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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 32A-138 Easthampton NTH.2059 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Northampton Center Address: 25 Main Street
Historic Name: Masonic Building Uses: Present: Commercial Original: Commercial Date of Construction: 1898 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette, Feb. 17, 1898 Style/Form: Classical Revival
Architect/Builder: Roswell F. Putnam, architect, Northampton Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: brick/limestone/metal Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.316 acres Setting: This building faces south on Northampton’s main downtown street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [25MAIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2059 ___ 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. The Masonic Building is Classical Revival in style and is one of the best examples of the style
in downtown Northampton. It is four stories in height under a flat roof with a set-back parapet wall across the south façade. The building is yellow brick with limestone trim and has
a steel lintel that separates the upper three stories from the five commercial bays on the first story. Entry to the upper stories is located on the east side of the center bay. It is
a recessed entry with a multi-light transom and the surround is trabeated with two limestone pilasters supporting the steel lintel. The second and third stories are divided into five
bays. The outer two bays are composed of limestone architrave surrounds that enclose bands of three windows at each story. The center bay projects slightly from the plane of the façade
as a pedimented pavilion. It also is composed of an architrave surround of limestone, encompassing the second and third stories, but here two colossal engaged columns divide the second
and third stories of the pavilion into three bays with single windows on the outer bay and a pair of windows in the center for a 1-2-1 arrangement. Within the bays the spandrels between
stories and the window surrounds are limestone. In the center pavilion Putnam applied a Beaux Arts floral design to the spandrel between stories. At the fourth story, limestone architrave
surrounds again make up the two outer bays of the five bay façade and enclose a band of five windows, but in the pavilion section there are three architrave surrounds enclosing a band
of one, three, and one windows. Above the fourth story is an entablature of cornice and frieze in limestone. The frieze is ornamented with rondel windows with Beaux Arts style carved
wreath surrounds and at the pavilion the frieze is a heavily ornamented Beaux Arts floral design. Above the frieze is a dentil row then the projecting cornice ornamented with modillion
blocks, all of which are repeated on the raking eaves of the pediment. 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 law office of Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United
States, were once located in the Masonic Building. The office was appropriately located in the central portion of the structure.” 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.