Main Street Historic District (Easthampton, Massachusetts)

Main Street Historic District
Town Hall
Location Main St., Easthampton, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°16′11″N 72°40′22″W / 42.26972°N 72.67278°W / 42.26972; -72.67278Coordinates: 42°16′11″N 72°40′22″W / 42.26972°N 72.67278°W / 42.26972; -72.67278
Area 45 acres (18 ha)
Architect Multiple
Architectural style Greek Revival, Mixed (more Than 2 Styles From Different Periods), Queen Anne
NRHP reference #

86000451

[1]
Added to NRHP March 17, 1986

The Main Street Historic District of Easthampton, Massachusetts encompasses the historic heart of the town, running along Main Street between Northampton and Center Streets. The area has been the civic and economic heart of the town since incorporation in 1785. Most of the commercial buildings date from the 1840s to the 1880s, and are built in an Italianate style. The housing stock of the district also includes Italianate styling, but there are also a number of Greek Revival structures. The major civic structures of the town are in the district, including the town hall (brick, Italianate), public library (designed in 1881 by Peabody & Stearns in the Old English style), and the First Congregational Church, which is the second for the congregation, a brick Romanesque Revival building dating to 1851.[2] The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]

Easthampton was settled in the early 18th century, and was separately incorporated out of parts of Northampton and Southampton in 1786. At first economically an agricultural community, its town center developed around its first meeting house, located about 1/4 mile south of the Manhan River, where an early gristmill and settlement were located. Substantial growth in the town center began in the 1840s, when a boys' seminary was founded, and a button factory was founded on a tributary of the Manhan River southeast of the center, which was dammed to form what is now called Nashawannuck Pond. This was the seed of a corridor of industrial development just east of the center, which grew in the mid-19th century along with this economic growth.[3]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "MACRIS inventory record for Main Street Historic District". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2013-12-16.
  3. ↑ "NRHP nomination for Main Street Historic District". National Archive. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
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