Market Street 1-5.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 32A-97 Easthampton NTH.2050 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 1-5 Market Street Historic Name: Uses:
Present: Commercial, Residential Original: Commercial, Residential Date of Construction: 1895-1915 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Renaissance Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick/brownstone Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Storefront remodeled, ca. 2010; windows replaced, ca.
1990. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.089 acres Setting: This is a commercial building set on a corner lot in a commercial district.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [1-5MARKET STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2050 ___ 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. Unlike most of the commercial buildings in downtown Northampton and on Market Street itself, this
is a free-standing building. It is a red brick, three-story building with brownstone sills and lintels for trim, and a metal cornice in a modest Renaissance Revival style with modillion
blocks beneath a projecting cornice. The roof of the building slants noticeably down towards the north for drainage. The building plan is L-shaped. On the first story the building has
two storefronts with a recessed corner entry for the storefront at 1 Market Street on the corner of Market Street and Main Street. It is supported on a single large brick pier. This
glass and wood frame storefront has been largely covered by a wood signboard, but the second storefront at 5 Market Street appears to be original with a recess center entry between two
glass and wood frame display windows. A recessed entrance to the upper stories separates the two storefronts on Market Street. On the south elevation fronting Main Street, a large fixed-light
window has been inserted at the southeast corner adjacent to a secondary entry. The upper two stories of the building are 7 bays wide on the west façade and 8 bays wide on the south
elevation. The bays consist of straight lintel windows with 1/1 metal replacement sash except at the corner where windows are doubled with two windows of 1/1 sash under a single brownstone
lintel. While this building is stylistically modest, its size gives it prominence on its corner site. 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 1980: “This three-story commercial and residential
block was built around the turn of the century at a prominent corner location. Bridge Street was predominantly a residential street at this time, but Market Street was quickly becoming
a commercial and warehousing area—particularly along the lower end—at this time. The 1915 atlas identifies a bakery, barber/cobbler and tobacco store/pool room on the first floor, and
tenements on the upper two floors.” 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.