King Street 120-122.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 31B-144 Easthampton NTH.632 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 120-122 King Street Historic Name:
Medard Landry House, attr. Uses: Present: Three-family residence Original: Two-family residence Date of Construction: 1883 Source: Registry of Deeds, 378.393 Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes |
| Date Acreage: 0.192 acres Setting: Building occupies a corner lot and faces east on a a busy thoroughfare in Northampton Center.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [120 & 122 KING STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.632 ___ 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. The Landry two-family house is a two-story, Italianate style house under a hipped roof that is
so low as to appear flat, in the Italianate fashion. With wide eaves that are supported on solid brackets, the roof has two interior chimneys. The house is six bays wide and six bays
deep for a large square plan whose only departure is a one-story angled bay window on the south elevation that adds to the interior volume. Entries to the two units are paired on the
east façade that is sheltered by a full-width, shed roofed porch on square posts. Sash in the house is 2/2 and window lintels have modest drip molds. A final Italianate feature is the
presence of metal grilles in the frieze at the attic level. 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 Form B of 1975: “This bracketed style, two family dwelling was erected on the corner of King
and Bright Streets in 1883. Benjamin Blodgett, owner of a large tract of land between State and King Streets, sold the parcel of land to Medad [Sic.] Landry in 1883 for $900. The Atlas
in 1884 showed a dwelling had been erected on the site.” Medard Landry is listed in the 1893 Northampton Directory as living at 120 King Street, so was still there 10 years after the
house was constructed. He was a night watchman for the B and M railroad. By 1920 the house was already a three-family with Medard Landry, Jr., a freight handler for the railroad, and
his wife Sarah and their niece Georgiana living at 120; Oren and Mary Blinn and their three children at 122 ; and Catherine Ayers in the third unit created at 122. Georgiana was a milliner,
Oren was a machinist and two of his three children worked for the railroad, the third was a machinist as well. 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. Registry of Deeds, Hampshire County, 889.149, 378.393