North Main Street 35.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 17C-252 Easthampton NTH.120 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 35 North Main Street Historic
Name: Free Congregational Church Uses: Present: Seventh Day Adventist Church Original: Congregational Church Date of Construction: 1915-1922 Source: Directories Style/Form: front-gabled
building Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Stucco covered
with vinyl, windows replaced and windows covered in tower. Arched window added. 1990-2009. Condition: good Moved: no | | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.332 acres Setting: This building faces
south towards Florence’s cemetery and library.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [35 NORTH MAIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.120 ___ 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 one-and-a-half story building under a front-gable roof with a two-story tower attached
to its southeast corner. Eaves make full returns on the south façade to create a pediment. Beneath the pediment is a triple-window composition containing stained glass. The building
has been covered in vinyl and windows that originally were adjacent to the entry have been covered over and it appears that the fanlight over the entry doors has been inserted in order
to give the building a more Colonial appearance. A relatively simple building to begin with, it has lost its early 20th century stylistic character due to the vinyl siding. 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 1980: “The ‘Free Congregational Society of Florence’ was organized in 1863, ‘respecting in each other—and in all—the right of intellect and conscience to
be free, and holding it to be the duty of everyone to keep his mind and heart at all times open to receive the truth and follow its guidance, we set up no theological condition of membership,
and neither demand nor expect uniformity of doctrinal belief; asking only unity of purpose to seek and accept the right and true, and an honest aim and effort to make these the rule
of life. And, And, recognizing the brotherhood of the human race and the equality of human rights, we make no distinction as to the conditions and rights of membership in this society,
on account of sex, or color, or nationality.’ The Society met in the local schoolhouse until Cosmian Hall was erected in 1874 at the junction of North Maple and Meadow Streets. The Hall
serviced not only the Society, but the general community as well. The seating capacity was nearly 700 and was open to the public without charge. The Society continued to meet here until
the second decade of the 20th century. At that time, this relatively small church was constructed across the street from Cosmian Hall, and the Hall continued its public functions until
its demolition mid-century. Today the small church services the Seven Day Adventists.” 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.