Main Street 109.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 32A-140 Easthampton NTH.2060 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Northampton Center Address: 109 Main Street
Historic Name: Northampton Institution for Savings Uses: Present: Commercial Original: Institutional Date of Construction: 1916 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette, Feb. 18, 1916 Style/Form:
Renaissance Revival Architect/Builder: Thomas M. James, Architect, Boston Exterior Material: Foundation: granite Wall/Trim: brick, limestone Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary
Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.26 acres Setting: This building occupies a corner lot and faces south on Northampton’s
major thoroughfare through the Center.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [109MAIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2060 ___ 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 Northampton Institution for Savings is a free-standing brick and limestone building that is
a single story in height with tall proportions and Renaissance Revival style. It is three bays wide and three bays deep under a flat roof, and there are three ells on the north elevation
of brick and cast stone, all relatively the same height as the main block, but divided into two stories. The south façade’s outer two bays consist of blind brick panels bordered with
quoins on the outer corners and by limestone keyed into the brickwork -in the same pattern as the quoins -on the inner border. The center bay is an elaborate composition with two pairs
of limestone colossal pilasters with Corinthian capitals framing an arched center entry that is glass in its upper half and in its lower half contains a limestone architrave surround
with a projecting cornice supported on two consoles. The entry door is recessed. The pilasters support an entablature with architrave, frieze and projecting molded cornice that has both
a dentil row and a row of modillion blocks as ornament. A solid balustrade encircles the roof above the cornice. The east and west elevations of the main block have three bays of arched,
full-height windows within archivolt surrounds that have keystones at their apex. The glazing within the windows has a fanlight above twelve fixed lights. The land north of the banks
slopes down so the three ells follow that slope with exposed basement levels of brick. The first ell, the earliest of the three is only one bay deep and has a continuation of the entablature
and cornice from the main block. The second and third ells have been made more geometric and practical with brick walls and cast stone cornice bands along with irregular fenestration
for banking and office use. 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. 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 Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860.