Masonic Street 32.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, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31D-120 Easthampton NTH.768 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 32 Masonic Street Historic Name: E.
N. Foote Button Shop Uses: Present: Commercial Original: Factory Date of Construction: ca. 1880 Source: Quarter-Centennial County Journal, 1887 Style/Form: utilitarian Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Entries added on south elevation, ca. 1990. Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.293 acres Setting: This building is located in in a commercial center of Northampton. It faces east.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [32MASONIC STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.768 ___ 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 Foote Button shop is representative of industrial architecture of the late 19th century. It
is brick in construction beneath a shallow, front-gabled roof. The building is three stories in height above a high basement whose windows let light into that space as well as the upper
floors to increase manufacturing space. The building is four bays wide on the east façade and sixteen bays long and windows are segmentally arched with 6/6 wood sash. Entries have been
added to the south elevation but the building has been minimally altered. 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 Foote Button concern began the manufacture of buttons in 1878
on Pleasant Street in Northampton. In 1884, the building on Masonic Street was built near the town fire department. A variety of high quality buttons were produced by the Foote Button
Company; two concerns in Providence, Rhode Island, were the company’s only competitors in the 1880’s. The upper floors of the building were leased to the Boston Cash Register Company
in 1891, when the button concern folded. A bicycle factory later took possession of the building.” 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.