Hawley Street 17.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 32A-158 Easthampton NTH.2064 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 17 Hawley Street Historic
Name: Northampton Wholesale Grocery Co. Uses: Present: Commercial and Residential Original: Warehouse with retail and office space Date of Construction: 1912 Source: Springfield Daily
Republican Style/Form: Eclectic Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: unknown Wall/Trim: brick Roof: unknown Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.67 acres Setting: This commercial building sits in front of the railroad tracks in a commercial and former industrial area at
the edge of a residential neighborhood. This building sits very close to the street and faces east.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [17 HAWLEY STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2064 ___ 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 three story commercial building that is three bays wide and eight bays deep. It is eclectic
in style and unique in Northampton, exhibiting elements of the emerging Art Deco style as well as of the Italian Renaissance Revival style. This building was under construction at the
same time as the Basilica plan St. John Cantius Catholic Church across the street and features the same Lombard arches along its roof line. The building is clad in brick and has ornamental
brickwork and Art Deco colored tiling on its eastern elevation, which is the front of the building. The parapet roof features a brick corbel table with composite stone cornice beneath
which are the Lombard arches. The decorative features of the front façade only extend one bay deep, which was not unusual considering there was likely a building of similar size located
on its northern elevation. The three-bay front facade is divided by massive first floor columns with splayed capitals made of composite stone connected by heavy stone lintels, which
is a Romanesque stylistic feature . Within the two outer bays are show windows topped by leaded vertical eight-light transoms. The middle bay is recessed into the building and has two
separate doors each with a four vertical light leaded transom. The windows are original to the building and are three over three sash with stone sills. Windows on the front façade are
square while the windows on the northern elevation are set within bricked arches. 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: “This three story warehouse was built near the junction
of Northampton’s north-south and east-west railroads. This area, on the western sides of Market and Hawley Streets, along Strong Avenue, and on the eastern side of lower Pleasant Street,
had been one of industrial activity since the first railroad arrived in 1845. Around the turn of the century, this also became an area of wholesale activity. Northampton’s strategic
location and role as county seat provided opportunities for regional trade. The demise of railroad trading led o the eventual abandonment of the building. The first floor and frontward
portion of the building probably contained a store and then offices above while the rear of the building functioned as a warehouse. 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.