Main Street 213-215.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-135 Easthampton NTH.774 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Northampton Center Address: 213-215 Main Street
Historic Name: S. G. Dickinson Block Uses: Present: commercial, residential Original: commercial Date of Construction: 1869 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette, Aug. 24, 1869 Style/Form:
Italianate Architect/Builder: William Fenno Pratt Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: brick, brownstone Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations
(with dates): Several windows replaced, ca. 1970. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | | Date Acreage: 0.03 acre Setting: The Dickinson Block faces south in a row of attached buildings
that curves to follow the street line.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [213-227MAIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.774 ___ 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 Dickinson Block is a small building three stories tall and two bays wide that was built to
fill in space in a row of commercial buildings. Its builder repeated the decorative features of the adjacent building to the west with the same pattern of corbelled brick cornice, the
same window surrounds at second and third stories. The first story is devoted to a single commercial storefront with recessed entry and two store windows at each side, in this case of
unequal size. Its signage frieze has been extended beyond the space provided for it. Second story windows are segmentally arched with brick lintels and brownstone footed sills. The third
story windows are arched and have arched brick lintels and again footed, brownstone sills. Sash on the third floor is 2/1 and on the second floor it is 1/1. Largely unaltered, this building
represents the standard or moderate Italianate style commercial building of the 1860s and 70s as it was rendered in masonry. 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: “One of a
series of Victorian commercial blocks lining the north side of Main Street. First known as the Dickinson block, the block was built in 1869 for merchant S.G. Dickinson on part of the
old Lyman estate. The adjoining Rust’s Block was the first of four commercial blocks to be built on the former Lyman property in 1867.” 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.