Main Street 189-191.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-139 Easthampton NTH.2258 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 189-191 Main Street Historic Name:
Astman Building Uses: Present: commercial, residential building Original: commercial building Date of Construction: 1868 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette, 8/11/68 Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: brick, brownstone Roof: Not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Storefront
altered, multiple times. Replacement windows, n.d. Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.067 acres Setting: This building faces south in the center of downtown Northampton
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [189-191 Main Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2258 ___ 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. Although the south façade of this building has been painted, its similarity to its neighbor at
183-187 Main Street remains strong. It is a three-story, brick commercial building four bays wide and under a flat roof ornamented with a corbelled cornice of panels, pendants and identical
to its neighbor, but also typical for commercial blocks on Main Street dating from the 1870s. Its first story storefront is a 21st century alteration. Windows in the upper stories have
chunky lintels at the second and third stories, which they share in profile with those at 189-191 and 179 Main Street. Less refined than many of their contemporaries, these lintels were
probably all the same handiwork of a single brownstone quarry. Sash in the upper stories is 1/1 replacement. 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: “These two virtually identical commercial
blocks were built in 1868 and 1871, during the period of expansion of the business community in Northampton. The Williams Block (easterly) abuts the Old Fitch Hotel Block to the east,
and, like the hotel, replaced a building destroyed by the fire of 1870. The westerly block, like the adjoining Carr Block, was built on the old Lyman homestead. The easterly block was
once the site of the Lyman Block, which housed a druggist and abutted the old Warner House, the town hotel.” On the map of 1895 this building is identified as being owned by P. H. Dewey.
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.