1-5 Market 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, 2011
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
32A-97 Easthampton NTH.2050
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 1-5 Market Street
Historic Name:
Uses: Present: Commercial, Residential
Original: Commercial, Residential
Date of Construction: 1895-1915
Source: Atlases
Style/Form: Renaissance Revival
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: brick/brownstone
Roof: not visible
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates): Storefront remodeled, ca.
2010; windows replaced, ca. 1990.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.089 acres
Setting: This is a commercial building set on a
corner lot in a commercial district.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [1-5 MARKET STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.2050
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
Unlike most of the commercial buildings in downtown Northampton and on Market Street itself, this is a free-standing building. It
is a red brick, three-story building with brownstone sills and lintels for trim, and a metal cornice in a modest Renaissance Revival
style with modillion blocks beneath a projecting cornice. The roof of the building slants noticeably down towards the north for
drainage. The building plan is L-shaped. On the first story the building has two storefronts with a recessed corner entry for the
storefront at 1 Market Street on the corner of Market Street and Main Street. It is supported on a single large brick pier. This
glass and wood frame storefront has been largely covered by a wood signboard, but the second storefront at 5 Market Street
appears to be original with a recess center entry between two glass and wood frame display windows. A recessed entrance to
the upper stories separates the two storefronts on Market Street. On the south elevation fronting Main Street, a large fixed-light
window has been inserted at the southeast corner adjacent to a secondary entry. The upper two stories of the building are 7
bays wide on the west façade and 8 bays wide on the south elevation. The bays consist of straight lintel windows with 1/1 metal
replacement sash except at the corner where windows are doubled with two windows of 1/1 sash under a single brownstone
lintel. While this building is stylistically modest, its size gives it prominence on its corner site.
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: “This three-story commercial and residential block was built around the turn of the century at a prominent
corner location. Bridge Street was predominantly a residential street at this time, but Market Street was quickly becoming a
commercial and warehousing area—particularly along the lower end—at this time. The 1915 atlas identifies a bakery,
barber/cobbler and tobacco store/pool room on the first floor, and tenements on the upper two floors.”
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.