Center Street 10-22.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 31D-148 Easthampton NTH.783 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 10-22 Center Street Historic Name:
Central Chambers Uses: Present: commercial and residential space Original: office and commercial Date of Construction: 1912 Source: Springfield Daily Republican and integral date stone
Style/Form: Eclectic Classical Revival/Art Deco Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: concrete Wall/Trim: brick and limestone Roof: tar and gravel Outbuildings/Secondary
Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Storefronts have been altered and latest changes date ca. 1990. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.213 acres Setting:
This building occupies the first lot on the south side of Center Street. It is a very narrow street with mixed commercial, institutional and residential uses.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [10-22 Center Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.783 ___ 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 five-story, brick and limestone building that is 16 bays wide. It has on its street façade
three slightly projecting pavilions giving the building a fenestration pattern of 3-4-2-4-3. The first floor is devoted to seven commercial storefronts, in the center of which is an
entry to the upper stories of the building under a suspended canopy. The storefronts are separated separated by fiberglass pilasters but retain their configuration of recessed entry
flanked by two show windows. The upper four stories of Flemish bond brick are separated by limestone stringcourses. Windows have replacement metal 1/1/1 sash. Second story lintels are
flat but the remaining stories have splayed limestone lintels that on the third and fourth stories have keystones. The fifth floor is the most highly ornamented with limestone bands
and Art Deco geometric patterns in limestone inserted on the piers between the pavilions. A wide metal cornice with modillion blocks and consoles provides the Classical Revival portion
of the eclectic building’s style. 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 the 1980 Form B, is this quotation from the Springfield Daily Republican of December 30, 1912, “ The 1912 building
record of Northampton is is the best in the history of the city…The largest item in 1912 was the handsome five-story block on Center St., including six stories and 70 office rooms, built
by E. G. Southwick at a cost of $75,000. It is the largest block in the city and marks an important step in side street development.” 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. Atlas of 1915. Northampton Directory of 1922. Springfield Daily Republican, December 30, 1912.