North Street 82.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 24D-92 Easthampton NTH.322 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 82 North Street Historic Name: Kingsbury
Box Company Uses: Present: Offices Original: Manufacturing plant Date of Construction: 1885-1890 Source: Picturesque Hampshire Style/Form: utilitarian Architect/Builder: Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick, clapboards, brownstone Roof: asphalt, metal Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows replaced, ca. 2005. Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.498 acres Setting: This building occupies a lot that slopes down steeply to the west where the railroad line was located.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [82 NORTH STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.322 ___ 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 Kingsley Box factory is an L-shaped building with a three-story block in street alignment and
a long, three-story wing extending north from its northwest corner. The main block of the brick building has a three-story parapet wall one bay deep and seven bays wide on its east façade.
A square stair tower rises from the southeast corner of the parapet wall above a thick base of corbelled bricks. It is clapboard sided and has a pyramidal hipped roof. West of the parapet
wall the main block has a flat roof above its two stories. Windows are segmentally arched and contain replacement 6/6 sash below 3 light transoms. The main block is twelve bays deep.
On the east façade there is a loading dock in the third and fourth bays and entry to the building on this façade is through an added brick portico beneath a shed roofed metal hood on
a curved wood brace. The hood and the brace are repeated on a secondary entry to the stair tower on the south elevation. The three-story wing is ten bays long. This factory with its
corner tower and parapet wall is more than utilitarian in style and may also be seen as a modest Queen Anne. 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 1976: “A. Kingsley and son, box manufacturers,
were the first industrial concern to occupy this attractive factory structure on North Street. Kingsbury had begun the manufacture of boxes in South Coventry, Connecticut in 1868 and
in the 1870’s supplied the Belding Brothers Silk Company with its manufactures. In 1879, the box company relocated in Northampton, first in the Union Block, corner of Main and Pleasant
Streets, and later on North Street. By this time, the company produced both wooden and paper boxes. Kingsbury also invented a gluing machine which greatly reduced the amount of time
required in the fabrication of paper boxes.” 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.