Pleasant Street 125.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):
May, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 32C-165 Easthampton NTH.948 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 125 Pleasant Street Historic Name: Union
Station, Railroad Station Uses: Present: restaurant Original: railroad station Date of Construction: 1895-1897 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette Style/Form: Romanesque Revival Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: granite, brick Wall/Trim: brick, brownstone Roof: red slate, asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Porch
added, sheds and platform enclosed, ca.2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 2.42 acres Setting: This building is set on a high lot behind a granite embankment
that lines Pearl Street. The rail trail passes on its west side.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [125 Pleasant St.] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.948 ___ 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. Union Station is a one-and-a-half story yellow brick building under a red slate, pyramidal, hipped
roof. Cross-gables wings extend from the east and west elevations and a cross-gabled pavilion extends from the south façade. It shelters a projecting, glass-enclosed entry. On the north
is an ell nine bays long and one-and-a-half stories in height. It terminates in a round tower of one-and-a-half stories. On the east and west sides of the ell roof are three flared,
hipped dormers with copper cresting. On the west elevation of the ell is a through-eaves exterior chimney that is paneled. The building’s roof ridges and frieze, modillion blocks and
cornice are of copper. On the south façade a copper-covered shed roof porch, with a round porte-cochere centered on the main entrance, extends across the pavilion. It is supported on
wood posts. An enclosed one-story addition occupies the southwest corner of the façade. On the east and west elevations of the station are one-story platforms under hipped roofs. They
extend to the north beyond the station ell, effectively doubling its length. Now enclosed, these platforms have heavy wooden posts with braces at their eaves. On the east they have been
enclosed with cement blocks and on the west they have been enclosed with wood and glass to provide public restaurant space. The first story of the brick building is no longer visible
due to enclosure of the platforms and addition to the south pavilion. At the second floor level the wings have Palladian window compositions in the gables with brownstone straight lintels
and sills. The second story windows of the ell have the same straight brownstone lintels and sills. 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 1975: “The first railroad to come to Northampton
was the Connecticut River Railroad, in 1845. The Canal Road followed in 1855, and the Massachusetts Central arrived in 1887. The various railroad depots located in the Strong Avenue
area were incorporated into a single station at the turn of the century.” 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.