Main Street 241.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-131 Easthampton NTH.2354 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Northampton Center Address: 241 Main Street
Historic Name: Uses: Present: commercial, residential Original: commercial, residential Date of Construction: 1870 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette Style/Form: 19th c. commercial Architect/Builder:
William Fenno Pratt Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: painted brick/metal Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Second
story windows replaced with glazed wall, ca. 1970. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.02 acres Setting: This building faces south on to Northampton’s main commercial
thoroughfare.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [241 Main Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2354 ___ 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 narrow, four-story, painted brick building is three bays wide and has a pressed metal cornice.
It is a relatively unadorned building with straight-head windows and sills on third and fourth stories with 1/1 replacement sash. The second story is a late 20th century alteration that
involved removing three windows and replacing the wall with glazing under a full-width inserted steel lintel. The first story has a single storefront recently remodeled (2010). 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 that covered 241-225 Main Street: “This four story brick block on upper Main Street [235-239] 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 [241] 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 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.