Stearns Building

United States historic place


Stearns Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Stearns Building
42°6′14″N 72°35′28″W / 42.10389°N 72.59111°W / 42.10389; -72.59111
Area	less than one acre
Built	1912 (1912)
Architect	Samuel M. Green Co.
Architectural style	Gothic Revival
MPS	Downtown Springfield MRA
NRHP reference No.	83000770 ^[1]
Added to NRHP	February 24, 1983

The Stearns Building is a historic commercial building at 289-309 Bridge Street in downtown Springfield, Massachusetts. The six-story building was built in 1912 for the Dunlap Realty Group. It is an early example (and the best preserved) of Neo-Gothic design applied to large office buildings in Springfield. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.^[1]

Description and history

The Stearns Building is located in downtown Springfield, at the southeast corner of Bridge and Barnes Streets. It is a six-story structure, built out of steel and concrete with stone trim. Its facade is divided into nine sections, articulated by pilasters that rise to pinnacles at the very top. The outermost sections are each three bays wide, and have a stepped parapet between the pinnacles. All but one of the remaining sections are two bays wide; the last is a single bay wide, housing the main building entrance on the ground floor. Each of the other sections corresponds to a storefront on the ground floor. Adornment on the lower floors is minimal, with Gothic tracery between the top floor and roof edge.^[2]

The building was constructed in 1912 for the Dunlap Realty Group. It was designed by the local architectural firm of Samuel M. Green, one of the largest commercial architectural firms in New England, which located its offices on the top floor. It is a distinctive local example of the Gothic Revival as applied to commercial architecture.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^ ^a ^b "NRHP nomination for Stearns Building". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2013-12-14.

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