Northampton Architecture- Quadrant 3

Main and Pleasant

The "Lambie Block," 76-88 Main Street, was completed in 1895. The unknown architect designed the building in Richardsonian style.

The Victorian "Kirkland Block," (68-74 Main Street) on the corner of Main and Pleasant Streets, is the only remaining block of several built on Shop Row by Harvey Kirkland. The building, constructed in 1848, originally housed the Holyoke Bank. To the bank's southwest stood more of Harvey Kirkland's property. At least one of Kirkland's wooden buildings burned to the ground at the end of the nineteenth century. J. Lambie erected the present five-story block to replace Kirkland's structures.

The Lambie Block is composed of several warm tones of brick. A ground story of polished black marble, a three story central section holding groups of windows, and a fifth story separated by a dark stringcourse, constitute the structure's façade.

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