Main Street 134.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 32C-006 Easthampton NTH. 2294 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Northampton Center Address: 134 Main Street
Historic Name: Northampton National Bank Uses: Present: commercial Original: commercial Date of Construction: 1913 Source: National Register nomination Style/Form: Classical Revival
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: limestone Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: Good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.038 acres Setting: This is a north-facing building on Northampton’s principal commercial street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [134 Main STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2294 ___ 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. This one-story building is limestone-faced and is three bays wide under a flat roof. It is three
bays wide and the limestone of its dividing piers is scored as ashlar blocks merging into the ashlar of its neighbor at 132 Main Street to which it is attached. The building has a center
entry below a large, multi-paned, fixed light window and the entry is flanked by two, large, multiple-paned fixed light windows repeating those of the second floor of its neighbor at
#132. The end piers and those dividing the building’s bays support a frieze with a narrow molding at its upper and lower margins. 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. This building was constructed
at the same time as its neighbor at 132 Main Street, the Northampton National Bank. It replaced a portion of two, several story commercial buildings that were on this and adjacent lots
in the 1890s and earlier. The building seems to have been used as a commercial block through much of the 20th century rather than as an adjunct to the bank. 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 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.