Main Street 150-154.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-001 Easthampton NTH.2290 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 150-154 Main Street Historic Name:
A. McCallum Building Uses: Present: commercial Original: commercial Date of Construction: 1885 Source: Map of 1895 Style/Form: Contemporary commercial Architect/Builder: Exterior Material:
Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: masonry panels, metal Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): New façade applied to older building, pre-1980.
Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.383 acres Setting: This is a north-facing building that wraps around its neighbor on the west and has a pedestrian bridge to a
parking garage on its south.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [150-154 Main Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2290 ___ 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 three-story building with a façade on the second and third stories that is sided with
applied squares of masonry in two colors for a checkerboard appearance. A metal cornice with a geometric pattern borders the flat roof in an Art Deco style. At each story on the north
façade are two large openings with 16-light fixed windows separated between the two stories by a metal spandrel. At the first story level, is a single storefront with display windows
flanking two recessed entries. 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. Constructed in 1885 this building in 1895 was owned by A. McCallum. Alexander McCallum was a dry goods merchant who lived in
1900 on Prospect Street with his wife Kate, their son George, who worked as a cashier in his parents’ dry good store, a servant, a bookkeeper and six female students whom they boarded.
By 1910 they no longer took in boarders. In old photographs of Main Street buildings in the collection of Historic Northampton, the McCallum Building was a three-story brick building
that was four bays wide, Italianate in style with segmentally arched third story windows under a projecting Italianate cornice on consoles. By 1938 the second floor has been altered
by insertion of full-length, plate glass windows. It was still McCallum’s Department Store. The building appears to have been altered after the urban renewal movement went through Northampton
and a 1988 photograph shows it much as it looks today. 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.