134 Main 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
32C-006 Easthampton NTH. 2294
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village) Northampton Center
Address: 134 Main Street
Historic Name: Northampton National Bank
Uses: Present: commercial
Original: commercial
Date of Construction: 1913
Source: National Register nomination
Style/Form: Classical Revival
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: not visible
Wall/Trim: limestone
Roof: not visible
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: Good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.038 acres
Setting: This is a north-facing building on Northampton’s
principal commercial street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [134 Main STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
This one-story building is limestone-faced and is three bays wide under a flat roof. It is three bays wide and the limestone of its
dividing piers is scored as ashlar blocks merging into the ashlar of its neighbor at 132 Main Street to which it is attached. The
building has a center entry below a large, multi-paned, fixed light window and the entry is flanked by two, large, multiple-paned
fixed light windows repeating those of the second floor of its neighbor at #132. The end piers and those dividing the building’s
bays support a frieze with a narrow molding at its upper and lower margins.
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.
This building was constructed at the same time as its neighbor at 132 Main Street, the Northampton National Bank. It replaced a
portion of two, several story commercial buildings that were on this and adjacent lots in the 1890s and earlier. The building
seems to have been used as a commercial block through much of the 20th century rather than as an adjunct to the bank.
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.