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Ladd Avenue 20.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 30B-84 Easthampton NTH.441 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Bay State Address: 20 Ladd Avenue Historic Name: Clement Cutlery Factory Uses: Present: manufacturing Original: manufacturing Date of Construction: 1866 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette, Oct. 20, 1866 Style/Form: French Second Empire Architect/Builder: E.C. Gardner, architect, Springfield Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick/brownstone Roof: asphalt shingles, slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: long brick wall connecting to secondary frame building Major Alterations (with dates): Addition Addition of wing on north, ca. 2005. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 6.99 acres Setting: This manufacturing building occupies a large lot that backs on to the Mill River on the north and is in a mixed residential-industrial neighborhood. INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [20 LADD AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.441 _x__ 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 one of Northampton’s finest manufacturing buildings from the 19th century and has particular significance for the fact that it is still in manufacturing use. It is a two-story building under a mansard roof making it a French Second Empire style building. The two-tone brick building is four bays wide and 18 bays deep. It has an entry/bell tower on the east elevation and a recent addition of a one-story metal wing the crosses the north elevation and extends to the east for an F-shaped plan. The original main block of the building is divided into bays by piers with yellow brick capitals and yellow brick panels above the capitals. Yellow brick also forms corner quoins, an unusually fine detail for a manufacturing building. Windows are segmentally arched and on the south façade their lintels have brownstone keystones carved in a floral pattern. Sash in the windows is 12/12. The bell tower on the east elevation is four stories in height and its top story, the belfry, has four large arched openings though there is no longer a bell on its floor. Below the belfry the tower has recessed panels containing the windows of the lower three stories. The recessed panels are topped by lintels created as three-point arches. The mansard roof has two interior chimneys, one at each corner, on the south façade. Entry to the building is beneath a later-added portico on posts. 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 1975: “The first factory built on this site belonged to the International Screw Nail Company of New York. The concern purchased an eight acre parcel from the Bay State Hardware Co. in 1866, for $6000 and an article dated October 30, 1866 mentions the new Screw Nail factory designed by E.C. Gardner. The property later passed into the handed of the W. T. Clement Cutlery Company. E.C. Gardner, who began his career in Florence and later gained recognition as a Springfield architect and author of several pattern books, designed this factory structure at a time when many industrial buildings were being built. Gardner’s other early commissions included a bank in Florence and a school (both demolished) and some buildings of the Florence Sewing Machine Company.” 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. Registry of Deeds, Hampshire County, 1812.227, 898.423, 373.470, 346.121, 263.181, 304.509, 234.277, 236.300 INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [20 LADD AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.441 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons___________________ The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. The Clement Cutlery Factory, known also as the Screw Nail Company, would contribute to a potential Bay State Village Historic District or as an individual listing. Its own long history of industrial use that extended from 1866 to the present has shaped the character of the village of Bay State by providing for its economic base for generations of residents. As part of a Bay State neighborhood of workers’ housing and the Clement Street bridge, it would contribute to a Bay State Village Historic District. Architecturally the buildings in this potential historic district are late 19th century in style while the mill itself is architect designed by Springfield architect Eugene C. Gardner who was active in Northampton, Springfield, and Holyoke and wrote on turn-of-the-century residential architecture. This building is a fine example of his work and has integrity of materials, design, location, setting, feeling and workmanship.