Market Street 12-14.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-101/102 Easthampton NTH.2051; 2368; 2265; Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 12-14 Market Street
Historic Name: Market Street Warehouse Uses: Present: Offices Original: Warehouse Date of Construction: ca. 1900 Source: Atlases and Directories Style/Form: eclectic Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: granite, brick Wall/Trim: brick, brownstone Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows all replaced with
1/1 wood sash. New windows inserted on north elevation, ca. 1990. Condition: good Moved: no | x x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.681 acres Setting: This building faces east in a commercial
section of Northampton.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [12-16MARKET STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2051 ___ 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 three buildings that make up the row 12-16 Market Street have been linked into a single building.
Two are in alignment with the street and the third connector building is recessed for a U-shaped plan. The southernmost section of the building is two-and-a-half stories in height under
a flat roof. It has a projection metal cornice above a paneled but blind attic level. It is three bays wide at the second story with paired sash for each bay beneath brownstone straight
lintels and with brownstone sills. At the first story the building is three bays wide with a center entry to the upper stories flanked on the south by a display window and on the north
by a recessed bay with a cast iron column supporting the metal corner lintel below the second story. The recessed connector building is two stories in height and is also brick with a
metal cornice above a paneled frieze. It is three bays wide and has a warehouse loading dock on the first story below second story windows. The third building is the largest being three
stories in height and having five slightly recessed bays separated by piers on its east façade containing paired windows in the outer bays and an arched doorway in the center bay at
the first story level and paired windows at second and third stories. Like its companion buildings, #16 has a row of panels just below its metal cornice. The north elevation of this
building has had windows inserted into it in the 20th century, but there are still remnants of a painted advertisement on its wall. The functionally-determined plan and elevations of
these warehouse buildings have been retained in their rehabilitation. 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: “Market Street is one of Northampton’s oldest streets, perhaps the
oldest, and originally a residential street. This remained true until the late 19th century. During the 1840’s, the main north-south railroad in the Connecticut valley was located just
100 feet west on Market Street, and this allowed spur-track development later in the century. This was predominantly wholesale in nature. By 1915, here were three brick warehouses on
the lower end of the western side of Market Street. The two-story brick block at 12 Market Street was built in 1902 1902 as a cold storage plant for Handy and Miller, a wholesale meat
and provisions firm, while the three-story block at 16 Market Street was build about the same time as a warehouse for W. N. Potter’s Sons & Co., dealers in flour, feed, grain, hay, straw,
and mason materials.” 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.