Main Street 44.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-262 Easthampton NTH.2267 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Northampton Center Address: 44 Main Street
Historic Name: Uses: Present: Commercial Original: Commercial Date of Construction: 1867 Source: Hampshire Gazette Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation:
not visible Wall/Trim: brick and brownstone Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage:
0.022 acres Setting: This building faces north on downtown Northampton’s major thoroughfare.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [44 Main Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2267 ___ 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. 44 Main Street is a sliver of a building in comparison to its neighbors. It is a red brick building
with brownstone trim, is three stories in height, and is two bays wide above a single storefront. As it was built after its neighboring building at #48, the Lee and Hussey Building of
1865, it was built to match the earlier building and the two share a common cornice pattern, floor levels, brownstone sills and lintels, and at the first story they have a single brownstone
lintel with brownstone piers at each side. Windows have replacement 1/1 sash. The storefront has a recessed entry adjacent to a glass display window and has a brownstone pier on its
west side that has been painted. 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.” 44 Main Street it the small building referenced above. 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.