Main Street 147.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 31D-145 Easthampton NTH.780 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 147 Main Street Historic Name: Clapp
& Johnson-Serio’s Block Uses: Present: commercial/residential Original: commercial/residential Date of Construction: pre-1860 Source: Map of 1860 Style/Form: Italianate commercial with
trabeated first story Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: granite Wall/Trim: brick, brownstone Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with
dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.034 acres Setting: This is a south-facing building in downtown Northampton.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [147MAIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.780 ___ 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 brick building with a trabeated granite storefront structure on the first
story. It is five bays wide and on the first story the bays are divided by the granite piers rising to a granite lintel whose blocks meet above each pier. The westernmost bay contains
the stair entry to the upper stories while the remaining four bays form a single storefront with a recessed entry between windows. The upper stories in red brick have straight brownstone
lintels on the second floor and segmentally arched windows on the third floor beneath a typically elaborate corbelled cornice whose pattern appears in other buildings on Main Street
in downtown Northampton. Window sash is 2/2. 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 Serio Block is one in a series of uniform commercial structures lining Main Street.” It was
part of a row of commercial buildings known as the “Granite Row” on the map of 1860 and its granite first story strongly suggests that this building was part of that row in 1860. Until
1895, downtown Northampton maps did not name this row of buildings again but in 1895 it was identified as the Clapp & Johnson building. Alvin Clapp and Lowell Johnson in 1893 directory
were butchers who who had their shop here at 147 Main Street. 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.