{"id":4968,"date":"2012-09-25T01:38:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T05:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2012-09-25T01:39:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T05:39:21","slug":"183-191-main-street-northampton-1868","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=4968","title":{"rendered":"183-191 Main Street, Northampton (1871)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/183-189-Main-St.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"183-189 Main Street, Northampton\" width=\"500\" height=\"486\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/183-189-Main-St.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/183-189-Main-St-300x291.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historic-northampton.org\/virtual_tours\/architecture\/q4mainstreetnortheast.html\">Main Street in Northampton<\/a> are two nearly identical commercial blocks located side-by-side.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/mhc-macris.net\/Details.aspx?MhcId=NTH.777\">Fleming Block<\/a>, on the left, was built in 1868 at 189-191 Main Street.  It <a href=\"http:\/\/city.northampton.ma.us:8080\/WebLink8\/DocView.aspx?id=253804&#038;page=19&#038;dbid=0\">replaced<\/a> the earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/reminiscencesofo00gere#page\/46\/mode\/1up\">Lyman Block<\/a>.  The Astman or <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=qRktAQAAMAAJ&#038;lpg=RA1-PA88&#038;ots=6GBsKLsDmj&#038;dq=%22williams%20block%22%20northampton&#038;pg=RA1-PA88#v=onepage&#038;q=%22williams%20block%22%20northampton&#038;f=false\">Williams Block<\/a>, on the right, was built in 1871 at 183-187 Main Street to replace a building destroyed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.gendisasters.com\/massachusetts\/12709\/northampton-ma-fire-may-1870\">the fire of 1870<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Main Street in Northampton are two nearly identical commercial blocks located side-by-side. The Fleming Block, on the left, was built in 1868 at 189-191 Main Street. It replaced the earlier Lyman Block. The Astman or Williams Block, on the right, was built in 1871 at 183-187 Main Street to replace a building destroyed in the fire of 1870.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,171,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-businesses","category-northampton","category-richardsonian-romanesque"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4968"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4998,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions\/4998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}