Main Street 229-233.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-250 Easthampton NTH.2425 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Northampton Center Address: 229-233 Main Street
Historic Name: Uses: Present: Commercial, residential Original: Commercial Date of Construction: 1885 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette Style/Form: Queen Anne/Panel Brick Architect/Builder:
William Fenno Pratt Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: brick/brownstone Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Storefronts
altered multiple times, windows replaced ca. 1980 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.056 acres Setting:
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [229-233 Main Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2425 ___ 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 four story building whose upper three stories are identical to its neighboring building
at 235-239 Main Street, although this building has been painted. The two building’s upper three stories are divided by piers into three bays with three windows in the outer bays and
a single window in the center bay. The windows are arched at all three stories with arched brownstone lintels and brownstone sills. Their sash is replacement 1/1 beneath a fixed-light,
arched transom. The piers dividing the three bays rise to a decorative cornice that is corbelled into panels of angled soldier bricks. Beneath the cornice is a decorative row of yellow
corbelled bricks. The yellow bricks appear again as stringcourses running beneath the transom lights of the windows across the façade at all three upper stories. Stylistically this building
may be seen as a modest Queen Anne, which in masonry is referred to as Panel Brick as brickwork enriches its picturesque qualities. 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 covering 235-239
as well as 225-233 Main Street: “This four story brick block [235-239] on upper Main Street was built in 1890 and replaced a wooden structure about twenty years old. The block is the
first brick structure to be built on the site. C.S. Crouch, a merchant, built the first substantial building, a four story wooden block, on the site in 1870. At that time, the brick
structures to the east [225-233] and west were constructed. Both the adjoining blocks were designed by William F. Pratt; the name of the architect of the 1890 block has not been determined.”
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.