Main Street 275-279.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-113 Easthampton NTH.2257 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Northampton Center Address: 275-279 Main Street
Historic Name: Higbee Building Uses: Present: commercial, residential Original: commercial residential Date of Construction: ca. 1886 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette Style/Form: late
19th c. commercial Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: brick, stone, pressed metal Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations
(with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.066 acres Setting: This is a south facing building, the last in a row of 19th century commercial buildings on this
block.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [275-279 Main Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2257 ___ 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 small commercial building, three stories in height and two bays wide under a flat roof
with a projecting pressed metal cornice at its eaves line. It is modest but well-preserved and maintained. Separated by piers, the building’s two bays are slightly recessed and have
the same corbelled brickwork at the upper margin of their bays as their neighboring . The windows of of the bay have splayed lintels over segmentally arched openings. Brownstone stringcourses
connect the window lintels that have been painted. Sash is replacement 1/1. 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: “This series of five brick blocks was built on upper Main Street
late in the 1880’s. The lot was empty prior to this time. The Edwards Church had been rebuilt on the corner of Main and State Streets in 1874. About 1886, the lot was first considered
for commercial development when a four story brick block was contemplated at the corner of Main and Masonic Street. Although these plans were abandoned, several other blocks had been
built by late 1886, and the Daley Block is inscribed with the date 1887. The block adjoining Edwards Church was first known as Higbee Block; lawyer J.B. O’Donnell owned #2 & #4 and sold
them early in 1887.” 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.