Main Street 183-191.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 31D-140 Easthampton NTH.777 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 183-187 Main Street Historic Name:
Fleming-Dewey Building Uses: Present: Commercial, residential Original: Commercial Date of Construction: 1871 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette, 4/18/71 Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: brick, brownstone Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Storefronts altered multiple
times. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.045 acres Setting: This building is south-facing in downtown Northampton.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [183-187MAIN ST.] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.777 ___ 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, red brick commercial building is typical of the smaller blocks constructed
after mid-century in downtown Northampton with its red brick façade, brownstone lintels and sills, and corbelled cornice in a pattern of panels, pendants and molding. The building is
four bays wide and on its second and third stories it has projecting window lintels with a thick profile. These lintels are found also at the Fitch Building at 179 Main Street and at
the Astman Building at 189-191 Main Street, all built within a few years of each other and probably reliant on the same brownstone quarry for their trim. Windows in the building have
replacement metal 1/1 sash and the first story storefronts have been altered many times though they have retained the rusticated piers that form the four bays of the first story. The
westernmost bay contains an entrance to the upper stories. 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: “These two virtually identical commercial blocks were built in 1868 and 1871,
during the period of expansion of the business community in Northampton. The Fleming Block (easterly) abuts the Old Fitch Hotel Block to the east, and, like the hotel, replaced a building
destroyed by the fire of 1870. The westerly block, the Williams-Astman Building, like the adjoining Carr Block, was built on the old Lyman homestead. The easterly block was once the
site of the Lyman Block, which housed a druggist and abutted the old Warner House, the town hotel.” 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.