Elm Street 354.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 24C-43 Easthampton NTH.281 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 354 Elm Street Historic Name: Blessed
Sacrament Church Uses: Present: Roman Catholic Church Original: Roman Catholic Church Date of Construction: 1900 Source: Hampshire Gazette Style/Form: Gothic Revival Architect/Builder:
Maginnis, Walsh, and Sullivan Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick, limestone Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Devotional niche Major Alterations
(with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 1.08 acres Setting: Church Church faces north at the intersection of two streets.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [354 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.281 ___ 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 Church of the Blessed Sacrament is a front-gabled, Gothic Revival style building with a four-story
tower centered on its north façade. The sanctuary of the church, under a steeply-pitched roof has low parapet walls trimmed in limestone on north and south. It is three bays wide and
five bays long. The tower contains the entry to the church through a pointed arch opening trimmed in limestone. Engaged buttresses support the four corners of the tower whose second
story is blind – ornamental brickwork panel marks the north side – third story has a single lancet window, and fourth story contains a belfry with a triple louvered opening. An octagonal
spire rises between parapet walls on east and west above the third story. The six-bay nave consists of a projecting portico with a pointed arch opening and four bays of triple windows
with Gothic tracery, followed by a sixth bay to which is attached a wing. The window bays are separated by engaged buttresses. Above the window bays on the lower slope of the roof are
four triangular dormers with single, trefoil-shaped openings. The wing is one-story under a hipped roof and has a centered cross-gable projecting hood on consoles. The hood has Gothic
barge boards that rise to a pinnacle. Segmentally arched windows in the wing have a trefoil tracery. Eaves of the church roofs have exposed rafters putting this version of the Gothic
Revival squarely at the outset of the 20th century. 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: “Blessed Sacrament Church, built in 1900, is a fine example of Gothic Revival architecture.”
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.