241 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
31D-131 Easthampton NTH.2354
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village) Northampton Center
Address: 241 Main Street
Historic Name:
Uses: Present: commercial, residential
Original: commercial, residential
Date of Construction: 1870
Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette
Style/Form: 19th c. commercial
Architect/Builder: William Fenno Pratt
Exterior Material:
Foundation: not visible
Wall/Trim: painted brick/metal
Roof: not visible
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Second story windows replaced with glazed wall, ca. 1970.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.02 acres
Setting: This building faces south on to
Northampton’s main commercial thoroughfare.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [241 Main Street]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.2354
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
This narrow, four-story, painted brick building is three bays wide and has a pressed metal cornice. It is a relatively unadorned
building with straight-head windows and sills on third and fourth stories with 1/1 replacement sash. The second story is a late
20th century alteration that involved removing three windows and replacing the wall with glazing under a full-width inserted steel
lintel. The first story has a single storefront recently remodeled (2010).
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 that covered 241-225 Main Street: “This four story brick block on upper Main Street [235-239] was built in
1890 and replaced a wooden structure about twenty years old. The block is the first brick structure to be built on the site. C.S.
Crouch, a merchant, built the first substantial building, a four story wooden block, on the site in 1870. At that time, the brick
structures to the east [225-233] and west [241] were constructed. Both the adjoining blocks were designed by William F. Pratt;
the name of the architect of the 1890 block has not been determined.”
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.