Main Street 219-223.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-239 Easthampton NTH.2426 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 219-223 Main Street Historic Name:
Uses: Present: Commercial, Residential Original: Commercial Date of Construction: 1869 Source: Hampshire Gazette Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation:
not visible Wall/Trim: brick, brownstone Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Second floor windows replaced with storefront windows, ca.
1950. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.02 acres Setting: This building faces south on Northampton’s main commercial street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [219-223 Main Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2426 ___ 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 painted brick building, built at or close to the Dickinson Block next door to it at 213-215
Main Street is a larger but once identical building suggesting design of the two buildings was coordinated to create a more harmonious streetscape. It is three stories tall and six bays
wide with pilasters separating every two bays. Shared decorative features with the adjacent building to the west are the same pattern of corbelled brick cornice, the same window surrounds
at the third story. Here, however, the second story windows have been replaced with large plate glass windows under added cornice lintels. The first story is devoted to three commercial
storefronts with recessed center entries between storefront display windows. They have all received new materials and signage. The third story windows are arched and have arched brick
lintels and footed, brownstone sills. Sash on the third floor is 1/1 under an arched transom light, and a replacement vinyl window. Although it has been altered, this building paired
with the Dickinson Block next door 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 for 213-215 Main Street with which it was coupled: “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.