Main Street 22-24.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 32A-146 Easthampton NTH.2289 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 22-24 Main Street Historic Name:
Uses: Present: commercial Original: commercial, perhaps residential Date of Construction: 1868 Source: Hampshire Gazette Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder: Exterior Material:
Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: painted brick, mosaic tile Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Building painted, first two stories
altered, ca. 1970-2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.34 acres Setting: The building is within a city block of downtown Northampton and faces north on Main
Street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [22 Main Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2289 ___ 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 building at 22 Main Street is a four-story brick building, the tallest of the buildings on
this block. It is modestly Italianate in style with a well-developed brick cornice laid in a stepped arch pattern meant to suggest an Italian palazzo. The building is four bays wide
and the bays consist on the upper three stories of windows with 1/1 sash below single-light transoms. The 1/1 sash is metal replacement sash. Windows have flat lintels and sills and
beneath the paint they are most likely brownstone or granite. The first and second stories have been altered to expand the appearance of the commercial space on the first story to be
two stories in height. This was done by adding a widely projecting cornice above the second story windows and by adding a mosaic tile surface to first and second stories with the exception
of a space between the two center windows. Entry to the upper floors on the first story is located in the easternmost bay. It is a recessed entry with no surround. 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: “The brick blocks lining the main street of Northampton between Pleasant Street and Strong Avenue are the earliest brick commercial structures in Northampton. In
1865, the block known as the Union Block was built at the corner of Main and Pleasant Streets. (This block collapsed in 1914 and was replaced by the 1915 Sherwin Block.) The Dickinson
Block was erected in the summer of 1867; the small building one bay wide was erected between the Dickinson Block and the Lee & Hussey (1865) block the same year. To the east of the Dickinson
Block, the Mathewson Block was erected in 1868 and a second modest block the same year.” 22 Main Street is the “second modest block”. 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.