Main Street 76-88.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 32C-018 Easthampton NTH. 2414 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Northampton Center Address: 76-88 Main Street
Historic Name: Lambie Block Uses: Present: Commercial Original: Commercial Date of Construction: 1895 Source: Registry of Deeds 126.141 & Gazette, March 5, 1921 Style/Form: Romanesque
Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: granite Wall/Trim: brick/metal cornice Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates):
Storefronts have changed over time. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.094 acres Setting: This large block faces north in central downtown Northampton.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [76-88 Main Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2414 ___ 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 Lambie Block is a five-story, yellow brick building, that is ten and eleven bays wide, making
it one of the larger buildings in downtown Northampton. The first story is composed of four bays divided by paneled metal pilasters supporting a metal lintel. The two westernmost bays
make up a single commercial space with glass storefronts. The third bay is a wide glass entry to the the upper stories and the fourth and most eastern bay is a small storefront with
a recessed entry adjacent to a glass store window. The second through fourth stories are identical. They are divided into three bays with five windows of 1/1 sash in the center bay flanked
by two outer bays with three windows of 1/1 sash. Windows have splayed lintels made up of slightly darker shades of yellow and tan brick for a subtle polychromy. A narrow stringcourse
separates the fourth and fifth stories and the window pattern of the fifth story is completely different being a row of ten contiguous arched windows with shared springings. The arches
of the window lintels are all a darker tan brick. That same dark tan brick was used to lay a brick frieze beneath a widely overhanging metal cornice. This building with its contrasting
brick contributes to the variety that makes downtown Northampton architecturally rich. 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 Victorian brick block on the corner of Main
and Pleasant Streets is the only remaining block of several built on Shop Row, Main Street, by merchant Harvey Kirkland. This block was originally occupied by the Holyoke Bank and was
built in 1848. In December of 1848, Kirkland conveyed a lot of land, ‘being principally covered by the Holyoke Bank, a new Brick building lately erected by the grantee and being designated
as lot #19 in a plan, 11.416’ to J.H. Butler. Other property of Harvey Kirkland abutted the Holyoke Bank building on the southwest. At least one of these blocks was a wooden building
which burned down at the close of the nineteenth century. J. Lambie, who had bought this property from the old Kirkland estate, erected the present five-story block. The block, until
recently, housed the Nonotuck Bank.” 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.