Market Street 36.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-259 Easthampton NTH.2124 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 36 Market Street Historic Name: Charles
Clark apartment building Uses: Present: Four-family residence Original: Four-family residence Date of Construction: 1884-1895 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows all replaced ca. 1990 Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.098 acres Setting: This is an east-facing building in a mixed commercial/residential section of Market Street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [36MARKET STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2124 ___ 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. This is a two-story, four-family tenement constructed in red brick. It has a flat roof and is set
on a lot that slopes down to the west and has a high basement on all elevations. Because of its high basement, entry to the building is through a raised porch that crosses the entire
east façade and has ramps of steps at each end. The shed-roofed porch rests on posts with brackets at its eaves and the posts are connected by railings with square balusters. The porch
apron is lattice. The east façade is five bays wide and there is a single center entry. Windows are segmentally arched with slightly projecting brick lintels and sills. Window sash is
replacement metal 1/1. The building has an ornamental brick cornice above a frieze and narrow brick fillet. The building has two-story porches under a shed roof on the west elevation.
This is among the best-tended residential buildings on Market Street. 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 small, brick tenement block was built late in the 19th century.
The 1884 atlas shows a wood frame structure on this site, while the 1895 atlas shows a brick block. Both atlases have Charles Clark, a Main Street lawyer as the owner of the property.”
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.