King Street 125.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 31B-115 Easthampton NTH.622 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 125 King Street Historic Name: St.
Valentine Polish National Church Uses: Present: Church Original: Church Date of Construction: 1932 Source: History of St. Valentine’s Polish National Catholic Church Style/Form: Gothic
Revival Architect/Builder: H.J. Tossier, architect Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick/limestone Roof: wood shingles and asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.092 acres Setting: This church occupies a corner lot and faces west on a busy thoroughfare.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [125 KING STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.622 ___ 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. St. Valentine’s Church is a modest, Gothic Revival style building whose plan and elevation is based
on the model of an Anglican country church with its basilica plan, front-gabled roof and bell tower centered above the main entry on the roof. A second smaller spire is located at the
other end of the roof ridge. Set on high foundations to give it additional basement space and prominence in the landscape, the church is three bays wide and nine bays deep and bays are
separated by simple brick buttresses with limestone caps. Limestone is used for a watertable and for the molded, Gothic arched entry surround, as well as for a bell tower niche in which
is a statue of St. Valentine on the west facade. Double leaf doors below mock tracery provide the entry to the church and are flanked on the façade and lateral elevations by stained
glass windows. The bell tower is two-stage with its first stage the belfry with arched and louvered openings below the second stage, which is a wood-shingle-covered spire. 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: “The St. Valentine Polish National Church was built in 1932 and stands on the site of the homestead of Rev. Jonathan Edwards, third preacher of the
First Congregational Church. Original plans of the church are at the rectory.” 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.