Main Street 142-146.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-003 Easthampton Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 142-146 Main Street Historic Name: Uses: Present:
commercial Original: commercial Date of Construction: 1940 Source: National Register nomination Style/Form: Post-Modernist Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible
Wall/Trim: brick, stucco Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Façade altered, commercial spaces altered multiple times. Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.11 acres Setting: This building is north facing on a long commercial block.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [142-146 Main Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2292 ___ 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 is a two-story brick building under a flat roof. It is three bays wide with a bank on the
first story and offices above. The bays are separated by piers of stucco applied to the façade. At the second floor level piers framing the center bay rise to a segmental arch ornamented
with an oversized stucco keystone on which “Winston” is engraved above a large round boss. Second story windows are composition windows. In the center bay is a center large fixed pane
with 3/1 sash at each side. The outer two bays have a large fixed pane with a single sash at the outer side of the window. It appears that an older façade was updated by application
of decorative stucco piers and panels to its surface. 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. A building has been on this lot or a portion of it since 1873, but at that time, it was a frame building.
By 1884 the lot had a masonry bank and in 1895 it was identified on the map as being the four-story Hampshire County National Bank with a passageway on its east elevation that led to
the rear of the block. It was a white building from photographs, and bore no relationship to this building in its configuration, so while a portion of the building’s walls or foundations
may date as early 1884, they are no longer identifiable. Rather, the date given for the building in the National Register nomination for downtown Northampton of 1940 is closer. What
is significant is the length of time that a bank has occupied this lot on Main Street. 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.