Main Street 190-194.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, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31D-160-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Downtown Northampton Address: 190-192-194
Main Street Historic Name: Uses: Present: Commercial Original: Commercial Date of Construction: prior to 1860 Source: map of 1860 Style/Form: utilitarian Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: stucco, clapboards Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): One story removed, façade stucco-covered,
late 19th century. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.036 acres Setting: One in a row of commercial buildings, this building faces northwest at a curve in Crafts
Avenue.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [190-194 Main Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH. ___ 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 two-story commercial building that has a stucco street façade and brick foundations. It is six bays wide
with small and narrow 1/1 sash windows at the second story, and on the first story it has a center recessed entry to a storefront between two display windows with pedestrian doors on
the two outermost bays to the upper story. The cornice has a row of dentils and appears to be a 20th century addition. In the west pedestrian entry at #194 the stair hall wall on the
east is an old exterior wall of clapboards suggesting the building is still frame construction and may be one of the only frame buildings remaining on Main Street. 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.
The history of this building begins by 1860, although this history is strongly based on maps that do not identify changes that may have occurred and in some cases are sketchy. On the
map of the year 1860 a wood frame building appears on this site, though it had a larger footprint on that map than it does today. The bird’s-eye view of 1875 confirms that this lot,
the third building in from South Street had on it a three-story building and beyond it on the east side of Crafts Avenue were no other buildings. By 1884 it was only two stories in height
height when the Sanborn Insurance Company mapped it. Subsequent Sanborn maps provide the best history of the building. In 1884 there was a painting and glazing store on the first floor
and on second floor was a business that renovated mattresses. Over the next five years more commerce was squeezed into the building as it had in 1889 a restaurant in the basement, the
painting and glazing store on the first floor and on the second floor they were still renovating mattresses. By 1902 the space had emptied with no business in the basement, the first
floor store now selling painting and wallpaper and on the second floor was a cabinet shop. In 1910 things were much the same although the cabinet shop shared space with an electric motor
shop. The first floor decorating shop in 1915 sold wallpaper, paints and oils; the cabinet shop and electric motor shop occupied the second floor. In 1930 the insurance maps were less
detailed about what the functions of the building were and this building is only marked with an “S”. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Bailey, H. H. Birds-Eye view of Northampton, 1875.
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.