Main Street 220.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-164 Easthampton NTH.791 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Northampton Center Address: 220 Main Street
Historic Name: Unitarian Church Uses: Present: Public Worship Original: Public Worship Date of Construction: 1904 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette Style/Form: Classical Revival Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: granite Wall/Trim: brick/limestone/wood Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): brick lean-to added, ca. 1960 Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.061 acres Setting: This building faces faces north. It is set back from the street and is reached by a brick walkway and a U-shaped drive.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [220MAIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.791 ___ 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. Although this building is said to have been designed in a similar style to its Greek Revival precedent,
it has become by the early 20thc century known as a Classical Revival style building, a style that took both Greek and Roman buildings as its models in an almost archaeological adherence
to its classical precedents. Here the front-gabled building has a brick sanctuary with a wooden temple front that is composed of six Roman style Ionic columns supporting a full entablature
beneath a dentil-ornamented pediment. The pediment contains a demi-lunette window in its tympanum. The entablature continues around all three other elevations. The brick sanctuary is
raised on a granite base and is ornamented with corner quoins. It is three bays wide and three bays deep and has a one-story ell and a one-story lean-to on its south elevation. The main
block of the building has a north façade with a center entry with a trabeated limestone surround under a hood that rests on consoles. It is flanked by two small windows. On the east
and west elevations the three bays are filled with large windows with splayed limestone lintels with keystones and limestone sills. The windows are glazed with leaded glass. 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: “The Greek Revival Unitarian Church built in 1825 formalized the revolt against Calvinist doctrine and affirmed the belief in man’s power to do good
works. The Free Congregational Society of Florence, a second major source of Unitarianism in Northampton, is now a part of the Unitarian Society in the center of Northampton. (The Free
Congregational Society was for many years housed in Cosmian Hall, now demolished, designed in 1872 by E.C. Gardner). The original structure on Main Street was destroyed by fire in 1903;
the new brick and granite building is of similar style and on the same site. –C. Keith Wilbur” 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.