120-122 King Street
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FORM B − BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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Topographic or Assessor's Map
Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons
Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission
Date (month / year): March, 2010
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
31B-144 Easthampton NTH.632
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 120-122 King Street
Historic Name: Medard Landry House, attr.
Uses: Present: Three-family residence
Original: Two-family residence
Date of Construction: 1883
Source: Registry of Deeds, 378.393
Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards
Roof: not visible
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.192 acres
Setting: Building occupies a corner lot and faces
east on a busy thoroughfare in Northampton Center.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [120 & 122 KING STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.632
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
The Landry two-family house is a two-story, Italianate style house under a hipped roof that is so low as to appear flat, in the
Italianate fashion. With wide eaves that are supported on solid brackets, the roof has two interior chimneys. The house is six
bays wide and six bays deep for a large square plan whose only departure is a one-story angled bay window on the south
elevation that adds to the interior volume. Entries to the two units are paired on the east façade that is sheltered by a full-width,
shed roofed porch on square posts. Sash in the house is 2/2 and window lintels have modest drip molds. A final Italianate
feature is the presence of metal grilles in the frieze at the attic level.
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: “This bracketed style, two family dwelling was erected on the corner of King and Bright Streets in 1883.
Benjamin Blodgett, owner of a large tract of land between State and King Streets, sold the parcel of land to Medad [Sic.] Landry
in 1883 for $900. The Atlas in 1884 showed a dwelling had been erected on the site.” Medard Landry is listed in the 1893
Northampton Directory as living at 120 King Street, so was still there 10 years after the house was constructed. He was a night
watchman for the B and M railroad. By 1920 the house was already a three-family with Medard Landry, Jr., a freight handler for
the railroad, and his wife Sarah and their niece Georgiana living at 120; Oren and Mary Blinn and their three children at 122 ;
and Catherine Ayers in the third unit created at 122. Georgiana was a milliner, Oren was a machinist and two of his three
children worked for the railroad, the third was a machinist as well.
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.
Registry of Deeds, Hampshire County, 889.149, 378.393