Market Street 17-25.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-92 Easthampton NTH2047 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 17-25 Market Street Historic Name:
O’Donnell’s Block Uses: Present: Commercial, residential Original: Commercial, residential Date of Construction: 1911 Source: Atlases & Springfield Daily Republican Style/Form: Classical
Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: granite Wall/Trim: brick, brownstone Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows
replaced, ca. 1990 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.171 acres Setting: This building faces west and is at the edge of the residential north section of Market Street
but where some residential buildings have been converted to commercial use.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [17-25MARKET STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2047 ___ 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. Towards the end of the 19th century yellow brick became an elegant alternative to the common red
brick of commercial buildings in Northampton. The O’Donnell Block is a good example of its use with contrasting brownstone trim on the street façade of this three story building. Its
other three elevations are red brick. The building is Classical Revival in style, its metal cornice being trim and narrow, its brickwork rectilinear and spare in contrast to its earlier
neighboring buildings with their metal cornices of curved consoles or modillion blocks, arched openings and striped masonry patterns. Here, the first floor commercial spaces are rather
more complex in arrangement with three, single-display window storefronts and recessed entries separated by two recessed doors to the upper stories. The three storefronts are united
beneath a wood-faced lintel that acts as a signboard. The second and third stories are divided into shallow recessed bays as is true of other commercial blocks on this street. Here there
are three bays containing paired windows separated by two narrower bays containing a single window. At the top of each of the bays are two rows of checkerboard brickwork above a row
of corner-angled bricks. Windows have replacement metal 1/1 sash. Brownstone lintels and sills are continuous on the paired windows. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Discuss the history of the building.
Explain its 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
block and the one next south were both originally owned by John O’Donnell, a prominent turn of the century lawyer and real estate developer, who also served two terms as mayor of Northampton
during the early 1890’s. The adjacent block was built c. 1890, while this block was built in 1911 at a cost of $20,000. Both blocks have flats on the upper floors and stores on the first
floor.” 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