Pleasant Street 256.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: Jayne Bernhard-Armington Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date
(month /year): June, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 32C-172 Easthampton NTH.951 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 256 Pleasant Street
Historic Name: Northampton Lumber Company Uses: Present: Lumber yard offices Original: factory building Date of Construction: 1850-1880 Source: visual evidence Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Brick Roof: Asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows altered, n.d. Additions
made, n.d. Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.393 acres Setting: This building faces west on a busy street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [256 PLEASANT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.951 ___ 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 two-and-a-half story brick building with front gable roof that makes returns. The building
is three bays wide and in its gable field is a rondel window with four keystones. At the second floor are three windows with pained stone sills and lintels and at the first floor level
is a recessed, arched, center entry flanked by two large square openings that have been filled in. Above the first story windows is a copper pent roof resting on brackets. On its north
elevation the building has several wing additions with synthetic siding that may hide earlier origins. On its south elevation it appears to be about four bays deep but a closely positioned
second building hides that elevation. Alterations have obscured this building’s original appearance considerably. 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: “These brick factory
structures date from the period of industrial prominence of Northampton and surrounding towns. Several similar groupings of industrial buildings are located in the area bounded by Pearl,
Pleasant, and Holyoke Streets and the B & M Railroad bed. The structures are characteristically simple rectilinear forms, several stories high but predominantly horizontal in emphasis.
Chimneys are large and prominent. A series of industrial concerns located on the site in the nineteenth century, including the W. H. Clapp Iron Foundry, and the Harlow Planing Mill.”
The building was associated with the Fraternal Order of Eagles Building during the second half of the twentieth century. The building was sold in early 2010 and has been undergoing remodeling
for commercial use. 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.