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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, 2011
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
32A-101/102 Easthampton NTH.2051;
2368;
2265;
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 12-14 Market Street
Historic Name: Market Street Warehouse
Uses: Present: Offices
Original: Warehouse
Date of Construction: ca. 1900
Source: Atlases and Directories
Style/Form: eclectic
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: granite, brick
Wall/Trim: brick, brownstone
Roof: not visible
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Windows all replaced with 1/1 wood sash. New windows
inserted on north elevation, ca. 1990.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.681 acres
Setting: This building faces east in a commercial
section of Northampton.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [12-16 MARKET STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.2051
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
The three buildings that make up the row 12-16 Market Street have been linked into a single building. Two are in alignment with
the street and the third connector building is recessed for a U-shaped plan. The southernmost section of the building is two-and-
a-half stories in height under a flat roof. It has a projection metal cornice above a paneled but blind attic level. It is three bays
wide at the second story with paired sash for each bay beneath brownstone straight lintels and with brownstone sills. At the first
story the building is three bays wide with a center entry to the upper stories flanked on the south by a display window and on the
north by a recessed bay with a cast iron column supporting the metal corner lintel below the second story. The recessed
connector building is two stories in height and is also brick with a metal cornice above a paneled frieze. It is three bays wide and
has a warehouse loading dock on the first story below second story windows. The third building is the largest being three stories
in height and having five slightly recessed bays separated by piers on its east façade containing paired windows in the outer
bays and an arched doorway in the center bay at the first story level and paired windows at second and third stories. Like its
companion buildings, #16 has a row of panels just below its metal cornice. The north elevation of this building has had wind ows
inserted into it in the 20th century, but there are still remnants of a painted advertisement on its wall. The functionally-determined
plan and elevations of these warehouse buildings have been retained in their rehabilitation.
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 1980: “Market Street is one of Northampton’s oldest streets, perhaps the oldest, and originally a residential
street. This remained true until the late 19th century. During the 1840’s, the main north-south railroad in the Connecticut valley
was located just 100 feet west on Market Street, and this allowed spur-track development later in the century. This was
predominantly wholesale in nature. By 1915, here were three brick warehouses on the lower end of the western side of Market
Street.
The two-story brick block at 12 Market Street was built in 1902 as a cold storage plant for Handy and Miller, a wholesale
meat and provisions firm, while the three-story block at 16 Market Street was build about the same time as a warehouse for W.
N. Potter’s Sons & Co., dealers in flour, feed, grain, hay, straw, and mason materials.”
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.