Baystate Corset Block

Baystate Corset Block
Baystate Corset Block
Location Springfield, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°6′21″N 72°35′31″W / 42.10583°N 72.59194°W / 42.10583; -72.59194Coordinates: 42°6′21″N 72°35′31″W / 42.10583°N 72.59194°W / 42.10583; -72.59194
Built 1874
Architect Robinson Marsh & Co.
Architectural style No Style Listed
MPS Downtown Springfield MRA
NRHP Reference #

83000737

[1]
Added to NRHP February 24, 1983

The Baystate Corset Block is a historic commercial block at 395-405 Dwight St. and 99 Taylor Street in Springfield, Massachusetts. The main portion of the building, facing Dwight Street, was built in 1874 by Marsh & Robinson. It is a four story brick structure, whose original styling, visible on the side elevation, includes segmental arch windows and a corbelled cornice. The front facade, which was redone in 1918, consists on the upper level of five bays of tripled windows, separated by brick piers. The storefronts are largely unaltered.[2]

The first tenants of the building were woodworking shops, who occupied it until 1883, when it was occupied by a paper products business. P. P. Kellogg, its owner, expanded the premises, building an extension along Taylor Street in 1888. In 1886, the Baystate Corset Company, founded two years earlier in West Brookfield, Massachusetts, leased space in the building. Baystate purchased the building in 1895, and occupied it until 1920. It was one of the nation's largest corset manufacturers at the time, shipping products all across the country. Baystate used the top floor of the building as a cutting room, with the second and third floors arrayed with sewing machines at which its products were manufactured.[2] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 "NRHP nomination for Baystate Corset Block". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2013-12-09.
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