{"nrhp_refnum":"83000764","name":"Smith's Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"201-207 Worthington St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Springfield","county":"Hampden County","state":"MA","lat":42.10405720700004,"lon":-72.59227602599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-02-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Smith's Building is a five-story brick commercial building with a second-floor mezzanine at 201-207 Worthington Street in downtown Springfield, Massachusetts. It was built in 1897 for G. McIntosh & Co.; the architect is unknown.","why_significant":"The building is significant for its association with one of Springfield's important industries, the shoe jobbing trade, and as the home of a major recreational complex of billiards and candlepin bowling. It is also a good local example of late nineteenth century commercial architecture with Panel Brick and Romanesque Revival elements. It retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials and workmanship.","narrative":"Built in 1897 at 201-207 Worthington Street in downtown Springfield, this five-story brick commercial block has a second-floor mezzanine divided into five bays by rusticated piers. Upper floors are separated by piers carrying segmental arches, and a corbeled cornice and pierced parapet finish the design. Cast iron piers divide the storefronts into three bays, and early leaded transoms survive. The first occupant was the McIntosh Company, one of the region's oldest and largest shoe jobbing houses, which moved on in 1913. In 1914 Fred Smith relocated his billiard parlor and bowling alleys here. The second floor held billiards, while the upper three floors housed twenty-two candlepin lanes. Before World War II the building was a center of candlepin bowling in western Massachusetts. The lanes were removed in the early 1960s, but the billiard parlor continues to operate and keeps at least seven tables from the 1905 St. Louis Exposition. The building is recognized for this industrial and recreational history and its Romanesque Revival character.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Panel brick/Romanesque Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is commercial; the billiard parlor is still operating, and the original interior billiard parlor fittings largely remain. Storefronts were altered around 1930.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.192316-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/27/7903/63790327/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83000764.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000764/e3017f926f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000764/e3017f926f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smiths_Building,_Springfield_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smiths_Building,_Springfield_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790327","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%27s_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7544841"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampden-county/smiths-building-83000764/"}