Pleasant Street 196.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: Jayne Bernhard-Armington Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date
(month /year): June, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 32C-166 Easthampton NTH.949 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 196 Pleasant Street
Historic Name: Hayden Foundry & Machine Company /Chilson Building Uses: Present: Commercial Original: Foundry Date of Construction: circa 1873-1880 Source: 1873 Map & Registry of Deeds
Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Brick Roof: Asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates):
Massive interior center chimney removed post 1975 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.124 acres Setting: Building sits very close to the street in this former industrial
area of the city. Surrounding land uses include a lumber yard and auto repair shops, office and retail, multi-family housing.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [196 PLEASANT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.949 ___ 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 former factory building is a three-and-a-half story brick building that has lost its industrial
context as other brick factories that surrounded it have been removed. However, the building is important in the architectural history of Northampton as it is one of its earliest Colonial
Revival style industrial buildings. It is ten bays wide and six bays deep and has a jerkin-head roof. A three-and-a-half story ell on the east also has a jerkin head roof. On the main
block two end wall chimneys rise through the jerkin head formation. The building has lost a former center chimney. Quoins mark the building’s corners and give it a deliberate Colonial
Revival style. Modeled on such a building as Rhode Island’s Colony House in Newport designed by Richard Munday in 1739, the Hayden Foundry was likely architect-designed. Joel Hayden’s
house and mills in Haydenville set the precedent for the Hayden family architecture being high-style. Windows are segmentally arched and an original arched entry has been altered, but
the building retains a portion of its original appearance. 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. Joel Hayden (1793-1873) was a local merchant and manufacturer. He was the embodiment of the successful
Jacksonian capitalist. In Haydenville, he began the manufacture of power looms in 1822. His diversified operations included the production of door locks and harness trimmings and buttons.
The button business he began in 1831 with the help of brother Josiah Hayden, and the flexible shank button they developed in 1834 (reported as the first made in the country) was so successful
that it eclipsed the button making business of Samuel Williston in Easthampton. The Hayden enterprises were carried on by Joel Hayden Jr. following the death of his father in 1873. Was
used as the Manhan Potato Chip Company (1941-1945) and then as Chilson’s Awning and Canvas. 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. Obituary
of Joel Hayden, Dail Hampshire Gazette, 11/18/1873 Registry of Deeds: 1398.419-21, 1378.414, 1097.348, 987.387, 962.119, 566.21, 362.201, 227.414