When Pope Pius IX established the present Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts in 1870, St. Michael's church became its cathedral.