Main Street 184-186.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-161 Easthampton NTH.788 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 184-186 Main Street Historic Name:
Raymond Block Uses: Present: commercial, residential Original: commercial, residential Date of Construction: ca. 1900 Source: map of 1895 Style/Form: Classical Revival Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: cast stone Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Storefront altered multiple times. Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.043 acres Setting: This is a north-facing building on a block that curves to follow the line of two streets.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [184-186MAIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.788 ___ 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 the earliest cast stone buildings on Main Street. It is a four-story building that
is four bays wide under a flat roof. The first story is a single storefront that has been altered many times. Its storefront lintel is marked by a narrow cornice separating it from the
upper stories that are divided into a base, a shaft and a cornice by their ornament. The three upper stories are framed at their outside corners by piers that rise to an entablature
with architrave, frieze and cornice. Within these piers the four bays of the second story, the base, are simple square-headed windows without lintels or sills but cut into the stone
of the story. They have wooden 1/1 sash. The third and fourth stories, the shaft, are more elaborate. Their four bays are separated by three paneled piers that rest on a narrow molding
and support the upper entablature, the cornice. At the third story the windows are 1/1 but with one bay of paired 1/1 sash. The fourth story windows are again 1/1. The spandrels between
the third and fourth stories are occupied by panels containing reliefs of classical wreaths and floral motifs and the cornice rests on a row of small consoles. 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. This
building replaces an earlier building on its lot that was present in 1873 and in 1895 was called the Mrs. B. F. Connor building. The Raymond Building was in place by 1919 as documented
by a photograph of that date in the Main Street Photograph collection of Historic Northampton. 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.