Main Street 110-112.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 32C-12 Easthampton NTH.2272 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Northampton Center Address: 110-112 Main Street
Historic Name: Isaac Damon Granite Store Uses: Present: Commercial Original: Commercial Date of Construction: 1826-28 Source: David Oliver Merrill Style/Form: trabeated construction
form Architect/Builder: Isaac Damon, architect, Northampton Exterior Material: Foundation: granite Wall/Trim: granite/metal Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major
Alterations (with dates): Storefront altered multiple times; windows replaced, n.d., roof lowered, cornice added. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.034 acres Setting:
The second of the granite stores faces north on downtown Northampton’s major thoroughfare.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [110-112 Main Street] ADDRESS] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Continuation sheet 1 NTH.2272 ___ 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. Two buildings make up the Isaac Damon Stores, the building at 108 Main Street, and this
building with two doors giving it the address 110-112 Main Street. The pair of buildings was identical in construction originally but each has been altered over time at first story,
roof, and at their cornices to appear rather different today. Like its neighbor at 108, the Isaac Damon granite store at 110-112 Main Street is a three-story granite building under a
flat roof that originally was a side gable roof with high, pointed brick end walls. It is four bays wide, its windows in the second and third stories set within a granite post-and-beam,
or trabeated, façade. It has a pressed metal cornice that is late 19th century in origin. On the first story there is a single, centered storefront flanked by a door on the west to the
store, and on the east to the upper stories. Granite piers that support the granite lintel above the first story are visible at the outer walls of the building, though the lintel itself
is not visible. On the upper two stories the trabeated construction system is clearly visible in which granite piers separating the openings support granite lintel blocks spanning each
window opening. The lintel blocks meet above the pier, where their seams are visible. Narrow granite sills project slightly. Windows on both stories are replacements with 1/1 sash with
wide meeting and side rails that change the traditional window appearance that from old photographs seems to have held 8/8 sash windows. 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 present Gare Jewelry Store is located in Isaac Damon’s ‘Granite Stores’ (1826-1828). It was first the site of the shop of Samuel Stiles, goldsmith, in 1785. Since that time, jewelers
have continuously sold their wares here, including General Benjamin Cook, from 1827-1900. The quarry granite for the stores came from Dedham, and is the same granite as that used in
the Dedham Courthouse construction.” 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.