Main Street 32-36.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 32A-143, 32A-144 Easthampton NTH.2268 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 32-40 Main Street Historic
Name: Dickinson Block Uses: Present: Commercial/residential Original: Commercial/residential Date of Construction: 1867 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: brick/brownstone/wood Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Entry surround added,
ca. 2000; storefronts remodeled, ca. 2005. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.042 acres Setting: This large building occupies the center of the block, facing north.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [32-35 Main Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2268 ___ 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 Italianate style Dickinson Building is a three-story, red brick building with brownstone trim.
It has a flat roof with a centered pediment rising above the roofline on the façade. The building is five bays wide with brick piers separating the outer two bays and a center pavilion
of one bay. The piers rise to an elaborate cornice of corbelled brick laid in a pattern of arches and pendants, and continues across the center pediment as at it raking eaves. Ornamental
stringcourses are also laid in patterns at the window sill levels of the second and third stories. As at the neighboring building at 16 Main Street, the Crafts and Dawson Block, windows
on the second story have segmentally arched brownstone lintels and footed brownstone sills, while the third story windows have arched brownstone lintels and footed brownstone sills.
Sash at the second story is 2/2 and on the third story it is 1/1. On the first story level rusticated brownstone piers supporting a brownstone lintel frame the two storefronts that flank
the center entrance to the upper floors. These storefronts follow the original intentions for the building even though their wooden framework has been replaced. They have recessed entries
between two glass display bays and rest on original paneled wood bases. The center entry to the upper stories has a recently constructed wood, trabeated surround with an arched opening
and a pent roof. 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 brick blocks lining the main street of Northampton between Pleasant Street and Strong Avenue are the earliest brick commercial
structures in Northampton. In 1865, the block known as the Union Block was built at the corner of Main and Pleasant Streets. (This block collapsed in 1914 and was replaced by the 1915
Sherwin Block.) The Dickinson Block was erected in the summer of 1867; the small building one bay wide was erected between the Dickinson Block and the Lee & Hussey (1865) block the same
year. W.F. Pratt was the architect of the now destroyed Union Block and of the Lee & Hussey Block and possibly of Dickinson Block (Although Pratt is never mentioned in connection with
the building, it is similar in some features to the Rust’s Block of the same year).” 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.