Monument Square-Eagle Street Historic District (Boundary Increase)

This boundary increase extends the Monument Square-Eagle Street district in North Adams, covering the historic central business district. It adds a row of commercial buildings on the north side of Main Street, along with churches, a post office and a school on Summer, Eagle and North Church Streets. Highlights include the Italianate First Blackinton Block (1873), the Romanesque Revival Hoosac Savings Bank, the Dowlin and Kimball buildings, and the Art Deco Mohawk Theater of 1938, built during the Depression and still a working movie theater. Churches include the Gothic Revival St. John's Episcopal and St. Francis Roman Catholic, and the Georgian Revival Post Office dates from 1911. The buildings were largely erected by local developers and merchants when the city's mills were thriving and its population peaked near 24,200 in 1900. The district is described as retaining its integrity and as meeting criteria A and C. Its boundaries exclude areas on the south side of Main Street altered by urban renewal. All buildings remain in their original uses.