Center Street 24-28.pdf
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. FORM B − BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph Topographic or Assessor's Map Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month /year):
March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31D-149 Easthampton NTH.784 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 24-28 Center Street Historic Name:
IOOF Block Uses: Present: commercial and residential Original: commercial and residential Date of Construction: 1911 Source: Springfield Daily Republican Style/Form: Renaissance Revival
Architect/Builder: Karl Scott Putnam Exterior Material: Foundation: concrete Wall/Trim: brick, wood, limestone Roof: tar and gravel Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations
(with dates): Windows made smaller ca. 1990 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.103 acres Setting: This building faces east on a narrow side street off Northampton’s
main commercial street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [24-28 Central Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.784 ___ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. Use as much
space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features. Evaluate
the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. Smaller than its neighboring commercial building on the south, the Odd Fellows Block makes a similar
architectural impact. This is a three-and-a-half story, brick and limestone block that is three bays wide. The first floor center entry has a Classical Revival style limestone surround
with pilasters topped with consoles that support a full entablature. Above the entry surround is a wrought iron railing. At the first floor level two flanking storefronts are beneath
a limestone lintel. They have recessed entries and side storefronts with frame and artificial materials. At the second floor the center bays have three part windows with replacement
1/1/1 sash and an inner bay with two narrow 1/1 windows. The third floor bays have been infilled and have two-panel sliding glass doors opening to wrought iron balconies in all three
bays. The third floor openings have limestone keystones and splayed corner blocks. Rusticated pilasters divide the top two floors into three bays. They extend to the attic level where
seven small attic windows open beneath a widely projecting wooden cornice on consoles. A parapet roof tops the façade. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Discuss the history of the building. Explain
its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. From the Form B of 1980, “ The Odd Fellows
Block was built in 1911 at a cost of $30,000. There were two stores on the first floor and the I.O.O.F. used the two upper floors. The architect, Karl Scott Putnam, was the son of Roswell
F. Putnam, a well-known architect of the turn of the century period, and was just beginning his career at this time. After graduation from school he had interned for two years in the
New York office of Edward Tilton, and then returned to Northampton to join his father’s firm. The elder Mr. Putnam died soon afterwards and Karl continued the practice. In the early
1920s he joined Smith College as a professor of Architecture, a position he held for over forty years. Mr. Putnam was the most prominent architect of the first half of the 20th century
in Northampton.” BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Beers, F. W. County Atlas of Hampshire Massachusetts, New York, 1873. Hales, John G. Plan of the Town or Northampton in the County of
Hampshire, 1831. Miller, D. L. Atlas of the City of Northampton and Town of Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, 1895. Walker, George H. and Company. Atlas of
Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884. Walling, Henry F. Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860. Atlas of 1915. Springfield Daily Republican, January 1, 1912.
Northampton Directory: 1922, 1930, 1965. Smith College Archives