Main Street 68-74.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 32C-017 Easthampton NTH.2129 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 68-74 Main Street Historic Name:
Kirkland Blocks Uses: Present: commercial and residential Original: commercial Date of Construction: 1848 Source: Registry of Deeds 126.141 & Gazette, March 5, 1921 Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: granite Wall/Trim: brick/brownstone/granite/steel Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates):
Windows replaced to match originals, ca. 2008. Brownstone lintel replaced by steel, unknown date. date. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.031 acres Setting: This
is a corner building in downtown Northampton.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [68-74, 76-88MAIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.929 ___ 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 Harvey Kirkland Block is a three-story brick building with brownstone trim at sills and lintels.
The building is three bays wide and five bays deep under a flat roof with an elaborately corbelled Italianate cornice at the roofline. The three-bay north façade on the first story is
divided by substantial granite piers. The two outer bays are doorways – on the west to the upper stories and on the east to the first floor commercial space. The large center bay is
a glass storefront. The first story has a steel lintel above the granite piers. On the east elevation the first story has a fine storefront in its two southernmost bays with a center
recessed entry flanked by multiple light store windows. Windows here and on the upper stories are nearly full-length and have 6/6 sash. At the second story, the building has 6/6 sash
windows with straight lintels and sills except for the center bay of the north façade that has a triple window composition with a center window of 4/4 under a two-light transom sash
flanked by two windows with four vertical lights. The third floor repeats the pattern with a three-part Palladian window composition flanked by two arched windows with 6/6 sash. Third
floor windows of the east elevation are like those of the second floor with straight sills and lintels. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations
with local (or 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 Victorian brick block on the
corner of Main and Pleasant Streets is the only remaining bloc of several built on Shop Row, Main Street, by merchant Harvey Kirkland. This block was originally occupied by the Holyoke
Bank and was built in 1848. In December of 1848, Kirkland conveyed a lot of land, ‘being principally covered by the Holyoke Bank, a new Brick building lately erected by the grantee and
being designated as lot #19 in a plan, 11.416’ to J.H. Butler.” 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 of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860. Registry of Deeds,
Hampshire County, 113.446, 124.397 & 398, 126.141, 141.516, 163.685, 397.281