Main Street 140.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-004 Easthampton NTH.2127 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Northampton Center Address: 140 Main Street
Historic Name: Kingsley Building Uses: Present: Commercial Original: Commercial Date of Construction: 1844 Source: National Register Nomination Style/Form: eclectic Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: brick Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): New window lintels created, ca. 2005; storefront
altered numerous times. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.07 acres Setting: This is a north-facing commercial building set between two lower-elevation buildings.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [140 Main Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2127 ___ 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 Kingsley Building is unique in downtown Northampton as a three-and-a-half story building under
a slate-covered mansard roof. The painted brick building is four bays wide at second and third stories and centered on its roof is a hipped roof dormer that is two bays wide. The first
story of three bays is occupied by two storefronts with an entry to the upper stories in the easternmost bay. The second and third story windows have 1/1 replacement sash and straight-head
lintels in high relief supported on gargoyles. The lintels with their gargoyle supports are recent additions to the building, ca. 2000. Between the third story and the roof is a cornice
that is stepped and framed by party walls at each side that rise at the angle of the mansard roof. The building has a three-story addition on its south elevation. 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: “Known locally as the Kingsley Building, portions of this structure were built as early as 1830. The ‘Brick store three stories high in Shop Row’ is specifically
mentioned in the deed from Sarah Hunt to Winthrop Hillyer in 1844.” The earliest map showing this building on its lot on what was known as Merchants or Shop Row was that of 1873. The
1860 map appears to have a passageway at this point on the block, though buildings came and went and their map spacing is not always accurate. Charles B. Kingsley who owned this building
in 1895 was a druggist with his pharmacy in the building and his house at 96 Elm Street. He was still there in 1912 and by then had expanded to sell photographic supplies and to operate
a branch of the Post Office in his store. 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.